Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-02

| principle of republican liberty they y'vir-
tually answer 2" We have a popular
Union soldier as our candidate for the
Presidency, and we, expect the people to
| lose sight of the principles involved in
h their admiration Of the man III addi-
3 ton to this, we have powerful arguments
! in ringing the changes through lour dor1
gans ard orators upon the, words rebel,
y copperhead, sympathizer, traitor to the
party, Sc, &c What but these are
the means employed to secure' the as
cendancy of the radicahparty in the fall
2 elections? r And now, having subjected
9 the white men of the, South by military
l. cpereionO to the domination of Dtheirbre,
Gently aemaneipated slaves, less fitted to
. exercise the right Of suffrage than the
2 women and half grown children of the
+ North, and lied ON byo oadyenturers1who
seek to use them as instruments tolse-
q cure Offices and riches the radical lead
ers fiji the country with the cry,I" Let
us nhayeo zpeace3'I 5Yes,t1with their feet
Ii upon thee necksl and their bayonets at
the breasts Of the white people Of sthe
South, they cry, 4 Let MS have peace" "
| Let us have tame Submission to Balhthe
2 measures Of our party to o secure their
own sascendancy, however, lunconstituI.
tional, unjust and oppressive, And if
any of their victims eyinee a disposition
to resist their usurpationso and oppres-
sions and seek relief, even by peaceful
means, they denounce them Ias unre
! pentant rebels, seeking arenewal of the
|, civil war. 81 t'al o1s st9Et sat za -szoqo
Has any man, worthy to be trusted in
public life. read SO little of history, or
studied human nature SO unproftably as
to believe that the white people of the
South are. to be pacifed by being thrust
out of the pale Of the Constitution and
o subjected to the absolute power of their
lately emancipated slaves? Has ages
of oppression made ireland love Eng
land Z 80 Has oppression and massacre
reeonciled the Poles to the domination
of Russia Human nature is the same
everywhere. Reduced to despair by
i oppression, the oppressed will resort to
desperate remedies. l Nay, where all
hope is lost, they will sooner rush upon
death itself thanliv degraded and dis
honored lives. If there be any, people
in the world who, will not submit to
hopeless oppression it is those who have
been raised under the free institutions
of the United Stairs, Let each voter of
the North ask himself how he would
feel, and what he would do, if an usurp
ing Congress were to deprive him of the
rights of freeman and subject him in
life, liberty and property to the abso7
lutte control of ignorant and penniless
negroes. As he would answer that ques-
tion, so let him act. Let him not wonder
that notes such as he himself might
utter under like circumstances reach his
ears occasionally from the South and
let him ask himself whether he is pre-
pared by his vote, to reproduce on this
continent, the conduct of England to-
wards Ireland and of Russia towards
Poland. No man of sense and intelli-
( gence. can expect peace in the South so
long as a large portion of the white pop
ulation are excluded from all participa;
tion iu their own government, and ex:
posed to be plundered end oppressed by
their late slaves, led on by adventures
3, from the North. They laid down their
arms in good faith; they gave ave up their
slaves; they surrendered the principles
for which they fought; they accepted the
poverty toswhich they were reduced, and
they sought. only to- be allowed the priv,
ilege of free and loyal citizens under the
old flag This President Lincoln, and
President johnson, following in his foot
steps, desired to aconcede to them. .1uTh he
former fell by the hands of airebel as
sassin; the. latter has, been ferociously
hunted by another class, of assassins.
+ he policy of the two Presidents was
identical; and yet aour Radicals. with
singular inconsistency, defy the dead
q Lincoln and cruelty the living johnson.
Why is thisl o Lincoln is out of their
. way, and they would profit by his yir-
tues; johnson disi lion in their path,
d and they would destroy him. for his
fidelity in attempting to protect the Con-
stitutien.go ID cj gu-s5slE9 .au5H
What sort of peace is to be expected
in the South so long as white people are
prescribed and negroes allowed to gov
ern, may be safely inferred from the con-
dition of those reconstructed States
Louisiana and Tennessee. Their Gov
ernors and Legislatures are calling for
military aid, avowing their incapacity
to maintain peace and enforce the laws
by the civil authorities. If this be So,
it is conclusive proof that Congressional
reconstruction, as a means of tranquil
izing the South, is a failure. The road
to peace is in another direction. Let
Congress retire within the limits of the
constitution. Let them abolish their
test oaths and remove all their disabili-
ties Let them restore to the President
his legitimate functions, and allow his
pardons to have their constitutional eff
feet. Let them strengthen, instead of
weaken the judiciary, and sustain it in
its full exercise of its powers for the
protection of both the white and the
black. .- s-. s-r7-. -..... .........-. -.
' Wipe out as with sponge all your
er post .facto legislation, and restore to
all the States their constitutional rights.
p Do this and you will have peace. The
men whom you now hold disfranchised
, and have pushed to the verge of despair,
will become your sureties for the preser-
% vation of peace and the restoration of
order. ,-g-r ... ..---.... .-. ..,..sr-.. .... -.
Reverse the picture, and what are the
prospects of this country Attempt to
sustain these negro governments by
force, and you reduce the prescribed
white men to despair. Your army, in
stead of being reduced must be doubled.
The taxes instead of being diminished,
must be increased. If Congress cannot
las they have noD prevent an increase
of our frightful national debt in times
of peace, what mountains must be, added
to it by renewal of war2 And in the
anarchy which must ensue what is to