Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-10
The Road to Solid Pro.p r,ty.


meeting, held in the city Of New York on
the night of the 4th inst, the Neo York
Herald gave utterance to this absolute truth:
1.-THE verdicts of November and Decem-
Der render 1t certain that no party can hope
for success in the next fall election that
does not discard all the uiolent, revolutionary
and unconstitutional measures of the Radical
Congress. and stand before the people on a plat
form Of ianaedidte restoration Of the South upon
a fair basis, ,oithout Negro barbarism as an dc-
compartment"
After over two years Of legislation in
Congress looking to the perpetuation OF
heir party in power, the Republican SEN
,tors and Members find. as consequence,
he country in condition sad to look
Upon. For the interest and behoof of the
Negro they have legislated, to the disregard
of the interests of White men, and all suffer
from an almost universal prostration #
business. Last year the Democratic party
called attention to the fact that this
sort of legislation must inevitably work
the ruin of the country. They plead for
election of men to Congress who would
give their support to conciliatory policy,
wherein toe White people of the South
would find stimulus to 20 to work and re-
pair the disaster and destruction caused by
the War. This was urged not out of any
special regard for the Southern people
but because the more prosperous the South
was made the more prosperous the North
would become. There is an intimate rela-
tion between the prosperity Of the twosec-
tions. If one section is desolated and i'm
poverished, and all incentive withheld from
the people thereof to take hold to put mat
ters again speedily to rights, the other Sec
tion will unquestionably be detrimentally
affected. That two and two make four is
not a proposition any more plain than that
this is so.
that the Democratic candidates were en-
tirely too tender-hearted and leaned to-
ward clemency too much to be entrusted
with seats in Congress, as they would COM
promit the Government in their dealings
with "bloody- handed traitors" Mercy
brought Christ to the world; Mercy char
acterized all His teachings; and while il,
the agony of mortal death on the Gross
He appealed to the Father for the bestow.
ment of Mercy upon those who were put
ting Him SO sbamefully to death. Substan-
TALLY they said, that might have done for
Calvary and over eighteen centuries ago
but itiwould be unworthy the Congress OF
the United States in this .age. And the
people believed! ...
In consequence of the War, the South
has been desolated and Impoverished. AL
know that. All know, too, or ought 10
know, that it was the duty of the party
having control of the Federal Government,
instantly upon The ending of the War to
put in motion such a policy as would cause
the people there to go to work Immediately
and,as. quickly as possible make good the
ravages of the War, SO far as it related tC
the material interests of the country. Oul
own self-interest demanded that this should
be done; for while the War cut no broad
swath of desolation through the North
yet day by day. through corruption and
wastefulness. and SHYLocK usance, there
was accumulated vast public debt, which
stands as an attestation of great loss Oh
our side. . .-rf s. ea . lj b.sii ~.
| This debt, so contracted, it is claimed
must be paid to the uttermost farthing.-
An insinuation implying differently il
branded with the stigma of dishonor. Il
was, therefore, the plain duty of the party
administering the Federal Government
to cut down in every department of the
Government every needless expenditure
and to practise the most rigid ecoromy in
all things. Instead of doing this, how.
ever, they went on conducting the admin.
istration a, though the capacity of the
people to pay taxes was without limit, and
as though they would rather pay them
than not. There was no end to corruption
and wastefulness. Committees of every
conceivable sort, on the most frivolous pre-
texts, were sent strolling over the country
needlessly adding to the expense of the
Government and the taxes of the people
Nor this alone, for were this all that there
is to complain of it could be borne; but in
their efforts to make political co-laborers
out of the half-civilized Negroes, they
maintained costly Freedmen's Bureau
and an expensive Military establishment,
all at the expense of the Federal Govern
ment. Thus, instead of lessening, they all
the while increased the taxes of our peo-
Pile. This makes it folly not only scam
dalous, but entirely too costly to our peo-
pie. All the while business is suffering.
and will suffer until a different policy-a
policy recognizing the White race as the
superior race-shall be substituted. eZ
Contraction has been tried and business
lies PROSTATE. The lower House of Congress
has just passed bill putting stop to Con.
traction, and we presume Imitation will next
be tried to help business on its legs again
All such make shifts will amount to little,
unless Congress shall give to the South i'm
mediate restoration to. her rights of repre-
sentation in Congress 'without Negro bar
barism as an accompaniment" This is the
road to take the country to solid prosperity
AS Congress has taken the back track on
Impeachment and on Contraction, now let
it show the country more conspicuous
exhibition of good sense by repeating its
NEGRO barbarism" reconstruction policy.
Better the country prosperous, peaceful
and happy, and the Republican party de-
feated, than the Republican party success
FIJI and the country ruined. .-
The Impeachers = Their Names
and aheir Infamy. "
Below we give the full vote on the at
tempt to impeach President JOHNSON, in
the House of Representatives in Congress,
on Saturday last, as we find it telegraphed
to the Cincinnati Commercial:
=
order to be the resolution for the impeach-
ment of the President, the pending ques-
tion being on the motion of Mr.. Wilson, OF
Iowa. to lay the subject on the table.