Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-04
The Fourth of July, 17se and 1867.

to abolish the 4th of July, the din of prep
aration in our city, making ready for its
celebrations shows thatit is still an institu-
tion dear to the patriotic heart.
Ten years ago it was celebrated by the
people who looked forward to long life
for gthe Union, where the rights of the
States and the people were secure, as they
fondIy hoped, against all possible danger
Five years later if celebrated at all, il
was in the midst of civil war, and in the
presence of the largest armies the world
has yet seen, laying waste large sections
composed of men OF the same blood, and ed
ucsted under the same institutions, on the
one side ffghting professedly to save the
Union from disruption, and on the other
to secure the rights of section of the Re.
ipublic from infringement. 17v-e-
! The party that fought to save the Union
stronger in numbers and wealth and in all
the material necessary to carry on wal
4 triumphed, and the defeated laid down
ttheir arms.ao tfee.79 gli7iaasz
But the war did not end-the Union has
not been saved.
| The Congress of the United States, divest-
ed of many of its members-ten States Of
the Union being denied their Constitutions
al representation-has done that which the
forces of LEE, of jackson, BEAUREGARD
JOHNSON and others of the Confederate
leaders failed to do, disrupted the Union
and rent it into fragments. The States
of Georgia, the two .Carolinas, Mis-.
sisippi, Arkansas, Florida, Texas
Louisiana, Alabama and Virginia, are
declared and treated no longer as
States of the Republic, governed
by their own laws, and.by officers elected
by the people residing therein. This has
been done, not to avenge wrongs, real OF
fancied-not to secure rights endangered
but to retain power, that the minority
might govern. The Declaration of Inde-
pendence, which will this day be read, as q
part of every proper celebration of. the
Fourth of july, contains many charges
against the King of Great Britain, which
will strike the ear of the listener as equally
applicable to the present Congress and the
present party in power, in Withholding
from sovereign States their constitu-
tional rights, and governing them, in
time of professed peace, with
the bayonet-the military making the law
and enforcing it with the strong hand of
arbitrary power. Boast as we may of our
superior knowledge-of our Railroads,
Telegraphs, Ocean Steamers and other
things, of which our patriot fathers never
dreamed, yet, in that knowledge which
teaches men their rights, and how to pre-
serve them, we might well take lessons
from the men, who many years since
published their Declaration of Rights and
of grievances, and enforced the one and
avenged the other, against the great
est power of the then kingdoms of the
earth.
But the star OF destiny points to better,
happier days. Soon the Vandals will be
drawn from the Capitol-soon the Govern
ment, both State and National, will pass
into hands that will govern them wisely
and well, and on he principle which
THOMAS JEFFERSON first put into successful
practice, guarding alike the rights of the
States and the people from Infringement
and protecting alike the high and the low,
the rich and the poor, giving equal rights
to all, special privileges to none.
Then can we celebrate the 4th as in the
olden time, with liberties secure and hearts
filed with brotherly love alike to the peo-
pie of the South and the North, the East
and the West. IS q
The day we now celebrate is the 91st an
niversary of the Declaration of Ameri-
lean independence. We trust it will re-
ceive due reverence throughout the length
and breadth of the land. 1t is glorious
day and filled with glorious recollections of
glorious deeds. Amid the shock of battle
the excitement of the moment spurs men
on to deeds of noble daring, but none,
no matter how heroic in true courage, can
compare with that exhibition in Indepen-
dence Hall, in Philadelphia, July 4th, 1776,
when the members of the Continental
Congress, cody, calmly, deliberately, adopt
el and ordered to be published their record
of grievances, and in support of the dec
laration that the colonies are. and of right
ought to be tree and independent States,
pledged their lives, their libe rty and their
sacred honor in its support, knowing, as
well they did, that with failure an igno-
minious death was their doom. More of
moral courage was never exhibited, and
shall the people of the United States con-
tinue to prove recreant to such teachings
by continuing in power q party whose
teachings and whose acts are at variance
with those of Republican Government? 4
Let Us Stand by Our Servants.
The country must protect the men who
are in peril because of their devotion to-
Congress. We notice an effort to over
throw the Military Commanders, and espe-
cially Gen. Sheridan.-Ne,o York Tribune.
Oh, no! The Radicals are not in favor of
q Military Government. But they must
protect men who usurp unwarranted pow
ers. D szF'E - r~h
And for what? In order to maintain
peace and law? Oh, no! Because of their
deuotion to Congress. Military Commanders
being protected in a Democratic Govern
mentl A novelty, truly.
The Radicals "notice an effort to over
throw them, do they? sHae
And what is that effort2 -
Simply an effort to have their brainless
and heartless men confine themselves to
their duties as defined by the laws of the
country. Laws, too, provided by the Rad
icals themselves. SzgT 1e-
So the Radical press lead, and yet deny
that their party is subverting the Civil
Government for a Military one. This is
what might be termed '1ying the devil out
of fcountenance." .,
MIR. GalIOway's Successor ON the
81 ss Ticket -s -
The colored Convention in session in this
city it is thought, will take action on the
subject of Mr.. GALLowAY's successor on the
Ticket. Not satisfied with furnishing the