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FROM GUERNSEY COUNTY.
Correspondence Of the Ohio Statesman a
- - 80 OrtOhar IL 1897


q Correspondence Of the Ohio Statesman
8 & Sf October IL, 1867.
s. Dear, o, dear, Mr.. Editor, what times
Democrats are having in this fine old coun-
ty! We are slaves no more to State Radi-
cal rule. The 18th" of October, 1867, is to
be, hereafter, as memorable as an epoch of
glory. as the Sth of January, 1915, has been
the day on which Jackson defeated the
minions of British power under the proud
Packingham on the plaius of New Orleans.
The gloryiof this day must ever be to every
true American what that of Austerlitz was
to the hero of France. Its results, who can
estimate, chronicle or foresee? Negro
equality dead for a generation. Our chill
dren are to be free from the curse of the
commingling of human elements as diverse
in their nature, as an alkili and an acid in
chemistry. What God has evidently in
tended should be forever sundered, let not
man seek hereafter to unite. Where is the
party that dare soon again to put in their
platform this monster and call it ''man-
hood ?" II they dare do it, down will go
the party, as does kitten thrown into
pool with a big brick tied to its neck, its
tail pointing upward for moment, then
going under forever, as has gone the late
Radical party. -als- ai-'r.a-a
NeXt-Bonds will soon be '.lifted," and
their value placed on the tax-duplicate,
and there be made to bear part of the bur-
den of Federal, State and local govern
ments. Let every Democratic editor, writ
er and statesman urge this with all his
might and it will root Radicalism from the
| entire nation. '.7r ''''t
Next-No impeachment now of the Pres
ident for faithful attempt to follow the
Constitution, which he solemuly swore to
protect, preserve and Defend" at all haz-
ards, especially against those who boldly
avow that they have been legislating
'outside of it, as Thaddeus Stevens, the
great leader of the Republicans, affirms
that Congress has been doing in all its re-
cent reconstruction enactments.
No danger any more of military arrests
-or mobs destroying Democratic presses
or of Democratic or any other speakers
being silenced for freely expressing their
views on the vices of 1.-The Government
No noble Vallandigham will soon again be
dragged from his home at night, under the
orders of a military nabob, and sent across
the lines" for fear he might do something
wrong! No, no-none of this. But if the
great and good Thurman is elected Cover
nor, and if the classical and gentlemanly
Pendleton is to be taken up for President,
let the mighty Val. be sent to the United
States Senate, to fill the chair so long dis
hx,D W,.l4 -,
everywhere as "Ben, the blackguard," as
contra distinguished from sold spooney''
Ben, of New Orleans-Fort Fisher mem
ory. By the way, the greatest losses to the
Radicals and gains to the Democracy in this
county, are shown to be in Cambridge,
where Wade had his way in addressing the
people on the Sd instant. Some ofthe most
| considerate and worthy Republicans ofthis
place say boldly since the election, that
had their Cambridge friends have only held
another mass meeting such as those ad-
dressed by Wade and others, at that place
this fall, that they ''would most probably
have lost another hundred"
The fact that this monster of political
corruption is to be so soon hurled from po-
stion and power, is one of the most glori-
ous results of the late conflict. Oh, could
score or more of his confreres be sent
into state of suspended animation"
where they would turn to political fossils,
it would be a matter of such general cou-
gratulation as to fill the entire nation with
rejoicing and the blaze of bonfires, as is
Ohio at this hour. But the star of their
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their part to violate justice or infringe the
sanctity of the Constitution, will only
serve to accelerate its rise and their own
ignominious fall, amid the shouts of a just
ly enraged people. Let, then, the late
thunders of the Doc popuG from sea to sea,
warn them to beware.
How blessed the thought! We are again
soon to have peace. This the people
want. This they must and will have.
The Union must be restored; the
States admitted to their normal re-
lations and to their just rights and
privileges in the General Government. The
people will no longer submit to this sad
rupture commenced by bad men both North
and South, and continued now by the worst
poses! The people see this, and they feel
it too in their pockets Git not in their con-
science,) in the form of enormous taxes
levied professedly to support Freedmen's
Bureaus,a and military reconstruction edicts
in the South; but in reality for the perpet-
uation of Radical power-a power that eX-
tinguishes the rights of the many tor the
sole advantage of the few! How much
better it would be for all of us to have the
South once more prosperous. AS long as
it is "sicllr so are we. When one member
suffers all the members suffer with it.
When one State is unable to meet the claims
of the Federal Government. its weakness
is direct burden on all the rest. But when
one third of them is kept down under the
heel of party tyranny, all the others have
their expenses increased one third, besides
rule that produces this deplorable state of
things. What would be thought of the
domestic economy of a family of twelve
sons, if the father and mother, for
some selfish purpose, should have four of
them bound, and then compel the other
eight to work night and day, winter and
summer, to perform all the labor of the
twelve, and to pay besides large sum per
day to the servants who were mean enough
to ask it for holding the four in bondage
and dishonest enough to pillage the house
daily under the very eyes of the parents,
when the other sons were. at work. And
all this, too, when the bound had humbly
confessed their fault, saying they were nei-