Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-07-16
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SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 16.
arr from tho Urbana Union.l ,r..,
Letter from Governor .BramIette-
His Position.
FRANKFORT, KY, July a, 1856

uHF ., cRANkfOkI, hf., July q, 1901.
Mr. j. W. Hot.1, Urbana Ohio:
| DEAR SIR-Yours of the 10th ultimo, to-
| gether with The Urbdnd linton of 18th Janu-
ary and 8th June, reached me some days
since, having been delayed by the Interrupt
| tion of our mails consequent upon Morgan's
raid.
The national policy advocated by you in
the numbers of The UrbdnG Union sent to
me, is the same consistently held and firmly
maintained by me from the beginning of
rebellion to the present time. Not being
sufficiently mobile in principle to change
with the moving current Of radicalism,
which now threatens to merge our efforts
| to preserve our National life, into war to
perpetuate sectional party ascendancy,
| find myself in direct antagonism with, and
assailed by radicals and rebels. Having
received no new lights / shall adhere to the
sentiments and views of policy which inn
PEELED me to give myself and my two sons
to the service of my country. To suppress
the rebellion and restore the national au-
thority over the revolted States; to pre-
serve the Union created by our Constitu-
ton, with the equality and rights of the
people and the States, has been the para
mount object which have kept In view.
All loyal men have held that the war was
object should be the restoration of national
authority, and the preservation Of the
Union, with the equal rights of all the
States and people. No truly loyal man
ever conceived the idea of agreeing with
the rebels in proclaiming the Union de-
stroyed, and the necessity OF having RE-
construction before We could have Union.
LOYAL men hold to the faith of an unbroken
Union; that the peace of the country is
broken by rebellion, and the national au-
thority suspended or interrupted in the re-
volted districts, but that the Union contin-
ues to exist as formed by the Constitution !;
and the restoration of national authority is
all that legitimately awaits our efforts to
suppress the rebellion. ,.l .-..-...
But new war cry has gone forth, 'down
with slavery!" The rebellion is nothing
slavery everything. TO reach it the war
must be carried forward to its eXtermina-
ton.
The doctrine that by rebellion States cease
to exist as States, and can only have being
at the will of the conquerors, is started to
subserve this new phase of the war. All
who do not subscribe to this rebel donna CLOTH
ed in radical dress, are denounced as diSLOydl.
/ have lived and shall die i'm adverse be-
lief hold that the power is in Congress
mot in the President) to admit States; and
that no power is anywhere granted to ex-
clude them; but that once State, dl,cays a
STATE of the UNION, is the constitutional
and loyal doctrine. 3'..
No secession ordinance-no act CT Con-
gress-no proclamation of the President,
can destroy the constitutional existence of a
State once admitted according to the Con-
stitution. Rebellious citizens may be pun
ished even with death; but the life of
State can only be reached by successful
treason or asrDdtion. National authority
should be exerted to preserve its own just
powers, as well as the ''powers reserved to
the States respectively or to the people 4"
and the people and States should exert all
their power to maintain each in its sphere.
Unless this be done, disiRtegdtion by seces-
sion, or centralzdtion by usmpdtion will be
the result, and the loss of our liberties the
consequence. al
The great purpose of restoring the ma
tional authority and preserving the Union
with the equality and rights of all the
States is now laid aside or abandoned by
those in power, for the more engrossing object
Of freeing the negro. This madness which
substitutes Incident for an object, and con-
tinge,tcy for an aim and end, is one cause of
protraeting the war which yet so angrily
crimson's our land with the warm hearts
blood of ourinoble sons. Shoddies''-offiee
nontraet a bunte,s .e 1aentioS snd rshn,s anu
. re con;o;nt,u en,,o oeJ q %oinst a tha nr,sen,
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rH wh;cb Vn threoten 70 o,,Sm1nh ] our NJ
homes IN one co,nmon crave Of Suip Tat To
the naon,e whose sons are 70 ba y;ot;n;,eS
to @ tbe d mad % schemes , Of f. raSicoIism 'tb in tSe
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