Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-06
Spirit of the Ohio Democratic Press.

Spirit of the Ohio Democratic Press.
CoNcEDINa everything that may be
claimed for Gen. Grant as military chief
tian, yet you have nothing from which you
can argue civic skill or ability. 1t is to
comparatively few that God has given to
excel both in the arts of war and the coun-
ellis of Government. But we are content.
Let the "man on horseback" ride on. Let
Republican orators and presses spread
themselves diffusely in praise of their
chieftain, and 1.-THE pride and pomp and Cir
cumstaIce of glorious war;" the men at
the plough, the loom and the anvil, the
men whose hands are hard with unremu-
nerative toll, those who sow in bitterness
while bondholders reap in idleness, will
ask in thunder tones, what is all this worth?
how will military skill tighten our burdens?
how will the "heIo of the war; whose ig-
norance and inexperience in matters of
state are conceded, rescue US from the
frightful gulf into which Republican mis-
rule has plunged the Government. These
questions will demand an answer such as
the champions of the wary Ulysses will
find 1t impossible to give. The people will
respond in November, in tones such as
were used when they rebuked the mere
military candidate in fifty-two.-NoraoaM
Experiment. 81.
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Republican Senators who voted against
impeachment were bought up with money.
When we recollect that Messrs. Fessenden,
Grimes, and others, are the most prominent
leading men of the Republican party, what
a commentary the above charge is upon
the integrity and purity of the men COM
posing this organization. 1t asks " Who
will dare to doubt the acquittal of Andrew
johnson was secured by fraud and bri-
{ berry ?" What a party to ask for the suf-
frages of the people to keep it in power
1t is high time that all honest men who
have been acting with that organization
without thought. should come to halt and
take survey of the surroundings, and ask
their consciences if they are doing right
If they are acting ilstly to themselves OF
their country in blindly voting to keep
such men in power, to the detriment of the
peace and happiness of the country, and
against the interest of the great industrial
and laboring classes of our land ?-St
Cldirsuille Gazette.
Two party chiefs who, from 1850 until q
recent period, were fatally conspicuous In
every Abolition movement of note, have
been at last destroyed by the progress OF
mented. The men to whom we allude are
Seward and Chase. No such reverse as
that which has overtaken them can happen
to Sumner. He may sink into his native
obscurity, and, some day, be clothed with
shame and everlasting contempt, but he
will be Charles Sumner to the last-cold
cruel, cowardly and pedantic. Not all the
mama of heaven can transform him. AS
well expect to change conceited fool into
Solomon.-Mariettd Times. ,f
IMPEACHMENT CONCLUDED. BY refer.
ence to our columns to-day, it will be seer
that on Tuesday last a vote was taken In
the Senate, sitting as Court, on the I'd and
Sd articles of impeachment. The result
was as might have been expected, and re.
suited yeas 35, nays. 19. So the President
stands acquitted on the I'd, Sd and 11th ar.
ticles; and thereupon the Court adjourned
without day. This virtually ends the mat.
ter. Let all patriotic men rejoice that the
country is saved from the humiliatino
spectacle in the eyes of the world of turn.
ing out Chief Magistrate for merely par.
tisan causes and for purely party purposes
all the churches of the land on Sunday
next. Amen.-Ohio Democrat.
THE nomination of Grant was a toregone
conclusion, and was opposed at different
times by Greeley, Wendell Phillips, Wade
Beecher and others, on account of his in.
temperance and want of experience in gov.
ernmental affairs. Their cry was princi-
pies, not policy. John A. Bingham saws
that Colfax is over-rated. And it is uni
fCISdliy duIuIbGcu Uy Gu0 l6duIDQ men OF
the Radical party, that he has done larger
amount of political business on small cap.
ital than any other man in the country. -
Guernsey Jefersonian.
THOSE bondholding organs of the Radi.
cal party who boast that the Chicago Radi.
cal platform means to pay the Government
bonds in gold, and nothing but gold, should
remember that the bondholders in this
country constitute very small portion Of
the voting population. They may boast
that Grant and Colfax favor paving the
bonds and interest in gold, and that Dem
ocratlc bondholders will vote for them on
that account. They should recollect that
for every Democratic bondholder who may
vote for Grant, the Democratic nominee OF
the 4th of July Convention will receive at
least five thousand votes from non-bond-
holding Republicans. If these Radical
advocates. of paying the bonds and In
terest in gold wish to make such an ex-
change as that, the Democratic party is
perfectly agreed. We know that our party
can stand such swap as that if the Radi-
cal party can.
We would kindly advise these Radical
Grant -Colfax paying bonds in gold gen.
tlemen, not to press their impudent claim
of paying the bonds in gold too tar. There
is danger of such impudence and aristoc-
racy becoming sickening and nauseating
to the laborers; mechanics and farmers OF
the country, and if they press their clai m
for gold too strong, instead of getting what
they are entitled to-greenbacks for their
bonds-they might not get even that. Go
slow, gentlemen, go slow. Don't crowd
the mOurners too strong with your cry OF
Grant and gold. The nom bondholders and
large number of the bondholders desire
the bonds to be pail in nothing but Green
backs. They contend that if Green backs
were good enOuph TO huV bonds and nav
the soldier, his widow and orphan, the me-
chanic, the farmer and the laborer, they
are good enough to pay the bondholder.-
Steubeuullie Gazette.
MORE "BURKING."-Whati is "Burkinp ?''
do you ask. The name is a little curious
There lived in Scotland, during the last
generation, a fellow named Burke, who
carried on gainful trade in seizing old
women and young boys in secret places,
and by lying on them lengthways suffo-
Gated them by holding .te mouth and
Eose with his hands. WAen they were
duly dead, he took the body in sack
thrown over his shoulder and sold it to the
surgeons. He was finally detected and
hung; and this peculiar skill in murder,
which was then becoming one of the fine
arts, caused it to called '.Burking." The
name had quite fallen into disuse and might
not have been known again, except Tor
the late performance of Judge in the kim
dred act of suffOcating law. 1t seems
that they have Burke somewhere on the
Reserve, where township lawyers do much
abound, who has undertaken to Burke the
.'admixture,law" without having case be-
fore him. Perhaps his time is nearly out
and he is preparing for new nomination
and new run. His performance has been
so gratefully received by Radical papers
that a new competitor has started up in the