Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-10-06
From the National Intshgeuoer.l
How AbOiftiOnfsts Forced See
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When the Southern States seeded they be.
lieyed that any armed resistance TO their en-.
deavors would be contrary to the right 0l
revolution as asserted in the Declaration OF
Independence II is known that the New
ORR Tribune was a constant as well az an
earn est exponent Of this view, aud said much
in the winter OF ls60-'6l to Justify the hopes
OF the Southern agilators that they might ut
least count on its aid in securing for them i'm
munity from Federal attack AS early as the
9Th OF November, 1860, when the secession
storm was brewing in the Southern heavens,
the Tribune said
! "lf the cotton States shall become satisfied
that they can do better out of the Union than
in il, we insist on letting them 90 in peace
The right to secede may be revolutionary
one, but it exists nevertheless y y
We must ever resist the right Of any State TO
remain in the Union aud nullify or destroy
the laws thereof To withdraw from the
Union is quite another matter and whenever
considerable section of our Union shall de-
liberatelY resolve to go out, we shall resist all
eoereve measures designed to keep Il in.
We hope never to live in a Republic where
OF one section is pinned to another by bayo-
nets"
Seventeen days afterwards, on the 26th of
November, it held the following language:
ut the cotton States unitedly and earnestly
wish to withdraw peacefully from the Union,
we think they should and would be allowed 10
do so. Any attempt to compel them by force
to remain would be contrary to the principles
enuncated in the immortal Declaration Of In
dependence, contrary to the fundamental ideas
on which human liberty is based"
The l7th of December, when the secession
n "a ND
over South Carolina, the Tribune said
"lf il Che Declaration Of Independence,
justified the secession from the British En-
pire OF three millions Of eolonists in l77G, we
do not see 'ohy IL '0ouid not Justify the Sc
cession of foe millions Of Soathrons from.
The Union in 1861"
And, after all the cotton States had "sece.
ded' on the 23d Of February, 1861, il still
held over them the shield of the Declaration
OF lndepenpence. Under that date it said.
we have repeatedly said, and we once
more INSIST that the great principle embodied
by Jefferson in the Declaration of American
Independence that governments derive their
just power from the consent of the govern.
ed, is sound and just aud that, If the slave
States, the cotton States, or the Gulf States
only choose to be tor an independent nation,
they have clear moral right to do so.
Whenever it shall be clear that the great body |
of the Southern people have become concln- |
sively alienated from the Union, and anxious
to escape from it, we will do our best to for |
ward their views"
We believe our contemporary has, since the |
war began, faithfully kept its promise to do its
best to forward the views of the 'alienated" |
among the Southern people, but it has
not been by affirming their ''clear moral right
to form an independent nation" We under
stand the Tribune no longer comedies this
right, and to this extent must be said to hive
misled the Southern disorganizers who count |
ed on its support and cooperation. The
mode OF its support and cooperation has not |
been such as they were entitled to expect.