The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-07
Unconditional UniOnism.

The following extracts are all from bright
and shining lights in the "Unconditiopal
Union party. We print them to show
what it takes to make man uncondition'
ally for the Union.
If the cotton states shall become satisfied
that they can do better ont Of the Union
than in it, we insist on letting them go in
peace. The right to secede may be revo-
lutionary one, but it exists nevertheless.
- We must ever resist the right
Of any state to remain in the Union and nul
lily or defy the laws thereof. To withdraw
from the Union is quite another matter
and whenever considerable section of our
Union shall deliberately resolve to 60 out,
we shall resist all coercive measures de-
signed to keep it in. We hope never to
live in q republic whereof one section is
pinned to another by bayonets.-N Y. TFi.
bune, Nor. 9, 1860.
If the cotton states unitedly and earnest
ly wish to withdraw peacefully from the
Union we think they should and would be
allowed to do so. Any attempt to compel
them by force to remain would be contrary
to the principles enunciated in the immortal
declaration of independence, contrary to
the fundamental ideas on which human lib
erty is based.-M y Tribune, Non. 26. 1860.
ifit (the Declaration of independence
justified the secession from the British en-
pire of three millions Of colonists in l77G,
we do not see why it would not justify tho
secession Of five millions Of southerners
from the Union of l86l.-N. Y. Tribune,
Dec. IL, 1860.
We have repeatedly said, and we once
more insist that the great principles en-
bodied by Jefferson in the Declaration OF
American Independence, that governments
derive their Just powers from the consent
of the governed, is sound and just; and that
if the slave states, the cotton states, or the
Gulf states only, choose to form an indepen-
dent nation, they have clear moral right
to do so. - Whenever it shall be
clear that the great body Of the southern
people have become cOnclusvely alienated
from the Union, and anxious TO escape from
it. we will do our best to forward their
yiews,-N. y. Tribune, Feb. "a, 1861.
Not few of the Republican journals OF
the interior are working themselves up to
the belief, which they are endeavoring to
impress upon their readers, that the seeded
States, be they few or many, will be whips
ped back into the Union. We caution all
such, that in language of that sort they are
now adding new fuel to the fame which is
already blazing too fiercely and that the
probabilities now are that the result will
prove them to be false prophets. No man
knows what public policy may demand OF
the incoming administration; but tho drift
of opinion seems to be that if peaceable Sc
cession is possible, the retiring Suites will
be assisted TO 60 that this needless and bit
ter controversy may be brought to an end
IF the Union is to be dissolved, bloodless
seps alton is by all means to be coveted.
Do rot let US make that impossible CHI
| caqo Tribune, Dec. l. 1860. ....
HAny people anywhere, being inclined
and having the power, have right to rise
up and shake off the existing government
and form new one that suits them better
| This is a most sacred right, which We hope
and believe is to liberate the world. Nor IL
| this right confined to cases in which the
whole people of an existing government,
NAV choose to exercise it. Ang portion o.
such people that can, may revolutienize, anc
make their own Of so much Of the territory
as they may inhabit. More han this, {
majority of any portion Of such people may
| rsYolutionize, putting down minority, in
termingled with or near about them, who
may oppose their movements. Such minor
| ity was precisely the case of the tories o
our revolution. ltis quality Of revolu
ton not to go by old lines or old laws, but
to break up both and make new ones - :.
| abraham Lincoln, in Congress, Jan. IL
lS4S. See Congressional Globe, 0oi' Is, pa-
ges l55 and l56.
To Whom ii May Concern.
Any proposition which embraces tne re
storation Of peace, the integrity oi 'ne
whole Union AND THE ABANDONMENT Oh
SLAVERY, and which comes by and with an
authority that can control the armies now
TAT wal With the United States, will be re-
ceiyed and considered by the executive
government of the United States, and Will