Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-01
The Stafesman's Response 10 fhs
Cincinnati Commercial.

The Stafesman's Response 10 ths
Cincinnati Commercial.
The ONO STATESMAN, in reply to re-
mark that the democracy must be reac.
tionary" or nothing. says:
Everything the Radicals have done tha
structive of the ends OF justice-that post.
pones perfect Union and invites war o
races-it is incumbent upon the Democracy
to undertake to undo"
Very well. Will the STATESMAN answer
one or two questions in connection witt
this: s,- u. =
Does it consider it unconstitutional tc
coerce State that assumes the exercise o.
its reserved rights and attempts to with
draw from the Union?
Does it regard the act of emancipation
as an unconstitutional act, and, therefore
one the Democracy must at least "under.
take to undo?"
Does it consider the act of Mr.. Johnson's
administration in debating to the outstand-
ing States, as a condition of restoration
the recognition of the results of emanci.
patton in their organic laws, as "destruc.
tive of the ends of Justice" and, therefore
natl Commercial.
constitutional" for Congress to refuse to
recognize a State as in the Union, after
thorough coercion it compelled that State
to remain in the Union.
The STATESMAN, in common with the
leading men of all parties, regards the act
OF " Emancipation" to have been unconsti-
tutional. As a pledge, attestiug sincere
purpose to remain henceforth obediently in
the Union, the Southern States ratified, by
amendments to their State Constitution,
that Emancipation Proclamation. Hence
perfect Union does not call for the indors-
ing of that.
The STATESMAN considers the act of
Mr.. JoHNsoN's Administration" unconsti-
tutional in debating to the States, which the
Commercial was solicitous up to April, 1861,
should be allowed to withdraw from the
Union in peace, and which it claimed
would be wise and proper, and that they
who objected to it were "pig headed"
g the recognition of the results of Eman-
cipation in their organic laws" because
not having succeeded In getting out of the
Union, their Statehood remained unal-
tered, and as States, by the spirit and letter
of the Constitution, they were entitled to
all the rights and privileges they enjoyed
before the War. Inasmuch as the War
grew out of the circumstance that there
was African Slavery in certain States, now
that it has been abolished, no matter
whether compulsorily or not "per-
feet Union" would not be promoted
by its re-establishment. AS in the
past so in the future, slavery would serve
as bone over which there would be con-
tinuous angry contention, which at some
time would run into desperate bloody con-
flict. --.
1t was not necessary that President
JOHNSON should ask the Southern people
10 incorporate into their respective State
specific provision ratifying
the emancipation proclamation. Slavery
was extirpated and dead beyond the possi-
bility of resurrection. The President so
Ielt and so believed; but he knew that
the free States there prevailed
1 belief that after all it might not be so.-
objection there existed in the minds of the
Northern people to the Southern States
their places in the law making
department of the Government, the Presi-
dent asked the lately insurgent States to
ratify this Emancipation Proclamation
He thought this was asking enough of those
States. And it was.
This has not sufficed the Republican
party. They have treated those States as
foreign territory, and as having been con-
quered by our arms, and not as States
that had been held in the Union. After the
Southern people had done everything that
In reason could be asked of them, by way
Of atonement for their attempt to 90
put of the Union and set up an in
dependent government, they were ask
ed to disfranchise their men of intel
ect and character, and to put the politi-
,al power of those States into the hands of
the Slaves just set free, and because they
refused to do this, Congress-the Radical
part of it-in violation of the Constitution,
the antipathies of race-reck-
ess whether 1t led to War of races, in
which the weaker must inevitably go to
The wall-has forced it upon them. This is
destructive of the ends of justice"-is a
of "perfect Union and in
rites a War of races" This internal out
.age upon the White race-this creation of
zen Negro States, to hold the balance OF
political power in this country, and thereby
make Federal laws that shall govern the
White people of Ohio and of all other
Northern States-''t is incumbent upon the
D Democracy to undertake to undo."
1t Is No Trouble.
A correspondent sending us list of fifty
from Cadiz, says: "There is no
difficulty in raising clubs. If any good man
will try. just start it and it will 60. If
your paper does as much good in this Sec
tion as it did last year, it will be of great