The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-02-10


which will undoubtedly be engender-
ed, the Radical party will be held re-
sponsible at the bar of history. EN-
ancipation has cost the country pretty
dearly (; universal suffrage will cost il
still more dearly. {
Tne Radicals count upon the adop-
ton of the amedment as a part of the
Constitution through the aid they will
get from the carpet-bag governments
of the South. Ohio's negative Is TO
be offset by the affirmative of Florida,
or some other of the abortive con-
trivances of Congressional reconstruc-
ton. Kentucky's negative is to be
offset IN the anne way, and between
New England and the reconstructed
South the West is to be crushed into
moral reform ideas of the Radical par
ty. Still, it is some comfort to know
that we shall have the pleasure of vot-
ing on the subject in Ohio next fall.
1t makes an issue in the campaign
which will give 1t life and vigor. Let
there be early organization, active
work and good candidates, and Dem
ocratic success is certain. q
ANAcHARsIs cLooTz. q
The Washington correspondent of
the Commercial uses the name Of this
distinguished person, who, he says,
was a member of the French Assem-
bly,, to illustrate the carpet-bag ele-
ment of the South. Undoubtedly
Clootz was the father of carpet-bag-
gers. He was not q member of the
French Assembly, however. But
since his name has been mentionedby
a loyal journal it is worthy of renark
that he illustrates a more important
class than the carpet baggers in the
present regime. He was an eccentric
Prussian, who participated in the tu-
multi of the French Revolution, and
appropriated for his Christian name
that of the Scythian philosopher. He
called himself the orator of the human
race, and the burden of all his ~orations
was that the democratic principle of
the revolution would be cheap. If pur-
chased even by the destruction of the
whole human family. He lives again
to-day in the Radical orators, who
pirate about the Union, and tell US
substantially, that the Union must be
preserved even though it cost the de-
graduation Of more than half the peo-
pie in it. The idea of Clootz was
made for democracy; instead of dem
ocracy for man-and that idea is re-
peated now by the Radical orators
who would persuade US that the Am
ericJn people were made for the Uni
on, instead of the Union being made
for the American people. They make
use Of this every day to enact legisla-
ton which ostensibly to cement, real
ly helps to dissolve, the Union by
making it less ~fraternal and therefore
less possible. Every act of Congress
Of the last four years which had any
thing to do with the subject OF recon
struction has n direct tendency to make
the union Of the states impossible if
desirable, and undesirable if possible.
Name them all over, commencing
with the formation of the Star Cham
Der Committee On Reconstruction,
down to the attempt of Saturday last
to engraft universal suffrage upon the
Constitution, and see if it be any ex-
aggeration TO state the case thus strong
ly. Judge the Radical party either
by its acts or by the fruits of those
acts, and the conclusion is inevitable
that it never meant to restore the
Union, except in a form which will
ultimately, make the failure of seces-
sion a source of regret to the lovers OF
civil liberty al the world. But this
is a diversion from the original pur-
pose CT this paragraph, which was
merely to show that Anacarsis Clootz.
though esteemed a fool by Walter
Scott and his W contemporaries, was
a very wise man, judged by the Rad
ical standard of to-day. Those who
think otherwise will please tell the
precise difference between his doctrine
of the value of democracy in the alb
stract, and the doctrine of the Radio
al party as to the value of what they
are pleased to term "the Union"-a
thing which, under their dispersal
ton, has long since ceased to exist.
GEORGIA RECONSTRUCTION.
Here is another illustration of the
Radical programme of reconstruction.
The House has just denied the right
of q seat to Mr.. Christy, of Georgia,
though he came here with a certificate
of election duty signed by General
Meade His colleagues were all ad-
mitted during the last session. They
are all Republicans" Christy is, /
believe, the only man in the delega-
ton who is not a carpet bagger nor a
Radical. Hence his rejection. But
there is a worse anomaly than this in
the Georgia case. While the House
admits all the carpet-baggers from
that State, the Senate declares the
State not entitled to representation,
and denies admission to the Senator's
elect. Can q State be entitled to re-
presentation in one House and not en-
titled to it in the other? Senator
Hill is excluded on the ground that
Georgia is not entitled to representa-
ton, because of number of murders
and assaults reported by the Freed
men S Bureau as occurring within the
Iimitst of that State. But carpet
baggers from the same State are 40
mitted III the House, and not a swerd
is said against them. Now, isn't:this
nice Reconstruction ?"'' / used to
think that all the Radicals asked OF
the Southern people a .that=they
should elect Radicals to Office. But
this was a mistake. 1t seems that