Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-12
Tae Great fssu et-The Nation
Against the Puritan and the


The result of the election in Californiais
theS knen bof the Republican party, an
nouncing .therabsolute reputation by the
people of all the dangerous motions that
constitute its political programme, as well
as-bhesrepndiationR of thes dan gerous men
who are its leaders. Parties that no longer
have the will of the people behind them
may linger feebly on the stage tor awhile,
but their end isnot far distant. When all
the. successes of an, organization must be
secured by corrupt means, when its tri-t
unphsare due to bargains, not to innate
force, when its purposes are not the peo-
Pies purposes it is evident that its real
power IS gone, and that it must be hustled
ffiBm the sight Sef the nation. The first
President ; 1.-THE United States, whose
election was not an expression of
the national will, but was a defiance
of that will and the result of a
bargain, Twas John nri Quincy Adams.
in favor of General Jackson-Jacks had
the largest popular v0te-but, as the cleo
ton was not secured by the peoples voice
ite@efit sto the House of Representatives,
and there the Presidency was handed over
bEbargaining, g, to candidate who had not
been the first favorite with the people. Mr..
Adams had q. popular vote smaller, than
Jickson's; Crawford and Clay had each a
lllssmaileri vote; but through the infln-
ence of Clay a combination was made on
Adams, and the popular will indicated in
Jaeksen's 8 plurality went for nothing with
the scheming leaders. Adams was Presi-;
dent and Clay had the first place in the
pose, of Adams and Clay. was what
John Randolph called "a corrupt,
coalition between a Puritan and a
blackleg." The people agreed with Ran
dolph in their opinions of this game, and
didsnotferget'the he men who had sold them
out.ss Not one of those involved in this
bargain ever recovered the national con-
fiIehce.1 All, even Clay, with his great
abilities, were remembered to be kept
from ali places of high trust. and power;
and four years later, when the people chose
Il PreSiasRt agaias they gave their most un--
equfvocaf voice for the favorite Jackson,
and declared the purpose of the people to
be free from the thraldom that corrupt
LADDERS had established. They blotted out at
once theswb0le party and the whole polit-
]eaders of ttiat coalition. despite all effort,
were kept down forever by the determined
purpose of the nation. t-'t
We have been four years under the thral-
dom ffxt upon us by another corrupt CO.
alitinn9thatof the Puritan and the nigger
only this was more atrocious bargain
than the other, as the national purpose that
has been betrayed was one nearer the ma
tonal heart than any mere choice of a
magistrate, however high. With all their
mightsYith all the emphasis of ballot and
bullet,. the people made their will apparent,
and the politicians scorned it and traded it
away IN their games. To vindicate the will
of the majority and maintain the existence
of the nation the people made every sacri-
flee that is in a peoples power. With an
unlocked, for exercise of. strength the
nation put down the greatest re-
bellion of (which there is any record,
and then required of the dominant
party only that is should pacify the coun-
tryh,ands restore peace, feXacting from
thescoRqaered merely such guarantee as
would theoretically provide against the re-
currence Of war; for. practically, the ma
tiop looked upon the defeat of the South in
the-stFaggle fairly fought out as the best of
all guarantees for future peace. And what
did the leaders in view of this plan pur-
pose? They ignored it entirely, treated
the known will of the nation with an in
sulting indifference supposed to be charac-
teriJtfc only of Ce Sarism. Between Puli-
tan and Niger was made the bargain to
give to the half civilized slave supremacy
over his former master, in order that the
political balance of this brutal, ignorant,
and .unreas6ning vote, might retain the
Puritan in power. That is the exact pres
ent position of1the Rsdical party. In ac-
complishing its purpose thus far it has
traded away every little of principle
it originally had from the sources
of heSpower, a' and has reduced
the -I4' business OF Government to
grand swindle, filling high places with
corruption beyond all parallel. Will the
people submit? aWill they consent to see
the principles upon which the nation
stands traded to and fro, between scoun-
drelsste whom the gamblers, thimble-ris-
gers and observation-disclosures of our streets
are, byr comparison, honest dealers? Will
they see the very heart and life of the
nation rotted out, that craven, brutal
peoDle, to- whom slavery was more bene-
tit than asdegradation, may be set in power
aborB the white men of the country !?
Califorhia answers g Mop And in her
voics we may hear what is to come from
the people OF New Y fork and nd.Pennsylvania
the doom of the political traders. The
peopleaaFe no longer to be deceived by the
shibBoietfi OF, party cries that have covered
withithe name of freedom all this atrecions
scheming. They will make salutary ex-
ample Of the sehemers.- .-Nea0 York Herald.
At-stsg Hair, Michigan, Chas. T. Wheeler
sprang into the river, and saved a young
girl from drowning, but while he was
climbing back on the dock, he was struck
by a-pTnpeller coming up, and injured so
severely that he sank back and was drown