Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-10-10
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uA er WADE, 10 nisr spesch ~ tho issn-
MI mp Ole azzls," ~ hS called Il, In thIs city on
-larsday last, undertook % show who we're
rne original sscsssionIsts aud sushors OF The
present rebellion, but unfortunately forgot to
mention himself % one Of the prominent men
Of that class. Perhaps, " Bluff Old Ben," 40
the Journal calls him, was too modest to speak
before public audience of hls own record In
this respect. We, therefore, propose to supply
the omission which, none Of his rrofesssd
friends In this city, We suspect, will have the
msnlIness to do. We, therefore cite, as proof
positive and undeniable Of Senator WADE's
original and settled Dlsunion and Secession
opinions, the following passage from speech
he delivered in the Senate Of the United States
on the 4,h Of December, 1856, and recorded in
the Congressional Globe of the Third Session
Of the Thirty. fourth Congress, page 25:
But Southern gentlemen stand here, and in almost all
their Speeohes speak Of the dissolution Of the Union 90 an
element Of every argument as though it were peculiar
condescenson their part that they permitted The un
ion TO stand at all II they do notfee interested n
holding this Union II Il really trenches on their rights
II II endange their institutions to such extent that
they can not feel secure under H IL their interests are
violently asaed by means Of this Union am not one
e. not ops % hos. Who would s,S them 10 coS
tinue in such Union. It would be doing violence to
the platform Of the party to which belong We have
adopted the old Declaration OF the basis OF
political movements, which declares that any peo.
pe when their government ceases to protect their
rights, when it Is subyerted from the true purposes
OF government a. to oPpress thom have the rightto
recur 10 fundamental principles and II need be- to de-
stroy the Government under which they live and TO
erect another on Its ruins more conducive 70 It's well
fare. hold that they have this right 1 Will not
blame any people for exercising H. whenever they think
the contingency has come. 1 certainly shsl be the
advocate OF the same doctrine whenevef nno tnat tne
principles Of this Government have become 80 oPPrss
sye TO the section TO which belong tnat IIsy peo
PIE ought not longer to endure IT,. You wlll not
then ind me backward in being the aavocaee OF
aisnnioni hut that contingency never nsving come,
have never yet opened my NOUN IN .0PPosl |
ton to the Union. have never entertained tnougnt
disloyal to this Union. But say for Heavens SAKE
act not talk. tired OF this eternal din Oh dsso-
luton Of the Union which Is brought up on all occa-
North bad some peculiar reason for maintaining the
Union that the Southern States hid not. nope ihe
Union will continue forever believe u may oonun
,hOuid Dissolve il; but other gentlemen H. say
again that they have the same interest IN maintaining
nn Union, In my Judgement that We OF the NORM nave
S Soa nsn Ssy ny: pS for Il. asmp
CO. seems to me- would subvert the fst principles OF
the Government under which We live.
The. voters Of Ohio, is the damniug record
OF man who. in your osn State Capitol on
the Oh day of October, 1863. WIS so lot 10
all senss of honor and shame, as to demand
the determination Of Southern men for acting
upon his own principles, and who denounced
VALLAHDleHAM as rebel and traitOr, because
ne had, following the examples oi HAMILTON
MADISON and other ilustrious founders OF the
American Republic, opposed war OF coercion
upon sovereign States Of this Union, aud had'
with mos. earnest and seli.sacriAcing patriot
ism. sought to avert the terrible catastrophe Of
civil war, and the still more awful catastrophe |
Of the diam embsrment or breaking up Of our
Union. Yet be 10 stigmatized and denounced,
&c convicted traitor and felon, BY the the man
who openly declared In the United State SEN
ate; f
"You CANNOT FoRClBLY HOLD MEN
IN THIS UNION; for the attempt to do go,
u seems to me, would subvert ths frat princl-
pies Of the Government unde, which We
live" - i
Shame upon the heartless and shameless
demagogue! 'at