Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-12
Threaten. War.

The Journal, finding 1t Impossible TO de-
fend the monstrous corruption of its party
in power-finding that the people will not
be convinced that they pay no taxes
finding that the people can, not see the
Justice of exempting the capital invested
in Bonds and drawing every six months
big interest in Gold from State, county,
township and city taxation-fnding that
the people believe in living up to the con-
tract entered into in the creation of tile
Bonds and of compelling the holders there
of to live up to their contract, it adopts the
role of BoMBAsTEs FURIoso, and swagger-
ingly asserts that if the people shall dare
to vote the Republican peculators and vio-
laters of the Constitution out of office,
they (the Republican leaders) will again
plunge the country into War.
The Journal and the party it represents are
desperate. They see power departing from
them. They have abused the confidence
reposed in them by the people; they have
crushed the prosperity and enterprise of
the country they have taxed the Northern
people to support standing army in the
South to enforce the supremacy of the Ne
gro race there; by law they have created
moneyed aristocracy, giving to it exemp-
tions and privileges that are denied to the
mass of the people, and to sustain which
they propose to put mortgage upon the
bones. sinews and muscles of the poor men,
and to be by them transmitted, as a curse,
to their offspring from generation to gen.
Grafton. AS a matter of course, the people
are growing restive and give evidence of
determination to sander party ties, 30 far
as they bind them to the Republican party.
War need not be apprehended. There will
be none. The Democratic party successful,
will have no motive for War. The Republic
can party defeated, the Bondholders will not
allow that party to again precipitate the
country into War, for in the moment they
should do so, in that moment would the
Bonds become worthless. The first gun
fired in civil War, growing out of the fail
ure of the Republican party to hold con-
troll of the Federal Government, will can
eel the entire Indebtedness of the country.
It will lift from off the shoulders of the
mass Of the people the curse of the Public a
Debt. 1t will reduce the North to the pow
erty and the desolation that have been Wis
lieu uDOu buC OOubits IL Will I'LL POfCAtSu
the country to the uttermost. twill carry
want and distress into families where such
things have never been known. 1t may be
the means of sending poverty down to
posterity; but it will not send down upon
the bones, sinews and muscles of posterity
mortgage in the shape of a perpetual
crushing debt. - .ststl - y t-2,S
No; if the Republicans shall be defeated
(and it would be questioning the capacity
of the people for self-government to doubt
the certainty of their defeat.) the Bond
holders will not allow the Republican poll
iticians to plunge the country into war;
This threat of war is indulged in by Re
publican politicians in, hopes that it will
deter desertions from their ranks, and for
no other purpose.
The election of SEYMOUR and BLAIR will
give to the country enduring peace, per-
ps tual union and vigorous and healthy
prosperity.