Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-04-21
rhe Def,au, Attitude of Treason.

The Defiant Attitude of Treuson.
Coz. FoRNEY writes his Press, that he
has Just read a letter from that immacu-
late humbug, Governor BRowNLow, "in
which he states that at no period has the
spirit of treason been so defiant as at pres
ent, and that there is not Union man,
white or black. who does not feel that upon
the impeachment of the" President ''de-
pends his most sacred interests"
This man BRowNLow has had undisput-
ed sway in Tennessee for several years.
He has carried everything with a high
hand; has ruled according to the dictation
of his base and malignant heart, and has
illustrated the beauty of making treason
odious. He has given practical exempli-
fication in Tennessee to the reconstruction
policy that it is the intention of the Radi-
calls in Congress to establish throughout
the South. And now he writes, that
sat no period has the spirit OF
treason been so defiant as at pres
ent" About seven months after the War
had terminated, General GRANT made a
tour through the South, and after his re-
turn he reported to the President that the
Southern people were In an admirable
frame of mind toward the Federal Govern
ment, and that all that seemed necessary to
complete and perfect reconciliation was to
allow the South to resume its right of par
ticipation in the law making department
of the Government. 1t was President
JoHNsoN's policy that had produced this
excellent feeling in the South. The esprit
of treason" as it is called. was laid. AL
that Congress had to do to keep that spirit
laid was to give ratification to that policy
just as the Republican party had done in
their State Conventions few months be.
fore, and on which they carried
BRowNLow, STEVENS, SUMNER Sc Co., tina
| In Tennessee has lifted s'treason" on to it;
feet. Let the Senate of the United States
on the frivolous and unsustalned charges o
the House, drive President JOHNSON frou
his Presidential Office, in order that they
may the more effectually put the White
men of the South-the intellect and educa.
tion of that country-under the domina.
tion of the offspring OF barbarous race
who but recently were slaves, and if wha
is denominated the spirit OF treason" will
not become defiant, we shall be able to re
cord the first instance of superior ract
quietly submitting to enslavement to ar
inferior race. Even here in the North, in
States where the Republican party hitherto
had its maiorities so large as to almost
appal effort to overthrow them, the propo-
sition to admit the insignificantly few
Negroes in them to participation
in voting is voted down with
crushing and startling majorities. If oul
White voters so treat proposition OF this
kind, how would they treat proposition
to put them under the rule of the Negroes
Does it not come within the range of 8
legitimate conclusion that they would re.
sist it to the utmost extremity Like then
the Southern White people are sensitive or
this point; and if they show discomfort
if they chafe, it is because of the effor
that has been and is being made by the Re.
publicans in Congress to put them under
the rule Of Negroes. Whoever suppose'
that that country can be placated and cul-
tivated so as to contribute to the genera
prosperity, that the taxes of our people
shall be lightened by making out of the
Negroes there the ruling power, suppose!
thing that will never come to pass in oul
day and generation.