Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-09-15

Iney came into power With one million ma
Ijority against them; but the constitutions
forms permitted the President 70 take his seat
Notwithstanding. Why was the majority q
great sgaInst him 2 Il was because the Chi
cAgo Platform had made test for Mr.. Linooll
TO take. The Chicago Platform was declara.
ZION OF wsr and hostility 70 the people OF the
South, as being the owners Of slaves. The
platform was the true origin Of this war, Whsl
they advanced that platform and placed their
candidate upon II, the South cav that thell
safety consisted In resisting his election at The
polls, and the whole fifteen Statee voted In Q
solid body against him. Nov, Mr. Lincoln, be
] remembered, came ID as the HFSt President
upon q sectional question. All other Presidents
had been elected by the votes given partly 10
the North and partly In the South; partly IN tha
East, and partly In the West. Lincoln ives the
fifst sectional candidate who ffst succeeded 10
obtaining power, and obtained that power while
having million less votes than the votes cast
against him. Now, my friends, IL ought to have
been admonition enough to Mr.. Lincoln 10 see
taat fifteen Statee contiguous 10 each other,
haviog common interest, had voted against
MIN. That was sufficient proof Of the dan
ger which the Southern people felt their most
Important rights We exposed 10. He knew
the fact that bic election was purely sectional,
that not one elave State had voted for him, and
he knew that he was supported by bare ma
majority in the free section Of tue UniCn. Now,
my friends, mark whs. am going to ssy. I
want 20 do justice In this contest, and while
condemn the reaort to arms on the part Of the
South, must do them justice In pointing out
the cause which excited them to IL. The
Northern and the Southern States bad ell equsl
rights by the Constitution; thas equality Of
rights was not only acknowledged In the body
OF the instrument, but it was recognized 10 ito
sovereign embodiment In two clauses Of the
Constitution. The fret was hat clause which
gives to each State one vote 10 the Presidential
election, when In const quence Of the failure Of
the people to elect, 1t goes into the House Of
Representatives. Delaware, the smallest State,
and little larger than one Of your counties, bsB
one vote, aud New Yo,k, though IL 10 as big as
this State, has bat one vote. 10 the Senate Of
the United States the State sovereignty 10
again recognized. Deliware, the smallest State,
sends two Senators to that body; while New
York and Pennsylvania, the largest States
10 the Union, seud but two members 10 that
body. These, provisions 10 the Constitution
were put there TO enable the States TO defend
their soverslgnty against the preponderance
Of members In the Huuse Of Representatives.
ANoWb muth youJ uSEb WAS y prOVlbiUu lQL6uucu
to guard mlnorltles against what mighs be the
ambition or cupidity Of msjorties. In the
progrees Of society the black population had
passed to the South. We made way for the gil.
Ing up of The North with white population.
auspices, mark you; for must stop here in
the argument to recall 10 your recolleotion that
though these fellows are taking and denounc-
ing Democrats, that the Democratic party, 60
far from being In favor Of cutting upthe Union,
was the only party that ever added anything 70
the Union. Who purchased LouisisuA7F A
Democratic President. Who purchased Flori.
| ua7 A Democratic President. Who took In Tex.
as7 The Democratic party. Who took In Cali.
fornia2 Tho Democratic party. Who were the
var. party them when our enemies we're for
eigneIs2 The Democratic party. Who was
the peace party when foreigners were our enc
Iniesl A voice, "Tom Corwln."1 Why the
Aboli!ionists. [Gheefs- -
Nov, mark that in every case where an Al.
tempt has been made to invade the Fights OF
man. the rights Of States, or the integrity OF
the UnIOn, the Democratic party has come up
to defend and save them, and has succeeded N,
TO this time, and ie going TO succeedb thIs tIme
too. (CheeIal When under the rule of the
|anti-Democra,ic Admlnlstrstion, they under.
ttot to do-~hatfs What do you suppose they
undertook to do7 They had the Gam hatred
ofioreigners which these AbolItionlsts now have,
They got their President, the father of the
head OF their party OF late years-.hey got their
President and their Congress TO pass law,
known for los infamy under tho name Of the
dAlien Act," By that aos Mr.. President Ad-
anna was enabled to jerk up any body that hap
al kn ha hnpn nrk of hta n ~
or law Of the same description, they oould ar.
rest any man for publlshing paper Ike the
Cincinnati Eaquirey or the Columbus Crisis.-
But I don't mean TO. slander these fel.
lows, for they never pretended that they
could take o man }before % drum.
head court-martisl of jackasses. They gave
men the benefit of TRIAL under the Seditlon Law,
even In my day. am ilty.six; eomebody ask.
ed me how long intend to i've don'tknow;
but mean to outliss che Abolition party. IL
my day We took money ont of the public ireas-
ury and paid back the fine 10 men who were
fined and imprisoned under that old gag law.
Matthew Lyons, him who had been fined and
Imprisoned under the, John Adams Seditiou
Law, We paid tie money that had be- en- upjustly
taken from the man for writing and taking
And now We have 10 witness, ln our own day, and
| within the limits of thls Congressional District
repetition of the came tyranny, In 0 far more
odious form, When the integrity of the Union
bscame assailed, who was II that saved itf-
When these same Yankees--the elk nes Eng.
land States.-met at the Hartford Convention,
at the time 20 were struggling against and 10
the midst Of the war wish Great Britaip-I
mean the war that followed our independence.
The war of l8l2-they met just De Jeffesson
Davis's conapirators met, chat is--to embsrrssg
and destroy tho Government Of their countfy,
when 1t was engaged in foreign war with M
OIL antagonist. You remark that they were :
little less generous than JEFF. Davis. JEFF. Ds.
Wis did not walt till we were ct war with Eng
land, to wage war with US. The Abolition.
iisse Of that day, like true Coppesheads ana
Blaoksnakesi ieneaked 10 the grass, hid them.
selves and seized upnn the propltious moment
whsa their country was engaged in O deadly
grappls, to 60 and join the foreign enemy.
know these fellows make horrible how
against those of the South who were fool
enough to initiate their example. Who Was \
that put down, the ,asiempt TO divide the Unior
that first attempt at uecession7 Nas n thoa,
Copperheads7 II was the Democratic palty: tb,
party who say the Union shall be saved: Il,
rights VI Estates she II be secured, and III. m
critics i he people shall be secured. IChesre.
The Democratic party put chat down; bu, how
Just as they put down South Csrolina, that nm
dersook to shassay ous Of the Union, under th
lead Of Calhoun. When our party has been h
power, il has never threatened she iibertv .
the people or the rights Of o Stste. hut has Al