Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-29

ance toward rebels who cooperate with,
-whom2 b Whati With the country?
With the Constitution With the
States all? No! with Gus" Their
test for the removallof disqualifeations
is their own partisanship. 1t is not
patriotism. OF course. such test as
the elections South have determined,
cuts off from participation in the Gov
ernment the great, body. of the best in
formed whites. This COMMUNICATION of
magnanimity is tricky fash of rhetoric,
if not an ironic, tsunt. 1t was proven to
be empty when it was sought to. -incor-
porate Houston of Alabama, and
Jones, of Tennessee, in the amnesty bill,
They. were, Democrats, and hence, no.
grace for them. --,,,,, y. - f.oij,, 8
Mr., Coz then discussed at length the
fiscal questions; advocated equal taxa
tion of all property, whether in bonds
or not; denounced the, greenback issues
as a fraud Oh labor, urged the, reduction
of expenditures and the return to the
Democratic days of economy and hard
money. He said the debt was growing;
the cost of government is now S. IA, when
it was the year before the war, but
81. so per head; that whereas it only
cost US seventeen thousand millions for
seventy-two years before 1861, it has
cost us the same-lacking two hundred
millions-for three years past of Radical
rule. r., He pointed out various ways in
which economy could be, practiced; be-
ginning with Congress, bureaus and ar
my. He said it had been, proven that
our commerce was dead. This was an
evidence that production was dying. .-
Our very skill even in agriculture is fail
ing. The burdens of Radical taxation
incumber the land. We are already
third rate power in ships and com
merce. Our imports are growing beyond
our exports, with the lapse of time. Our
bonds are going abroad. We are pay
ing tribute to nabobs, absentees and cap
italists., There is only one relief for
men of business and men of patriotism.
1t is in change. The old quaok should
be dismissed A new physician should
be called. In all that gives stability to,
industry, freedom to trade, standards to
currency, equality in taxation, economy
in administration, self-government to
States, peace to the Union; at home,
peace-abroad, peace and glory-in all
that makes up a law-abiding and Con-
stitution-revering party-the Democra-
cy will stand in the next seventy years,
as it has in the 10 years before the war,
as a wall of adamant against the waves
of Radicalism 1t is this party that has
made our land great and our
Government strong, not by the COLI
sions of civil war, but by the
cultivation of concord. Under the con-
troll of Democracy, we should before now
| have had this whole continent band
ed under Federal head, holding half
our hemisphere, as gravity holds the
stars, by the system of constitutional
law. Before the war, the Democracy
strove to save the nation with earnest,
patriotic and peaceful endeavors. Du-
ring the war it commanded its sons to
the field with melancholy pride; and it
gave its sweetest blood to the cause, as
it had given its kindest counsels. Ho-
ratio Seymour, by his speeches and his
administration in New York. is fair
type and noble illustration of Democrat
ic patriotism. His record is crystalline,
in vain SANDER assails it. He, like
the party whose exponent ne is,
accepted the results of the war as
they were declared, as in honor bound,
and in the spirit of Christian amnesty,
with malice to none, charity to all, to
bind up the nations wounds, and to do
all that they may achieve and cherish
just and lasting peace among ourselves
and all nations" In this spirit the Dem
ocracy intend to contend. If they fail,
then the stars in their courses are against
them. If they succeed, the spirit of
Christ will temper the people, and all
that is forgiving and good, will encom-
pass the Constitution as sentinels for its
guard and its sweet honor Then, over
and out of the cataract, seething and
foaming with the passions engendered
by our civil strife, there will spring like
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A radiant arch that with prismatic dyes.
Links North to South It's keystone in the SKIES.
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