Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-31
The Design of the Military Des-
pOtism Developed.

s T.
I pOtism Developed.
4 Mr.. EDITOR: AS Republican, candor
requires me to acknowledge the humili-
Nating fact that did not comprehend the
design Of, Congress in tramplipg down the
plainest features Of the Constitution to
establish MILITARY DEsPoTIsM over the
Southern States OF the Union, until the
g EreeaItive Committee Of the National Union
Committee" promulgated their address, Of
3. May 16, 1856, (which made the heinous de-
sign plain, even to the unsuspecting. Com
gress passed the act of reconstruction;TTthat
,a;t creating q Military Despotism over nine
u States of this Union without" the consent
of the governed, % for the purpose of en-
g ablimg Capital to control Labor and oppress
-iIaborers, under the plea Of protection, and
- to fix the price Of labor and the farmers pro-
dactions. To do this, those political prosti-
o. tutes who were to be sent into those States
as missionaries from the purlieus of mo-
narchal capitalists, must be protected In
their Infamous speeches by military power
by the despotic use OF arms and ammu,
nition,1 as boasted of by the egotistcal
: KELLEY in originating the riot and murder
. at Mobile in May. iln' i.1
p To have this power, it was necessary to
have law of Congress TO originate that
q authority andto get such law, it was also
e necessary to perpetratea most hagrant and
gross violation of the Constitution, and, to
have a vote large enough to carry 1t over
the Presidential veto. Capital secured this
vote, and Despotism was reared over the
Constitution, over the doctrine of the
q Declaration of American Independence,
/ over the Government of the States, and
Z over the rights of the loyal people! ~
'iE In the radical (claptrap word of their
; their own to catch gulls) caucuses Of capi-
! talists and their feed attorneys, che recon-
: struction bill originated and passed-only
receiving the formality of Congressional
sanction. In this ultimate design of the
movers and the actors of the bill. to e1lthrdl
r labor and saddle the national debt on the far
naers, mechanics and Iaborers ofthe country
was 10th to believe until forced upon my
mind by the address of the Committee re-
ferred to-one of whom is the notorious
old disunionist, Horace Greeley, with
whose name should be associated that Of
JEFF. Davis, Toombs and Wigfall. "i}l
-.T shall not stop to inquire how far hun
dred million dollars of the peoples treas
ure will go to erect, put in operation and
Z sustain this despotism, while the whipper-
snappers of capital are diseiplining the
colored men, just emancipated from bond
age, to vote for capital to enthral labor, but
/ will say that it is characteristic with
them to make labor pay for everything to
their aggrandizement. The millions al
ready appropriated will be used up by
July-hence the necessity of meeting OF
Congress to appropriate another ten, twen-
ty or fifty millions to keep this despotic
mill grinding until December. This is the
way the hard earnings of the people are
squandered, while the children of toll cry
for bread. g.tS
You know. Mr. Editor, that the only Sc
rious question of controversy, in years
!. gone by, between the Greeley
their tool-of the East and the SHAREHOLDERS
of the South, eods the status Of labor and the
lab0rer. t.
The Southerner contended that "CAPITAL
should otort the laborer and be bound to take
care Of him IL. sickness, Old age and decrepi-
tude." y
The fastener contending that "CAP1TAI
should control labor and the ldborer, .ti1 the
price of commodities, and not be bound to care
for the laborer in poverty or G6ftction."
This was precisely the difference between
the slave driver of the South and the labor
driver of the east !; and in the contest pre-
ceding the presidential election of 1840 the
l leaders of both compromised this question
and united, bringing with them into the
contest the ''paper kites" the banking, mer-
g. camille, manufacturing and hard cider in
iuences North and South. But Providence
Ba6elized their tooeripg designs; and so
trust it will be again.
Now slavery is struck down--can no
more be an ally to Fasteners in their
schemes to subvert the Government
slavery is lost to their aid; but they have
now promised the Congress to secure by
Congressional usurpation the votes of those
I designated by their committee as ignorant
of the duties of voting-just liberated
from bondage to Uote Capital the Master ove,
all labor and ldborers-white or colored
This is now the question: Government OF
the people, or an dristoerGcy of Cdpitdl.-
Choose We, whom or which you will favor
.-- -7 7."... PHILo- OHIO.