Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-01-23
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
WASHINGTON. Jan. l6- 1851.

Jan. 10, 1861.
AessTs EdaOrs:-Every day demonstrate
E the wide spread combination in the Slave
holding States to destroy the best governmen
That the wisdom of man has ever organized
The supporters of Mr.. Breckenridge in tn,
, South are lite prime movers and chief supper
) tiers. 1t is believed by recent Development
: that Mr.. Breckinridgsis in completely with
1t. ! do not believe a majority of his supper
tiers in the free States are in sympathy will
him, if so the fires of public indignation viii
consume them. Traitors to our government
should not be permitted to stay in a State
where people are loyal to the Union,
"Who would be q traitor knaveH
Who would fill a towards grave?
Who so base to be a slave?
Traitor. coward, turn and fee"
The firing by the traitors at Charleston into
the Star of the West, bearing the flag of the
Union, and men and provisions for the relIefoi
M%. Anderson, has intensified public indig-
nation at Washington against the rebels, and
has united Republicans and Democrats to up
hold, and sustain the gov ernmeRt at any cost,
and at all hazards. Judge McClernard. of IL
linOis. heretofore Mr.. Douglas right hand
man in the House, made an able speech in de-
fence of efficient measures to prevent the dis
ruption of the government, and against the
right to secede. taking the Jaeksonian ground
Mr. Cox, Of Ohio, made an able speech to the
same purport, as to sustaining the government,
and against the right of secession, but as US
ual undertook to throw most of the blame up
on the Republicans, for the present state of
things. Judge Holman, of Indiana, a Demo-
erat viii take the same ground. 1 do not know
ola Democrat in the free States, in the House,
with the exception of ValandIgham and per-
habs Florence of Pa, who does not take the
same ground. Letters from all parts of the
North, are pouring into Washington, irrespec-
tive of party, TO maintain the government
against traitors and combinations to overthrow
it. The people who are not Republicans say
periodically that the will of the people fairly
expressed in accordance to the Constitution,
must be carried out in obedience to the Con-
stitution, that the defeated party must resort
to ballots and not to bullets for redress. The
question is not one of peace and war. but one
that rests the existence of our Republican
form of Government. If South Carolina, Flor
ida, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, have a
right to secede because the election does not
please them, then Massachusetts, Connecticut
and Ohio have the same right, and the exis-
tence of the government is at the mercy, within
or caprice of the minority.
This question is rapidly blotting out party
times, and absorbing party names. in the pat
riOtie purpose of maintaining the Constitution
and the Union, as our fathers established
them. Upon this point, Daniel Webster in
1888, in the debate on Mr.. Calhoun's resolu-
ton, asserting the right of secession, said in
where had charms for him. But. Sir, 1t is our
own liberty, guarded by Constitutions and
secured by Union; it is that liberty which is
our p~aternal inheritance, it Is our established,
dear bought, peculiar American Liberty, to
am chiefly devoted, and the cause of
Inow mean to the utmost of my power,
to maintain aud defend" Every patriot will
amen.
The people of the free States should be pre-
pairing for any emergency, which the enem-
les of free Government may force upon them
This week, and perhaps next, in the House,
will be devoted to general debate on the great
question upon which the minds of all the peo
pie are concerned. The course of the Admin
i%stratiOn upon supplying Maj. Anderson with
endorsements and provisions, has not yet
Lranspired. all the accounts from the States
in rebellion against the government argue that
revolution there is producing its natural re-
suits, life and property are insecure, business
is embarrassed and suspended; the conserva-
i've men who are really opposed to the rebel
lion, are overborn by a terrorism unequaled in
any state of society. in any age, except in
France, during her bloodiest revolution, when
such leaders as Murat end Robespierre, held
lndisputed sway. Men of means are coerced
loans to support the rebellion, women and
are seeking an asylum among free
Institutions, which slave holders madly in
end to destroy; and a discontinued, and phys
cally powerful slave population are in the
back ground. looking on in establishment at
he eommotion, and waiting for something to
turn up" There in brief are the first fruits of
he revolution, J..