Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-25
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Oar UnscrupulOus Opponents.
The extremity to which the Radical
press and politicians are reduced, is ap-
parent.
They are too dishonest and prejudiced to
ous it may be in Its results.
The advocates of a cause that is barren of
argument, they resort to the most barefaced
falsehoods and gross misrepresentation
The apostles aud followers of a heathen-
ish divinity, that promulgates religion
the tenets of which are prejudice, hate, re-
veuge and Government patronage for the
saints they are as Jealous in their idolatry
as the Mahomadens, and wherever one of
these Pharisaical devotees is to be found, his
PRAYERS are heard anathematizing the
members of the Democratic party as trait
ors, rebels and brigands, and invoking their
deity to elevate the African to social and
political equality, and the saints to the offices.
By the acquisition OF all the political
w .ather-cocks of the Democratic party. at
time when fortunes were to be realized
by embracing political Paganism, and by
Q resort to the most reckless, Infamous and
cIwardly means, the leaders of the then
Republican party succeeded in deceiving q
sufficient number OF the people to secure
for that party the control of the Govern
ment; since which success, their press and
their leaders have penetrated farther and
farther into the bogs of infamy and cor
ruption, until they are to-day the most un-
scrupulous, reckless, inhuman, wicked,
mischievous, irresponsible, egotistical class
of politicians shat ever cursed nation or
disgraced a people.
Appropriating all the patriotism to
themselves, they denounce and curse all
who differ with them as rebels and trail
tors.
infatuated with political idolatry. they
recognize no God but the god of the Radi-
calls, and reject all divine revelation that
cannot be tortured and construed to mean
that s'soe are the sdints,' and the negroes are
the chosen people.
They acknowledge the right of suffrage,
provided the people will vote as the Radi-
cal party desires and the military COM
mander of the district dictates. They al
low every man to worship the Deity sun
der his own vine and fig tree" provided he
will repeat the prayer of the Radical.
This state OF affairs is disreputable
alike to the country and the party that is
responsible therefor.
And in the present campaign what
contrast the conduct of the two political
parties furnishes.
The Democratic party advocates time
honored principles retrenchment of the
enormous expenditures of the Government,
reduction of the excessive taxation with
which the people are burthened, a re-
establishment of fraternal feeling all over
this broad land of ours, and a return to
that Conservative, Democratic and Chris
tian administration of the Government that
won for us the admiration of the world and
the bountiful blessings of an approving
God.
Whilst the Democracy is engaged in this
great work and advocating it with argu-
ment, the R 4dical press and party are ap-
pealing to the passions and prejudices OF
the people, denouncing freemen as rebels
and traitors, howlng for the elevation OF
the negro, giving utterance to the grossest
falsehoods and fabrications as to the past
conduct of the Democratic party, sending
forth demagogues and wicked men to irri-
tate and impel the people to resent insults
and injuries perpetrated expressly for that
purpose, in order that the Radical press
may succeed in engendering more hatred
and prejudice.
But the day of their misery is at hand
They have originated falsehoods until their
mower of ordination is exhausted, and the
poor sniveling traducers are compelled to
repeat the stale ones of the past for the
hundredth time as their ''stock in store" for
the present campaign.
Their own evil natures are exhausted and
the power of the inspiration of the Devil
has been brought into requisition until it
has lost its force.
Having acquired and exercised the full
extent and capacity of his powers of evil
on earth, Satan has been compelled to as
sure them there is no other means of war
fare left them. except repetition of what
they have already used.
But their former source of power Is now
a means of weakness.
The Democracy are no longer annoyed
at their insolence. They despise them as
we do the works of the Devil.