Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-11-08
2 % From the N. z. Journal Of comnsrce,l
The state Annihilation Scheme Broache'
I. In March, 1852. -

In March, 1S0X.
On the first day of March. 1862. and oths,
days shereabout, the New York Rveniae Post
published call for public meeting al Cooper
Institute, which call was signed by Horace
Greeley, William Cullen Bryant, Park God
win, and about three hundred other persons =
This call, signed by these individuals, reoited
distinctly the doctrine that the Southern soil
consists Of !" Territories heretofore occupied by
certain States, recently overturned and wholly
sIhverted % membera OF the Federal Union. .
The call further declared the duty of the Fed
eral Government to establish new institutions
"in said Territories" and invited all who
agreed In these Views With the signers to az
semble Of Cooper Institute on the Ash dey of
Ma4eh, 1861, 10 express 20 the President and
CongRess their sentiments on tnls subject. We
have twice published this call In full In the
JsurnaI u Commerce, with the hgnetuses Of
the above amed gentlemen sttached.
"There 10 not Ose solitary word of truth in
thls hgmasole," says the Evening Pesil OF D..
On ihe sixth Of March 10 which date Il was
poatponsd), the meeting Was held. and fesolu-
lions had been prepared expressing the same
"treaeonoble" sentiments as lkhe call, when o
strange auttering was visible on ihs platfeiu.
The original resolutions were laid aside sud
denly and new set prepared end pfesented to
the disappointed "tfaitors" who had met In
council. We do not use the words "traitots''
or "treasonable," 90 applied 10 these persons,
on our own responsibility, but We use II on the
authority Of Mr.. Montgomery Blair, q member
Of the Presidents cabines, who addressed to
Mr.. Greeley, Ms. Bryant, ,Mr. Goodwin, and the
other "aushora of this call a letter which tcgs
not yesd at The meeting, hpt which Was the cause
Of the futtering and change Of plans. In that
letter. addressed to ihaee peNons, Mr.. Blair
used the following words 5ia q % ,mls.7l b
% ~ do NOT concur In the proposition that Ger.
tain State have been recently overturned and
wholly subveFted "a members ofithe Federal
Union, upon which THIS GALL is based. This
10 In substance with the Confederate claims,
and the fact thst seeession % msintsined by THE
AUTHORITY OF THIS CALL for different puEpofe
does not make it more constitutional, on PaE-
VENT THEM FROM BEING ACTUAL AIDEns AND
AsBErroRs or THE CoNEEDrRATKs. .
(Slgned) ,usG ll.o. M. BLAIR"
This is no rigmarole, no luuaoy. LISA plain,
terrible fact. We regret the necessity Of re.
publication of 1t. Il might perhaps better sleep
amoag The ehadOws Of O. sinful past Il would
not have been published now bus for the per.
slstent ISLANDERS of the Euening Post against
its violent system of personal misrepresenta-
tions and abuse. Il has become our unpleas-
ant duty before 70 expose glaring unsruths pub
lishsd and republished BY the Post, but that
pspe. has never corrected lie miestatements or
informed its readers that 10 was guilty either Of
error or Of Intentional aander. In the present
instance, We presume its readers will never
learn tho truth, but will remain satiafed that
no such nesting was ever called by an editor
Of the Evsnia9 Post, and that our statement is
"a mere invention, and that Of very shallow
kind Of lunaeyI" Such 10 the moral sspso of
q paper which has become abol liiionixsd; such the
misfortune Of those who look to Il for facts and
history. eU