Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-07
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haoltants OF your City, living, as we do.
about equi-distant from Harrisburg.
Georgesville, and other post towns possess
ing merited reputation as marts of COM
merce and gardens Of national, patriotic
loyalty, you will not hope, deem me ein-
trusive or trifling in asking permission to
interchange ideas through the. columns Of.
your truly conservative and soundly Dem
ocratic journal (Which, by the way, grows
better and better), with my fellow Demo
Icrats, not only of this county, but of every
county and State where your paper is read.
1t may be asked, if not by you, dear sir,
by some of your thousands of readers,
what ideas worthy the columns of THE
STATESMAN can one entertain who lives in
1.-THE "Pennsylvania settlement" twelve
miles from a telegraph wire, four miles
from postoffice, SURROUNDED on all; sides
by swollen creeks, brimfull and overflow
ing, as also by mud almost impassably deep,
precluding intercourse with all mankind.
i his immediate neighbors only except
ed? All, well, ''the less jd,o the more
brains," "the less talk, the more thought"
are adages older than 1 am. And, as we
bound, we have had more time for serious
and undisturbed, though ht-more time to
reelection the past and contemplate the fu-
Iture. And in view of the passage by Con-
i gress of that monster of inquity that
4 gross insult to white men, and outrage on
the Constitution; that horrid abortion,
claiming the malevolent effervescence of
| Thad. Stevens brain as its sire, and the
more willy but polished and dangerous
thought of John Sherman, as its unblush-
ing mother-christened the "Reconstruc-
ton bill, am free to confess that my
hopes for the future of our once great and
glorious Republic are, to say the least, in
termingled with fears.
May the God of Mercy, who is our refuge
and our hope, enlighten the mind and
strengthen the arm of President johnson
to strangle the bastard progeny of the bold,
bad man Stevens, whoshad the brazen et-
| frontery to deny in the Nations Senate
that ours was Republican Government.
If, Mr.. Editor, understand the Recon-
struction bill, this present Congress (rump
as it is) assumes to treat the Southern
States as one vast Territory, conquered
from ., an enemy-divided into mil
itary districts, governed by mill
tary Generals, subjecting all civil jul
risdiction, government and jurispru-
dence, to military dictation, and so to
be held until the white people of those
States will offer public thanks to their
Radical masters; forever deny to them
selves the right of holding Office or of
voting, and proclaim to the world that they
are fit only to be governed by, and kept in
subsection to the few New England Radi-
cal sojenrnefs amongst them and the re-
Gently emancipated slaves. This is piling
| it on with vengeance The Legislators
that could pass such bill cannot desire to
see restored Union, with the people in all
its sections living in peaceful fraternity.
All, mol They have other and baser mo-
tives. They must certainly know, if their
malignant minds are capable of any thought
or knowledge worthy of statesmen, that
people who could accept such terms are
unworthy the name of Americans, such as
we could not feel much honor in claiming
as fellow-citizens. In a word, would be
more base even than the authors of the bill
are revolutionary, diabolical and danger
ous.s EnsFE = @H5
With party in possession Of the halls
of legislation, who can pass or even con-
! ceiye such bill-which can appoint and
keep sitting committee under the pre-
tense of hunting up evidence to Justify
them in mpeaching the President of their
own choice and hurting himfrom Office be-
cause he will not bend to their, schemes of
subverting the Constitution and moulding
the institutions of the country so as to leave
the masses of the people Yprostrate, hard
working tax-paying slaves at their feet,
and be dragged at the chariot wheels of
New England avarice. A party which can
encourage the arning of its rank and file
with view of intimidating the President
and National Union-loving Democracy :;
with the all but publicly avowed purpose
of maintaining themselves in their
present position of unholy rule and
revolution by force of arms, though
it were necessary to use these arms
against the President the army and
the true Constitutional Union men of the
nation, is it not time to sound the tocsin of
alarm, appeal to the patriotic sentiment of
the country, and ask ourselves the question.
$ Are we determined aud readyto uphold
and support the President in the mainten-
ance of the Constitution, the restoration
of the Union, the preservation of peace and
good order, the administration of constitu-
tional law, and insure the perpetuitv of the
grand republican form of government that
our fathers bequeathed to us, having pur-
chased it at the expense of so much suffer-
ing, privation and sacritice-ay, and for the
presentation of which. intact and unim-
paired, we have recently passed through
such bloody ordeal ?', Why, sir, in the
syery~distfict from which L write, there
were at one period during the rebellion,
only three men left to attend to the peace
full pursuits of husbaadry and civil life.
All-all had responded to the country's
call, flew to arms, met, fought and con-
quered - rebellion, while our wives,
sisters and daughters hoed the corn, har-
vested the wheat drove the teams to
market and gave part of the proceeds to
feed and clothe cthe orphans of the slain.
And shall we, whose sons and brothers
have given their lives in sacrifice to the
high and holy declaration that no State or
States could secede from the Union, now
calmly listen to that incarnation of satanic
malice-Thad. Stevens-cOolly tell us that
the war was failure; thatour Government
was not even Republic; that he and few
other vampires, who have grown fat on, the
life's blood of our people, can by insidious
revolutionary legislation rend in twain the
Union of these States that could never be
severed by bullet or by steel? Forbid it.
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