Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-10-04
From the Clarke County Democrat. !
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against MY OOx-AnOther Nailed
The Nevs of the 26sh had an article contain
ing an extract from Mr.. Cox's speech sgaias
nulificltion in the North and secession in th,
South, delivered in January, 1861. 1t publisher
that extract as II 1t were an independent pro
position, and to give the idea that Mr.. Coz
favored the use OF arms by the Democracy o.
the North against the Republicans, to help the
south. lie said, "that they would never thrus
Republican wrongs down the throat of the Soutl
at the point of the bayonet." The expression
ia taken from its context and it's meaning TO-
tally distorted by some scouudrel in Springfield
1t purports to come from the XeDia Torch Lioht
but when 1t came out, as Mr.. Cox informs us
he called on Mr. Bacon, editor of the Toyel
Light, who said he did not write II II was sen
to him. He had never seen the speech from
which 1t was taken; aud as an act of common
decency, he will print this week the expana
tion OF it, which will show that it was part o.
an appeal to the South 10 be and remain patien
in the Union, and then all their alleged wrong,
would be remedied; that the infraction of the
Fugitive Slave law by armed mobs, by personal
liberty bills, and by State action, of which they
complained, would be cured by the acton Of the
conservative people, and that the Democracy, Il
The South remained in the Union (not other wise)
would never permit these wrongs to be thrust
down their throats at the point of the bayonet
II they went out of the Union it would be other
wise. Mr.. Cox favored, in 1859, the use o
arms to assert the Federal authority, when thu
rescue and other cases were on hand, and WheI
Chase and others had ball cartridges made Il
ehost down Federal officers executing Fedora
process. Hence Mr.. Cox said they (the South,
would find, ii they remained faithful, "a ma.
lority OF Northern men ready to fight their bat.
ties on our ground" He had referred to the
action of the Governors Of Ohio and Iowa in
concealing the confederates of John Brown
who (as the Supreme Court has since decided
ought, in comfy, to have been delivered up
and be urged that the North would by arms, Il
necessary, stop the invasion Of the slave States
by such Infamous raids. Mr.. Harrison (nov
member OF CoDgress) introduced in the Legis
lature, in 1860, bill to stop such invasion, bu
1t was defeated by Republicans.
10 show that the article in the Netos Is a
garbled piece of slander, we extrac. one para
graph from this same speech. II shows tn,
drift of the speech and the baseness Of ths
slsnder In the seventh proposition, Mr.. Co,
said:
That secession is not right in any possibl:
relation in which it can be viewed; to tolerate
it in theory or practice ia moral treason to pat
riotism and good governments,
"lf the South go inconsiderately, os somt
States ere going, the country may incur t1t
fearful hazard of war, If the South press tht
one hard, over-mastering question upon the
North, and follow It up with seizure of for
and revenue, cann0nading on our vessels AND
other aggressive acts, without giving an oppor.
tunity for conciliation, there will be no power
10 the conservatism of the North to restrain che
people. No sacrifice tuill be considered too srea
to make in the protection and defense ofthe Union
Ii the Federal Government is to be maintained
its strength must not be frittered away by con
ceding the theory of secession. To conced,
secession as right, is to make It's pathway on,
OF roses, and not of thorns. | would not max,
its pathway 80 easy. If the Government ha
any strength for its own preservation, the peo
pie demand that It shall be put forth in its civi
and moral forces"
hair of MAJOR Anderson's head, the Nortl
would be as one man in his defense.
"Once let the fealty to this Government b.
broken, and who can restrain the excesses Incl
dent therefor If such excesses be committed
there would be aroused martial spirit which
in rushing to the defense of Major Andersen
aud his men in Fort Sumter, or ayenpe thei
death, would do and dare all in the name o
our Great Republic. Touch not hair of hi
head! He is sacred to-day. He embodies tn
patriotism of millions. Accident has mad
him the defender Of that flag which has float
ed from Bunker Hill to Mexico. His dea.
would open gulf in which the people woul
pour, in vengeance and in vain, their treasur
and their children"
This explains the whole of II, If the Sout
had remained in the Union, all would hav
been well; when they broke fealty at Sumter
Mr.. Cox and all other conservative men ssrove
as he said he would, to VOTE THE MEANS T
BREAK DOWN THE ARMED REBELLION.