Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-02-20
summers EscsOlUtiOnS--A step
EcyOnd Secession.

In the tclcgraphc report of Congros-
sional proceeding it is stated under date
of February IL, that Senator Summers
offered a serious ofresolutions dcclaratory
of the resolutions of the United States
with certain States, and that motion to
lay them on the table was carried by a
vote Of twenty yeas to fifteen nays.
Special dispatches to the Cincinnati
Gazette and New York Tribune say that
these resolutions declare in general terms
that .hc rebel States have committed /cio
dc Sc, or suicide; that with their death
their peculiar institutions, including that
Of slavery, have died, and that, therefore,
the United States can constitute new
Government over territory which they
once occupied, and that slavery can
have no constitutional or legal existence
there.
Tho GozeHes dispatch adds that the
resolutions are approved in principle by
Secretary Chase, and by leading Sena-
tors and other prominent Republicans in
and out Of Congress.
The principle of these resolutions, witch
Secretary Chase and leadin Republicans
in and out Of Congress aie said upon
Republican authority to approve, is in re-
ality rank secession doctrine. 1t is that
State can commit suicide, that is, di-
vest herself of her life and being as a
State. BY that act she takes herself out
of the Union and ceases to he of right
and in fact member thereof She has
not only Withdrawn from the Union, but
is annihllatcd as n State forever, and her
re annexation is rs impossible as the res.
toration of n thorough dead man to life.
We said this was rank secession doc
trine. 1t is worse. For, granting as the
seccSsionisls claim, that State may
rightiully Sccede from the Union, she
may still retain her State organization,
and AS such may be restored to her old
place in the sistcrhood of States. But
according to the doctrine of Sumner
Chase and other prominent Republicans,
a State may--in fact, eleven States have
already committed suicide; they are an.
INITIATED; thoir places in the Union are
vacated forever; they can never more
have representation in Congress they
have no constitutions, no laws, no rights
as separate States; hcncclorth the old
names of Virginia, North and South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkan.
sas, and Tennessee, are to be blottcd out
OF our memories and from our children's
maps, and eleven stars are to be erased
from that old Flag, under which loyal
soldiers, from the North and from the
South are now rallying, fighting, bleed
ing, dying
Senator Bright writes letter nearly a
year ago to jeff Davis recommending n
gunsmirh, and he is expelled from the
Senate. General Stone is suspected of
sy sympathising with, and in some way aid
ing the rebels, aud he is sent to Fort La
layettc, a newspaper reporter insults
one of the clerks in the War Department,
and he is forthwith ordered to another
Government Bastile We do not here
and now utter word of complaint about
any of these things; but, it such doings
are right and proper we do demand of
those IN authority at Washington, in the
name of our loyalo6untlymen whose
means OF living are being exhausted and
whose blood is being poured out like wa
ter, for the sake of establishing and
preserving that dear old Union they all
love and cherish, with the constitutional
existence and constitutional rights Of ev.
cry State unimpaired, what ought to be
done with men, be they cabinet officers,
members of Congress, or what not, who
counsel and seek to accomplish. not
merely the separation of eleven States
from the Union. but their total destruc.
tion and aunihilation as States Can
madness. insanity or treason ITSELF fur.
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