Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-13
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Madness of She Republican Party

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Madness of 1he Republican Party
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= The radical journals and party leaders
are beginning a new revolutionary pro-
gramme, and endeavoring. by their violent
appeals, to lead the country on in a whirl
sOf excitement TO anarchy and ruin. They
are repeating the policy pursued by the
ultra prO-slavery politicians of the South
ern States for year or two before the rte
bellion, and are seeking to raise a storm of
passiOr1 and prejudice violent sehouglI-tO
carry reason and common sense before it.
Cool Judgment and firm action are more
than ever needed at the present time in the
South is undergoing military process of
Redistribution which viii result in giving
the control of the local governments of
ten or eleven States of the Union into
e=shandsz of the negroes. This will
oblige us to establish a. permanent
military police in all the feconstructedt ter
fitory, and to maintain a standing army
large enough to hold possession of the
Southern States and enforce the authority
OF their civil governments by the power Of
the bayonet. To give up the South to the
political rule of the negroes, and then to
withdraw the protection of the United
States, army. would be simply preparing
the way for war of races aud a general
massacre. We are is as much confusion and
trouble financially as politically The
Treasury Department Is assailed by the
most damaging rumors and charges, and
the general impression is that our whole
financial system is rotten to the core. The
national credit is suffering, and nothing
will remove the feeling Of fapprehensio and
insecurity that prevails except thorough
change in the Treasury Department and
exhaustive Investigations into all its trans
o tiohs for The past four or five ye ars.a a7st9
hH In such a condition of affairs, as we have
said we require broad statesmanship and
calm Judgment to guide us safely through
lour difficulties: And yet we find the ex-
iectisives and legislative branches Of the
Government, all Republicans together,
istriving 2 which can increase in the most
violent degree the madness of the hour
The Radical faction in their family quar-
rel with their own President, appear Co be
getting perfectly wild and reckless. Some
of, them seem to desire the Governors of
the several loyal States to lead the
Grand Army of the p Republic down
to Washington and seiZa possession
of the Government. Their organs and
party leaders brand the President of the
United States as drunken leafer; but the
fact is, they are all drunk together. Gree
ley's article in the Tribune yesterday, like
Wade's speech in Ohio a lew days since,
must have been melted by the fumes sot
whisky, and very bad whisky at that. The
accounts from Washington every day show
that all the affairs of Government are in a
terrible state of Generalization, and off,
scialss high and low, civil and military, ap-
spear to forget that we live under a written
Constitution, which assigns toeaeh depart
ment ofcthe Government its legitimate
funeAionsand authority. - SISIU ~
Is it not time for the rank and file of the
Republican party to withdraw their co1n
tenahee from the violence and recklessRess
J which mark the conduct of their leaders?
The steadfastness of the Republican masses
carried to successful issue the great OBJ
jects of the war, but they can have neither
part nor symp pathy with the men who are
i. tearing at each other like savage beasts in
: their struggle for the spoils of office. They
should repudiate them and their doings al
together,Sa and take the power they abuse
out of their hands. The country is getting
heartily sick and tired of such disgraceful
Drawls. sft 90 ger -s-s-L