Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-19

Buren's time, the most pro-slavery of all
pro-slavery men; more so than Mr.. Van
Buren, who was called a Northern man
with Southern principles. But when that
fine old statesman and hero, General Cass,
was nominated by the Democratic party as
candidate for President, Ned could not
support him. He supported the Buffalo
platform and the Freesoil candidate; not
that he expected to elect him, but in order
to defeat General Cass. In a few years
after James Buchanan was elected Presi-
dent, and Mr.. Buchanan was said to be in
favor of giving the slave owners more than
equal justice, Douglas and he split on the
Lecompton Constitution. Buchanan wished
Kansas admitted with slavery; Douglas
opposed; Ned came TO the rescue. Douglas
was not pro-slavery enough, so Ned threw
himself into the arms of Mr.. Buchan-
an, and bounded Douglas as being
almost an Abolitionist. In few
more years and Abraham Lincoln
hlled the Presidential chair, and had ST.
mon Cameron as Secretnry of War--sweet
Simon. 1t was discovered he was making
too much on horse contracts and other fat
pickings, buzz was raised around the
ears of Mr.. Lincoln. Simon must be re-
moved, other loyal Republicans were
jealous; Simon was getting more than his
share of the stealings, and out he went.
This made another hole, and the next thing
we hear of Ned Stanton he made another
great summersault and landed right in
father Abraham's bosom. The sanity
General, Benjamin F. Butler, whose specu-
lations in cotton, golden eagles and silver
spoons, and whose general orders, brutali-
tiles and schemes to prevent an exchange
of prisoners until more than ten thousand
of our brave soldiers died of disease and
starvation at Andersonville, was a refine
ment in barbarism unknown to the Gath,
the Vandal, or the Mortimer of the mid
die ages; and the blood-stained Joe Holt,
on whose countenance nature has stamped
the word villain, were exhibited in all
their beauty and consistency. What if
Ben. Butler did vote fifty-one times for JEFF.
Davis to be President; that was only
proof of his fitness to be leader and
light in this Radical party. And he will
have to look well to his laurels or Joe
Longstreet, the fighting General of the
South, since Stonewall Jackson died, and
who killed more of our brave boys than
almost any other Rebel General, will sup
plant him in the affections of the beautiful
fortieth Congress. fHf.r
And, now, forsooth, these Radical stump
speakers, with such a disunion and dis
honest record, are going round telling
what Pendleton said; telling what Vallan-
digham said, and telling what somebody
was told by somebody else that heard
somewhere from some other man what
Thurman is reported to have said. Why,
said the speaker, 1 verify believe if jeff
Davis would advocate the enforcement of a
negro military despotisn, monied bond
exempted aristocracy, and the nomination
of Ben. Wade for President, he would get
a place himself on the ticket for Vice
President. F tl
If this Radical party and their stump
speakers had not begun this thing: if they
would discuss those grave questions that
demand the best wisdom of the country tor
their solution, the speaker said he would
not have reviewed their disunion and dis
honest record. When two men have fallen
into marsh, and are sinking deeper
and deeper, they ought to discuss
the best means of getting out, rather than
be disputing as to how they got in. But
no! They do not wish to discuss the state
of the finances; they do not wish to dis
cuss the question as to how we are to pay
the mighty debt, relieve the labor and in
dustry of the country from the burthen of
taxation, or restore the States to their for
mer powerful and prosperous relations.
When Democratic speakers discuss these
the Revolutionary policy of overturning
tEis White mans Government and putting
it into the hands of Brigadier Generals and
Negroes, is ruinous, the only reply is, Cop
perhead, Butternut, Traitor. What an ar
gumenti Call the attention of the people
to the fact that nearly one-fitth of all the
property, real and personal, in the North
is; Withdrawn from taxation, that the other
four-fifths is unfairly compelled to pay all
the expenses of the Government, both
State and Federal, and to pay
gold interest on the exempted one-fifth,
besides; and what is the reply, how are we
answered.? Copperhead, Traitor, Southern
Synpathizer! In his Judgment it does not
require much brains to make Radical
orator. He could take the dullest parrot
between here and the South pole and make
an average Radical speaker of it in twenty
four hours. For, in that time he could
teach it to utter the three words, Copper
head, Butternut, Traitor.
Ask the Radical speaker what is bis plan
of relieving the people from the onerous
burthen of taxation, and the country from
the stupendous amount of debt into which
the most eulpable extravaganza has
plunged it, and his only answer is, parrot
like: Copperhead, Butternut, Traitor.
The Constitutional Amendment, and the
reasons why the Radicals wish it adopted,
the National Debt and the best way of can
ceiling it with honor to the country and
justice to all parties concerned, the ques-
ton of equal taxation, the necessity and
benefit of restoring the South to its proper
position in the Union, and the absolute
necessity of curtailing the expenses of the
Government, and how it may be beniicial-
ly done, were all most ably discussed, the
Judge occupying just two hours. When
he took his seat one long, rousing cheer
was given for Hon. Allen G. Thurman and
all the candidates on the ticket and the
honest Republicans who were wheeling
into line with the old Democratic party.
THOMAS.