Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-05-21
.UnIonIsm In lhe south.

.uinThe New York Tribune undertakes 70 prov'
By their own votes that a, majority of the South
ern people we're opposed TO the rebellion at tn,
outset. Il says ,sbr' .eaa ~ 1.rai si
5 The States OF Virginia, North Carolina, Ma
rylaDd, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and
even Arkansas, gave majorities against seces,
sion when the question was first submitted 10
them. North Carolina, while she chose Un-
II ion majority 70 her Convention, voted ct the
u same time that said Convention should never
meet Louisiana was barely carried for seces-
sion. The other Cotton States gave mejOrites
q for secession, but on q very moderate poll, with
all the excitement and all the dennnciation and
violence on the side Of treason. No man in
any slave State feared to vote for the rebellion;
but be who dared vote against it often did go at
. the peril Of his life. Hence thousands of Un-
lon men we're restrained from voting at all,
while all the timorous and trimming were made
I'd 20 vote for secession. And yet the Union re-
ceived majority In the aggregate vote of the
slave States, proving the rebellion the work Of
q minority. o tiirrq ny ag'EsvU
The Tribune proceeds to say that aiterward,
BY course of systematic lying, and finally, BY
the actual clash of war, thousands of Union
men were transformed into secessionists. 81
Several important statements are here made
that should not be lost sight Of The majority
Of the people in the slave States were on the
side Of the Union when the war broke out; that
y majority has been lessened, TO what extent can
not be estimated, BY two causes, the lying of
erebel leaders and state of war. Now, as
Republicans like GHEELEY and others dwell with
q great deal Of earnestness upon removing the
cause Of the rebellion, would 1t not be well for
q them and all Of MS to consider how the causes
that have produced decrease Of Unionism 10
the South msy be removed . g'- srI
If this decrease owes its origin in part to the
falsshoOds prOpagated BY the rebel leaders, in
regard TO the design and object Of the Federal
Government In prosecuting the war, these false
hoods should be exposed, not 80 much by proc
lamasions and manifestoes as BY the course of
the Government in iis civil and military action.
: II the clash Of arms, 10 the excitement of the
hour, drove men into the secession ranks, Il is |
clear that when such men see that they we're
hurried, through frenzy and Wof1l mistake, to
q take up arms or sct in opposition to q Govern
ment which intended them no harm, but was
shining, and still is aiming to protect and Sc
cure Them in all their rights, thousands and
: cen thousands viii, upOnithe first safe OppOrtu-
! nifty, gladly return 70 their allegiance.
Herein, then, is indicated the true and enly
course By which, in conjunction with the dis
persion OF the rebel armies and the reassertion
Of the authority Of the Government, the former
numerical strength Of the Union men In the
South may be revived and increased, and those
that are now called "rebel States" restored to
thsis former place 70 he Union, and made to
rssuns thsIr Old functions under their State
Constitutions and State laws. Those in Con-
Eresa, In the Administration, or in any ofice,
civil or military, as well as those among the
people, who really desire the maintenance and
perpstuation Of the Union. will be the earnest
and unyielding advocates Of the policy we have
referred 20; those who do not, will steadily, as
they hare done heretofore, oppose Il. II