Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-27

lie is a mt exponent OF the party which |
Senator Wilson boasted stood on the rock |
of ages, with all the measureless moral in
fluences of the universe to sustain 1.-THE
Snowman having the measurelsss fiaoraI in
There is fitness OF his heinot a
companion of Butler in Congress. sfCheers.i
They are twins in impudence aud brothers
for mcre. Whatever pays is right Some
one has endeavored to anticipate the tomb
stone in Buffers case, by inditing HIS epi-
taph thus: .F EF] e1fH fPHs5a9Ff1
Here lies great hero who sirked bloody strife -
He passed in bottle some years of his life. 30
Which in spite Of remo9s he always retained
Tillit grew to maxim beyond all debate, 49,.
And when vessels of silver were missing. AlackH
Sighed the owners, they're hidden in Benjamin's
[Cheers.] -l..., .s.i 49, =,
1t might essay to write the shownnan,s
antemortem and political epitaph, trust
you will make it good in April: of sirt
The show is over. Barnum's gone! Eyfyszto..-
His earthly journey now is done; 80 =,
Ambition did his soul environ, i' - i"
He fell beneath man of iron. 'sl@ i11
The Yankee people 9ould, not choose him. 70 . |
But sent him stuffed into his Museum.r,,Sl ff4
Preserved IN wax, his eyes all glass -. :, -
His other figures do surpass; .' y Sdh
The woody horse has he'd his wool. - efg "1v4
w ith grief his heart was over full; % Et4il;g1i
Poor Joyce Heth mumbles her great tISr Srief. 4
And hymns and psalms give no relief. zrl.5
has gone where Barnum hasn't gouel - =. -
The learned seal. with mourning wet,
kefuses meet to cure regret
The Aztec children tear their hair, II -.r q,
Those kinks proclaim their deep despair;
The sh9Tman ferried over the Styx,
Long and loud laughter and cheers.i
But suppose that this political Mrs. Jar |
bey = proprietor of wax figures, &c. - |
should get into Congress, what then? He |
could not keep company, he says, like the |
is.r,Va rr,tH
Brooks, Fernando Wood and John Morris |
sey! Ho! hoi Not he. Why. there is |
more courage, physical and moral, in Nor
rissey's little tinger-to say nothing of his
tist-than in all the Congress, bully Ben
Wade included A Barnum would sur
round himself with the pious Stevens and
the honest Butler !-[laughter]-and then
he would vote against letting the unrepent-
ent South come in. What exclaims the
Snowman, allow the lions to be in the same
cage with the lambs! What an idea the
Snowman must have of Congressi He re-
CARDS it as museum of beasts" in which
he is to be one of the lambs" He willnot
remember that the moral forces of the
universe" point to the day when the lion
and lamb shall lie down together" If he
be elected to Congress, methinks it would
be rare sport to look down upon that as
sembly to see your Representatives stirring
up the animals. How he would show off in
Duke performed in the absence of the real
Duke? What airs of temporary conse-
quence! what moral graces! How he
swells, like a shirt bleaching in a high
wind [Laughter.l Yet this unrepentent,
swelling sinner preSumeS to talk about the
unrepentent South; this prince of shams, to
prate about the ''sham Democracy :" this
whipper of slaves, to boast of his humanity
and love of liberty! He declares he left the
Democracy because the military overpow-I
cred the civil authority in bleeding Kansas,
and yet he favors the monstrous bill to rule
the whole South in time of peace by mill
tary force and martial law. He should not
answer questions of craftsmanship, for there
is no emphasis to be accorded to his Opin-
ions, economically, morally, nor reiigiously.
The question of craftsmanship requires
more insight than the showman's trick, and
more purity than trickster's life. What
is the condition and temper of the South
to-day? Not as we gather it from parti-
sans, but from the authentic reports. will
not refer to General Grants statement, nor
to the reports of Southern Senators and
others. give you the facts as | learn them
from report to General Grant, made in
the first of this month: "They are Begin
ming to recuperate. Plantations are being
re-stocked; fences made, but owing to the
destruction OF stock last year, especially
hogs. and the unI1sually bad season for cot.
ton and corn, there is, and will be much
want; corn, cotton, bacon, and forage par
ticularly. Funds are wanting, without
which, the extent of cultivation must be
limited. Traders are cautious in their adj
vances to planters. The very land itself,
as well as prospective crops, are put under
lien to raise the needs of life and industry.
The capital of South Carolina, once over
fourteen millions, is now but one million :;
and though hands are plenty, and the ne
groes are returning to work for their old
masters, yet the lack of implements and
money to purchase them, is producing, to-
gether with the short crops, terrible devas
tation." The best reports say that in
Georgia, sixty thousand human beings are
bordering on starvation. In one district,
three hundred were found-like the prodi-
gal, living on husks Yet the domestic
laws go on, the judicial machinery is at
work, and the people orderly and law abid-
ing. Even Congress has begun to think of
feeding these starving thousands, which is
well; but why not cease their devilish en-,
ginery OF prescription? 1t is no way
to bring them back to cOntentment,
by feeding their starving bodies to-day, to
torture them with a loss of their manhood
and rights Tomorrow. Far better estab-
lish with them good faith and unity, the
charity of the heart, not of the hand only.
There is no religion in such hating charity.
[Cheers.] 1t is floating to heaven on a soap
bubble, delusion, sham, pretension.-'
The same plety formed the mermaid ana
clothed the woody horse. 1t is Paganism.
He that hateth his brother is a murderer;
no gifts at the altar will wash out the guilt
thereof. ''If thou bring thy gift to the al
tar and there rememberest that thy brother
hath aught against thee, leave there thy
gift before the altar and 60 thy way; first
be recOnciled to thy brother and then offer
thy gift" 1t is not by hate, prescription,
military repression and reprisals, that
States grow great in their own wealth or
in the esteem of the world. 1t is not the
soil which has made America great; not
her census of numbers; not her machinery
of State and Federal Government alone,
but the tree, moral and religious spirit
which makes the Republic. Its this part
nership of noble, industrious men, work
J ing together in content under a common
shield of protection. The worth of State
is found in the nobility of its individuals.
BureauX, Congresses, Cabinets, Judges,
Presidents, with all their skill, cannot make
the State greater by aggrandizing their
power and dwarfing the people, The vital
spark of liberty enshrined in the Constitu-
ton has made us great and prosperous. 1t
alone will keep us so. Cheers.]
The meeting adjourned with cheers for
the ticket and the speaker.
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