Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-12
VOL. XXXIV.

has been one OF tyranny, hypocrisy, and
EiDjustice-and all in order to retain power
and plunder the Government. ff q.lT'I
How do the speeches that Republican
Senators have read on this floor correspond
with, those that your partisans made soon
after the war began9 You tell US that from
the organization of the Government to the
commencement of the late rebellion, the
Democracy were in power more than three
fOurthS of the time. You then appealed to the
young men and to the patriotic of all par
ties, to rally to- the support of ''the best
Government the world ever saw" thatt
knife was'placed at the throat of the best
and most glorious nation under Heaven
Were you telling the truth then? If so,
what you say noac must be talsel Are YOU
telling the truth no.o? if So what you said
then was false In, either case you rivet
fraud falsehOod and upon yourselves and
show clearly your own rottennesS,I
You stigmatize US as disuniouists! When
did we indorse a Hartford Convention =
Shay's or whisky rebellion.2 When did
we ever petition Congress for q dissolution
of the Union? NEVER! When the Sena-
tor from Columbian was reading his speech
to us this morning, branding as as disun-
ionists, my mind reverted back to the times
only a few years before the war, when a
petition was presented IN the Ohio Legisla-
Cure, signed by some two hundred persons
residing in the Senator's own town of Sa-
lem, praying for a dissolution of the Union!
What a commentary on consistency. or,
rather, inconsistency But Ineed not con-
sumo time in replying to such charges,
| Our Opponents-the honest portion of them
will acknowledge that the Democracy
never have and never will march in any
| cOnp pany that does not keep step to the
music of the Union.
When some Democrats intimated, at the
beginning of the war. that your purpose to
prosecute it was not so much for the Union
70 frokaf q 6Rn1Qd hitter
lly; and where you had the power to do Ii,
! YOU mobbed men, destroyed printing press
es and offices, and filed -lOathsome prisons
| with innocent men and women, for express
ing such honest convictions. What do we
see and hear tonight? Senators declare
here, and now, that if this resolution be not
adopted and carried out, and the black race
placed on an equality with the whites, then
4 that the sole object tor which the war was
| Waged has failed of its accomplishment. 1t
4 you are honest 1soeo, you were certainly dis
4 honest then. The CriGtenden resolution that
4 passed Congress by an almost unanimous
IVote in July, 1861, declared that the war
H was FOR THE UNION, and that when the
II rebels should be whipped the war ought to
II cease, leaving the rights of the States un-
II impaired. The rebels laid down their arms
Il and surrendered, and for two years have
H been anxious to return to their allegiance.
They have abolished slavery, and in
\ thousand ways, have given evidence sufh-
II cient to satisfy any honest man of their sim
4 cerity. Yet Radical Congress persists,
1 for partisan purposes, in keeping ten States
4 out of the Union and has now placed them
4 under military rule, and is still eXacting
conditions from them which are known to
be illegal and unjust, and which it is known
| no honorable people can accede to without
| utter humiliation If such men as you are
4 Unionists, who under Heaven are dis
uniOnists !? 5fi8 .S-}g. MOO
Your party unnecessarily prolonged the
war. It is the opinion of the best military
men in the army, that had your President
reinforced General Mcclellan when he and
his army were before Richmond, that the
war would then have been speedily termi-
mated. But Shoddyites had not yet suffi-
GENTLY enriched themselves. They cried
| tory, 'ns' traitor" "rebel, -" copperhead,"
and huzzaed as loudly for the Union, assDe-
metrius and his craftsmen did in the Olden
time. We are Informed that they cried for
two hours-@ Great, great is Diana of the
Ephesians., They had by far the best ar
gument; and the craftsmen were by far the
best men. They were trying to make
money without the sacrifice of human life,
whilst Shoddy~ was rioting on greenbacks
and shedding the best blood of the nation.
~ Sir L respect the gallant soldier, who
braved the storm of battle, for the Consti-
tuition and laws of bur common coun-
| try; and if our existing difficulties were
lett to them, they would speedily be honor
| ably settled But / despise the Shoddyite
who remained at home to fatten on con-
tracts, and make money by buying and
selling white men to fill the drafts. OF all
the men that ever God made upright, and
breathed into their nostrils the breath, of
| life, the sneaks who stayed at home 'to fight
copperheads in the rear" are the most de-
based and contemplate !Y8sI = S<31 H5i I
/ Mr.. President, dislike to hear texts of
| Scripture quoted in light and trifling
But was astOnished to hear the Senator
who represents Oberlin on this floor, after
leuIogizing the Radicals, boldly proclaim
| ing that our Savior was Radical and be-
llonged to the Senator's party. Only few
days ago, in the United States House of Rep
resentatives, two of the prominent Radicals
quarreled' with each other. Bingham de-
nouneed Butler as being the greatest thief
u1whipped of justice: Butler charged
! Bingham with having his hands stained by
| the blood of the innocent Mrs. Surratt. If
Cheir own testimony be true, would not
any honest ruler take a scOurge of very
large cords and drive such characters out of
the Capitol, instead of joining the party?
1t has been asserted ON this floor, that the
preachers and the better class of the
people are against US. 1 have but lit
| tie to say in reply to this. 1 should
regret exceedingly to- say one word in
| imical to religion, or in any degree to
lessen the influence of any pious minis
| ter of the gospel But If we consult the
history of England during the time of our
Revolutionary struggle, we shall find that
the Bench of Bishops were the most fero-
cious enemies the Colonies had. They were
| for turning loose on the COtOnists the mer-
ciless savages, whose known mode of war
fare was an indiscriminate massacre of
women and children; and they were the
very last to advocate a cessation of hostili-
ties, or the acknowledgment of our indie
pendence as a nation. And regret to have
| it to say, that too many OF our modern
preachers inherited the spirit of the Radi-
cal English clergy of the Revolutionary
era. '-+5
could go on till midnight, exposing the
corruptions of the Radical party, and all
the time quote from their own political
papers, speeches, and the official reports of
!, their own committees; but the task is an
unpleasant one, and regret thatthe course
pursued by the Radical Senators has made
it necessary to go so far out of the record.
Mr., President, personally / have no un-
kind feelings toward any Senator on this
floor. But L hold that it is duty owe to
myself and to those that sent me here, not
to- suffer such false and malicious aliega-
tiOns to 60 unrebuked and unrefuted.-
Why, sir, the whole tenor of the speeches
made by Republicans since the commence
ment of this discussion, has been to pro-
mote discord and disuniOn. They were all
pervaded by the spirit which engendered
and prolonged the war, and:now prevents
anything like reconciliation, and arrays
man against man, section against section,
banishing everything like sympathy and
brother1y love-the spirit which roots out
all those kindlier feelings of our nature
implanted by God himself in the human
heart, and watered, nourished, and cher
ished by the Holy Angels, and fills it with
others of different nature, emanating from
far different source.
j know il. is growing late and Senators