Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-24
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the supremacy of the Constitution and tc
preserve the Union, with all the dignity
equality and rights of the several States
unimpaired. More than three years have
passed since the surrender of the rebel ar
mics and close OF the war, and how has the
Z Constitution been preserved and the Union
restored? Before and during the war the
Radical leaders claimed that no State could
Withdraw from the Union,a and that, not
withstanding the. secession of the rebel
States, they still formed an integral part OF
the Union; and not only did the Radicals
then maintain this theory, but. even acted
upon it. For instance, they recognized the
State of Tennessee after the same had Sc
Cceded as still in the Union, and. allowed
Andrew. y JOhnson, present President, but
then Senator from that State to repre-
sent the same in the U. S. Senate. Mr..
Lincoln throughout his administration up
to the time of his death held in all his official
acts that the seeded States were and are
In the Union, claiming that mo- State could
sconstitutiopally7 secede from the Union
and repeatedly invited the Southern people
tollay down their arms, renew ltheir Salfe--
gianee1to the Federal Government and to
elect and send representatives to Congress
Congress itself, as late as 1866. acted upon
I. the theory that the States had never ceased
ito form an integral part of the Union, and
submitted to the Tseveral Is Legislatures
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to the Constitution for ratification, thus of.
:, ,ticially recognizing the legal existence o.
these States and their position In the Union
But at last, three years after the war
they decide1 1thatthese States are neither in
nor out of the Union; that for some pur-
poses they; are in, and for other purposes
they are out of the Union. For instance
to pay taxes and support the General Gov
ernment, they are surely in the Union; but
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to be represented in Congress, they are Ger.
tainly out Of the Union, or according te
lThaddeus Stevens idea, they were dead
States, without animation or functions
and that it devolved upon Rsdical Con-
gress first to breathe the breath OF life
into them again; and, 10: for once they
were true to themselves, tor forth came thefl
progeny-eight negro Statesi What &
chapter in the American historyl ignorant
and sluggish negroes occupying seats ir
the legislative halls, once adorned by Pat.
rick Henry, Madison, Randolph, Pinckne5
Lowndes and Calhoun, ilording it with a
vengeance over their late masters. History
has no parallel, for never did conqueror
tyrannize fallen foe with such cruelty be.
fore. The despotism OF Alva and Haynau
{ Is nothing compared to the atrocities of tht
splteful Radicals; nay even the horrors o.
the Spanish inquisition could not be more
appalling to human nature, than to behold
proud white people. the countrymen Of
Washington, Jefferson and jackson, sub.
Jugated to the will and vindictiveness Of
, their late negro slaves.
- What sad humiliation to America: Never
before were a people so sorely oppressed
and yet the Radicals in Congress, are not
satisfied. Having forgotten the solemn ap.
peal, made in. behalf of an unfortunate
people, by the lamented Abraham Lincoln
-"Charity to all, malice to none"-shortly
before they adjourned, they earnestly dis
cussed the ffendish proposition of armin9
the loyal men in the South-that is to say
the negroes-against the whites, to repeat
the bloody massacres of St. Domingo.
Fellow citizens :: We are in the midst oi
a violent revolutions, and history tells us
revolutions never go backward. True, they
sometimes get exhausted sooner than ex-
pected; yet, whilst they do last, they are
like 9 hurricane sweeping over the land,
destroying everything in its course, every
thing that would check its fury, leaving
nothing but ruin and desolation behind,
tor like the bowling winds OF the tempest
is the phrenzy of fanaticism. It continual
ly Graves for unnatural, even impossible,
everything before it into the abyss of &C.
structiOn, until hurled headlong into the
precipice ITSELF Woe to those that are
part of this tempest. Woe to those that
are swept along by it,. They are like the
forlorn passengers on board ship without
. rudder or compass, which Is tossed about
!. by the wild waves upon the ocean, until
eDgulfed in its turbulent waters or shatter-
, ed to pieces upon hostile rocks. Woe to
the land swept by the torrents of -fanati-
cisin. England has experienced it. Its
mad spirit of intolerance led one King to
the scaffold, filled the land with terror,
bowed it beneath the stern. rule of Crom-
nwell, put shackles upon mems consciences,
until goaded to madness it reacted and
placed Charles III. upon the throne "a worse
tyrant than it had just before sacrificed. -
France has experienced it, and terrible was
the visitation; fearful were its ravages, and
sad the reward for all the sufferings it in
flicted! It abolished constitutional mon
Q archy and established absolute imperialism;
swept away the old order of nobility, and
created riot and anarchy; tore down the
bastile to erect the guilIotine; exchanged
worship of the Goddess of Reason ;
sacrificed Louis XVI. to make room for
Bonaparte; abolished civil government to
establish military rule; found France free
and independent in 1889, and left her con-
quered and subjugated in 1916; began with
an attack upon the Tuilleries, and ended
with defeat at Waterloo. Such was the
French Revolution. What profound les
son for those who will profit by it. The
French Revolution produced the Jacobins;
the American Revolution the Radicals. =
Paris was the centre of the one, as Wash
ington is the centre of the other; the Jaco-
bins had their affiliated clubs; the Radicals
have their loyal leagues, or posts of the
Grand Army of the Republic. The Jaco-
bins had their Murat, Danton and Robes
pierre; the Radicals have Butler, Sumner
and Wade; the Jacobins had for public ac-
.cuser Fouquier Tinville; the Radicals
have Jos. Holt. The Jacobins had st.
: Andrie to admit galley slaves to depose
against soldiers and citizens; the Radicals
have Bingham to hire convicted perjar-
ers to swear away the life of an innocent
woman; and lastly. the Jacebins had Ma
have Grant, a military dictator. History
presents no more striking parallel
than the French Jacobin Revolution
and the American Radical Revolution,
for the only difference between the
two is, that the one was the offspring of
long suffering, misrule and real depression,
while the other is the offspring of puri-
aginary wrongs. -..-,--.-...
But there is one very marked feature,
which distinguishes the French Jacobins
from the American Radicals, namely, the
Jacobins leveled all ranks, distinctions and
privileges to the ground, and abolished ev-
cry title and vestige of political or social
discrimination between one citizen and an
other. II they needed troops, they COM
PEELED the service of the rich, as well as
the poor, and allowed no substitution. If
they needed money, they took from all
alike, exempted no one and no species of
property from bearing its equal share of
taxation, and tolerated no corruption in
office; for its leading men left office poor,
and died in poverty; whilst the Radicals,
on the contrary, from the very first, grant
ed advantages and privileges to the few at
the expense OF the many; favored monop-
olies and corporations; squandered and
gave away millions of acres of the public
domain, and established an aristocracy of
bondholders-the more odious since they
reap the greatest benefits from the Gov
ernment and contribute the least to its sup
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