Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-15

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many of the Democratic working men to
leave without exercising the elective fran
chise. The overt act was the attack upon
BRows by DIR. COULTER, and to this, and to
the fact of men, who attempted to violate
the law by pressing men to cast illegal
| votes, is the affray to be attributed.
AS the whole matter will probably un-
dergo legal Investigation, we have given
the plain statement of facts, the truth o.
which will soon be tested by an examin.
ing Court. In the meantime, we brand the
statement of the Journal as basely false, got
up for the purpose OF deception, when the
writer of the article knew that he was sian.
deripg better and more truthful men thar
| anybody will give him credit for being.
Grant 10 be Elected to Punish
Treason and Traitors-Wby has
not Treason and Traitors been
Punished
The election OF General GRANT, Radica
speakers say, is to secure the punishment
of Traitors. II that is the object, tht
punishment could be secured at less cos
and with less trouble. Let the Radica
party enforce the laws-bring Traitors t.
trial and punish them. The laws are ir
force-the United States Court is governed
by Radicals, why not then enforce tn,
laws? q - ..r. ..
i -JEFF. DAVIS was the great head of tn,
Secesh' Government A large reward wa
paid for his sapprehension-he ne was in prison
for over two years, and is now at large OF
l,ail, with leading Radical-the editor o
the Neo York Tri6ame-as his voluntee
bondsman, but he has not been brought tt
trial, and never will be.
| Why is this? Radicalism has been il
possession of the power of the Government
| in all its branches, for the last seven years
Since the 26th OF April, 1866, when JOHN.
sToN surrendered, there has been no war
no resistance to the Government For oyel
three years of peace there has been no at
tempt to enforce the laws against treason
no man, OF the half million In arms agains
the Government, has been brought to tria
for his treason, and yet Radicalism pretendl
it wants GRANT elected to punish treason
and to make it odious by hanging traitors
It will not do to say, that President JOHN.
SON, elected by Radicals, stands in the way
of the enforcement of the laws. The Presi.
dent Is blameless in the matter. The Radi-
cal office holders, whose duty it is to bring
offenders to Justice, are, by the Radical
Congress, placed beyond the President's
control. When LINCOLN was President, il
was different. Then he had power-his
officials were under his control, but then
as now, no traitor was brought to trial
none were executed for treason, and had he
lived, none would have been. ia 81
Gov. BRowN, of Georgia, the man who
took Georgia into the Southern Confed.
erscy against the wish of a majority of its
citizens-the man who, as Governor had
power over the prison pens at Anderson
vile, where Union soldiers suffered
starved and died, is nowthe leading pet ol
the Radicals, because he aided to nominate
Grant at the Chicago Convention. Why
has he not been brought to trial, and
hanged for his treason and his cruelty, in
stead of being petted and teted by his Rad
ical associates? Il i
How Is GRANT, even if elected, to punish
traitors? He cannot try-eannot hang
them. AS President, he will not be a
hangman, and he, cannot act in a judicial
capacity. How, then, can he punish trail
tors? When LEE surrendered to GRANT,
the latter gave the Confederate troops par
don for past offenses, by allowing them,
upon the surrender of their arms, to go to
their homes on parole, not to be molested
by the United States Government as long
as they observed the terms of their parole
and obeyed the laws in force where they
resided. Can General GRANT. then, if it
happens, unfortunately for the country,
that he be elected President, break faith
with the soldiers and officers of the Con-
federate army, which his honor was pledged
to observe? How, then, can traitors be
punished by him, Or treason be made obi
GUS in the persons of those who were in
arms against the Union, before it was dis
rupted by the Radical leaders in the Radi-
cal Congress ?s.ses.'!q i- .r5vz 5g1a' Z osii
Does any man of ofcommon sense believe that
if the Democratic party had been in power
when the rebellion first broke out that it
would have lasted halt as long, or cost half
the blood and treasure, or that the leading
spirits would not have been brought to
trial, and if convicted, punished? But
Rajicalsm, brave when the county is to be
disrupted, but cowardly when the laws al g
to be enforced, dare not enforce the laws
d ire not bring the Secesh leaders to trial,
much less to infiict upon them the punish
ment the law says shall be the doom of
traitors.
With the whole power of the General
Government at their control, sworn to up
hold the laws, not single secesh civil
officer, from JEEF. DAVIS down-not St :
cesh military officer, from LEE to the 4th
corporal-not a Confederate soldier has
been brought to trial or punished by the
Radical party, as the laws says he shall be
punished. During the whole war, and for
the three and half years since the war
ended, not single man in arms against
the Union, charged with the high crime of
treason, has been brought to trial. During
the war the excuse was that the Courts
were not open in the States where the
treason was committed. The courts are
now wsopen-there has been no resistance to
Federal authority since April, 1865, and no
trial for treason, has yet taken place, and
now never will. Yet still the party that
has had all the power-the party that lacks
the courage to enforce the laws, urges the
election of GRANT, who pardoned the reb-
els of LEES army, upon the silly pretext
that he will punish traitors.
Gen. NIorEan's Election-The Way
His Constituents Rebuked IN Q
81 Radical Congress. t-Asd
Two years since Gen. GEO. W. MORGAN
was elected to Congress from the 18th
Congressional District of this State by two
hundred and seventy-one majority over