Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-24

glory and conquest, the Radicals then or
| ganized secret military order, nominated
a soldier for the Presidency, and formed
bogus negro State Governments, ifi order
\ to secure their, political power and aseeh-
| daney. maintain and contiue the privileges
| of money aristocracy, and, consummate
tral empire. siFoi4'a -il 'h'o Dn" '7V /,
Whatelse does the nomination of General
Grant mean u but. q asamilitary, idespotism 2
History tells US how Augustus, by. the aid
| OF a mercenary rabble, under the pretext
Of avenging the death Of C@sa whose VIC
tories and dachievements had made him bold
to cross the RubiconIand to aim at supreme
power, oyerthfew the republic, and estab-
| lished military empire. So we find CroIn-
well, booted and whip In hand, driving the
Commons before him and locking the doors
ofParliament,w And we behold a Napoleon
Leading the French guards to victory and
glory, and next to the Legislative halls to
tdispefse with the bayonet the represents
tiyes of the French republic. And yet,
notwithstanding these sad lessons of the
| past, 1t Is now proposed to make President
OF this great republic q mere soldier, who
is neither q statesman nor a scholar, and
has no other claims except those Of having
been General during the late war, when
every reason of good policy and interest
warns the people against such step, and
history abounds with the stern truths that
IN republics, which have been afflicted with
civil war, the elevation of the successful
1 General to the Chief Magistraey, has al
| ways Terminated with the overthrowiof
| liberty and establishments of military des-
| potistn, for, although more than two thou
sand years have passed by since ancient
liberty expired upon the battle field of
Phillippi, her dying agonies are yet to be
heard, and point to Augustus, the evil
genius of the once mighty Roman Empire.
If the Radical leaders deny that they, in
tend to revolutionize our Government,
what excuse then have they to offer tor es-
tablishing secret military order, compos-
ed entirely of Radical psrtisans,J known
| as the Grand Army of the Republic? What
excuse for maintaining three years after
the close OF the war, and in time of pro-
found peace, large standing army, and for
investing with dictatorial powers its COM
manding General, their candidate for
| President? What else does this mean but
that they will not abide the result of the
next fall elections, and intend to oppose the
will OF the people, should such be unfavor-
able to them? If not so, why then do they
persist In policy 50 palpably ruinous to
the interest and welfare of 1o the
country as to force Negro Suffrage
upon the South, though emphatically re-
jected last fall by the almost entire North;
and why do they deprive the people of ten
States of representation in Congress and
yet persist to levy taxes and impose bur-
dens upon them, when taxation without
representation" was the very cause which
induced the champions of American in
dependence to wage war against Great
Britain? Before the Radicals were in
trusted by the people with the govern
ment of the country, the federal laws were
of general uniform operation throughout
the Republic; its provisions recognized no
distinction between one citizen and another;
th,
than upon the other, and with the excep-
tion Of the Negro, applied equality and to
all alike; but no sooner did the Radicals
come into power than they raised the hue
and cry shat all men are born free and
equal" and that hence all men, without
distinction of race or color, should enjoy the
same rights and privileges through fire
and blood. At a sacrifice of million of
lives, and five thousand millions of debt,
they forced this their falacious theory upon
the country, and with force and violence
removed in ten States the disabilities of
the Negro and clothed him against the
will of the white man with equal political
power. And now, accepting even the
Machiavelian theory OF these modern So
Ions, that tsthe ends Justify the means,n we
have at least the right to ask, do the ends
justify the means, and are all men free and
equal, when in ten States of the Union
10000 Idle and Ignorant negroes govern
and control the destinies of six million
American people of the Anglo Saxon race?
Are all men free and equal, when the in
telligent white man is disfranehised, and
the barbarOus negro only recently emanci-
pated. is placed over him? Are all men free
and equal, when in ten States of the Union
the writ of habeqs corpus Is suspended, and
ten millions OF people are subjected to the.
camp rule or five military satraps, and the
absolute will of a military dictator? 500
) Are all men free and equal, when by Or,
der of a bigoted and drunken officer,
whole class of innocent people, without re-
gard to sex, age or condition, are driven
and expelled from their homes and firesides
without an excuse or even reasonable pre-
text or when q Bishop is expelled from his
diocese, merely because he declined to pray
for the salvation and happiness of usurper,
whom he Thought guilty, had caused untold
woes and miseries to innocentmillions? -
Are all men free and equal, when men
are robbed and splundered by, those who
ought to protect them, when citizens are
arrested without warrant. imprisoned with
out trial, and punished Tor offenses not re-
cognized by civil law, and by judges more
criminal and guilty than those they con-
denim; when high officials engage perjured
villains to swear away the life of a citizen,
and hang an old woman, well knowing her
to be innocent? t-t ..
Are all men free and equal, when laws
are enacted for the special benefit of the
rich, and oppressive of the poor ?-when
two currencies are maintained-gold Tor
the bondholder and paper money, worth 20
cents on the dollar, for the laboring man
gold for Jay Cooke and greenbacks for the
private soldier-gold for Stanton and SHIN
plasters for the soldiers widow? r5s'
Are all men free and equal, when the
capitalist, who invested his money in
q of q nf of
now draws his pay and interest in gold,
whilst the soldier, who enlisted life and
health in his country's cause, gets his paw
in deprecated currency; when the bond
holder is exempt from taxation. whilst the
laboring man is overtaxed for the support
of Government devoted to the interest of
a money aristocIacy? uss -r-.ff.fJ If1.t1
Z Are all men free and equal, when the
feeble factory girls of New England have
to work almost day and night for a liveli-
hood, while in the south thousands of lazy
negroes, staggering about Freedmen's
Bureaus, with plumed hat and sash, are
fattened and maintained at Government
expense, to aid the Carpet! Baggers in their
schemes of fraud, plunder and oppression.
They may urge, in palliation of these
enormties, the tyrants plea of necessity,
but this plea Is as damaging as that of the
convicted parricide, who sought the Judge
before passing sentence, to take pity upon
him, as he was now poor orphan; and yet
the men who under the false plea of neces-
sity, perpetrated all these crimes, now have
the brazen effrontery to ask the people to
indorse their record, and renew to them
their lease of power, so that they may
again, under the plea of necessity, commit
new outrages and usurpations.
Nay, granted even that all this was really
necessary to carry out their falacious idea,
that all men ought to be free and equal,
how do they then stand before the Ameri-
can people to-day? For il ours is not a |
white mans government, but the govern
ment of all alike, and if the negro is the
political equal of the white man, then, at
least. the white man should be dealt with |
as falr as the negro, and the negro should |
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