Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-03-17
[From the indianapolis Herald.l
Who Is n DiSuniOnisI ?-The De-
mOcracY OI. UROOnP

! While Darlington & Co. ruled here with
mob law and bayonets, during the wal
| which the Republicans provoked by theil
own disregard of constitutional faith, the
Republican party rioted in the plunder OF
the country, set themselves up as the pink
of loyalty, and threw almost every man
| who had the boldness to dispute their pre-
| tensions into dungeons. Now that, under
johnson, liberty of speech is restored, their
| own treason prior to the war, and their
profitable hypocrisy during its continu-
ance, may be exposed. Day before yester-
| day we exposed the reasonable organiza-
tion of the Sons of Liberty by che Repub-
licans, between 1866 and 1860, and showed
that Giddings, whose portrait has just been
purchased by the present reasonable Con-
gress, Chase, and most of the Republicans
then acted with the Sons of Liberty. We
have shown heretofore that the Republi-
cans wished to dissolve the Union to
get rid of the South that John Q. Adams,
Hale and other Republicans, had asked for
it in Congress; and we quote the Journal
to show that, in 1861, they still wanted to
let the South CO. as they now labor to keep
her out of the Union, cOnten ing it is dis
solved:
From the Indianapolis Journal, November 10, 1861
They know very well that if they are de-
termined to leave the Union, no Republican
tciH care TO hare them stay. A Union pre-
served only by intimidation and force Is
mockery, and 10 is better broken than echOle.
If South Carolina and her associates in folly
really want to leave the Union, they can
90 without word of objection from any
man north OF Mason and Dixon's Zine.
We do not believe in resisting any
secession movement in the least.
from the indianapolis Journal November Is, 1901
There will be no collision of hostile
forces unless she (South CaroIina) makes it,
for the people of the North ,ciH nerer raise
or use an army to force any State to stay in the
Union. Such Union would combine all
the burthens of union and all the weakness
of disuni0n. Coercion" we regard as out
of the question in any case.
From the Indianapolis Journal December I, 1850.
The Declaration of Independence is our
authority that any State or nation deliber-
ately resolving that its Government is in
tolerable, has right to change it. And it
nowhere declares that anybody has the
right to judge whether the Government is
intolerable but those who propose to change
it. We would not permit England to Judge
for us whether her Government was OPP
pressive to us. We have no right to Judge
lot OOuJH OdTOllHd WH6JueT our STOVer0-
ment is oppressive to her.
Thus, we neither strengthen our Govern
ment, or increase our revenue, or assist our
by fighting the seeded States,
and we violate right asserted in our
Declaration of Independence, we meanly
insist upon an association that is contempt |
uously repelled, and we end in splitting
the Government little more hopelessly |
than any peaceable secession could do.
[From the Indianapolis Journal. JAM 10, IssIl
We believed, and still believe, that the |
true province of Governments is not more to |
preserve itself than to adapt itself to the |
demands of the governed, and that war to |
one Government over those who |
believe that they would be better off under
another, is unwise, cruel, and in Americans
Inconsistent.
The Chicago Tribune, in December 1860, |
N discussing the policy of Mr.. Lincoln's
incoming Administration. said: "The drift |
If opinion seems to be that if peaceable
secession is possible, the retiring States ,oiH
be assisted 10 Co." and appealed to its read
,rs, ''DO hot let us make that impossible"