Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-22
s.Who Is RespOn.ibIe for these
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ThiDgs?
The Journal says that "we have, as 4
consequence of this Rebellion, a monster
debt and high taxation.n The Journal Il
just beginningt to understand that we have
ga monster debt andhigh taxation" That's
healthy indication. In this connection,
it asks, with the simplicity of three year
old child, "Who is Responsible for these
things?"
The question can be easily answered.
and for the purpose of answering 1t
il is only necessary to call few
witnesses. First IN order we shall call
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS. On the Goth of De-
cember, 1860, Mr.. Douglas wrote Hon.
JoHNJ sTxYLoR: Ss &SA@%
"The prospects of our country are
gloomy indeed, but do not despair of the
RepubiIc. We are aoto drifting rapidly into
ciUit aodr. This can only be prevented by
amendments to the Constitution which will
take the slavery question out of Congress,
and thus put an end TO the strife. Wheth-
Ter this can be done depends on the Republi-
cans. Many of their ! aders desire disunion
on party grounds and here lies the difficulty"
| In the Senate of tile United States, on
the 3rd of January, 1861, Mr.. DOUGLAS, in
speaking of the Compromise he had intro
lduced for pacification, said:
| at you of the Republican side are not
willing to accept this. nor the proposition
of the Senator from Kentucky, Mr.. Crit
| tenden. prdy tell us tohdt you are willing to
| do? address the inquiry to Republicans
alone, for the reason that in the Committee OF
I Thirteen. q felo days ago, EVERY MEMBER
FROM THE SOUTH, includinq those from he
L N he IL
EXPRESSED THEIR READINESS TO ACCEPT THE
PROPOSITION OF MY VENERABLE FRIEND FROM
KENTUCKY [Mr. Crittendenl AS FINAL
( tsErTLEAENT OF THE CONTROVERSY, u ten
dered and sustained bv tie Republican Mem
6ers aence.THE p SOLE KE5F0SSlBlL, ;4t2 y BIZ,
THE ONLY DIFFICULTY IN THE
WAY OF AN AMICABLE ADJUST
MENT. Is WITH THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY" fGsG Ela
What was the nature of this CRITTENDEN
Compromise, which DOUGLAS said would
have proved satisfactory to the South, paci-
fed the country and preserved the Union !?
Col. JOHN w. FoRNEY thus wrote of it in
February, 1861:
"The demand for the protection of
slavery south of SO . 30 until the people
are prepared to ask admission into the
Union, does not come from the authors of
the Breckinridge diSaffection, is not asked
for by the revolutiOnists in the Cotton
States, but by the friends of Bel and Doug
las in the Border States, that highly important
body of our cOuIitrynaen eohOns zoe are 0H d'lc-
ious to keep in the Union, and aoltO are them
selves solicitous to remain in it. Let us, Also
in Our calculations for the future, bear
closely in mind that this is not to be Con-
gressional Compromise, but an Amend
ment to the Constitution. tohich is to be per-
fndnent, and aohich If carried, toiH put the Dis
unionists of the Cotton States so trretrieudbly
In the acroraq that they tUilI be andble to main
tain themselves in their insanrecttondry and
reasonable altitude for sic months after an
adjustment has been effected" ~
Senator SEWARD, on the occasion of pre-
senting monster petition from the mer-
chants and business men of New York City,
praying Congress to adopt either the Crit
tenden Compromise, or some other satis-
factory measure of pacification, made q
speech in which he avowed willingness
to surrender the Republican party to save
the Union from disruption. The Neto York
Tribune, then the great law-giver to. the
party, took occasion to COM
ment sharply upon this speech, in which
comments it said:
"Senator Seward, in his speech of Thurs
day last. declares his readiness to renounce
Republican principles for the sake Of the MON.
In this readiness the Senator differs totally
from the almost Incompatible majority Of the
Republican party and from the President elect.
That is, they were not in favor of aban-
doning the party tor the sake of the Union.
Party they held to be above the Union.
THURLow WEED, then of the Albany
Evening Journal, veteran and effective
editor, shortly after the break
ing out of the War, felt it his duty to say,
In commenting upon the causes of the
War: s5. 1
"Finally, Congress adjourned, having
done and said nothing to stregthen or en-
courage the Union men of the border
States. Then came the stru ggle with
these States. Virginia, long time poised,
finally took the plunge, North Carolina
and Tennessee followed. These too great
and po,oerful States uere lost to the Union be-
cause the Republican press and Republican
REPRESENTATIVES aoere begutled ,oith the popular
idea that they discharged their first and highest
duty in staadingby and on the Chicago Plat
FORM" IS
This testimony, which from that day
to this has been unchallenged, convicts
the Republican leaders with the great
crime of allowing Civil War, with its
''monster debt and high taxation" to come
upon the country. 1t is they who are
for these things"
ON Putting the President
Ont of the Way.
In the debate on the Veto Message of
President JOHNSON, in the lower branch of
Congress on Friday, we find the following:
Mr.. Schenck, of Ohio, said the President
stood as an obstacle to the policy of Con-
gress. The only true remedy was to re-