Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-25
Don't Like 1.-THE CincAnnati
COumerciaI.

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There is great deal in the past OF the
Republican party, that the Cincinnati Com
n,erctaI in common with other. Republican
journals, does not like referred to. The
Journal of this city having few days ago
weakly attempted to convict the Demo-
cratic party of the responsibility of the re-
cent War, we cited DOUGLAS, FoRNEY,
GREELEY and WEED to show that the Re-
i publican party could have averted the
War; but refused to do so, because, to use
the expressive words of THURLow WEED,
1.-The Republican press and Republican
Representatives were beguiled with the
popular idea that they discharged their
first and highest duty in standing by and
on the Chicago Platform" This has dis
turbed the Commercial, and it talks as
though the consideration of any measures
calculated to avert War, would have been
unmanly. 1t says: "If the majority had
consented to submit to the minority, all
would have been WELL" Now, this same
Conanaercial in the spring of 1861, ''ddco-
Gated peaceable separation" and grew
exceedingly wroth because the Gin
consistency, and regretted that the Ca
seste should ''be so consistent in wrong
headedness." In the opinion of the Com
n1ercidl, it was ''wroug-headedness" not to
advocate 'peacea6le separation" In the same
editorial that it upbraided the Gazette with
"wrong- g-headedness in not advocating
''peaceable separation" it said: t.rsa
1 az to- Al
Southern coast. We are not in favor of re-
taking by force the property of the United
| States now in possession of the seceders.-
We would recognize the existence of q
| Government formed of all the slave-hold-
ing States, and attempt to cultivate AMIGA
BILE relations with it," -r r.....
Now the Commercial tells us that the rea-
son War was brought upon the country
was that the Republicans ''wouldn't scare
when the South became furious" The
Commercial could not have been one of those
Republicans in the spring of 1861, for no
sooner did the s'South become furious
than it Justify advocated peaceable separ-
alton, and gave many of what (it) we con-
slider good and substantial reasons for so
doing" That's its language-"gave good
and substantial reasons for" 'peaceable
separation" Not only this, it was mot in
favor of blockading the Southern coast.''
1t was ''not in favor of retaking by force
the property of the United States'' then
sin possession of the seceders;" but
it 'a1ou1d recognize the existence of Govern
naent formed of all the slaoe- holding States,
and attempt to cuzttUate anicable relations acith
it," If the Commercial could have had its
way, we should now have rival Govern.
ment, Republican in form, instead OF the
Military Government the Republican poll
ticians have sacrificed nearly million OF
lives and piled up upon the people noun
tain of debt to erect in the South.
While we are overhauling the political
history of the Republican Party, we should
be obliged to the Commercial, and no doubt
the public would also, if it would give us
few of those ''many" "good and substantial
reasons" it in 1861 gave for "peaceable
separation" We should like to see them
and compare them with the reasons the
Fire-eaters of the South gave for "separa
tion." Was it patriotism or truculent
spirit that induced the Commercial to give
these "many" reasons for separation p
Which was it, Mr.. Commercial?