Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-09-01

ards acqlliescence In this state, of things
rendered the pfeparation for, the attack
more complete, Wife the forbeafaneeI 70
furnish provisions or areihforeemehts't the
garrison,1 on pour part effectuall " made
good Mr. .Sewardspledge toEitssqrrsnrtder.
p" Is it hot strange sbat. MI fssWtsrd should
have kept that paralysis on, the country
from the 4th of March to the 18th of Aprils
the people? Did Mr., Seward ,partake of the
feeling which prompted Mr.. Chase, his coll
leagteo in the Treasury, 10, lexclaini, HLet
Che South go; it is not worth fighting for?"
LIS it possible that these ambitiousaspirants,
who have shown such eagerness7 for the
Presidency; are willing ITO sacrifice THAT
vast, rich section of our Union toithe petty
object of personal ggrandizement?9o 10 ;
Lii Let me illustrate by example how the
boldest Union mefpwere paralyZe6fb blythe
condition Of things have eBdeavored TO
portray. Judge CampbeliY of "A AlabaI1la, ,Sof
whom l have spoken as transformed intoa
rebel commissioner, had been.a a devoted
Union mani i knew Of1his heroic resist
ance to hulliflcation.! He,had been the first
man to breast the storm In Alabama in
1882, which threatened to bring onbthe
rebellion ttfen. naturally lytloOked to him
to meet the new dangerJand his feelings
were unchanged, and he wrote and pub
lishedd earnest remonstrances against the
secession movement. begged him to go
again before his people in personaS in 1882;
lie replied that itlwolld be of no use. His
private letters!which he read to me, show
ed that the unsupported Union men were
obliged to suceumb before the organized
and armed conspirators. The circum-,
stances in the two eras, he said, were widely
different. Phen jackson was here assert
ing the authority of the Government and
he felt that he could with hsucirbacking re-
: sist to some purpose; but no sensible man,
howeverpatriotic, could think so noMud o
- Nor was it Southern Unioh men alone
whose natural promptings t0tdefendI the
Union We're checked by the efforts Of the.
existing and prospective authorities in
Washington who were e6Loperating in this
purpose. 1t was through these influences
that the movements thrOugh9utthe North
for the armed defense of the Union were re-
pressed, and the impression conveyed to-
the South chat secession Wouldbe peaceful.
Letme recall an instance. .5IhePennsylva-
MIA Legislature met in January, 1861, g, and
a resolution was Immediately presented,
which, l believe, was Unanimously adopted,
declaring it to be the duty of the State au-
thorities to raise organizeland eanipa mill
itary force for the, defense of the Union.
This movement was stopped from. Wash
ington, and among the means resorted to
| for the parpose, as 1 was informed by
Speaker bennington at the time, the Legis-
lature were told by distinguished member
for Maryland, then believed to hold Conf
Dental relations with the incoming Pre-
mier, that Maryland wouidusEcede if the
movement were persisted In. The move
ment was abandoned, and it was abandoned
undoubtedly through his counsels and in
reference to his position as the incoming
Premier. Non-resistance was, we have
seen, his, publicly declared policy in the
Senate as it was in the Cabinet. He agreed
with Judge Campbell, the rebel Commis-
sioner, Tor the surrender OF Fort Sumter,
and when the President came to iasdifferent
| determination, he nevertheless made good
| his promise. He it was, undoubtedly, who
gave the notice by the telegram sent
| threugh Mr.. Harvey, then and still ouI
Minister to- Portugal, of the Presidents pur-
| pose to reinforce. But the sueeor never
came. Mr., Seward got an order directly
from the President Withdrawing the Pow
hatan, the armed vessel assigned to the leX-
petition by, the Secretary of the Navy,
| without the knowledge of the Secretary,
aud without the Presidents knowing that
| the ePowhatansw;is the vessel ordered to re-
| lieveg Sumter,l The men land provisions
came, but not sailor, with them to put
| them in the fort, the Powhatan having been
withdrawn It was in defertnce' TO him that
GEM Scott recouimendedl thee surrender o1
thee fort because. the Generald during the
previous "A Administration had, wished to re-
intorce it, and had been refused permission 10
do so By Mr.. Holt, then Secretary Of Var. ''''
| l. Mr.. Holt, now the head of the Bureau OF
| Mllitary SJaistice.b bwas then also az spoweulin
Washington. WhilsbiSecretaryo War, as
already stated, he refused toI permit Gen.
Scott TO reinforce Sumter, and he had, philSt
Postmaster Ge,teTcL tcrttteR and ptfb5tShed a
letter; dated 30tls Noeember,) 1861 ijaStifyiRy
the rebellion. HeGsays;'iti that letter; the
people of the North shave been taught that
they are responsible for the public institu-
tiohs of the South, and that they can be
faithfIlto God only by being unfaithful to
| he.eompact they made with their fellow
men. Hence those liberty bills which; de-
| grade the statute books of some ten of the
| Free States, and Which are cbhfessedly a
| shameless violation Of the, Federal Consti-
tuition in point vital to- herr honor. I'VE
have here presented, from year to year, the
Iahumiliating spectacle of Tree and sovereign
States, by solemn act6f legislation, legal
izingi the eitheft of their neighbors' proper-
4 ty. / say theft, since it, is not theailess so
because the subject of the despieable crime
Ghafces to be a Slave, instead of d horse or
4 bale Of goods" After much to the Same
purport, he says: II am still for the Union,
because l Lhayeyeta fsb t, ,hssitatipg hope
that the, North will do JUSTICE (, the South,
and save the Republic before the wreck is
4 complete Batthe heti0n must be proffipt
IIf the free States willswaeep the lihertybiils
from their dcodes, propose a convention Of
the States, and of1er guarantees Which Will
afford the sifne hrepose and SAFETY to
Southern homes and propertyfenjo5Bd by
those at the North, the impeudingitragedy
4 may yet be ayerted. but not otherwise
IiSimultaneonsly with his refusal to permit
/ suceof to F0ft SUMTER and his arniistice
! WITH ithenrebel Secretary, he refused his
sanction toa bilhintrodnced intofthe Senate,
Union M men Of fGe SSGtR to q orgaaiae sd them en-
selves under the authority Of che United
1Statese4refusing thusto allow tliena toade-
fend themselves. 9di5enmod Io1 Yt1Gq qlti
Aa6faey Ggnsfd,. agds |!f II ittt satpaty & 81 s5ith
the leaders IN Congress toh6 ldrdgJed tie 'Sotlth
| into. rebeiliqn.s He MET Senator Brown, of
lMississippjatthe dooFofthe Supreme COURT
as he passed from the ball of the, Senate,
after taking leave of it as a secessiohist for
Irever. He encouraged bim,- told him be aods
right; t scqs me onty course % Sdve TIE South;
he mast keep his Constituents up ID ID, eG! This
lis proved by Mr.s Blown former Senator
from, Mississippi who mentioned4 II at the
4 time to the Hon. James S. Rollins, of Mis-,
souri,. Mr.. Salisbury, Senator from Della
y.t ,,aR hu tsaroti Nj rp1 IN tha Spnatn