Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-09-22

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where his heart was, no matter how he
might be, from the lips outward. Gn1'
On the evening of the 2lst Of December
1859, John g. NJcOlay, afterwards Private
Secretary Of President Lincoln, arrived In
Columbus with Mr.. LincOln's scrap-bOok,
containing the debates between himself and
Senator Douglas, clipped from the Chicago
Tsfbtdte and Times newspapers, and also his
reply,as follows: fii ~" noA goo
% ITrsP iNoVrRtb, HIS, Dec- mber 49, 1859.
Nsssas Ge6 NJ PdrsoWs and Others. Central Ec-
40 arsUe Co1tniffee, tto.: atH flva ..e1r.-.H1 "
GxEFIHMEN--l y our letter Of tho 5th inst.., 40
compADie hyA smi Ar one from the Hoyer rnor elect,
the Republican State officers, and the kspaihlica9
Ohio both uosiingOf for qualifications IN per-
msrent form, copies Of the politiehl debates be-
tween Senator Douglas aud myself last year. has
been received. With my grateful Acknowledgements
tobOth you and them, for the very hatterinR terms
in which the request is communicated, transmit
you the copies TIE copies send you are as re-
ported and printed by tho friends Of SEN
ator Douqss and myself, at the tin e-that Is, his
6SaTSng IEsItI inS %ps oI oS Change word Or
letter in his. and the changes have made IN NINE
you perceive verbal only, and very few IN mum.
Der. wish the reprint 10 be precisely As tho copies
Yours, very huly, f~
- A. LIscoES.
At the same time Mr.. Nicolay brought a
letter from Mr.. Lincoln, and Instructions
Governor Chase. well recolect from the
circumstance OF Mr.. Nicolay being at the
Court House during the night the jury was
Out-On the Gibson deialcation case, aud his
being, as it were, turned over to my charge,
he freely expressed Lincoln's wishes on
the subject. ! told him very frankly that
feared an effort would be made to sup
press the publication ofthe correspondence
by the Chase men, and expressed regret
a n s...l,It In IL
nois. But he was too noble tn suspect
such treatment from political friends. He
said in letter of the same date as his pub
lished reply TO the committee: ALLOW me
t0 add that have esteemed the compliment
paid me in this matter, rs the very high
est L have ever received, and to assure
YOU and the other kind friends, that II shall
ever be held in grateful remembrance.
Still | think it would be indelicdte in me to
publish the correspondence. You can do
that il you will"
The State Central Executive Committee
was accordingly called together to receive
Lincoln's reply, and anticipating the Chase
movement TO suppress the CORE spondence,
Iinotifed our friends TO be present In force
and TO vote down quietly any motion from
the Chase side on that subject, without say
lrg ANYTHING by which their partisaIis
might take the cae, for though we had a
majority on the committee and could beat
them In fight, it was not desirable to
show our hand, aud it was so absurd to ask
agentleman to furnish his speeches for cir
culation, and then not let that fact be
known, that even the Chase men, il not
posted. would vote it down. When the
committee met, as had anticipated, VIM.
Il. BascOm, Esq, Gov. Dennison's right
bower, arose and said He did not see the
necessity of publishing the sohole CORES
pondence with Mr.. Lincoln, though the
committee mightgo on and get up the Book
of debates" No one replied, and the propo-
sition was voted down in dead silence,
when Immediately motion was made, or
dering contract TO be made for publish
lug the d, bates, and that the correspOn-
dence be printed IOrthtoith. Major
Denny Rogers and divers conserv-
alive members of the Board Of Equali
Zation present, were much amused
at the way in which this Chase dodge was
headed. However, knowing the perseyer
ance of the Radical clique before starting
90 Tennessee, the next day, warned Mr..
Galloway, as the warm friend OF Mr.. Lin
coin on the Central Committee, to keep an
eve out for tricks, and specially requested
Mr.. Henry Miller to send me copy of the
correspondence as soon as published, to
Gallatin, and keep me advised. My object
In visiting Tennessee, in addition to spend |
ing Christmas with my relatives, was to |
find out the position of the Bell opposition, |
in reference to the Presidential canvass, |
and to compare notes as to the best means |
of securing the defeat of the Democracy. |
/ took with me copies of the Lincoln cor |
respondence, and aprinted supply Of Judge |
Swans opinions in the Oberlin Fugitive |
Slave cases. Il arrived at Gallatin on Sat |
urday, the day before Christmas, and went /
= - a. /. TD..lN
man for President, butunlike him, remained |
faithful to the Union. / soon iounda great
dread of Seward's election in the public |
mind there. and Mr.. Joseph s. Fowler, the |
present Radical Senator from Tennessee, /
was particularly anxious that the election |
should be managed so rs to defeatthe Des |
mOcracy without giving the secession lead |
ers Of the South the pretext they desired |
for rebellion, and hoped that Bell, on his |
vote against the repeal OF the Missouri |
Compromise, could be made a candidate of |
the united Opposition North and South. |
The Lincoln movement was then ,ex-
planned to these, gentlemen, and Judge |
Swans opinions distributed, but they were |
informed that Bell was out of the question, |
as he would be denounced as pro-slayery |
North, and Abolition South, and fail OF |
election, Just. as Mr.. Clay, while lincoln |
could be elected, If third tickets were kept |
out OF the way North, and his record on the |
slavery question did not differ from Mr. |
Clay. Mr.. Seward would probably not be |
notiiinated, and Mr.. Lincoln's conservative |
record, incase of his electiOns would enable |
the Southern Unionists to stand their
ground against the seeessionists, il Mr.. |
b II would run as q Constitutional Union
candidate, aud hold his party firmly by the
Government Even should the cotton |
Ssates seceds, as they probably, would, II |
Lincoln was elected, the Bell Unionists, by |
hpholding the incoming Administration, |
cDnld put down, revolution at home, and q |
Union party would rally around Mr.. Lin
coin all over the country, and thus the exl
treme men on both sides could be slOughed
of. George Baber, Esq, since an editor of
the Louisville Journal was about starting 4
Bell paper in Sumner county, and being in
Oculated when In Kentucky, with the CAL |
hotiii hefesy Of the Consultation extending |
slaVery,per se into the Territories, adoc- |
trine not indorsed by Bell Wings, he was /
sent with Mr.. Fowler to-haveaan intefvie~ |
with Mr.. Bell ct Nashville, and be posted |
correctly. was present by invitation at /
the meeting, which took place during the |
first week in, January, 1860, ut the City /
Hotel, where Benton and Jackson had /
their famous fight, aud shall never forget |
Belts reply, when the question about this /
Calhoun dogma was propounded. He said,
Wwhen Calhoun, in fS47, first announced
this doctrine in the Senate, Webster, BEN
ton, Clay, Wright and the prominent states