Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-02-05
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that the sun occupies In the solar system
takes The STATESMAN to task for having
said that "perhaps, If GREELEY had all his
life followed the vocation of hack driver,
the country would not have been afflicted
4 with the recentcivll waFs'aR Int the sentence
in which the Commercial lassertsthat we look
"upon a war, which was one Of tbe blood
4 lest and most Important that ever hap
pened, as the work of GREELEY's pen," II
admits substantially ourF" F"perhaps" ,inre-
gard to Mr. GREELEE by saying that
GREELEY's sin was his sunwilllngness to
permit minority class in the minority
i section of the country to rule the whole
nation D."1tisst UsQIh dnyOfW9s1
That is to say, GREELEY got the crotehet
into bis head, among other crotchets, that
ga minority class in the minority section
of the country was ruling the whole
nation VA thing he was not willing to
permit aud never did q blacksmith ham
mer within more assiduity shapes
less piece ofliron into shape on an anvil
than did GREELEY, this .crotchetof his into
the minds of Q majority Of the Northern
peoples He,was master workman In the
business-no botch or bungling apprentice.
He furnished the invectlve and the argu-
ment against the South-against what it
served his purpose to call the iniquity and
wrongfulness Of" minority class In the
minority section" ruling "the whole ma
| la1 hn.,
her resources were belittled--how her civ
ilization was execrated-can easily be as
certained by turning back to the files of
Republican and Abolition newspapers from
1874 to 1860, inclusive. These files will
show that throughout the period referred
to never were people SO 'ontrageously ca
lumniated; or if the words written and
spoken were true, then neverlbefore did
such execrable wretches as the Southern
people live. rsib-I aafO .f,y. ....ar ..
1t was not In reality the hate of slavery
that was at the bottom of this. Mainly
through the South Federalism was over
thrown and for along period trodden down,
and consolidation postponed. Griev-
ously herein did the South offend against
New England Federalism. Against New
England -mindedness did she
offend in contributing to the enlargement
of the area Of the United States. Being an
Agricultural, section chiefly, her Interest,
and the interests of the great and teeming
West are identical on the subject of Tar
iffs. Both are opposed to It; and through
unity of action it is in their power to de-,
feat such unrighteousuess In legislation.
GREELEY is by birth New England man,
and has ever since acquiring power as a
journalist been the persistent advocate OF
the now predominant New England politi-,
cal notions. A high protective Tariff is a
hobby that he has ridden always at break
neck speed; but he discovered, as did the
high protectionists, that never through the
power of argument could the South and
the West be made converts to political
ideas that took out of the pockets of their
people money with which to endow and
enrich privileged class, and he, therefore,
commenced assaulting the South on her
weak side-the institution 1of slavery. |
Men who could not be argued or wheedled |
into the support of Tariffs that partook of
the nature of Chinese exclusiveness, suffer-
ed themselves to be entrapped into the
movement. Appeals to their
they could not resist. s.iI"
And when GREELEY saw the Republican,
party triumphant, and when he saw the
South manifesting the purpose to withdraw
rom the Union, because of an expressed
that her peculiar Institution
would be ruthlessly interiered with, and
when Democrats and Bell-men besought
,he incoming Republican party to agree to
measures that would testify to the South
hat her apprehensions were groundless,
Ind thus avert war and preserve the Union,
GREELEY used his ponderous influence to
lefeat such accommodation. For days and
weeks he wrote against it, telling the South
It the same time that If she were of the
opinion that she could not remain in the
Union and enjoy safety and tranquility, to
from it. He held it to be against
he inculcations of the Declaration of In
dependence to force any State to remain
n the Union in opposition to her will. In
tead of the Republican press taking issue
With GREELEY, they in most Instances be-
anne his echoes. wedoht accuse the Com
IerctaI of having become an echo. 1t has
policy of its ow {, and that policy is to
AXE both sides of every question that is
hrtist upon public attention. Had GREE
EY, after the election in November, 1860, |
7hen the South showed signs of an inten7
ion to attempt to withdraw from the Union,
AIKEN the position that the South would
OF be allowed to do such a thing peaceably
that 1t .wonld be resisted to the bitter end
it would have been accepted by theSouth
S declaring the purpose Of the Republican
arty. With such an understanding, the
resumption is reasonable that the South
Tould not have adVentured on her seces-
on folly.o3sib 039d sF x .dp0se miTyHj
One thfdgis certain, so long as the South
an be kept out of her true relations in the
Tnion, and the West is fooled into electing
len to Congress and the United States
enate, who boast a New England birth,
le country win be fieeced through out
lgeonsly unjust tariff schemes, and other
themes that are noe@ whit better. New
ngland ideas, Of the contracted sort rule
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