Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-05-16

party, and of the movements against the
extension of slavery.
The war ensued because the Republican
party would not give up its principle
against the nOn-extension of slavery, or
suffer the seeding States to depart in
peace. The resolution OF Congress that the
war was waged solely to maintain the
Union and the rights of the States unim-
| paired, was in accordance with the princi-
| Piles of the Republican party. Slavery was
abolished as consequence of the war. Mr..
c. pronounced eulogy upon the memory
of President Lincoln.
Mr.. G. said the rebels of the South ought
to be grateful that they had such cham
| pions as they had in the Senate of Ohio
| He did not wonder that Democratic Sem
ators were anxious for the return of South
ern traitors to the Congress of the United
States, and were for giving them chance
to renew their rebellion against the Gov
ernment.
MIR. G. commented upon the speeches of
Messrs. Berry and Carter on Mr.. Dickey's
resolutions, and their endorsement by the
Democratic Senators, and charged upon
| them sympathy for slavery and as enter
| tanning the same views upon that subject
as JEFF. Davis and his rebel compeers en-
tertained in 1860. 1t was easy to see, he
said. that the whole Democratic party
would reinstate slavery, and reduce all the
blacks to bondage. The refusal to the
blacks of the right of suffrage, he adduced
as evidence of this. The people of Ohio
did not desire the adoption of these reso-
lutions, but the Democracy did, because
they were opposed to the reconstruction of
Southern States on the Congressional plan.
Mr.. G. was glad that he belonged to
party that was striving to elevate every
member of the human family, and to do
away with wrong and injustice every
where.
Mr.. GOLDEN complimented Mr.. Conant
upon the spirit in which his speech had
been delivered, but submitted that it might
have been made as well upon any otner
subject, as upon these resolutions. He
read from the resolutions to show that,
though, when the resolutions were drawn
up by their author, the present crisis as 20
| impeachment of the President, had not
been reached, it seemed to have been an
| ticipated i'm the draft of the resolutions.
/ Mr. g. referred in strong terms of repro
baton to the fact that when the Union was
about to be restored, efforts were made by
the parry in power to prevent that restora-
tion. They had impeached the President
for pursuing the course in seeking and
bringing about the restoration of the Union
i that had been inaugurated by his prede-
cessor.
1t was the determination of the leaders
of the dominant party that peace should
not prevail and the Union should not be
restored. Mr.. G.. referred at some length
to the Impeachment of the President, to
| the oath of U. S. Senators as jurors in the
case and to the attempts in different parts
of the country, to overawe Senators and to
com pei them to find the President guilty,
whether they believe him guilty or not
guilty.
Mr. G. urged, for these and other rea-
sons, that theIresolutions ought to be adopt
ed, He denounced any man or any party
. hat mn prto "a N
is done in the case of the President. But
there was another point in the resolutions
that demanded their adoption. 1t was the
| attempt to overawe and Obstruct the ac-
ton of the Supreme Court. This was a
move tending in the same direction as the
impeachment of the President. 1t was an
| attempt to get rid of both the executive
and judicial departments of the Govern
ment, and bring the country under the
despotism of Congress. He denounced the
end, and the means by which it was sought
to be accomplished.
The people of Ohio have determined that
the white citizens of the State shall control
the policy and government of the State
The verdict of the people of Ohio, as well
as that of the people of other States, is in
favor of white mans government. The
people of Ohio, as the resolutions declare,
are not tor forcing negro suffrage upon an
unwilling people. They would leave to each
State the right to determine the extent OF
the elective franchise tor themselves.
Mr.. G. wanted an answer to the question
If the Southern States were in the Union in
1861, on what day did they get out of the
Union. The States were never out of the
Union. Taking that ground would save
the Republican party all its trouble about
, abolishing the Office of the President and
abolishing the Supreme Court.
i Mr.. G.. conteDded that all who favored
fba hat fho a
out of the Union, belonged to tine Repub-
lican party, or voted its ticket. All the
trouble and commotion now agitating the
country arise from the theory that the
Southern States are out of the Union. Mr.
G.. demanded of the Republican party, by
treating, as they had done. these States
half the time as out of the Union, and hall
the time as in the Union, how they could eX-
pect a restoration of the Union. Mr.. O.
charged that the attempt was made to force
negro suffrage upon the South st the point
of the hayonet, for the sake of keeping the
Republican party in political power.
1t had been said by Republican Senators
that it would be refreshing to hear Dem
/ ocratic Senators denOunce rebels. Mr.. u
proposed to give them small dose. He
| denounced rebels North and South. He
denounced any man as a rebel who was op-
l posed to the Constitution and the Union.
| He spoke of the reign of terror existing
during the war, and the infringements up
on the constitutional rights OF individuals
Mr.. G. closed with the hope that the reso-
lutions would be adopted.
i Mr.. EVERETT, so far as he understood
them, must give his vote against the reso-
lutions. He commented upon the theory
| that the rebel States were never out of the
| Union. 1t would result in this-that the
moment the rebels laid down their arms
! they were entitled to all the rights of citi-
zens, and to take part in the Government
as such. MIR. E. could subscribe to no such
| doctrine.
Mr.. E. was not surprised to find the Pres
ident the favorite of a class of politicians
at the North. He wanted to know how the
liberties of the people could be taken away
by the Congress, while all its efforts were
directed to take away the 'One Man Pow
err" and vest it in the representatives OF the
people.
Talking about overawing the Supreme
! Court reminded Mr.. E. of what had been
done in this Senate in regard to our own
Supreme Court. Its decisions had been de-
| nounced, and its action hampered by the
action of this Senate.
Mr.. E. denied that even under the Arti-
cles of Confederation, there was any such
thing as State Sovereignty. If this was SO
under the Confederacy, it was less so under
1 the Federal Constitution. Yet this theory
of State Sovereignty mad been adopted by
the Democratic party. 1t was the Pandora's
4 box from which issued treason and rebel
lion. That was the reason why the De-
mocracy should not be again entrusted
with power.
Mr.. E. argued that the safety of the Gov
ernment required that those who had re.
belled against it should have no part ir
controlling it. The absence of denuncia-
tion of rebels in the speeches of Democratic
Senators, Mr.. E. insisted, was evidence thai
Democrats were in sympathy with the enc.
mics of the Government. He referred tC
the assertion that the people of Ohio had
Idanidad in fau Of xsrhitN