Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-23

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tions on matters current among us, might
be of interest to many both here and else
where:
The range of counties on the eastern line
of the State is well adapted to agricultural
pursuits, the land being rolling, rich and
very productive. The wheat this season is
fine, thick on the ground, clean
in the straw and plump in the berry. The
only drawback is the comparatively little
sown; seed being scarce and high priced in
the fall, few farmers had faith sufficient to
''break up their fallow ground" and to "sow
in tears" hoping ito reap in joy" which
they now would have done. Had they |
been more hopeful and diligent in seed
time, now their silvery tears would be
turning to golden sheaves.
Is it not so of some men politically P
Perhaps it has been their lot, for time or
two, to vote with the minority, and they
become discouraged, either stay away from
the polls, grow Indifferent, or go over to
the opposition entirely for the sake of pop
ularity. I have known Democrats to do
SO. I am ashamed to record it, but l have.
Had the farmer only known last fall what
he has since learned, what plentiful har-
vest he could have had and how full he
could have filled that purse of his, so often
depleted in late years to pay the enormous
taxes imposed by the Radical rascals who
now rule US to our ruin. But now is the
seed-time of the greatest political hope
the Democrats in this State ever saw. Now
Is the time to work, to SOW broadcast the
sound seed of constitutional truth, law and
order. that our dear land may once more
be redeemed from the blighting effects of
shoddy wickedness and war. Never was
there such a call for vigilance and action in
all to unite and vote out of positions of
trust and power those wretched vampires
that have SO long been sucking the blood
from the very vitals of our country.
How outrageous does our Congress
act! To oust the President from the chair
in which the people legally placed him,
just because he is trying conscientiously
to do his duty to the whole country, and
to keep sacredly the solemn oath he took
to follow the Constitution, on the day of
his induction into officei See how low
partisan fool called Schenck, Congress-
man from our own State, offers burlesque
resolution in the House, comparing the
wise, weighty and just opinions of so high
and honorable an officer of the Govern
ment as Attorney General, on Reconstruc-
ton law, to those of the vulgar Nasby.
A batch of military tyrants are sent to
lord it over the South and are instructed
to pay no regard whatever to the civil
lawi A state OF anarchy is kept up in
Tennessee by the demon Brownlow, who
is saint in the eyes of this wicked Rump!
Negro bureaus are sustained at an expense
of millions upon millions of dollars, to
enable the blacks to go idle, and to teach
them to look for farms in confiscation of
the property of the whites! The personal
malignity, shocking profanity and official
insolence of the satrap Sheridan, are sus-
tanned and praised by men who boast of
their wisdom, morality and piety! Con-.
gress sunders the Union and keeps it
sundered in the name of the Union
1t urges upon the people negro
equality against nature, and all the instincts
of civilization and order! Special legisla-
tion is common in Congress in favor of New
England interests and against those of the
Great West! A ready tool and willing
actor in all these and a thousand other
Radical denominations and wrongs, is NOM
mated for the highest Office in the gift of
the people of this great commonwealth
He and his well paid agents will have the
unblushing effrontry to come before the
people, whom they have basely wronged,
and ask them, in the name of ''lo-el-ty," for
their suffrage and promotion to power!-
Can it be that the people will grantit? No,
never will this President-impeaching,
Union-severing, Negro-equalizing, anti
wool-tariff, "ring"-begotten Hayes be Gov
ernor of this State, if a grand majority OF
the best citizens in this region can prevent
it. Nor will the Negro ever get the Con-
sIitutional right to political and social
equality with our children in our schools,
churches, juries and other important places,
if the voice of virtuous and aroused peo-
PIE can be heard. Nor will any poor sol
dier with informal papers ever be deprived
of the right of suffrage or of holding office,
merely on account of this informalitY, il
the loud thunder of their ''NO" can work
the contrary.
So, reader, you see that noao is the time to
sow the seed of justice and truth to eradi-
cate the Radical chiccory that has for the
last few years usurped the soil. What are
you and doing to help on this work? Dc
we sustain those who go forth to sow
Our county papers here are doing well-all
edited with ability. Do we read these and
the STATESMAN carefully and then hand
them to our kind-hearted, well meaning
neighbors who may have been heretofore
so far imposed upon as TO cooperate with
the very men and measures that have well
nigh ruined both them and us? Say, dc
we do this, and urge all to subscribe for one
of these journals, at least during the cam
paign now pending, by far, in my opinion
the most momentous in its bearings on the
future state OF civil affairs in this land, thai
has ever come before our people? Sow ir
fear we may, but as certain as there is an ir.
resistible vigor in truth, we will reap in joy
But see what hope to inspire diligence
About five Republicans out of every six de-
clare they ,oil not vote ''Yes" on the Amend
ment. They say, this giving the Negro
a right to vote is putting it too strong, anC
there is nothing now in this fuss about "th'
Union'-If Congress wants ''the Union" re
stored, why don't it restore it, and let tb'
negro alone! Our taxes are heavy-un'
necessary bureaus, military reconstruction
Indian wars, Extra Sessions of Congress
and thousand other things, are increasing
daily the burdens on US. Ourlrulers mus
be checked in their wild rage of the in
terests of Party and the darkey, and b
made to respect US, the true citizens of thi
Cove rnment.
Thus they talk and did you but know
their thon phts Won would find these far IL