The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-10-07
Tuesday, and stay&
To the Voters
OF
HANCOCK COUNTY,

sifer well your action, as free voters
at the coming elections. We ask you
whether it is your deliberate detor-
mination to cast your vote with a
party once honorable and respected,
but which has so changed through
the disloyal teachings of its present
leaders, chat, having deserted its an
cient mlxims and doctrines, is now
following the leadership of a man
who h,s make the following uttcran-
ces:
at is in vain to tell me that States
cannot sccede. Seven States have
seeded. In three months their
agents and commissioners will return
from Europe with the recognition of
Great Britain and France, and of
the other powers of the continent. -
Record, page 76. Again
"Secession had been tricd and has
proved II speedy and terrible success.
THE practicability of doing it, and
the way to do it, have both been es-
tablished" Record, page 81. Again
''If any one or more of the States
of this Union should scccde, for rea-
sons of the .uflicieirv of which, bc
fore God and the Teat tribunal OF
history, they alone Judge, much rs ]
should deplore it, Incver would, as
q representative i'll the Congress OF
the United States, 'ote one dollar of
money whereby ole drop of Ameri-
can blood should lie shed in civil
wm."- Record, lage 81. Again
''There is not aman in this house
fit to he representative here, who
does not know thd the South cannot
be forced to yield obedience to your
laws and authorit' again" Again
Accordingly, | have not voted
for any army or navy bill, since the
I meeting of Congress on the 4th %
July, 1861. Record, page H.
Again
"Stop fighting, make an armistice
no formal treaty; withdraw your ar
my from the seeded States, recal
your fleet, break up your blockade,
&c.
This man, yallandigham, thougl
not candidate for any Office hefor
the people, at this time, is the ac
knowledged leader of the Peace De
mocracy Men who were Democrats
who we are proud to recognize n
Justly entitled TO that time honore,
party name, follow rather the teach
ings contained in the proclamation
of President Jackson, of Dec. II
1882, and Jan. 16, 1888, which ar
as follows:
"To say that any State may q
pleasure scccde from the Union, is t
5 say that the United States are not
nation; because it would he a solecisn
to contend tiat any part of a natio
might dissolve its connection witt
the other parts to their injury or ru
in, withou; committing an oiiense.
"Seccssion, like any other rev
E olutionary act. may be morally iusti
t fed by the extremity of oppression
but to call it constitutional right /,
confounding the meaning of terms
and can only be done through gros
error
"Men of the best intentions an,
soundcst views may differ in thei
construction of some parts of tn
) constitution, but there are others up
= on which dispassionate reflection cal
| leave no doubt. or this nature ap
pears to be the assumed right of Sc
, cession.
"rhc right Of the people of sin
gle State to absolve themselves at will
and without the consent of the othe
States, from their most solemn obi
cations, and hazard the liberties AM
happiness of the millions conpOsin
this Union, can not he acknowledged
, Such authority is believed to he nj
terly rcpugnanJ both. to the principl
upon which the General Governmcu
is constituted and the objects whic
it is expressly formed to attain"
Again, General Jackson, speallin
of the right and duty of the Cover
> ment to Use force 10 prevent sccci
sion says
| "No one believes that any rigl
G exists in single State to involve II
the others in these and countless oil
or evils, contrary to engagement
: solemnly made. Every one must sc
> that the other States, in self-defens
must oppose it at all hazards"
Again, speaking of the ordinanC
a passed by the South Carolina Coz
= vention, he says
. "This solemn denunciation of I'll
e laws and authority of the Unite
= States has been followed up by s.
ries of acts on the part of the al
n thorties of that State which man
4 fest a determination to render inevi
+ able n resorI to their resources
S self-defense, which the paramou
: duty of the Gevernmenment require
: We might cite you to the mob
declarations of Douglas, made
!, full view of the great responsible
he was under to his country, and Il