Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-01-21


power and interest," too proud to brook injury and 10
close to make retaliation distant ineectua Our yer
nimoseJ will, like those OF all other kindred nation
become more deadly because lineage laws and Ian
ats se same Let the history Of the Grecan an
Constitution s our last and our only security Unite
2 Q we stand divided we fall"
+ All! IL is easier to commit than to iustif
g such parlicide But to justify it on an ap
b prebension, is neither courageous nor safe -
- Let South Carolinl beware God is Just, ant
history inexorable In leaving the ensign O.
0 tae stars and stripes, she will fnd no repose be
h Meath her litlespalm. It's from Augustus tc
a Augustulus. Her only renoWn and strenptt
7 are in the clustered States-the bundestast' a,
the Germans term it--not In selfish, upfraternal
and hostile loneliness. Whom she unb;nds thf
Donds Oh the Constitution, she opens her peace
10 the chances of that dark future so yiyidly
, anticipated by the gentleman from Arkansas. :
a do not say that would vote means and mon
ey TO repress her revolution. But am not bound
Dy my oath to support the Constitution of the
United and not of the dis-united States? II l do
not do my part to carry on this Government, and
TO enforce its laws have any business here Maj.
ther can withhold my respect from magistrate q
because they are not my choice. Private opinion 8
must give place to public authority. The election
Oh Abraham Lin Din, under the forms of the Con.
stitution, however deporable, cannot be ques-
TONED with argument or arms. Judge Douglas
exnaus'ei the argument in his reply to the Nor.
iolk questions; and have no such poor opinion
OF any portion of our people as to believe that
they will question it with arms. South Carolina
herself participated In this election, giving her
voice for her favorite When, therefore, she
would ignore this election, and break the estab.
iished order for this and other uniustifable
causes, she runs fearful risk. Her destiny
becomes raifle. Insurrecton Of her slaves
VIII then only become question of opportuni
y. The slave trade will not help, only hasten
and aggravate her ills. Perhaps, in the eve of
providence, it was her wisest act, when che
yielded her assent to that Federal covenant
winch was and Is restraint againt herself and
her slaves and for herself and her safety. That
assent and that covenant we're the highest ex-
preston of the popular will; for they were the
voice or the majority, which Jefferson called
Tue vital principle OF Republics and from which
tnere 10 no appeal but to force vital prin-
olple and immediate parent of despotism.
Before risking such chances, cannot the South
await the returning justice Of the North? Up-
less disunon be determined upon nspite of
every effort at harmony, do not see why, af-
yer having so long acquiesced in the breach of
the fourth article ofthe Constitution, any State
snonld 20 out upon that ground, even though,
as Mr., Webster held, ts breach be treason p
ANA as for the North, so long as the Federal
laws remain unbroken, and no serious detri-
ment to the public property aud peace is threat.
ened, cannot she, too. tolerate these heated an.
peal9I rebellons ordinances, and too careless
handling oil gunpowder ut Point Morris, with
equanimity, for the chance only of the reha-
olatlon OF the seeding States2 At least,
until the North repeal their notification laws.
would not such equanmity be magnanimlty2 |
Let the South desist from further attempts 60
obstruet the collection Of the Federal reye.
nues and despoil the property of the Govern
ment; let there be no attempt to exclude the
people North and West from this Federal Dis. |
trict and Capitol, and no attempt to shut us |
VINO are inland frnm the Gulf or sea; and then
What occasion is there likely to arise in which |
Ihe NorIh VIII dare take up arms to shoot or
Dayonet southern citizens into the Union, which
tney only leave, we may hope, constructivelyl
II, as Douglas urged, war is dsunion, cannot
we who love it 80 we'll afford to be patient for
the Union2
But what danger is here! Once let the
realty to this Government be broken; and who
can restrain the excuses incident thereto? If
such excesses be committed, there would bs
aroused martial spirit which, in rushing to
tne defense OF Major Anderson and his men in
fort sumter, or to avenge their death, would do
and dare all in the name of our great Repnblic'
Touch not hair of his head! He is sacred. 10,
day. He embodes the patriotism of millions.
Accident has made him the defender of that
dag which has fOated from Bunker Hill to Mex.
lco' His death would open gulf in which the
people would pour, in vengeance and in vain.
their treasures and their children.
or ii confederation South propose to control
The mouths Of the Mississippi and its banks. DO
you believe it could be done without protest of
irmsi Do you know the history of that acouis' :
ion, and its vital necessity to the Northwest |
lope you have listened to the able recital of nv
rend, from Illinois Mr.. McClernard), touching
hese points. 1t would seem, from the news we
AVE to-day, that a system of espionage and de-
ention by force has already been begun in
Mississippi, upon steamers from the North.
That. t.mighty river, Of two thousand miles extent,
me of whose tributaries doubles the parent
tream in it's length, with its $50, 900 900 worth Of
teamers, doing the business of twelve States, I
nth an area of one million two hundred
housau1 square miles drained by it's waters-
rom the SHOWS and timbers of the North to the
I'm and blooms of the South-will ever remain
q the Union! 1t was the necessity for its use 4
nd outlet which, in part, called for the Constitu.
ION seventy-hVe years ago. As the veteran Gen.
raj Cass told me- the sparse population in nv own Z
tate, OF which he was one, were even then
eady to rise In arms, in consequence of a proyis-
,nal treaty with Spain, which did not ADEQUATE. !
? provide for the coveted riparian privileges.
md now, after a usnfruct Of three quarters of u
century, not only the commerce, the honor
nd the rights of the West, but the protesting
oices of nature, calling from valley and hili'
, summer rains, in gold washing streams and
milling cultivation; nay, progress itself, which
, the life Of the West-which has m ade 1t de-
erve the poets phrase, applied to ancient Lati-
IN, tchere 9lebG, afqae potens dTmis s-progress,
hich ia the stride of god across the continent
all these agencies would conspire TO redden 4
ne Mississippi to float our unequaled produce
etween its banks to the sea! Il is industry
hich would thus decree and ii would execute it's
wn edict. With US, not gold, nor cottOp, butt IN.
usrRY IS KING! However homely its attire, it
ears the spiritual purple, and on its brow the
,ronal ofabearded grain, impearled with the
Ticeless sweat OF independence IL will stretch
9 scepter from THE RIVER unto the ends of the 4
srth! Neither imposts, nor tariffs, nor OBJ
ructions, nor foreign control, nor hazard of "
reign war, can hedge in its empire. These
ghts OF transit and outlet are ours by use, by
archase, by possession; and ours they will re-
lain.
Leaving these elements of strife unstirred,
le secession movement may vanish into fool.
h dream-a specter of the night, which will Y
spart when the dawn shall again environ us in
be cycle of its felicities!
But, as to these vague apprehensions of ag-
ression from the President elect. Would Il not T
9 best to swat his entrance into power7 What L
vert act has he yet done, or his party, in Fed
,aI wav9 IF vnu rpaiat now II ahou Ia ho . ainat