The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-02-17

veterans in villainy the injustice to
say that they did not give the new
recruits a chance to distinguish them
selves in go slight a skirmish with the
treasury.
THE LATELY R-BrlLrous sfArss.S
I should like to know just how long
the phrase above quoted Is to be part
of the lexicon of loyalty? How long
is the ''lately' to last It is four
years old now, and yet, juding from
the effects of Radical legislation, It is
still in it's infancy. Suppose some
body had predicted, when, in April,
1865, the rebel armies surrendered,
that at the end Of four years the Uni
ON would be further from restoration
than ever, and ~fraternal peace scarce
to be hoped for. Wouldn't be have
been howl. d down ss q .copperhead
croaker, ora rebel sympathizer, or
some other epithet which then as now
formed the staple of Radical oratory
and literature? Yet. here we are, at
the close OF our years of uninterrupted
Radical rule, and ten states of the
Union are known a those Stately in
rebellion" with a .; aspect Of the title
holding good indefinitely in the future,
if it is to be applied until thsre is the
least sembance OF that Union which 1t
was the ostensible object of the war
to restore. Radical legislation has
been a succession of lies, so far as it
promised peace Or restoration Uni
versal suffrage was to have removed
all cause of dissension, .obliterated all
prejudicos of race, and united master
and slave in a patriotic purpose of
good and true citizenship. Well,
they have universal suffrage in the
"lately rebellious States" for. more
than a year, and with it universal de-
spotism to give it free scope and ex-
ercise. But where are the promised
fruits !? What are the net results of
this new panacea for the ills of the
body polite Simply the election %.
Congress ofmen whom it is a SANDER
on the internal regions to call the hell
spawn of civilization. Even that
would be almost tolerable, if it could
be shown to be a natural result of the
extension of the franchise. 1t might
be hoped that with increasing aintelli-
gence among the constituents, there
would be an improvement in the class
men selected as representative-and
rel carpet-baggers might be alooked
upon as an evil within the pale of re-
medal measures. But the Carpet
bag governments are the product of
the abuse of the franchise enforced by
a military despotism and ratified by
material law. The whole South, from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande, is
still under military control, just as
much as it has been at any time since
1861. It is idle to talk of peace or to
hope for it under the proscriptive
legislation of the Radical party. The
final struggle which that legislation
invokes and makes certain may be
postponed tor one year, or ten years,
just as long as the people are willing
to pay for an army, whose presence
alone will postpone it. But sooner
or later it will come, and the failure
to make the white people of the South
blacks will be recorded in the bloodi-
est p &c of American history. : It is
the fashion of late TO laugh derisively
as+he-idea of AVA of races but, I'M
fortunately, the laugh of an idiot will
not avert the doom Of nation, nor
chance the memorable laws OF nature 4
otherwise thejestiHg baReonery or the
Republican leaders in 1s60-61 would
have spared the land the desolation of
later years. The eontemptuous sheer
with which the prediction of renewed
war in the solution of the negro prob
lem is received is but an echo of that
other sheer, which was still so common
in the North when the flames of the
lit up the Southern horizon.
scuENeK AS A LEADER.
It'll amusing to see General Schenck
attempt the role of leader OF the
Since he essayed to break the
ribs of the rebellion with a cowcatcher
he has not made so signal a failure as
in his efforts OF the leadership of his
party in Congress. As Chairman of
the Committee on Ways and Means
he is er-offeo a great man, and the sue
cessor of Thai Stevens. But he sue
coed. old Thad. in about the same
as Gaddis succeeds Saint Paul,
and resembles him about as closely in
all that constitutes fitness for what
nature made the Old Commonwealth
what Mother nature nor education
if they tried, make of Schenck
= q leader. The bitterest ~politicalfoes
of old Thad. acknowied ged in him that
power of mind and will which gave
him a mastery over men, and made
him a party driver, rather than a par
ty leader. Schenck lacks one very
essential requisite of Of being an able
man, and that is ability. He tries to
palm of upon his colleagues for the
genuine artile of strength of character
a stuhborness of disposition which,,
though at times it serves him in good
stead, is but a weak imitation g. theI
poorest traits in a mule. You can see
in his every word and motion-from
his attempt at dsmineering to his
more feeble attempt at wit his affec-
of the qualities which stamped
old Thad. as a man of power and
parts, and compelled obedience to his
dictates, though it was often yielded !
reluctance and vowed against as
despotic. Lat Robert C,-excuse me-
General" Robert E.-be warned in
time that the best ofimitations are bad,
and that there is mournful record III
.sop of a frog thar attempted TO imi-
tate the stature of an OK, but explod-
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