Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-07-18
TIE Impudcnco of the Journal.

The Journal attempts to impugn the patriot
ism of large class of the community who,
while standing firmly by the Government, doubt
whether war will restore union or reconstruct
the Government. Ifsuch sentiment is treas
enable, the editor Of the Journal is a traitor of
the deepest dye. Day after day, week after
week, and month after month, the Journal, with
all the ability It could muster, opposed the poll
cy of holding the Union together by force, and
favored parting in peace with any State which
desired to leave the Union. Such, 1t declared,
with professions of sincerity, was the true poll
cy Of the North So strong were the convic-
tioDs Of the editor, as we have stated them,
that he announced that if the Republican party
did not like his views, they might go to some
very wicked place, but as for him, he would
never yield hairs breadth Of the views he
sincerely entertained and honestly expressed.
II he was honest in these declarations, it turns
out that he has not the courage to stand by
them, and with meanneso characteristic Of
towards, seeks to impugn the loyalty of men
who are, and always have been, true to the
Constitution and the Union. From the files of
the Journal, since the election of Mr.. Lincoln
to the presidency, we make few extracts to
show the reasonable sentiments uttered by that
print, or which IL now pronounces to be such
sentiments, too, which it has never retracted.
Read: s.,-
"Of what value will be an Union that needs
links of bayonets and bullets to hold it togeth.
err IL any State will 60 from us, let it CO."
Is that treason2 Has any South Carolina
secessionist ever uttered stronger disunion
sentiment
Read the following from the same journal:
tIf one section Of the Union will not endure
the other without concessions that can not be
made, q war will be monstrous cruelty. Let
us part in peace"
War O monstrous cruelty, is II? Rather
than that, "part in peace" says the Journal.
Here is another extract which covers the en-
tire case at issue: ,....
"You can not compel friendship and fraternity,
and II the Union is not friendly one it is moth
ing. Ifit is not held together by love for II
and trust in it's benefits, it Is no Union, what
ever else it may be. The Government will be
weaker for IL, the nation must be poorer for it.
Il will cost US much and give US nothing A
subjrgated province is always al element OF
weakness, and not unfrequently door for ruin,
until the evaporation of defeat and humiliation
have had time to wear out, and generation
arises that has forgotten the past in present
blessings. Fight the Gulf States to compel
them to love US well enough to stay with US!
This is the absurdity at the bottom Of coercion.
The countervailing argument tkat the Union
must be preserved is no argument at all, be.
cause the Union is not preserved by war; II
it were, we would see the wisdom of coercion
at once. The Union, in its very life and ea-
sence, is broken 10 pieces by war; and 1t Ii
hopelessly broken. Peaceful separation does
not break the Union hall so utterly and ire
medably as coercion. for time will soon teach
the slave States the folly of disunion, and bring
them back, while q war will put an impassable
gulf of blood in the way Of return forever"
And the fellow who avowed such sentiment
but short time ago as his undying convictions
now charges men with treason who sustain th'
Government, but who think the North "can no
compel the friendship and fraternity" Of th'
South, and "if the Union is not a friendly one
IL 10 nothing. g."-Iadianapol Sentinel. -