Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-10-07

olina in 1882, as evinced by the following
declaration Of principles found in his Procla
nation of December IIth, 1882, and his Mes
sage of January 18th. 1888 al consider,
says Gen. jackson, the power to annsl I
law of the United States assumed by oni
State, to be incompatible with the existence
Of the Union, contradicted expressly by the
letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by it;
+ spirit, inconsistent with every principle or
which it is founded and destructive Of the frst
object for which it was formed"
"This right to secede is deduced from the
nature Of the Constitution, which they say is
a compact between sovereign States, who
have preserved their whole sovereignty, and
therefore are subjects to no superior; that,
because they made the compact they can
break it when, in their opinion, it has been
departed from by other States. Fallacious as
this course OF reasoning is, it enlists State
pride, and finds advocates in the honest pre-
judices of those who have notstudied the ma
ture Of our Government sufficiently tosee the
radical error on which it rests" <
To say that any State may at pleasure Sc
cede from the Union, is to say that the Uni
ted States are not a nation; because it would
be solecism to contend that any part of a
nation might dissolve its connection with the
other parts to their injury and ruin, without
committing an ofense." Sc
cession, like any o'her revolutionary act, may
be morally justified by the extremity of op-
preston; but to call it a constitutional right
is confounGing the meaning of terms, and can
only be done through gross error"
Men Of the best intentions and soundest
views may differ in the construction of some
parts of the Constitution but there are 9TH
ers on which dispassionate reflection can leave
no doubt. or this nature, appears to be the
assumed right Of secession
The right o. the people Of a single State
to absoIve themselves at will and without the
consent Of the other States, from the most sol
emn obligation, and hazard the liberty and
happiness Of the millions composing this u
nion, cannot be acknowledged Such author
ity is believed to be utterly repugnant both
to the precepts upon which the General Gov
eminent is constituted and the Objects which
it is expressly formed to attain
Again, General jackson, speaking Of the
right and duty of the Government to use for
ces to prevent secession, says:
No one believes that any right exists in a
single State to involve all the others in these
and countless other evils contrary to engage
meuts solemnly made. Every one must see
that the other States in self-delence, must
oppose it at all hazards"
Again, speaking Of the ordinance passed by
the South Carolina Convention, says:
This solemn denunciaiion of the laws and
authority Of the United States has been fol-
lowed up by q series Of acts on the part of the
authorities Of that State, which manifest de-
termination to render inevitable a resort to
those measures Of eelt-defence, which the
paramount duty OF the Federal Government
require"
1t is quite unnecessary to multiply quota
tons from eminent statesmen upon this sub
ject The great heart of the American people
is not only adverse to the doctrines, but un-
alterably determined to resist it at all hazard
and were it not for the fact-Iamentable as it
is, that we find the candidate of the party with
which it has always been our pride to act
deiantly advocating the right Of secession, the
fact Of secession, and the want of Constitution
al power on the part of the General Govern
ment to prevent it by force; and distinctly
and squarely planting himself on the doctrine
of the inability of the nation to save itself
from selt-destruction, for the want Of both
Constitutional and Physical power, and call
ing upon the Government to WitidyaD the |
army from what he is pleased to call the secs-
ded States and hold an armstice with the reb-
els in arms, give up the Mississippi, break up.
the blockade, call home the fleets, and thus,
give up all the vantage ground which our
brave soldiers have won at the cost of so
much blood and treasure. Were it not, we
say, for all this we might be justi6Rble in re-
manning silent Is it denied that this is Mr.. /
Vallandighams position Read the Record,
published and put forth under bis immediate
sanction, and spread broadcast over all the
State. 1t is said that Mr. Volandigham's
arrest, trial and banishment was a violation
of the constitutional rights of the citizen, and
this act of the Administration must be rebu-
ked by electing Mr.. Vallandigham Governor
of Ohio, almost the identical doctrine advo-
Gated by the extremists of the opposite party
at the beginning of the war;
1t is also said that the Emancipation Proc
is CONTRARY to the letter and spirit Of
the Federal Constitution, and that the war Is
being waged for the freedom of the negro,
and therefore the war ought to cease at once.
There might be some force in these argu-
ments if Mr.. V's conduct and opinions were
at all Influenced by such considerations; but
be it remembered, that all the expressed
opinions of Mr.. V. herein published, were /
prior to the issuing Of the Procla-
nation or his arrest. For these, and other
equally satisfactory reasons, we feel oOnstrain-
ed to withhold our support from Mr.. v,
though we deem it inexpedient to now put
third ticket in the field.
Now Fellow Democrats of Ohio, Demo
Gratis who stood by Douglas in the great con
test Of 1860, Democrats who have sworn up
on the artar of our country that the Union
must and shall be preserved; Democrats who