Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-17
prom the Ohio Statesman
The Reuu blscan Record.

The Republican Record.
As Republicans aud Republican papers (par-
ticularly the Journal OF this city, are continu-
ally quoting and harping upon a few passages in
the record Of certain Ohio Democrats and charg-
ing all Democrats and other conservatives with
being secessionists and sympathizers with the
rebels, we propose 10 examine briefly the record
of prominent Republicans and of leading Repub-
lican p,pers, Including. of course. the Ohio
State JoaraaI) in order 10 ascertain who at the
North justly chargeible with holding seces
sion views. and, Of course. svmpathizng with the
rebels. according to Republican logic.
We begin with no less a parsonage than
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
President of the United States. and by his high
official station. the most prominent Republican in
the country who as long ago lS4S. in speech
i'm Congress- thus yindcated the right of revOlu-
ton or secession:
Any people. anywhere. being inclined and
having the power, have right TO ri-e up aud
shake off the existing Government. and form
that suits them better. This is most
valuable, most sacred rght-a right which. we
hope and believe, il to liberlte the world. Nor
is this right confined to cases in which the peo
pie of existing Government may chose TO
exercise il. ANY portion of such people that can
my revoutionize and make their own OF so
much OF the territory they inhabt. More
than this: A minority of any portion of such
people may revolutionIze putting down u MINOR
rity intermingled with or about them, who
may oppose their movements. Such minority
was precisely the case OF the tories Of our own
revolution 1t is quality Of revolutions not to
go by old lines old laws, but to break up both
aud mike new ones.-Ertracf from President
LiRcofns speech in the House of Representatives.,
January ~. le4o. See ApDendir TO Congress
sionai Globe, first session, ThJtiefh Congress,
p. 81.
BENJAMIN STANTON.
Mr. Stanton was elected in 1861, as the Re
publican or fusion candidate. Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Ohio, and is o6icio President of our
State Senate. In a speech IN Congress. on the
2Sth of February, 1861, (see Congressional Globe
OF February %, 1861. ptge ,2c5,) Mr.. Stanton
said:
"Seven or eight States now deny their allegi-
snce to this Government; have organized a sep
arate Coniederacy, aud have declared their in
dependence Of this Government Whether that
Independence is TO be maintained or not is with
the future. LII they shall maintain their position,
and If public opinion in the seeded States shall
sustain the authorities there for year or two
to come, to show that nothing but war OF
subugation and conquest bring them back
|. for one, am disposed to recognize that indie
pendence."
On the evening of the 18th of March. 1861
n
Senator, made a speech in this city. In the
course of his speech, as reported for the Gin
ciBnati Commercial, he said among other things:
LET the beauties aud the blessings of sec,s
sion fully develop them selves. aud let the people
of those States have ample time and opportunity
to determine whether they will permanently abide
by and sustain the Southern Confederacy and
submit to the rule of the men who are now con
trolling their destinics. Ii they do, then. in my
ali
national convention in the manner prescribed by
the Constitution. with full power to determine the
question of recognizing their separation and indie
pendence And if il shall be Gle Irly demon>tra-
ted, upon full and fair trial. that the people OF the
seeded States are determined 10 maintain sepa-
rate national existence, and that nothing but
war OF subjugation and conquest can m tinttin the
authority Of the Federal Government in those
States we then ought to acquiesce in the neccsSi
" which compes the separation. For il must be
obvious TO every man who will do his own think
iif-. that permanent conquest and subjugation
OF even seven States, and holding them con
quered provinces, is an impOsSbility. But any
attempt To subugate the seeding States. neces-
sarily rallies To their support the whole OF the
borier slave States; that instead OF seven
shall certainly have fourteen and probably fifteen
States to conquer Any attempt by the free
States To conquer the slavehodng Suites must
fail and result in final separation in Servile
war, which must result in the Aircaniz lton OF
the Southern slay eholding States
BENJAMIN F. WADE
Mr.. Wade is member of the United States
Senate in his second term. and of the
most prominent Republicans in that body. As
long ago 1883, at mass meeting in Maine.
Mr. Wade uttered the following sentiments:
There was no freedom AZ the ) luth for either
black or white: and he would strive To protect
the free soil OF the North from the same blight
ing curse This was really no Union betw cen
the North and the South; aud he believed no two
nations upon the eirth entert,ined feelings of
more bitter rancor towards each other than these
two sections OF the republic The only saliva
ton OF the Union, therefore, was to be found in
divestiny it entirely from all faint of slavery.
There was no Union with the South Let
have a Union. or let u sweep away this remnant
which we call Union. | 20 for Union where
all men are equal, or for no Union ut all, and l
go for right.
In speech in the United States Senate, June
-. 1862. Mr. Wade said:
Il would reduce these aristocratic shareholders
to utter poverty. | know they eonceited;
know they are essentially aristocratc. ! am fully
persuaded that their minds and their feelings
80 in antagoni>m to republican democratic doc
tri"es that it is impossible To reconcile them, and
We shall never have petee until we have reluc ed
the lie sders 10 utter poverty, ana taken thereby
their influence l for doing it. Ii
ought to be done"
OHIO STATE JOURNAL.
The Journal, OF this city. is one of the most
blatant OF the Republican Abolition papers in
denorncing Democrats as seceS>ionists The
following extracts frSp its issue OF March p,
1851. show how IL can argue IN favor OF disso
luton OF the Union
1T j. u Heterogeneous Union which has gone 10
the country 10 be piSSel on. aud which falling TO
further sub~erve the ends ri it, creation about
TO be east aside like the BODY which an immortal
soul has been ont and thrown of. to seek a
new and more lasting tenement
Politicians aud dOtards nav gsbble AID weep
tears OF mbecility over the breaking up of an
unnatural compact. but reason justice and hu
mainly will gladly accept il rs one OF those cheer
ins ~ licences that Providence Is working good a.
the creatures vi earth through the process OF
z, eniS.
The Africanizci people Of the South have pre-
cipnte,i a work which We believe advancing civi
lization aud the teachings OF Christianity would