Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-02

OF the States alone. That was the great
question before the country. On the 22d
day of July, 1861. I was present when both
houses of Congress declared that not a sim
iof the seeded States should be interfered
with by the war. That was solemn prom
ise to the people. Cong gfess apportioned rep
resentation in the South during the war for
representative purposes. They apportioned
it also for judicial purposes, and deter
mined where the Supreme Court should
hold its various circuits. They levied taxes
upon those people as being citizens of
States IN this Union during the war. They4
received upon sthe floor of both houses, in |
the Senate and House, representatives from
those States that are now lying out
ccerSi6 side G the pale Of saf S0ysranent
They did all this, and in'Il every J
way gave the people their pledges
and tifeF promises that This tree, Watered |
with the blood of the patriotic men OF the
copntry, should bear as its fruits the re-
union of these States. More than that, in
every imessages in every proclamation that |
was uttered TO our, own people and to the /
people of the Southern States, the same |
| geheraH language was used. More than
that, our Cabinet in correspondence with |
foreign Governments told them what this
war was Fwaged for,p told them that the 1
empty seats remained in C9agress for the
ever they laid. down.thei arins.s These are \
solemn, recorded facts of history. These
were the fruits that you were to gather,
but when the war closed and the Southernl
| troops surrendered, the Radical leaders,
with barefaced efrontery, and audacity,
and hypocrisy, without parallel in the his-
/ tory of men or nations, betrayed every
word, line and letter otthis solemn record.
They sought to wipe out every fine of it,
and to-day challenge any candid Radical
\ upon this point. Where is your war rec
d ord during the war? You love to talk
about war records. Where is the oney you1
made? Where are your Crittenden resolu-
tions? Where are your apportionment
/ bills? Where are your solemn enactments?
Where is your correspondence with for
4 eign powers? Where is the record your
4 party made when it admitted Senators and
| Representatives from the seeded States
tdurfng the war? Where are your procla-
nations in which the rebels were told that,
lii they would lay down their arms. they
would receive their rights as citizens of
pthe States. Let these men who are so fond
pof Investigating the past investigate their
own record upon these points. =HotauH
/ I CONGRESS BErRAYING rrs RECORD. ~
Having thus shown you briefly, at a
glance, what their record was during the
war;. 81 want to show you how basely and
| peridiously they have, betrayed it. What
do you. see to-day? Look abroad in the
bland. Why is it that you see ten States of
lhthis Union without single right or privi-
lege in the UnionP In other words, why
is it that you see ten States blotted out of
pthe Union? Did you fight for that? Sol
ihdiers of Ohio, is that one of the fruits OF
the war that you desire to gather? You
were told that the rebels were lighting to
take ten States out of the Union. The
frebels failed to take single State out of
the Union, but the Northern rebels in
Congress, under Thaddeus Stevens, have
I taken ten States out of the Union. APP
plause.1 Can any man gainsay that /? Can
any man dispute my word? Is it not a
lplain, palpable fact that the Northern Rad
'bical has accomplished by Legislation in
i Congress what the Southern rebel failed to
do on the battle efield-dismembered our
] Union? Virginia is noglOnger a State in
the Union. nor are the Carolinas, nor Louis
lana, nor Georgia. :.What are they, then?"
says some one. Instead of fulfilling their
promises made during the war to you, the
people, as soon as the. war was over and
they had the power that they longed for,
instead of receiving these States back into
the Union, the Radicals passed what they
4 called a Reconstruction bill, which divided
Il the South into fiveimilitary districts. Five
military districts take the place sof ten
States of the South NoHss it is not neees-
sary for me to discuss at length the effect
+ ernment. 1t can not exist in a free govern
ment, for themomentsuch legislation takes
place, in a government calling itself a re-
public, that moment its republican form
ceases. Military government can not
exist in a republican government at
4 all. "A republican governments is based on
1.-THE consent rof the governed. Military
, government is one man power, and in
Eyour five military districts In the South,
one man governs in each of those districts.
) Let US examine briefly the effect that this
Legislation has infthe South. These, ten
t States embrace almost one third of your
r entire country, and in almost one-third of
J. lyour entire country, at this moment, all
1. .lliberty is crushed out of existence. The
right of the writ of habeas corpusiis dead.
? A man may lie in prison as long as the
military commander says he shall The
right of trial by jury has perished!n The
Southern States are DISTINGUISHED, andihave
) not the right to govern themselves. In this
Government, calling itself "a republic
; nearly eight millions of people are deprived
, OF the right and power of participating in
e their own government. But some one
perhaps. is ready to say, SAY, there it is
e I idstiexpected VOORHEES, to come here and
plead for ana sympathize with, Eebels."-
VI Why, my friends, listen to me moment
ol This is yo,tr country. The South is your
}, country. You fought TO keep it as your
country Virginia is your State; Georgia
q is your State; the Garolinas are your States
D They are all yours. The flag is yours
: every part and parcel OF it is yours. The
S stars that represent the Southern States are
: your starsof glory, as muchlso as is the stal
a of Ohio. If there is a man here who can
| locate himself upon one solitary spot oi
e American soil and say, ''This is my country
e and 1 care for nothing outside of this single
d spot,p am not talking to that man. Tht
r man that can stand upon his own door
| 40, nsl -1f - 60
n1 nobody; because oppression and plundel
: have not come to my house, L am content
o is being hatefult to God and man. ni 80. 81.
y The old Grecian maxim contained th
q noblest essence of a wise and free govern
o ment. When the humblest citizen o
It Greece-the humblest and the meanest ant
! the elowest-suffered by usurpation or bat
. laws. every body, from the highest to tn
1 lowest in the commonwealth, suffered alike
L Thus, if wrong and outrage and lawles
y usurpations overthrow your institutions
IL your right of trial by jury, your hGbeas cor
} pus, your right of the people to govern
themselves in any one State of this Govern
u ment, then are you wronged here,and lfyol
e are Christian and patriotic men, you will
,e seek to redress that wrong. You may, your
u selves, want to go to these Southern States
'et Some of you have come from them. TIL
- fathers and mothers of some of you sleep ii
20 their soil. Your children may want to g
le back to them oenjoy their fertile fields an
lie seek their fortunes. When they go there
!e what kind of governmentdoy6u wish then
l. to enjoy What kind of laws do you wan
I them to have ?, Do you, desire them to hav
/ your old institutions OF liberty, or do yol
L wish them to live under the despotism o
l. the bayonet, with tie black manIior thei
e master? But their may be some here VIII
is will say /: SThis is a good way off; it dom
J. affect us here in Ohio" will tell you som
thing directly that touches you more near
lly, and that touches the Radical as well a
the Demoerat7all alike, s In the first place