The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-08-25
NO.s77.
OUT-HERODING HEROD

, The principal business of the American peo.
pie, since the Republican purty came into
power, and as necessary consegasncs of
their policy, has been TO attac'', pursue and
kill each other and destroy each others prop.
erty, and to levy and collect taxes from the
living for that purpose Detroit Free Press.
This reb .llion, and all the war, bloodshed
and expenditure Of life and money, are the
'aneeessary-unavoidaJ idaJie--consegusne Of
abe policy pursued by the Republican party
sinse Mey "came into po1er." That is the
Free PRESS statement. Is that paper igno-
rant Of the fact that the bogus Confsderacy
was organized and hostilities commenced by.
the rebels before the Republican party came
into powerp Ii it is it had better stop max
Jog assertions like the above and study histo.
ry awhile. A more complete justification of
secession and armed rebellion could not be
penned, than the above har'9sh
Now let us compare the Free Press state.
ment Of the case, with that Of ALEX. H. Srs.
PHENs, the Vice President Of the bogus Con-
federacy. In a speech before the Georpia
State Convention, 10 January, 1861, and
while the secession ordinance was before that
body, he said: ,,.. ..,.gy
"Pause, entreat you, and consider for q
even satisfy yourselves in calmer moments--
what reasons you can give TO your fellow suff-
erers in the calamity that it will bring upon
US. What reasons can you give to the nations
OF the earth to justify il They will be the
calm and deliberate judges in the CASE and to-
what cause ONE OVERT act, can yo1 name or
point, on which to rest the plea of justifca-
tiona What right has the North assailed p
What interest Of the South has been inva.
deds What justice has been denied, and
what claim founded in justice and right had
been witheldi Caa either Of you, to-day,
name one act Of governmental wrong, deliber-
ately and purposely done by the government
Of Washington, of which the South has a
right to complaint I challenge the answer.
Now, for you 10 at
tempt to overthrow such a Government al
this, under which We havo lived for more than
three quarters Of ccntury---in which we
have gained our wealth, our standing as ma.
tion, our domestic safety, while the elements
Of peril are around us, with peace and tran
guilty, accompanied with unbounded prosper.
ity and righa una ssiled--is the height Of
madness, folly and wickedaess' TO whieh I
can neither lend my sanction nor my vote."
Mr.. ST -PHEYs, the second officer 10 the
Coufederacy, challenged" f" the secessionsts
to "name one governmental act Of wrong, de-,
liberately and purposcly done by the Govorn-
ment at Washington, Of which the South had
a right 10 complain" or to show "what right
the North had Invaded" He knew Of none.
But it seems that what he, Southern man,
for many years in public life, did not know
and could not learn, the editor Of the Free
Press knows all about! If be bad been in the
Georgia Convention, he could have answered
those questions right along.
He could have told them that the act, of
session, passed in December, January and
February, were necessary consequence" of
"the policy" pursued by ".he Republican
party" after it "came into power" in March!
He would have further told them, that what
Mr. STEPHENS pronounced 'tbe height Of
madness, folly and wickedness," was not only
eminently proper, but absolutely necessary.
The truth is, it takes Northern politician
to shame Southerner on his own ground.