Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-01-02


You md hAve d0hs our pprt for years 10 HDsn-
ing kad wAfrins agGihss these dangers have
during thia session been aquIet observer of
whet has atranspiped, No word from q Nofthern
Democrat here could have heen thus far Of any
ssryioe, The Northern Democratic members you
may infer, would vote anything, which the Re-
puhlicaBs would propose, 90 an accommodation of
these difficulties, ,if they,Eere acceptable to the
representative of The border. slave States. i
think Speaker Pennington did right in placing
on the Committee Of Thirty three, from the
lNortherhS States, Republican membefsa He
rightly judged, upon whom lay the ifesponsibili.
ty for our pefiis, and from what source alone,
their prevention could come. .iis1til az soA
But for purposes Of State action in Ohio, q
suggestion may be useful.a A cobweb over q
cave saved Mahomed's life. Mahomedsnism
hung upon spiders SKILL Great things hang up.
on little things; and tmay be that suggestion
from me, would not prove 'unseRvicable In tho
critical condition Of the country Certainly it
would be Of SERVICE iiain any way it could
evoke an honest voice from the Ohio Legisla-
ture. bHanpr sn h1a w,H ben9ts.u adj 4ii
Our condition as federal government is fear
ful. The little army we have Is on the borders,
our finances are crippled; our credit only serves
to raise money at an average of fourteen per
cent. INTEREST," Secession already drops its
plausible pretext of civil right, and calls itself
Revolution, and even this Capital Is threatened
| with seizure by conspiring malcontents. What
shall be done2 Arms, force, coereion7 An ex
eculion Of the federal laws irrespective of con
sequences2 I am for the maintenance of the
federal authority, but it might be as well to
look to the means and the end. Suppose such
means were used, as would make the desired end
failure; what then ?5aA rupture not merely Of
the cotton States South, but the whole South.
This should be prevented Every effort of re-
conciliation, honorable and brotheFly, should be
made before resort to fotce.aI am vet to
learn that such mode as this is Inconsistent
with the answer of Judge Douglas to the Nor
| folk questions. III am sure that neither he nor
the North-pesteyn Democracy toin epsr yeconsidey
that aRstosr. But in what way can the laws be
effectively executed, and peace and unity pre-
served2 Lst ue see.a t1i hfa .2lG5 W. 10
| ] do not believe thstfor the present, there are
any means either by compromise or arms, TO
stop the accession of the Gulf States. For thir-
ty odd years. South Carolina has been anxious
to 60 out. With her the real reason is mat.
ter of political economy. Her ostensible rea-
son, js slavery. Free and direct trade, with
strong squirting toward cheaper negroes is her
real reason, The politics of the Gulf States
are the offspring of South Carolina. Calhou-
nism has permeated for years all their policy
Their leading public men have won honors and
emoluments In disseminating its heresies. In
| the time of jackson, the cry was "that the
South was robbed by the North" It is the
same thing now. Her statesmen believe, what
| do not-that the South pays forty out of the
seventy millions of federal revenue But
whether this be true or not, South Carolina and
her kindred States believe IT,; and therefore,
they are bound out whatever may be conceded
| T. .lraav akn En tets. sIoesz 4
be would take command himself and hang CAL
houn on the first sappliDg This with Mr..
Clay's composing syrup, quieted her Tor the
i time. Ever since, she has been waiting her
opportunity. The sectional party in the North
has furnished it, aud then eagerly they seized
lit! No wonder Gov. Gist at Columbia
thanked Giddings and his party, as "their beat
friends" No wonder Keitt and Magrath, agree
!, with Brinkerhoff and Sutlitf that the Fugitive
slave law, is unconstitutional They don't want
compromise / say here, and refer to Brinker-
} hoffs decision on the Oberlin case for proof,
that secession from, and notification of the
Federal Government, is justified in that deci-
tion. He bases his infamous adjudication on
tho usurpations of the Federal Government
i He denies that "the decisions OF the usurpng
party in favor ofthe validity OF its own assump.
I.tions can settle anything" He warns against
"the practical omniptence of the Federal Gov
eminent by making authoritative the judgment Of
| it's judicial tribunals." Each man-bisck and
white-of the 2l2,584 Republicans who voted
for that Abolition Nullifer, Is responsible for
the propagation Of the rebellious heresy, on
which South Carolina is now acting. II does
not become them to talk to South Carolina
Much less does it become Gov. Dennison, his
white staff at Columbus, or his black guard in
the Reserve, 70 be gathering up the scattered
arms Of the State, that the State "may be put
in condition, where Its resources may be made
available" ~ oei - ''~ rs"
Ihope your Legislature will look into this
EARNS" business. No sane man can believe that
Ohio is to be attacked. Is this mogsmsat, theso
| fUru, Designed 70 be aggressive2 upon whom2
Virginia and Kentucky? We are in pretty
condition to invade these States. / will show
you how you may conquer these States cheaply
and permanently-by doing Justice to them in
all kindness. No army sent South will avail
anything, except to enrich the South by pur-
chases Of food and forage for soldiers and
horses. Mexico never thrived go well as during
our war with her. My idea is that everything
possible ought to be promptly done to coneiliste
lie Uaion-loping border States, and everything
ougM to be avoided ,Ohieh soiu erasperats then,
against u or tend to ally them ,Oith the Cuff
States. 'uu--. - yAla--'e ~
This can be done, without any dereliction Of
duty, on the part Of the Executive in enforcing
the laws. Charleston, Mobile, and Galveston,
are cotton ports. The revenues must be collec.
ted there As yet, the Federal Government has
control Of these pointsss South Carolina has Sc
ceeded--on paper. Her ordinance is only bru-
tam fulmsn. If she don't want our post Offices,
she can do without them We cant make the
horse drink, though We lead him TO water. II
she don't want United States Cour.s--very wels
4 But If she wants to collect and keep our reye-
nues, she has them, II she would succeed, to
i commit some overt act. Her ships must have
| cearances. II they venture out, without them,
/ they can be seized BY our Navy and lbelied In
i stopped = trade. languish - planting would not
bor. Neither would IL be levying war, to col
lect by our cutters, thereyenue, under the guns
of Fort Sumpter. This tie President soiH do
That call executing the laws, and without that
solecism of q (foreign) war against one Of our
lbe, that the cotton which now makes Charles
ton, Mobile and Galveston, prosper, willgo in.
land TO New Yofl-saud thence to New and Old
England. The zee ultra cities will suffer and de
, cav. Memphis, New Orleans, ST. Lonis, Louis.
vile, cinoinnatti, and the Southwest, aud west
generally, will prosper. This scheme of peace
fuI repression will make the, South, under the
pr ressure of les endorsements, look back long.
: inely unto the Union for safety and succor. The
/. cotton crop of four millions and half Of bales
viii dvipdlc down to one million. The Gull
would lash itself into good dense, under these
restrictions. Meapwbile, those. ever loyal
States of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky. Ten
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