Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-01

force to the swarm of officers created by
the ''freedmen's bureau and sent to the
Southern States: ., an 80 .r--,ta- s.iT
ale has kept among us, in times of peace
standing armies, without the consent of ouI
Legislature gfd ssyS Sal So .s1s Is sfi
l.Tn HE has affected to render the military
Independents Of and superior to the civil
power y-@,ssS ~ .f75,,i .;..1tsi, !.
+F'or quartering large bodies of armed
troops among US: -
aForl protecting them, by mock trial,
from punishment, for any murders they
may commit, on the Inhabitants of these
States.D1s sa- Is .asEa-a Re hfs e. I;o-7t d 30
Language could, not better express. in SC
short compass, the charges that the peo'
lple, loyal and disloyal, OF the South. make
against the party that now rules the des.
Tiny of the country. .-.,.,-....
"For imposing taxes on us without our
The States OF, the South have no repre-
sentation in Congress, yet the people re-
siding there are taxed on almost Everything
they eat, drink or wear. =.ea
"For depriving us. in many cases, of the
benefit of trial by jury:
For transporting US beyond seas to be
tried for pretended offences" ra, -,
These latter charges apply to Ohio and
other States as well as to the South, and
the miserable old King of England, who,
in one of his crazy fits, perpetrated these
acts, if now alive and sane, would laugh in
his sleeve to see how nearly the Abolition
leaders were following in his footsteps.
The trial and conviction of men, not in the
military or naval service of the United
States, for pretended crimes, by a military
court, and sentenced to death, as was
the case with MILLIGAN, BowLEs and HoR-
sEY, at indianapolis, and of c. L. VAL
LANDIGHAM by Gen. BURNSIDE, tried for
a pretended offence, and sent beyond the
then Jurisdiction of the United States, are
cases in point. In the former case, the Su-
preme Court OF the United States declared,
after the sentence OF death was commuted
to long imprisonment, the Military Court
has no right to hang these men, and that
the conviction was an illegal one. In the case
of Nh. VALLANDIGHAM, that gentleman
made his escape and returned to his home
l-braving, in his consciousness of right,
the entire power of the Administration,
and so patent to every one, was the fact
that grave wrong had been committed on
his person, that no second arrest was made.
There are dozen other things in the
glorious Declaration, if read to an Aboli-
ton audience, would have to be omitted, for
fear the reader would be insulted for read
ing an indictment against the Radical Con-
gress and the leaders of that party.
If the reading of the Declaration would
produce such bad results, how about the
old fashioned Grafton, which the Star sug-
gests, ought to be delivered. If of the
kind suggested, the orator must necessarily
speak of the odious "Stamp Act" which the
British Parliament sought to intiict upon
our people-withoutw which ''stamp' certain
writings would not be legal, and which
made prominent cause of the seven years
war of the Revolution. This too, might pro-
duce discord, for in this year of Grace, 1857,
under Abolition rule, "Stamp Act" fifty
times more oppressive than that sought to
be inflicted by the British Parliament on
the then Colonies, is now, as every man
knows to his cost, among the laws enacted
by Radical Congress.
The tax of two or three pence a
pound on Tea, was another prominent
cause of the outbreak which led to the
American Revolution. The city of Colum-
bus, this present year, pays greater and
tire thirteen colonies would have paid in
1776, If the tea tax law had been acquiesced
in. The county OF Warren does the same.
These facts being patent to all present, it
would not do for the orator to deliver an
old time oration to the people of Warren
county as suggested by the Star. To omit
q deserved censure on Great Britain for en-
acting the odious Stamp Act; and for the
taxher Parliament ordered to be collected
on Tea, would be like playing Hamlet with
the Prince of Denmark omitted. 1t would
be no old fashioned Grafton at all.
From these facts our Radical cotempo-
rary of the Star will see that his old-fash-
ioned celebration of the 4th of July ia all
boshi AS the man who tried to murder his
wife by kindness said, it can't be did"
None but the " Copperheads" can have
such acelebration, for they still oppose those
things which their torefathers charged as
crimes upon England's King and England's
Parliament. In their eyes the tax on Tea
Is wrong, the Stamp Act, which compels
men to afix stamp even. on the permit to
bury their relations, is odious in the ex-
treme. 57i
The "Stdr" and its friends can be con-
soled by the fact. that they can have ner,
If not an old fashioned celebration-one
more in accordance with the spirit of these
times of Republican misrule.
Instead of praising WASHINGTON, as our
Democratic fathers did, they can praise
JOHN BROWN, after the fashion OF DOM
PIATr, at Delaware, last winter, and make
the Father of his country play but sec
ondary part to the Father of the Abolition
party, whose soul, they say, ''isstill march
ing on.n Instead of the glorious Deelara-
tion they can read one of THAD. STEVENS
speeches in Congress, and when they wish
90 speak of bravery, honesty or virtue, they
can name Gen. ScHENcK at Vienna or BEN.
BurLER at New Orleans, and the majority
in the present Congress at Washington.
Upon these grateful themes the Radical
orator can descant at full length and no
doubt. with s'unbounded applause.' Z
GubernatOrial Movements On the
Negro Suffrage Chess Board.
The Cleveland Leader says Gov. Cox viii
consent to a re-nomination, and the Zanes-
ulle Courier endorses him.
The Lordin County Ne,cs says that Gen.
ScHEScK viii consent. to run If it is neces-
sary to secure the defeat of Conservative
nronosed nv the Southern Ohio members of