Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-15
The Tyranny of the Radicals and
its Probable Effect.

Recently a movement was set on foot at
Washington City by the Radicals, looking
to the exclusion of all Republicans from
the Chicago Convention who would not
subscribe to impeachment as of immacu-
late conception. WENDELL PHILLIPS has
his say on the subject. He will not be sat-
| istied unless universal Negro Suffrage is
engrafted in the Platform. The Radical
Germans announce that the Platform will
not be OF sufficient breadth and strength
for them to stand upon, unless plank rep
resenting their peculiar notions is put into
| it. The Ne,o York Times chafes. 1t claims
that test after test of fealty has been Inn
posed upon the members of the Republican
Party by the ,Tyrannical Radicals, until 1T
has become necessary to swear by STEVENS,
and pin ones faith to the sleeve of BOUT
WELL or BUTLER to escape eXcommunica-
tion as a hereto and traitor" 1t discerns
the object to be, in all cases, "to recon-
struct the Republican Party after the Rad
ical model, and to shape the tactics of the
campaign with view to Radical su-
premacy."
The Cincinnati Commercial sends up the
following protest and warming:
1.-THE extreme Radicals, who claim to be
the most advanced and enlightened of the
supporters of popular freedom, are precise
ly the persons who are using the most des-
perate endeavors to take from us all our
just claim to pre-eminence, and to reduce
us to the same condition which has pre-
ceded the downfall of other free govern
ments.
During the whole progress of the i'm
peachment trial, they have publicly and
noisily prejudged the case. They have
practically insisted that the Senate was sit
ting only to enregister. ormally the decree
turns, cajolery and intimidation upon every
Senator who might appear to hesitate in
saving, upon his oath, that he believed the
defendant in the great trial guilty of will
fully committing high crimes and misde-
meanors. They have sneered at conscience
when it came between them and the execu-
ton of their projects, and have encouraged
the most contemplate and worthless party
hacks to flourish the party lash over the
heads of the first men of the Senate.
1t is more than time this thing were end
ed, and 1t needs no prophet to tell that it
must be, or the rule ofthe Republican party
is ended. When papers protesting to be
leaders of the party call Grimes, of Iowa, a
traitor, they deal more dangerous blow
to the party than they do to Senator
Grimes. When they say the Republicans
of Illinois have "a higher opinion of Dick
Yates drunk than they have of Judge
Trumbull SOBER" they do more to defeat
Republicanisin than all the Democrats of
Illinois combined, could do. When they
talk of corruption fund being used to de-
termine the vote of such man as Senator
Fessenden, they insult the intelligence of
the whole nation.
1t is in the name and for the sake of
whatever is truly valuable and patriotic in
the Republican organization, that we pro-
test against these eXtravagances of word
and act, which are as cruelty unjust toward
the distinguished Republican leaders who
are attacked, as they are destructive of the
prestige and unity of the party in whose
behalf they are professedly done and ut
tered. Thad. Stevens and Ben. Butler must
not be permitted to read Chase, Fessenden,
Trumbull, Grimes, and those who agree
with them, out of the Republican party.
1t would be an economy of labor and time
to bury the party decently first and it
would save the shame of confessing that
the party could no longer tolerate its
ablest, Wisest, truest men,"