Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-07-21
From the Ohio Statesman
The RepubIican Record.

The Republican Record.
AS Republicans and Republican papers (par-
tculary the Journal OF this city, are contnu-
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 to examine briefly the record
of prominent Republicans and of leading Repub-
lcan papers, (incudng, of course, the Ohio
State JOUrRaI) in order to ascertain who at the
North are Justly chargeable with holding seces-
sion views, and, of course, sympathizing with the
rebels, according to Republican logic.
We begin with no less 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 as lS4S, in a speech
in Congress, thus vindIcated the right of revolu-
ton or secession
Any people, anywhere, being inclined and
having the power, have a right to rise up and
shake off the existing Government, and form a
new one that suits them better. This is a most
valuable, a most sacred right-a right which, we
hope and believe, j. to liberate the world. Nor
is this right confined to cases in which the pe0-
pie of an existing Government may choose TO
exercise it. Any portion of such people that can
may revoutionze and make their own OF so
than this: A majority of any portion of such
people may revolutiOnize putting down a MINOR
rity intermingled with or near about them, who
may oppose their movements. Such minority
was precisely the of the tories Of our own
revolution. 1t is quality Of revolutions not to
go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both
and make new ones.-ErtrGct from President
LiacOtas speech in the House Of Representatives,
January l2, lS4S See appendix to Congress
siORaI Globe, first session, Thirtieth Congress,
p. "a.
BENJAMIN STANTON.
Mr. Stanton was elected in 1861, as the Re-
publican or fusion candidate, Lieutenant Gov
ernOr of Ohio, and is o6fcio President of our
State Senate. In a speech in Congress. on the
2Sth of February, 1861, (see Congressional Globe
of February %, 1861, page ,2o5,) Mr.. Stanton
said:
"Seven or eight States now deny their alleg-
ance to this Government; have organized a sep
arate COnfederacy, and have declared their in
dependence Of this Government. Whether that
independence is to be maintained or not is with
the future. Ii they shall maintain their position,
and if public opinion in the seeded States shall
sustain the authorities there for a year or two
to come, TO show that nothing but a war of
subjugation and conquest can bring them back,
/. for one, am disposed to recognize that inde-
pendence."
On the evening of the 18th of March, 1861, i,
Mr.. Stanton, then a candidate for United States
Senator made a speech in this city. In the
course of his speech, as reported for the Gin
cinnati Commercial, he said among other things:
Let the beauties and the blessings of seces
sion fully develop themselves, and 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 destinies. If they do, then, in my
judgment, measures should be taken to call
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 it shall be clearly demonstra-
ted, upon full and fair trial. that the people of the
seeded States are determined to maintain a sepa-
rate national existence, and that nothing but a
war of su6jugation and conquest can maintain the
authority Of the Federal Government in those
States,w then ought to acquiesce in the necess
ty which compels the separation. For il must be
obvious TO every man who will do his own think
ing, that a permanent conquest and subjugation
OF even seven States, and holding them con-
quered provinces, is an impossibility But any
attempt to subjugate the seeding States, neces-
sarily rallies to their support the whole of the
border slave States so that instead of seven we
shall certainly have fourteen and probably fifteen
States to conquer. Any attempt by the free
States to conquer the slaveholding States must
fail and result in final separation or in a servile
war, which must result in the Afrcanizaton OF
the Southern slaveholding States.
BENJAMIN +. WADE.
Mr.. Wade is a member of the United States
Senate, now in his second term, and one of the
most prominent Republicans in that body. AS
long ago as lS55, at a mass meeting in Maine,
Mr.. Wade uttered the following sentiments:
There was no freedom at the South 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 between
the North and the South; and he believed no two
nations upon the earth entertained feelings Of
more bitter rancor towards each other than these
two sections of the republic. The only saliva
tlOn of the Union, therefore, was to be found in
dvesting it entirely from all taint of slavery.
There was no Union with the South. Let US
have Union, or let US sweep away this remnant
which we call Union. | go for a Union where
all men are equal, or for no Union at all, and |
20 for right"
In speech in the United States Senate, June
25, 1862, Mr.. Wade said
al would reduce these aristocratic shareholders
to utter poverty. | know they are conceited
know they are essentially aristocratic. am fully
persuaded that their minds and their feelings are
so in antagonism to republican democratic doc
trines that It Is impossible to reconcile them and
we shall never have peace until we have reduced
the leaders to utter poverty, and taken thereby
their influence away. / am for doing it. 1t
ought to be done"
OHIO STATE JOURNAL.
The Journal, of this city. is one of the most
blatant of the Republican Abolition papers in
denouncing Democrats as secessionists. The
following extracts from its issue of March 81,
1861, show how it can argue in favor of disso-
luton of the Union:
ut is a heterogeneous Union which has gone 10
the country to be passed on, and which failing to
further subserve the ends of its CREATION is about
to be cast aside, like the body which an immortal
soul has been worn out and thrown off, to seek a
new and more lasting tenement"
Politicians and dotards may gabble and weep
tears Of imbecility over the breaking up of an
unnatural compact. but reason, justice and hu-
manity will gladly accept it one of those cheer
ing evidences that Providence is working good to
the creatures Of earth through the process OF
events.
The Africanizcd people of the South have pre-
ciptated work which we believe advancing civi
lization and the teachings of Christianity would
have, ere long, demanded at the hands OF the free
people OF the North. The completely with the
barbarism of slavery, which the latter have had
forced upon them by the Union, has become more
burthensome every year, aud must have been
thrown off voluntarily before the lapse of many
years The Union has done nothing i'm reality
for freedom. lts legislation has all been in IA