Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-01-07
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The retiring Governor of Michigan, in his
parting message to the Legislature OF thai
State, on the first nst saw proper to charge
the present sectional excitement in the country
to the Misrepresentation Of Republicans by
Democratic Presidents and the Northern Demo-
cratic Presses
Itis plain from this, that the Southern people
have formed an opinion Of Republicanism, and
that opinion has placed them in position an
tagonistic to the North, where they suppose Re
publicsnsm to be dominant.
But how tame the South to form On Opinion
80 hostile to Republicanism as to cause the ma
iority of the people in the whole State to prefer
all the disadvantages and evils Of separating
from the Union to remaining in 1t with Repub
licanism controlling its destinies? They have
derived it, not from the representations or mis-
representations of Democrats, but from the plat
forms Of the Republican party, from the resolu-
lutions speeches aud other proceedings at its
public meetings, from the acts and official pa
pers of its Executive and other State officers
and from the resolutions and statutes Of State
Legislatures 10 which Republicans have the ma
Jority. These things, just as they occurred,
without note or comment" have, by means oi
the telegraph and the press, reached every vii
lage and enetrated into every household In the
slaveholding States, and aroused to frenzy al
most people, naturally and with reason, jea-
lous of any interference with their domestic re
lations -o
Governor of Michigan, to which we have allud
ed. After charging the Northern Democratic
Press with msrepresenting the principles snC
designs Of the Republican party, the Governor
goes on to declare that the Personnel Liberty
laws of that State are right, and speak of th'
sentiments Of the people; that they are in stric
accordance with the Constitution, and shoult
not be repealed He says: "Let them stand
This is no time for timid and vacilating coun
sel,, while the cry of treason 10 ringing in ou
ears" plainly implying that he is opposed to al
concession and compromise for the sake Of th'
Union. IHE So.
vi Tue suuc sprt unu teuOi arc thO iuaubu
raj addresses Of Messrs. WAsHBURNE, ANDREW
and BLAIR, the new Governors, respectively o
Maine, Massachusetts, and Michigan. By thi
time, the sentiments of these functionaries a
publicly made known to their respective Legis
latures, are familiar to every intelligent ant
active man in the South,
When Southern men are told that the princi
pies and designs of the Republican party ar
misrepresented by the Democratic Press, wha
must they think when they read in the oficia
documents Of Republican Governors, that Per
aonal Liberty bills are right, that the peopl
will not permit their repeal, and that, as Gov
MORGAN, of New York affirms, in his late mes
sage, the Northern people are inAexibly oppose
to any further extension of slavery upon an
terms1 Can anything stronger be said or don,
to kindle In the slaveholding States the fire O
sedition, and cause them to unite with Sout
Carolina in forming Southern Confederacy7
Wedo not believe that the Governors of whom
we have spoken truly reflect the sentiment
Of the mass. Of the people in their respectiv
States. We believe those sentiments are fas
becoming conservative. But never will ou
Southern neighbors give credit to such state
ments as this, until our public men and legisli
tive bodies in the North speak and act in di
ferent manner from what large portion
them have done for the last four or Eve years.