Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-04-21
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Patriots Then--Traitors NOW,

Patriots Them--TraitOrs Now.
Mr.. Long-tsn days ago comparatively
obscure man, representing district in Ohio,
and unknown to one hundred men in any
State outside Of his own-haS suddenly &C.
quired a name and lame, by simply repeating
arguments hitherto used By abolitionsts.
This Long controversy, which promises to be
a very lengthy one, reminds us OF the old ad-
age that some men are born great, some
achieve greatness, and others have greatness
thrust upon them Mr.. Long belongs to
the latter class. Speaker Coliax and the alb
olitionists have determined to thrust great
ness upon him, whether he wills it or not.
Long assumes the dissolution Of the Union as
an existing, accomplished fact The aboli-
tionists howl, as well they may for ifthe Un.
ion be dissolved it is difficult to make com
mon people believe that the elevation of the
sectional republican party is not the primary
cause of this dissol ltion; aud further, if it
be now dissolved, what have three years of
carnage and blood, inaugurated and carried
on under abolition auspices accomplished to-
wards its restoration,
But it matters not whether Mr.. Long is
right or wrong in his mere opinion of the fact
And whether he be right or wrong he has
said no more on this point than Mr. Wade,
now copper-colored Senator from Ohio, who
declared in 1855, There DGs really no un-
ion bcigeen the North and South and he
believed no tD0 nations upon the earth enter
tqiHed feelings of more bitter Tancor toiodrd
each othsr than these tto0 sections of The Re
public
But Mr.. Long juslfes the right of seces
sion possibly at least maintains that there
is no coercive power cons;i.utionally existing
to compel States to return to allegiance and
loyalty TO the Federal Government This is
no more than Horace Greeley declared so long
ago as 1860, throwing II out evidently as
bal for an inducemeut for the South to secede
On the 9th day OF November 1860, the Tri-
buRe declared
III the Cotton States shall become satisf.
ed that they can do better out OF the Uuion
than in it, we insist on letting them 90 in peace
The right to secede may be revolutionary
one, but it exists nevertheless We
must ever resist the right Of any State to re-
main in the Uniol and nullify or defy the
laws thereof To withdraw from the Union
is quite another matter; and whenever
considerable section Of our Union shall delib-
erately resolve to 60 out, lCe shall resist all
coercipe measures designed to keep ttin We
hope never to live in republic whereof one
section is pinned to another by bayonets''
The Tribune was rarely, il ever, known to
stick to the same text 80 long, for on the 26th
Of November, 1860, it declares
"If the Cotton States unitedly and earnest
| y wish to withdraw peacefully from the I'm
ion, We think they should and would be allow.
ed to do so. Any attempt to compel them
by force to remain would be contrary to the
principles epuncated in the immortal Dsclar-
alton Of Independence, contrary to the funda.
mental ideas on which human liberty is based" +"
Again. on the 23rd of February, 1861, the
Tribune declares;
"We have repeatedly said, and we once
more insist, that the great principle embod
| led by jefferson in the declaration of Ameri
can independence, that Governments derive
their just powers from the consent Of the gov
erned, is sound and Just and that, if the
Slave States, the cotton States, or the Gulf
States only, choose to form an independent
nation, they have clear moral right to do
so Whenever it shall be clear that the
great body Of the Southern people have be-
come concusvely Hlieniated from the Union,
and anxious to escape from it, we will do our
best TO forward their views"
And even as late as January 1868, the Tri
buRs declares
III tDree Hontns mOre OF earnest nghtinE
will not serve tosmake a serious impression
on the rebels-if the end Of that term shall
| find us no further advanced than the begin
ning-ii some malignant fate has decreed
that the blood and treasure Of the nation shall
ever be squandered in fruitlesE effotts-let US
bow to our destiny, and makethe best attainA-
BILE peace"
Abraham Lincoln declared in Congress IN
ls48, that "Any people, anywhere, being in
clined and having the power, have the right
to raise up and shake or the existing govern.
ment, and form new one that suits them
better"
We don't wonder that the Abolitionists are
ashamed Of their own progeny, hence their
dire and intense hate Of Mr., Long In claiming
that coercion is opposed to the constitution
aud the genius of our federAtiye system.
Long also declared ~ believe there are
but two alternatives, and these are, either the
acknowledged ofthe independence OF the
South as an independent nation, or their COM
plete suhiugatiou and determination as a pso-
pie, and OF these alternatives prefer the for
mel" In effect he says be would rather see
two sister republics on this continent, with
the chances for future reunion through d.
plomacy aHd compromise, than to have eight
millions Of people, including women and chii-
dreu utdhered--annihilatsd Aud for the
ntterance ofthis diabolical, anti Christian zen.
timent, be should be expelled from Congress
4 Why not This is the reign OF the gospel OF
hate and Of war, instead OF the gospel OF
peace, Notwithstanding il was said eighteen
hundred years ago, NY peace | leave with