As We Knew He Must.Columbus, Ohio, State Journal [Republican](28 May 1856)
The Statesman has at last spoken. We knew
when it did speak, it must justify the foul murders
and violence of the Slave Aristocracy, or
be read out of the party; we were only curious
therefore to see how it would say it, rather
than what it would say. After a dogged silence
it at last spoke, this morning. We copy below
all of its article that bears on the occurrences
that are now exciting the public mind from one
end of the union to the other -- namely, the
outrages at Washington and the murders in
Kansas. What follows is in reply to our article of
yesterday:
From the Ohio Statesman of May 28.
"And then the 'Civil War,' that our
neighbors have been filling our ears with the din of
for the last year, has actually come upon us.
You have been a long time getting it up, and
hard has been the labor. We warned you
in all sincerity, that you might in the end get
up a little more steam than would be agreeable,
and we begged of you not to make any old
womanish 'ados,' when you get into trouble. But
instead of taking our advice, we now have a
fresh howl of 'tears and blood,' and a shriek
for help!" * * *
"At last you have the war under way, and
because you have got so far the worst of it, by
the base and cowardly abandonment of the duped
people of Kansas, by their leaders, Reeder,
Robinson, Lane, &c., &c., you set up a fresh
howl of terror, to fool a few more mad caps into
risking their money and their lives, out in
Kansas, that some of you may thereby get office,
honors and emoluments at home. Shame upon
your baseness, shame upon your folly!"
"We warned you also that a civil war in
Kansas would not stop there, that ill blood and
fanatical strife manufactured here for Kansas,
would explode at our own doors, and woe be
then to the authors of the patent intensifiers!
Already we have the wails of lamentation from
the halls of our national Legislature. A Senator,
for the purpose of 'intensifying' the people
of the borders, was unlucky enough to 'intensify'
a near neighbor, and the war, intended
only for the people of Kansas, came booming
about his own head, and the nation becomes
doubly 'intensified.' But if we are in a civil
war, and intend to go on with the business
regularly, not even Senators need hope to escape
the sad and horrid consequences of this guerrilla
age!"
We have no comments to offer. If this is not
cool and deliberate -- if the People of Ohio want
a more perfect specimen of Doughfacism than is
here exhibited, they will have to wait long, we
hope. We put in on record for future reference,
and for the edification of the People.
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