Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-15
The Question of the Hour.

The Question of the Hour.
We have republished an editorial from
the Neo York Herald - srThe Terrible
Counter Revolution Approaching" The
Hetcsd is GRANT paper. 1t Is the oppo-
hent of SEYMOUR; but it cannot close its
eyes to the inevitable tendency OF public
opinion. In its issue of the 18th, it dis
cusses "the Presidential campaign" From
this editorial we extract the following:
zForeight years the Republican party has
been in power, and the final results, as seen
by the people, are the derangement of all
the machinery of government, an almost
Incredible corruption in Office and a weight
In taxes that bears commerce and labor to
the earth. viii the people longer have
patience with party that has such a his
tory? This is the question of the hour.
Is there any fear in our future, that should
move the people to trust this party again
even despite the fearful chance that 1t may
continue the same destructive career that
has already been so disastrous to the ma
tional ,prosperity? Can any other party
infiict upon US evils worse than those we
now suffer as the consequence of Radical
| mlsrule? demonstration By q system OF leg
sstation that deliberately forges calamity for a
,otole people and prepares the social ruin of ten
States to seca1e potoer to coterie of politicians
this is the political crime that stamps
the Radical faction as utterly dam
ndble before the people. Men inquire
what the faction would stop at that
would purchase such an end by such means,
and they know that it will not stop apany-
thing sacred in the law and will respect the
| rights of the people in the North as little
as It has done in the South. Does the name
OF Grant furnish any guarantee for the
future OF the Radicalsr The people are
not ready to believeits Grant is politically
only promise and Q possibility. Respect
esty or his upright purpose; but these do
not always qualify for success In such q
strife as he must control to save the people
from his party. He, may prove capable
he may not, and it Is time when the pe0-
pie cannot trust their future to such Q
chance. Therefore the doom of Radicalism
seems to be burned into the popular brain
and on such reasoning as we have hinted
the people appear to drift toward what
they regard as the least of two evils, with.
out faith in the q Republicans and little
hope in the Democrats. Men on eithel
side count for little; it is the history of the
Radical party that condemns it. Denaoc
rdcy has a bad history too, but its stns are trio
idt by com,parisons Ii this faction ever de-
sired to reconstruct society, it was in the
interest of the white man.; The soordI ta1a
ton hardly occurs In its history, and U raeuei
aimed a 5loso at the Supreme Court or sougls
10 cripple the GouernnseRt in the person OF TIL,
E5ectHfue. 1t sympafh ized with the South
in the war. and that can be forgiven BY 8
people who are at last coming to look upon
the Republicans as the South looked upor
them when the war began. If, therefore
the history of the Democracy were darker
than it is, the history Of; Radicalism would
be infinitely beyond. it in infamy. 1t i
upon these broad views and judgments o.
parties that the people move. The commoH
mind averages great results by processes o
It's own. Isolated facts are forgotten; this
or that virtue or vice seems to pass away
polls, and Kentucky indicates, the ten
dency.il i91asvni lsjiqs9 IsrY sft fqals1
If there werea loop-hole even to hang
chance for GRANT upon the Herald would
nottalk as it does. Throughout the War
and until quite recently, the Herald
abused the Democratic party without
measure and besought the people to put nc
trust in it. So infamous, however, has
been tie administration of the Government
by the Republican party-so shameless an6
wanton its profiigate wastefulness of the
peoples .money-so disregardful of the
Constitution, of the rights of States and
of the welfare of the people-that it is
compelled to bear testimony to the fact,
that however bad the Democratic
party may have been, when you
come to compare its wickedness with
that of the Republican party, it is of very
small account. According to the Herald
and in this the Herald speaks truthfully,
the Republican leaders have devised q
scheme of DEMONSTRATION, by a system Of
Legislation, that deliberately forges calam
ity for a Whole people and prepares the
social ruin of ten States to secure power tc
a coterie Of politicians" This, the Herald
claims, sis the political crime that stamps
the Radical faction as utterly damnable
before the people," It should damn it to
all eternity. ia, 4 - - -.
Revolutionary Proceedings.