Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-11-16
rna Union : Il union OF states.


II was understood at the beginning that THIS
was var for the preservation Of the Union
The Union, everybody knew, Was made up OF
states, and that to preserve the Union the sep
ara,e States must be preserved, for without
these there could be no Union. II was said
,ha. TO permit State to secede or go out would
be dissolution OF the Union, Therefore, every
State must be preserved or kept In the Union
The war was inaugurated or entered upon Io'
the maintenance of States In the Union-ior
keeping South Carolina 10 The Union % mucn
as acbusetts- Tennessee ss we'll as ohio'
Ex Governor, then Governor DENNlsoN, SAID
from the steps OF the Capitol iD the spring OF
1861, to some Ohio volunteers, that not single
star must be erased from the National nag
This was tho universal sentiment. Every loyal
man, woman and child In Ohio responded TO H.
IL was felt that. while individuals had r'gn'
to depart out of the country and throw OIL sne't
allegiance II they chose, the crime oil secesalon
consisted in the attempt to take States out OF 'ne
Union. This was held to be the essence--the
great treason Of the rebellion,
No ole thought then-st least no one'.no'
actually 1T hear. desiring the success OF the re-
bsllion. proposed. in order 10 cave or keep any
ate In the Union, to annihilate, by Congress
s nal act or Executive decree, any institution
or domestic relation, guaranteed BY the laws
and Constitution of such State and the Federal
Constitution. Such proposition would have
been generally regarded as absurd aud inaan'
as to propose to cut mans throat for the SAKE
OF saving bic life.
The masses OF the people remain unchanged
as to the purpose of the war. The recent elec
tions prove thia 10 demonstration. IL anoshei
election could be held tomorrow, 1t would re-
ceiye still stronger proof II is not so' Cd
falsely charged by AbOli,ionista, because the
people have any anxiety to preserve slavery 81
State institution or prefer slavery to toe
Union Il is, because they love the Union
and know that Union Of States cannos he
m Maintained without maintaining tho states
themselves, their Constitutions, laws ana inS''
tu,ions, which the people Of the several s's'e'
have established under, and 10 pursuance o
the Federal Constitution. The people say tC
secsssionistt: "You ebsll not take 6ingl'
State out of the Union;' they say 10 Adolf
tionis.s in equally emphatic and Determined
tones: "You shall not, under any pretense O
preserving the Union, destroy that Union pl
destroying the States out Of which Is is made
Ir the Federal Government may, under an!
Dre,ense, se. sside and supelsede the Conatlsu
tion and laws of cne State, 1t may, under some
other p,e,euse, do the same by another State
| II II may now, hec6use Of this rebelllon' erase
the altar of South Carolina from the National
a.e. it may hereafter, fiom some supposed mill
tary or other necessity, and having precedent
for ia action, blot out Ohio from tSe conste'iA'
ton Of States. Hence 1t is, that the people Of
Ohio "a mass regard assaults made by the
Fedora! Executive or Congress upon the life oil
any State as assaults upon the life of their own
State. and hold lin who takes State by the
throat to throttle it, as aiming to take the life
of the Union. Their voice is: "War upon
-abels. traitors, secees0nists and disunionists
Of every grade; take their property, their lives
II need be; but make no political warfare 1pon
States their laws and institutions, es they exist
under the Constitution Of the United States"