The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-09-08
Why PendIeton Should Be Elected.

Why PendIeton Should Be Elected.
The, Ottawa UDion a leading Repub-
lican paper of this Statesgives the fol
lowing. as a reason why Hon. Gro;
H. PEoDLEros should not be elected
GOVERNOR of Ohio: tagf tatalu o 2
"The Cincinnati Commercial asserts
that Pendleton ought to be as badly
beaten as Vallandigham was in 1868,
and thinks his nomination is an auda-
city equal to that of the nomination OF
the Martyr at that time. His party,
in his name, .!~confronts the current of
events now, as Il did then. He is the
representative nan of reaction. His
election would signify the revolution
backwards. ut would be Interpreted
to mean that the war did not settle
anything but the relative power ofcer-
tain massesiof men; that reconstruc-
ton as it has progressed under Con
gress has fixed no precedents to be lie
spected and recognized as law and fact ;
that the public securities may be swamp
ed in n~ew-iSsues of paper that we are
to go through again with all the con
fusion and danger of the last five years,
aggravated by new irritations and ele-
ments of dfscord; that as nothing was
settled but the relations of military
forces by the war, and nothing by
Congress since the war, there is to be
no peace, but fierce agitation and bit
ter controversy that shall disturb all
industrial pursuits, shake public faith,
impair values and excite alarms, all
beyond calculation DISASTROUS"
"Heis the representative of a reac-
ton" Reaction is needed in all po-
litical matters, and we support him for
that reason. The course of the Radi-
cal politicians, for the last few years,
has been leading the country to ruin,
which we desire to avert.
"His election would signify revolu-
ton backwards" Exactly. The
sooner it comes, the better; and the
farther we go back, the more prosper
Gus will be the country. We want to
see the time again, when all the
operations Of our government can be
carried gon for sixty-eight millions of
dollars per year.
at would mean that the war did
not settle anything" The war did
not settle anything, but the fact
that the Radicals are at heart a set OF
robbers, barbarians and tyrants and
desire to overthrow the government OF
our fathers. -
"That reconstruction has fixed nc
precedents- to be respected" May
God avert the calamity of the present
reconstruction system. 1t is calcula
ted to sap the very foundations of liber.
ty, ahdHconEert our government into
a~bsol1teism. The excavations of ev'
cry American citizen should be heap
ed upon Radical reconstruction.
"That the public securities may be
swamped in new issues of paper" II
redeeming the bonds, payable in the
legal currency IF the country, is here
meant, The sooner the 'fswamping"
takes place the better it viii be for a
ax-ridden and outraged people. Lee
gal currency or nothing.
with all the confusion and danger
of the last five years" If the people
correctly understand their rights, and
the true principles of the government,
they Will rise in their power, and hurl
the tribe, traitors from their present
place and power. For we have more
to earsfrom the Radicals, than we
ever had from JEFF. DAVIS and his
coadjdtors. All the confusion of the
last five years has arisen from the full
minations, plots and mischievous dew
iltry of the robbers, liars, villains,
murderers, and traitors now in power
at Washington City.
"That nothing was settled but the
relations of military forces by the war"
We deny that anything else was set
tied, than that the north by brute force
and oSefpowering numbers conquered
the Soath.. If it is legal and proper
for five great strapping brothers, who
havesbeen trying to cheat two feeble
onesEout of their patrimony, to drive
them out by brute force, and to seize
and destroy. the property without com.
-pensatien,s then the wan settled the
rightaofthe abolitionists to set free the
negroes seize the property of the PEG.
pile Of the South, and then disfranchise
the owners for resisting these wrongs