Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-17
The s'EsebeI YeIl'' from the Radi.
cRls of Another Civil War.

mass meeting of the friends and supporters
of GRANT and CoLFAx, that the election of
SEYMOUR and BLAIR would cause a civi!
war before these gentlemen could enter
upon the offices to which they were elected,
and the similar threat made by General
GARFIELD some days previous, have their
Significance in the fact that the dominant
party in Massachusetts, utter the same
s,rebel yell" of civil war in the resolves OF
the Radical State Convention, which met
on the 9th instant to nominate candidate
for Governor.
The fifth resolve is as follows:
i "ResOlUed, That the success of the Demo-
cratic party tends directly to REVOLUTION AND
\ CIVIL WAR" fHE
The threats of GARFIELD and CRowELL
are but the carrying out of that made by
Massachusetts, uttered in stronger and
bolder language, but meaning the same
thing. The fact that State Convention of
the party that rules Massachusetts-a State
that gives laws to the party now in power
| in the United States Government, and
] whose candidate, for President has the
command of the Army, gives this threat of
Il
will of the people an unusual significance.
/ How is this revolution to be accom-
| plished, by "civil WARP" A revolution is the
overthrow of the existing order of things
To accomplish it by s.civil war, as Massa-
chusetts threatens, the land must again be
deluged in blood-the Republic changed
to a monarchy or despotism, where the
will of the people is set aside asa thing of
! no moment.
! Can Massachusetts, even if aided by Gen.
lGARFIELD and, Gen. CRowELL, accomplish
| this ?pssf essIrs i~ssss -rSsFaSe --lf
The election of HoRAT1o SEYMOUR and
| FRANCIS P. BLAIR, when accomplished,
must be by the peoples will, according to
the forms laid down in the Constitution.
To set it aside, even if the Radical leaders
had the power, would be at once and for
ever to trample into the dust that great
priuciple of Republican government-that
the people must rule-which is the very
| foundation stone of popular government, as
established by our Revolutionary fathers.
This "civil war" when it comes, must of
necessity be the offspring OF the disap-
pointed ambition of the Radical leaders.
By the election of the Democratic candi-
dates, the power of the Government passes
into Democratic hands. Of course the.
successful party win have no need to-
wage war, for its members would, gain
nothing by the operation. The overt act
of treason must then, of necessity, come
from the Radical party. The members of
that organization, and they alone, would
besthe traitors in law and the traitors in
fact, and as such they, and they alone,
would be liable to punishment. The will
OF. the people. as shown, in the election of
HoRATIo SEYMOUR as President and FRANK
P. BLAIR as Vice President of the United
States, could not be set aside-the boast of
d revolution would be but an eneeute,
lsions, growing to that of ''-civil war;"
and security taken for the future by the
making of treason odious, so odious that
even the unhung sons of Radicals who
eXpiated their crimes upon the gallows,
would never dare repeat the experiment.
But this talk of civil war, by the Radical
Convention of Observation-Disclosures
parrot like by Gen. .CRowELL and Gen.
the merest of bosh-the vilest
and silliest of attempts to coerce people
through their fear OF civil strife.
The bondholding interest of the United
States govern the Radical organization.
These holders of untaxed bonds poured
their money out like water to retain their
in Maine and in Vermont, lest a
largely decreased vote in favor of unequal
taxation would inure to the benefit of
the Democracy in other States. The
god OF these mems idolatry is money.
they worship Mammon, and in their
hearts they worship nothing else.-
They spend their money to corrupt
voters, in order that they may increase
their wealth, thousands and millions of dol
lars, by having debts due them paid in gold,
while they pay their own in legal-tender
notes. Think you these men, whose prayer
book is their bank account-whose Heaven
is the, accumulation of wealth wrung from
the taxes of honest industry, would allow
their party friends to bide the chances of
war which would strip them of their ILL
gained wealth? The first gun fired against
the U6ited States by the bondhoIders and
BY those they control, would at once strip
,hem of their wealth and their power to do
further evil. A civil war of one years
upon the gigantic plan of the
asst war, would so increase the national
lebt as to make its payment, or that of the
interest, "a thing morally impossible; and
his fact, and this alone, is pledge sufficient
% make these men obedient ''to the powers
hat be-" These bonds are in the nature of
ponds to keep the peace, and they would be
ufficient to make them disregard their
ormer threats and force them, under
rule, to be aw-abiding citizens.
And more than this. We have an abiding
aith, founded upon the interest these men
lave in the Government, which owes them
TENDER money, for the bonds
hey hold, that will prevent them, and
through them, the Radical leaders, from at
further outrages at the next Pres
Dental election. The election must be
air one-the candidates elected, fairly and
must take their seats, and they
who attempt to prevent this, by frauds at
The election-by refusing to count the votes
,f States in the Electoral College, or to de-
eide it by votes obtained from people
,verawed by the bayonets of the standing
army, or from class, alien to white mans
will, in the end, realize that
most fearful of all curses, a repentance that
comes too latei
A Straw. CiE
The Seneca Falls IN. V Reoeille says:
ga crippled soldier of our county, who
went to Canandaigua, on Saturday last to
obtain his pension, informs US that vote
was taken tor, President among the dis
abled soldiers while in the pension office
which resulted in fourteen for Seymour,
one for Grant and one neutral"
These soldiers before they were crippled.
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