Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-22

man OF common feeling and common sense
but will be ready to agree that to BUTLER
and to STANTON are the horrors of Ander-
sonville and Libby prisons justly charged? =?
Mr.. HAssAUREK gives the evidence to prove
it-his word no negro suffrage journal in
Ohio will dare dispute. ea5 la ssafs''.
An Abolition Editor Wants the
E9t7 4th of July Abolished.
!. The article we copy below is from the
leading radical organ of Northern Ohio,
aud will be read with an indignant feeling,
that the Republic could foster within its
bosom a manikin so lost to all patriotic
feeling as to indite it. Abolish the 4th
of July, 'because it is a humbug, a nui-
sance and an extravaganza" is carrying
that partisan feeling which places the ne
negro above the white man to an extrava-
gance that we had not expected. --q "
The writer of the article, while the late
patricidal strife was going on, and thous-
ands of American families were brought to
want and despair by the loss of husbands
fathers, sons and brothers, rejoiced with
exceeding joy, and collected money to burn
powder over each victory which the tele-
graph gave tidings of-the glorious VIC
tory at times turning out to be asignal de-
feat. But to burn powder on the 4th of
July-to have the Declaration of Inde-
pendence read by bombastic elocutionists,
50 shocks his sensibilities that he wishes
the whole concern abolished as nuisance.
This is the reason assigned, but it is not
the true one.l4 JEr .s.fs a.a. -7#' ?.
The long catalogue of crimes charged
against the English King, by the Declara-
tion of Independence, are too nearly similar
to those now charged with equal truth
against the Radical Aboltionists, and their
Congress to De be palatable to the leaders of
that faction. As read from the stand on
the Fourth of July, the oneness of the Rad
ical party in its treatment of the South,
and the policy of the Cabinet of Lord
North, in 1776, against the then American
colonies, are so apparent that 1t is not to be
wondered at, that the Radicals wish to
see the Fourth of July obliterated, just as
DOM PIATr wanted GEORGE WASHINGTON
abolished in order to raise up JOHN
Brown, as the model man in his stead.
We give the article entire. Here it is:
From the Cleveland Daily Leader. of Tuesday
June Is, 1867
THE FOURTH OF JULIA Fourth of
July Celebration" of the accepted kind is
humbuy, nuisance, and an extrava-
gance. Its usual ngredients-cannon firing
cracker popping -parades, professions,
reviews-readings of the Declaration by
bombastic elOcutionists-twO hours ora
tions, all the same array of glittering gen.
eralities and glorifcations-and the
bonfires and fireworks of the evening-are
alike outrages upon good taste, desecra-
tions of the real purity and beauty of the
anniversary. and expensive and useless an
noyances. This July weather is intolera-
BILE, in its best estate, but when to the ago
nies of ninety-six in the shade are added
the dust, the confusion, the. crowd, the
dreariness, and the Internal racket
worse than Chinese hattie. with gong ac-
eompaniment-of an average Fourth of
July celebration, the torture becomes too
great to endure. The only possible use of
such celebration, is to make those happy
who fiy from it into the country, by en-
abling them to reflect on the misery they
have escaped. But for those unhappy
wretches whom fate shuts up in the cities,
on that direfnl day, there is no respite or
nepenthe- except, indeed, the law prohib-
iting cruel and unnecessary punishments,
of which we advise all city-pen martyrs to
A fourth of July celebration is humbug.
1t purports to be patriotic; but whose pat
riotism was ever excited by the sham pa
rades; the cheap fireworks, the oratory or
the plentiful whisky of piping hot fourth?
No body ever liked George Washington so
little or had so little faith in the Declara-
ton of Independence and the Glorious
senseless displays. A fourth of July cele-
bration is a bore. Its stereotyped same
ness is intolerable. Who ever heard
OF one being different from another |?
save that one year it is the Hon.
Theedosius Snifkins, and the next the Hon.
Augustus Whifkins, who delivers two
hours address to adeeply-interested null
titude. A Fourth of July celebration is a
burlesque. How are the grand principles
of the Declaration which it commentaries
advanced or promulgated by the whisky
drinking, the pop-absorbing, the cannon
firing, the cracker-popping, the rocket
shooting, the procession marching. the
sweating and the swearing of this much
abused holiday? A Fourth of July cele-
appropriations, In individual cOntri-
buttons and expenditures, no less
than ten or fifteen millions of dollars
a year are squandered in these organized
tortures. The value of the property de-
strOyed by fires last year, resulting ON
C1esC AFFAIRS, WAS over seven IUllilOlS OF 40 .
lars, including the losses in the great fire
Portland, which left twelve thousand peo-
pie homeless. The list OF killed and wound
ed from premature explosions and other
causes apprOximated to the casualties of an
ordinary battle. 1t was computed that
more persons were injured or killed out
right on that day than at the taking of
New Orleans or Mobile; that the Southern
ers captured Harper's Ferry in 1852,
together with thirteen thousand men, and
fOrty-five cannon, with less expenditure
of life and limb than the Nortberners in
Cured in celebrating the Fourth of
July, 1866.
The events of the last five or six years
have rendered Fourth of July celebrations
comparatively unimportant. They have
demonstrated the real patriotism of the
American people so strongly that the sham
looks tlnseled and tawdry. 1t has, beside,
furnished US with more and later anniver-
saries. Gettysburg, Five Forks, Lees sur
render, the Proclamation of Emancipation
are all of them events as worthy to be COM
memorsted by anniversar as the signing
of the Declaration of Independence. This
year, especially, in time of general finan-
cial stringency and embarrassment, when
people are feeling the burdens of taxation
as never before, it is especially improper to
devote large sums of money to a senseless
display. ..-.-.... .-.-.... ,.......-.a
We suppose we must have a celebration.
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