Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-04
The PeriIs ofthe Hour! The HOPES
of nhe EutnraI

Hhe PeriIs ofthe Hour! The Hopes
of the Future!
= Our land the first garden of liberty's tree,
~ mas been. and shall yet be- the land of the free.
As the tide OF time rolls rapidly along,
the hour as rapidly approaches when the
people will again enjoy the privilege and
the right of the elective franchise, "a
right inestimable to freemen and formida-
bic to tyrants onlylp We do most solemn
ly believe that no single election ever held |
In this country involved in its consequences
results more serious and vital to the happi- |
ness, If not to the existence of our Gov
ernment. We are not in fact the govern
ment we were. Our country is not the
country it was, and unless check Is speed
lily interposed upon the further spread OF
arbitrary legislation, our efforts will be in
vain to arrest the downward progress to
irremediable ruin. The people have by
too long silence given to the vandals who
rule this once happy republic apparent
cause to believe that their legislation and
their future schemes will'all be adopted.
If indeed the people are determined to ac-
quiesce in whatever doctrines or measures
may, in the future be proposed, we
can tell them in the outset of these
brief sentences, that despotism of a military
order will be their future form of Govern
ment. But we DO not believe the people
of these States, once so free, will so far for
get their glorious lineage as to longer sub
nit to usurpation's rule. They have now
been compelled, many of them against
their former convictions; to acknowledge
that the party whose boast it was, was a
party of progress, is in fact party of ruin
party of imbeciles, of plunderers, of ma
tricides. They have belied to the people
over and over again the promises they
made of future benefits. They have
brought anarchy to our country where all
was peace and progress. They have ig-
nored entirely the wisdom and patriotism
and glory of our illustious sires, and as a
last resort must be compelled, in order to
hold their high seats of power, to over
throw entirely the form of the Govern
mentl This is scheme that has been, by
may of them, long cherished, and one that
they now think can soon be lealzed. The
people driven to desperation, these usurp-
ers believe, will readily embrace any form
of Government that will promise security
to property. They miscalculate entirely
the nature of the western foeman!
The Yankee may love his gold more
than liberty, and sacrifice upon: the
altar of Mammon every vestige of former
purity of patriotism but there are men,
aye millions of them, too, who will never
surrender their birthright but with their
lives. III 9i.. H5H. -.srf rgl
The men of the West fought through the
war. as they believed for the good of their
country. They fought that the individu-
ality of the nation should not be impaired.
And what have they since seen? No effort
made since 1865 to restore the Union!
Upon the other hand a ceaseless succession
of measures, calculated only, and intended
to render restoration of the Union i'm
possiblel And what can ultimately be
gained by measures like these! The men
who rule the country believe that no re-
sistance will be made to any form of gov
ernment they may DEVISE and that in the
strength of despotism they will firmly re-
pose. Can the people believe in a party
that cheats as it moves, that ruins when
ever it proposes to benefit? They will not.
1t is only by action, determined and faith
ful, that we can be reinstated in our lost
position. The name of our country is held
in low repute abroad-what it is at home
every man who can read knows. Corrup-
tion,usurpation,t taxation and tyranny is the
motto of the ruling Radical organization of
political hypocrites and thieves who hold
in the hollow of their hands, as they be-
lieve, the destiny of our country! Let us
then, determinedlY, ....4
--"be firm nor let corruption sly
Twine round our hearts indissoluble chains!
The steel of Brutus burst the grosser bandsl '
By Cesar caste o'er Rome. but still remained p
The soft enchanting fetteIs of the mind.
And other Caesars rose. Determined. hold
Your Independence, for that once destroyed.
Unfounded. freedom is but morning dream,
! That fits aerial from the spreading eye!'
1t is By such determination alone that we
can be saved. Our. fate is in our own
hands for veal or for woe! ..s
SEPTEMBER 2ND, 1867. - W.