The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-02-21
! The Ohio Easle-.-Beniamln,s speech.

Since the beginning OF the present ma
iioBal troubles we have marked, with some
surprise. the course of the Ohio E4gle.--
We have looked to it in vain for some
thing rational and reasonable--somethiug
loyal to Che Institutions of its own Sec
tion; some sentiment of devotion to the
Laws, the Union and the Constitution
Iuside and outside that paper has been
filed with parrzau and reasonable arii-
cles, iuslifying the South in its rebellion,
and casting The whole cause OF our troub'
les at northern doors; advocating the
"right of secession" and jushtying the
reasonable efforts of the Cotton States to
overthrow the Government and PROSTATE
the liberties, hopes and happiness of the
people. lis editorials, with few excep-
tons, have been devoted to the same pur-
pose, misleading, deceiving, and cheating
its readsrs--foslering, encouraging, and
applauding treason. When the enforce
ment of the laws is talked of it is decl4r'
ed TO be .'coercion." When the proiec.
zion of public property from the attacks
of public robbers War When it is
urged that the Union must be preserved,
i; is snparibgly and contemptuously -.'u'
"subjugate a sovereign people"
In tie last number of tEat paper, the
speech Of Senator Benjamin, the prince
Of demagogues and traitors, made upor
his Withdrawal from the halls of Congress
wherein he justified the South, applaudet
their rebellion, denounced the North, arc
advocated the right of secession, was pub
ished in full, applauded and recommend
ed to its readers.
We publish extracts with the Eagle
comments. Of the right Of secession, Mr.
, B. Gays:
"Let those who deny her right to re
sumo delegated powers successfully refut
the claim; and, sir, Of all the causes whlc
Justify the action Of the Southern State
| | know of none of greater gravity an
more alarming magnitude than that ROY
developed, of the denial Of the right of Sc
C ssion. A pretension so monsirous a
that which perverts restricted agency
r constituted by sovereign Safes for com
, mon purposes, into the unlimited Gespo
, tism of majority which denies all legiIl
mate escape from such despo.ism, eve
though powers delegated are usurped
; converts the whole fabric of constitution
: al liberty into the secure abode Of lawles
r tyranny. and degrades sovereign State
/. into provincial dependencies.
II X
Nor Shall deain the Senate by dem
onstrating how sbadowy the d.stinctio
y between the condition of the servile Afr
!. cans and that to which the wl.ite free me
of my State would be reduced, if it b
true that they are bound to this Fedsri
u Government by ties that cannot Legitimate
n " be severed without the consent OF TIN
IS very majority which wields its powers fl
+ their oppression.
OF the collection Of revenue he says:
\. "You want to know il you have Go
. ernment--if you have any authority
'' collect revenue--to wiring tribute fro
nj an unwilling people. Sir, humsnity d
al spends, and all the inspiring hopes OF h
n. progressive improvement vanish intoem
a ty air, at the reflections which crowd I
~ the mind at hearing, now repeated wi
IT. aggravated enormity, sentiments again
H. which Chatham launched his indigna
ne thunders nearly a century ago.
ST Comparing the attempt Of the Britt
Government to wiring taxes from the c.
It. onies without their consent. Write I
be present effort to maintain the Union.
n "Just MS now, a senile Executive, und
), tie sinister influence Of insane counse
), is proposing. with your assent "lo secu
Is the bitter execution Of the laws" BY bloc
ed aiding ports. and turning upon the paol
az OF the States the artillery which they pJ
III vided at their own expense, for their o.
" defense, AMI nirused to you and 10 h
o' for that and no other purpose.
lie 4
le. 1t was reserved for the latter half OF
am nineteenth century, and for the CongI
= of Republic Of freemen, to witness
~ ;, willing abrogation Of all power save t
g. of exacting tribute. What Britain, "
the haughucst pretensions of unlmi
, " power over dependent colonies, could
" even attempt without the vehcmOnt p
u" test Of her greatest statesmen, ID to
so enforced, in aggregated torn, il you
&C. enforce it, against independent States,
nds ofthis speech, made by traitor "
an. the heels of Louisiana declaring her
its ou. of the Uuion, the Eagle says:
ors We publish on tho Grst page, the q
ox. speech of U. S. Senator Benjamin, of |.
-; isiana, delivered on his taking leave h
~" tho secession Of his State. 1t will intel
lists the careful reader from the first lin,
leir tho last word, ...
:. Lincoln's Speeches ut Charleston.
DO The Washington correspondent of
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