The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-07-01

The Original COpperhead Dts GOV
cred La Ren F. Wade, of Ohio
.-.He JustIfIes the Right OF Sc.
ceSsiOn---He is the Advocate 0l
Dissolution.
In the Congressional Globe Of tn,
third session of the Thirty-fourth Con
gress, page 25, will be found speech
delivered in the United States Senate
by the Hon. Benjamin F. Wade, o.
Ohio, the great leader of the Repub.
lican party in this State. He said:
| "But Southern gentlemen stand
here, and in almost all their speeches
speak of the dissolution of the Union
as an element of almost every argu.
ment, as though it were peculiar con,
descension on their part that they per-
mitted the Union to stand at all. II
they do not feel interested in uphold
ing this ULion-lf it really trenches
on their rights-if it endangers their
institutions to such an extent that they
cannot feel secure under it-if their
interests are violently assailed by
means of this Union-I am not one
Of those who expect that they will
long continue under it. / am not one
os those who would ask them to con-
tinuc in such Union. 1t would be
doing violence to the platform of the
party to which I belong. We have
adopted the old Declaration of Inde-
pendence as the basis of our political
movement, which declBres that any
people, when their Government ceases
to protect their rights, when it is so
subverted from the true purposes of
government as to oppress them, have
the right to recur to fundamental prin-
ciples, and, if need be, to destroy the
Government under which they live,
and to erect on it's ruins another more
conducive to their welfare. / hold
that they have this right. I will not
blame any people for exercising it,
whenever they think the contingency
has come. I certainly shall be the
advocate of that same doctrine when-
ever | find that the principles of this
Governmenthave become so oppressive
to the section to which I belong, that
free people ought not longer to en-
dure it. You will not then find me
backward in being the advocate of dis
union; but that contingency never hav-
ing come, / have never yet opened my
mouth in opposition to the Union. l
have never entertained thought dis.
loyal to this Union. But | say, for
Heavens sake, act, not talk. | am
tired of this eternal din of dissolution
of the Union which is brought up on
all occasions, and thrust into our fa-
ces, as though we, of the North, had
some peculiar reasons for maintaining
the Union that the Southern States
have not. | hope the UnioD will con-
tinue forever. I believe it may con-
tinue forever. / see nothing at pres
ent which I think should dissolve it;
but if the gentleman can see it, / say
again that they have the same inter
est in maintaining this Union, in my
judgment that we of the North have.
If they think they have not, be it so.
You cannot forcibly hold men in this
Union; for the attempt to do so, it
seems to me, would subvert the first
principles of the Government under
which we live"
IF Wade is not the Prince of Cop
perheads, who is? Wade told the
South to go out of the Union if they
wanted to, and said it would be against
the principles of his party (the Repub-
licans) to force them to stay in. The
man who utters such sentiments is an
Administration leader, while Vallan-
digham who has always been for the
Union, is now in exile.