Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-23
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calism is triumphant the Republic is at an
end. We are at sea at the mercy of drunken
sailors and the ship of state burthened be-
yond its capacity with internal antagonists
and national responsibilities that must an
av;tahiv lead to disasters and ruin, if we
do not speedily have change of rulers.
It is natural for the originators of oul
national calamities to sneer at the warnings 7
of the trne5friends of the country. 1t is /
natural for them to assert that the destrue-
ton of the Constitution is the result OF
progress. But the great and vital ques-
tion is, are we not tending to an absolute
change of government
This the Radicals cannot deny. Provls-
ion after provision of the time honored
Constitution is swept away; irresponsible
military officers are clothed with imperial
powers: civil laws are trampled upon; a
proscriptive minority, clothed with official
power, is engaged in debating standards
of LOYALTY and wickedly assailing citizens
| who refuse their concurrence, and WELD
their official power to annoy and iEjure
vhomsoever is so unfortunate as to pro-
| yoke them to acts ofrevehge.c No country
has ever presented more convincing
proofs of the final dissolution of its Coy
eminent. sae Ut 81" tOIt
The Pharisaical egotists and croakers
who control and direct the Radical party.
relying upon past successes, and delegated
powers, proclaim wreck and ruin for all
that dare oppose them in their reckless
0f ipoI all
heresies of which history furnishes an ac-
count. Their courts have been converted
into mere partisan assemblages, and prece :
dents of,long standing are swept away al
unceremoniously as an absolute despoi
erases the edicts of yesterday to make room
for the DEGREES of to-day. The Chief JUS
tice was selected because of his political
influence and wields the official power
with which he is invested for the most de-
testable partisan purposes. BUTLER, an ac-
knowledged dthieEappears in the arena at thi
strange period in the history of our ,coun-
try, Congressman and an acknowledged
leader of a powerful political faction
ASHLEY, the asuborner of perjuries, the as
sociate of convicted felons, and the fit asso-
fciate of all l'sueh, disgraees the Congression
al Hall, and infamonsly assails the Execu
tive, and is honored, lauded and upheld by
the Radical party for his infamy.' LOGAN.
the avowed secessionist at the inception o.
our recent calamities, goes forth to traduce.
SANDER and vilify citizens in the name Q !,
the Radical party, and is rewarded with
official station. --
MORTON, the purifying mass of corrup-
ton, and the special mark of the avenging
power of Divine, with brazen eftron-
terry borrowed from the evil spirit which
alone can lend the necessary egotism TO
enable the abandoned profigate to play
the hypocrite, stands forth a recognized
leader and statesman of that party. And a
legion OF kindred spirits are found in all
stations in that party and none can deny
but what they are the leading and con-
trolling spirits. From the. dogma of free
dom for the negro, this party has passed to
that of political negro equality. a.
Ignoring all argument, the leaders ara
scattered far and wide appealing tothe pas
sions and party prejudices offollowers who
were enlisted upon the pretext of saving a
Union that they have since willfully de-
stroyed in order to succeed in retaining
power. Having INDUCED in the most eX-
travagant and inexcusable waste of the
public funds, and having robbed the people
by the establishment of worthless bank
ing system purely for partisan purposes, in
stead of meeting the issue made by the con-
ssrvative people upon this uhjeet, the Rad
ieal leaders are carrying on personal war
fare against every citizen who claims the
right to demand of them a reasonable ex-
PLANTATION. of official malfeasance. Having
| invested the blacks of the South with the
right OF suffrage, in open violation OF the
organic law, they now deny the danger OF
war of races, and vet are daily proclaim
ing and publishing proofs of the inability
of the African to remain in the South with
out the aid and protection of a standing
army. ei- .5Y .lov,4t
They claim in one paragraph the success
of the most nefarious schemes of recon-
struetion ever proposed by civilized peo-
pie, and in the next declare that the people
of the South are as disloyal as they were
the day they adopted secession. sa
Exhibiting all these inconsistencies, the
leaders of this party invoke the aid and sup
port of the people to an extent that will
enable them to continue the present state
of affairs until the nation by a sadder ex-
perience than that of the past, shall have
realized the effects of all their political
! follies. w. y.t II ,f..., .-..-l .r... F-8T
That the nation is sadly demoralized none
will dare to deny! .4...---s ..l.-
That the Government is being totally
changed is the current Radical boast.
That Congress is great school of cor
1 Eruption, and the Capital scandal4to the
nation, -is-qa humiliation and calamity
which is almost universally lamented.
In the midst of all this decentralization what
do the idle boasts of loyalty that are in
dulged in by the leaders of that party
amount to? ia '-.H
+ And what hope can we indulge in if they
shall succeed in holding the power that is
being used to odestroy that which should be
thereby preserved? -f4r ? .auq 90
If the Radicals are continued in power
they and their Negro allies propose to set
/ themselves up as standard of loyalty, and
whoever refuses to be prescribed thereby
will be disfranchised and outlawed.
Having resorted to that which is illegal
to promote partisan success, so soon as the
adherents of those cheresies shall divide
into factions. the inherent principles OF
the party will not be forgotten, and will
lead to conflict as bloody and revengeful
as the contests of the savages, from whom
this species of political reasoning has been
learned. This question of race and loyalty