Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-10
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Under this caption, the Journal of the
9th inst, had a long editorial, most scoun-
drelly in its character. The miscreant who
wrote the editorial, is gracious enough to
admit that "Mr. THURMAN's character is as
good as that of lawyers In general" that
"as a judicial officer, notwithstanding his
arrogant assumption of superior learning
and his tenacious ddhesiueness, the Judges
career could hardly be pronounced fall
ure." Otherwise the Judge is written
down a most unsanctified and abominable
wretch, whom the writer would send out
of the world summarily, if he only had the
power to do so. If the writer supposes
that he can advance the cause of the Re
publican party by any such defamation,
we bid hin continue it. In all the elements
OF true manhood and greatness, Judge
THURMAN is the peer of any man in the
Republican party. Among the charges
preferred against Judge THURMAN by this
editorial, are these: ll
"At the commencement of the dire War
which Slavery in arms waged against the
Government, love of Slavery was, with the
Judge, not only an infatuation-it was a
religion. Those who did not believe in the
divine right of raising mulattoes for the
market, or the Constitutional right of high
toned Southerners to sell their daughters
and grand daughters for purposes OF pros
titution, were fools and lunatics.
"All who would not turn traitors to make
slavery perpetual, were deficient in under
standing" ..-.-...
Why these charges? Because Judge
THURMAN did not and does not exalt the
Negro race above the White race. Because
he is not willing to say that the Negro and
the White races are equal in all things, and,
therefore, should be participants TO an
equal extent in Government, he is repre-
sented as a man who looked upon all as
Stools and lunatics' "who did not believe
in the divine right of raising mulattoes for
the market, or the Constitutional right OF
high-toned Southerners to sell their daugh-
ters and grand-daughters for purposes of
prostitution :" ,.g3
The Journal was particularly severe on
the Emancipationists and Radical Repub-
licans in January and February, 1862. In
its issues of the 31st of January and the 1st
of February, it devoted long editorials to
the subject of Emancipation as Govern
ment Policy" With reference to the as
sertion that Emancipation was 'sthe cheap
est and safest mode of suppressing the Re-
bellion," it held that that was an .'acknoe0l-
edqnaent of our iTyerlority-Of our inability to
SAGE ourselves and our country except by the
AfricaR." The Journal, furthermore, said !:
"Nay-we deny that it would be either
or safest. The feeling of the South,
in thousands of cases no,o longing for the Union
under ,ohich they hare been dltoaus protected,
tc0uLd By Such an act become universally embit-
tered, and intensified in its hostility to q degree
of such utter teroc,ty that ,oo,tld ,ender the
War against rebellion sdnguind'y combat
through tndetinite years."
The Journal was right in its apprehen-
sion. The Emancipation Proclamation did
make the War more sanguinary; it did pro-
long the War. 1t enabled JEFF. DAVIS to
recruit his depleted and disheartened
armies. 1t did enable him to silence every
Union emotion in the South.
The Journal did not, however, rest its
to the Emancipation Proclama-
tion here. Itcontinued:
''Nor can it be regarded as altogether
safe proceeding to uproot at one stroke the
domestic relations of whole common
wealths, to dnnuL all the ldacs governing the
relation of master and slaue, to dbrogate their
reldttce rights and duties, and to turn four
millions of Negroes 10Th their minds unintorn,
ed, their passions unreguldted, their lusts
unnamed, out upon ciuiliSdtion, aoith po,oer to
restrain but by the stef n arm Of an onnipresent
military fOrce!-such proceeding might
well invoke the most prudential Caution"
We are not quoting from Judge THUR
MAN. We are quoting from the Journal.
1t wanted no Emancipation, because it
would dissolve the then subsisting " rela-
tion of master and slave" Did it then
. believe in the divine right of raising
mulattoes for the market?" Did it want
g the relation of master and slave'' con-
tinued for the purpose of enabling "high-
toned Southerners to sell their daughters
and grand-daughters for purposes of
prostitution ?" This was not the alleged
ground of opposition by the Journal to
we know, but was it the
latent cause that prompted the opposition?
That's what we want to know. We are
not yet done with our quotation from the
Journal of January and February, 1862.
In reply to the assumption of the Emanci-
,ationists and Radical Republicans that
! toward Rebels we are not bound by the
orms of law that by their own acts they
laye nullified the constitutional obliga-
ions, and that we of the loyal States are,
therefore and thereby, exonerated from
;he observance of legal restraints and con-
;titutional provisions" the Journal said:
.sThis assumption, we feel compelled to
;ay, is even more monstrous than the
Measure of Emancipation itself: it is reu-
,lution may, aoorse, it is moral treason
d is anarchy For tchen did it euer come
O pass that, because one man had utoldted
aao, other men a1ere justified in disregard
no the lG,o as toeoGrd him? 1t were as
veil to say that because man was sinner
md had rebelled against his Maker, there
ore Gods laws were. nullified-the Con-
titution of the Moral World abrogated.
Certainly, punishment the most condign
hould be visited upon the reoeliious SIN
,er--never without law-but always in
with, and by virtue OF, law. 1t
5 on this ground that we would cling to
,ur Constitution"
In its second editorial, the Journal quoted
he resolution which was adopted by the
House of Representatives in Congress, on
he 11th of February, 1861, providing that
neither the Congress of the United States
Tor the people or Governments OF the nom
States have the Constitution
il right to legislate upon, or interfere with,
slavery in any of the slave-holding States
n the Union" 1t likewise quoted the
yrittenden resolution, adopted July %,
s61, setting forth the objects Of the war,
nd then said:
~We bring these records to mind, not be-
ause we presume any one Is ignorant of
hem; but as landmarks to guide US
Lmong the shifting currents and engulph-
ng whirlpools of the present tempestuous
lines. We do it for another purpose-to sho,o
he rocnrd of some men in GOn0reSs 7rbo oro