Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-03-27
Disunion Boldly Avowed by the Central Re
publican Organ.

we nave ittqueubly shiu tutb ING iehutuk
managers Of the Republican Party of Ohio
were as hostile to the Federal Union as the ex.
treme and ultra disunionists Of the South. For
making this declaration, honest, patriotic and
Union-loving men In the Republican party have
censured us aud complained that We were doing
them and their party injustice. The following
editorial article which We fnd In the Ohio State
Journal of this morning, proves thetruth of all
thatwe have ever charged upon the leaders Of
the party in respect to their hostility to the
union. We ask all candid men in the Republi
can ranks to read it, and then determine what
their duty Is That .hcrel 10 perfect symps
thy and concert Of action between the Southern
disunioDlsts and the leading Republicans of the
North to destroy our government and break up
the Union, cannot longer be doubted. We in
trojuce the vile article from the Journal with
out further comment: ~ %
THE UNION NOT RrPUsLIcAs MsTrTurioSs--on
Ht TRIAL. ..
The erroneous impression Of many Of our
own people thai Republican or Democratic insti
stituIioDs are on trial, and that the fall of the
American Union carries down with it, not only
these Institutions, but the hope Of freedom
everywhere, has been generally accepted by the
outside world, and we now find curious specta-
tors in Europe looking intensely on at what
tney suppose to be the fierce struggle Of Democ.
racy for life. Especially interested are our
English cousins In this matter; and the London
TImes has deemed IL expedient to send out one
of its crack letter-writers to report the proceed
to- ~oft th.t tesol NJ QnaoalI L.,
objective writing; brilliant In descriptions of
striking scenery and the horrid realities Of war,
will, we are o.nvinced, fnd but little material
for his iorid pen in the incidents of American
dissolution. ft would be as practicable 70 trace
the minute details of the progress Of disease in
the human frame, and eventual death, as to
write vivid description OF our national
troubles and their prospective termination In
permanent disunion. Articles can be written
ON the various questions growing ont of our
troubles, but mere description OF those troubles,
never.
We started out by saying the impression that
Democratic institutions are on trial in this
country is erroneous. Soft is. IL 10 O hetero-
geneous Union which has gone to the country
to be passed on, and which, failing to further
subserve the ends of its creation, is about to
be cast aside, like the body which an immortal
SOUL nus WOTQ Out huu tutUWu tObeek u lew
and more lasting tenement The Democratic
idea in America has outlived the American Un'
ion That Is all. The life, the vitality, the
soul of this idea is about to burst from its chry-
sails shell, and taking on o new ,form-invest-
ing some more effective vehicle Of action-wilI
run that career of power In cvilizing and re-
fning q crude world, which We believe Is its
destiny under Heaven. Politicians and dotards
may gabble and weep tears of imbecility over
the breaking up Of an unnatural compact, but
reason, justice and humanity will gladly accept
1t as one Of those cheering evidences that Provi.
dence Is working good to the creatures OF earth
through the process of events.
A rigid analysis of American patriotism dis. !
covers but little gold, The enthusiasm of the
masses for the Union Is more or less Fictitious
The Union has been spotheosized by politicians
for their own selfish ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. It has
been made their rallying cry until the unthink-
ing had become to invest 1t with certain de-
gree OF sacredness. But truth has reached the
popular heart, and intelligence the popular
mind, and the masses see that the natural giant
strength Of physical America and the measure
Of freedom enjoyed by our people under the
Constitution, properly directed, have made us
wtat we are in spite Of the Union. Il Is free
labor and free thought that have made the
American Union illustrious, and not the Union
which has developed those features Of Democ
racy. And now that this free labor and this
restless, tbrobbing free thought are trammeled
by the Union, the embarrassment will be re.
moved The young giants refused to be man
acled. ~
The Africanized people Of the South have
work which we believe advancing
civilization and the teachings of Christianity
would have. ere long, demanded at the hands Of
the free people Of the North The completely
with the barbarism OF slavery, which the latter
have had forced upon them by the Union, has
become more burthensome every year, and must
have been thrown of voluntarily before the
lapse Of many years. The Union has done
no hing 10 reality for freedom. Its legislation
has all been in favor Of slavery, when required
to decide differences between these antipodes.
Theu. why should free men deplore the loss Of
the UDionf Separate peaceful existences of the
sections are preferable to Union which is dis
satisfactory to one, and which retards the pro-
gress of the other. e. hs g.
The creators Of the Union soWed the seeds Of
its inevitable death at the creation. They thought
to beget healthy body by an unnatural cross
between right and wrong. They thought to
produce harmonious. symmetrical whole BY
blending two conflicting systems Of industry
two civil cations. How could they expect 70 be
successful when all history is against tbem7 All
nations that recognize the right Of one man to
oppress another sooner or later crumble into dis
solution, and in that extinction we are bound TO
recognizes the decree Of justice. And why should
she American people alone hope to enjoy
immunity from this universal doom7