Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-10-29
secretary seward ON Preserving the
Union.

past record will probably now need vindicatior
in the eyes Of the Abollsionists as well ss tina
OF General scorr. Il is no less perasnsg'
than Secretary SEWARD, to whom the old col
diers letter Of March 3 1861. which has caused
such Autter In the Abolition ranks, wss ad
dressed. Il was addressed to him doubtless
because the soldier and statesman "sympa'
thised" in their views In regard to our national
troubles.
Secretary, then Senator, SEwARD made pub
lic speech in the city Of New York on the 22d
Of December, ls6O-two days after Conven'
tion in South Carolina had passed an ordinance
Of secession. In that speech. Mr.. SEWARD
said:
These States are alwaye 10 be together-al-
ways shall be. Talk Of striking down star
from that constellation. It is o thing which
Can Dot be done. do not see any less stars
than did q week ago, and l expect to see
more all the while.
The question then 10, what in these times
when people are laboring under the ceiusion
tha. they are going out OF the Union and going
to set up for hemselves-ought we to do In or
der 90 hold them In. do not know any better
rule than the rule which every good father OF
a family observes. Il IL this. II aman wishes
not to keep his family together Il Is the easiest
thing In the world 10 keep them apart. He
will do 80 at once II he only gets disconteDted
with his son, quarrels with him, complains OF
him, torments him, threatens him, coercee him,
This is the way TO get rid OF the family, anc to
get them all out OF doors
On the other hand, If you wish to keep them,
you have got only one cay TO do II. That is,
be patient, kind, paterDal. forbearing, and wait
until they come TO reflect for themselves. The
South is TO us what the wife is to her husband
do no, know any man ia the world who can
not get rid OF his wife II he tries can put
him 10 the way TO do IL at once. He has only
got two things to do One Ia to be unfaithiul
to her. The other is to be out of temper with
her. do not know man on earth who--even
though his wife was 90 troublesome as the wife
OF Socrates--cannot keep his wife II he wants
to do SO: all that he needs is, to keep his own
virtue and his own temper.
Now, in ell this business l propose that We
shall keep our own virtue, which, In politics, 10
loyalty, aLd our own temper, which, 10 politics,
consists 10 remembering thet men may differ,
that brethren may differ IL we keep entirely
cool and entirely calm, and entirely kind, de-
bate will ensue which will be kindly in itself,
aud it will prove very soon either that We are
WronR-and We Ahall concede 10 our offended
brethren--oc else that We are right, and they
will acquiesee and come back into frasernsi re-
latlons with US.
do not wish TO anticipate any question:
We have great many statesmen who demand
to know at oDoe what the North proposes 70 do
what the Government proposes to do--wheth-
er we propose to coerce our Southern brethren
back Into their allegiance. They ask rs, ae OF
course they may rightfully ask, what will bs
the value of fraternity which is compeiledf
All have to say on that subject le, that 90
long ago ss the time Of Sir Thomas Moore, he
discovered and set down The discovery In his
writing, thas there vero great many school
masters, and that while there were very
few Who knew how TO instruct children, there
we're Egreat many who knew how to whip
them. propose TO have no question on that
subject, bus 70 hear complaints, to redress them
II they ought to be redressed, and II We have
the power to redress them; and expect them
70 be Withdrawn If they are unreasonable, be-
cause know that the necessities which made
this Union exist, for these States, are stronger
to-day than they were when the Union Was
made, and that those necessities are enduring,
while the passions Of men are short lived and
ephemeral.
We ask the reader to re peruse and carefully
examine the foregoing extract from Mr.. sEw-
ANS New York speech, which We have copied
word for word, from work Of high authority,
" The Rebellion Record"-vol. l-Doouments
and NaIrstives--psge7. We publish IL at this
time as peculiarly fitting and sppropriate In the
pending political controversy.
We have never charged and do not now
charge shat this Il an "AbolitiOn war;" though |
We should have far greater justification in doing
80 than ocr political opponents, the Abolition |
s.s, have In charging as they do, that it is
Democratic war" They endeavor 10 sustain |
his charge By asserting that the formidable
character Of the rebellion is due to the mild
and concilistoFy course pursued by President BU.
uEANAn, and bis omission to garrison the forts
and arsspals in the South. and prepare for the
immediate prosecution Of vigorous war. It
. not our present purpose TO defend Mr. b.
'HAsAs; we believe that history will do him
ustice; but We have this to say, that the policy |
ls pursued during the winter Of '6O-6l, was in
,xact accordance with the course recommended |
.ud urged as the only wise and prudent one, by |
Mr.. SEWARD 10 his speech In New York on the
I'D of December, go. If Mr.. BucnANAN was
IN "imbeeile," "knave," "hoary- headed
aud other choice epithets of the
lind, which the Abolitionists 30 lsvishly be-
tow upon him, are equally due to Mr.. SEWARD
or arguing ss he did with such force Of reason |
ng and beauty of illustration against anything |
Ike the employment Of force or even threats to
bring back to their allegiance our Southern
brethren, as he called them.
We do not say that Mr.. SEWARD was right or
wrong In these views; We only assert that Ii
huts the mouths Of the Abolitlonists who al.
ege that Democratic Administration brought
IN the war by pursuing q NOTWITHSTANDING and
ION. ooercive oourse-the very course advocated
vith the most earnest eloquencs before public
assembly Of his countrymen by the man
Tho now stands next to President LINCOLN In
be Administration Of tho Governments. Let
ABOLITION revilsrs Of the Democracy first settle
leir account with their prime minister at Wssh-
,gton, and then they can with q better grsoo
I'll Democrats to the bar Of public opinion.
Negro Equality.