Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-07-09
The Northern secesh Party.


The Northern Secesh Party.
The Journal speaks Of "the Secesh wing Of
the old Democratic party" That party has no
"Secesh wing" but II it had one, 1t would be
outdone by the JOurnal'S party, of which both
wings the Republican and Abolition-are Sc
cesh, with Fusion Secesh tail feather. II is,
therefore, purely Northern secesh party.
That this is its proper title will clearly appear
from few considerations. II was originally
founded upon, and Is sustained by the idea that
the Union as formed by the fathers, cannot en-
dure-that there is an "irfepressible" antagon-
ism between the non. slaveholding and slave.
holding sections,-that the two must become
either one thing or the other-either all free
or all slaveholding-or else there must be
a fual and eternal separation between the two.
T his is precisely the position Of JETF. DAVIS
and his Southern Secesh brethren. They hold
to the same irreconcilable antagohism between
the two sections that our Northern Secessionsts
do. JETF. said in his first Inaugural that there
must be hOmogsnsity in the States In Confed-
eracy, that is, likeness or similarity In insd-
tutiors-an slaveholding or all free. Upon
this ground he justified Secession and Rebel
lion.
The Northern Secesh leaders have been using
the same argument for twenty or thirty yeara.
JETy. and his fellow cOnspirators got their les
son from those leaders, and have proved them
selves apt scholars. Their Northern masters
taught that the States should ell be made free,
and that failing, the free should split of from
the slave States. Their Southern pupils, eager
to improve upon this teaching, sEove to make
all the States slAvehOldlng, and that failing,
they resolved 10 split off from the Union and
have purely slaveholdiDg COnfederacy.
The Northern Secesh party are in strong
sympathy with the Southern, because they both
rest upon the one general priuciple-that "the
Union cannot exist half slave and half free; il
must be ell one thing or the other" That one
thinks il should be ell slave, and the other that
It should be ell free, places them for season
In seeming antagonism; they will quarrel
awhile, till both factions see that neither can
carry lie point; then they will cooperate and
mutually agree to dissolution Of the old part
nership known for seventy odd years as "Ths
Union."
The Northern Secesh leaders were more Gun
ming than the Southern ones. The latter, Of
soon as they got the Idea thoroughly riVeted il
their heads that there must be an eternal "iFre
pressible" conflict between the two sections and
that there was no prospect Of making the States
all alike in their domestic Institutions, went Il
work boldly and abOveboard to accomplish Q
final separation. Bat the former, the Secest
leaders in the North, kept their real design Il
the background; they took advantage of th'
movements of their co-workers in the South Il
hoodWink the mass Of the people in the North
they set up tremendous yell for the Union ant
vocIferously demanded the extermination Of th'
Southern States root and branch. They knew
this could not be donej bat 70 some e1te th'
deception answered their purpose
But Notwithstanding their affected zeal fol
the Union and their pretended thirst for ven
Reauce upon the "rebel States" as they called
them, the cloven foot of secession soon began tc
stick out They went to work to pass and did
pass laws, and have others now in progress
which they will also doubtless pass, TO effect
as far as legislation can do il, the end theil
Southern sympathizers have In view, the disso
luton Of the Union by rendering 1t impossible
ever again TO unite the uon.slavsholdiDg anf
slavehOldiDg sections
Bat the Northern Secessienists are not satis-
fed with sggravaling and rendering irreconcIl'
able the division between the two sections
which now exists. They must 60 step fur
ther and make sure work. The restoration o.
the old Union must, while they have the poWtl
| in their hands, be placed, If possible, beyont
tho possibility Of accomplishment They have
therefore, concocted q scheme more potent ant
deyiIish, because concealed under the garb Of
| false patriotism, for ovsrturning our republican
institutions, than their secesh brethren in th'
South have dared to venture upon. This scheme
is no less than the division, the breaking up snt
annihilatIon Of States, which are the constitu
ent elements Of our Federal Union. A secedeI
State may be brought back and restored;
State divided, o. reduced to Territory, coul,
bs with great difAsulty, perhaps, never re in
stated in the Union as an integral membs
thereof:
Such ID the true picture-sueh the position Q
The leaders Of Che RspubIIcan-Ab AbOli.ion-FusioI
pariy, 70 which ths Journal Of this city belongs