Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-25
.0bIo Statesman.
ben Wade n Believer I'm and
Teacher of the DoctrIne of Dis
union.
Extract from Wade,s speech tn the United
States .Se,aafe Decemher 1875

OtdteS Oeaotc, december 4, 1856
But Southern gentlemen stand here and in a.
The Union as an element of every argument. as
though it were a peculiar condescenson on their
If they do notfee interested in upholding the Union
if it really trenches their rights-if it
not feel sscHrs nder tiff their interests are vo-
lenty assaied by means Of this Union an not or
under it. am not Of those ,o1o sOould AK faea
% co,.ttsss n sea 8 o,.19n It ToULR BE DoISe
70 WHICH BELONG We haUe adopted tAe old Dec
tarat;oss of Independence as the bG8is of oIti.
cal movements. which declares that any people when
when it is SO subverted from the true pur-
pose OF Government as to oppress them. have A
need be. to DESTROY THE GovERNMENT UNDER
WHICH THEY LIVE Gad T., ertct on IIs RUINS other
a&sY aF not HSaD a1 TaAT
peopts for eeercisfngtit. whenever RS-TRE Y-da
tsllK 20 TX, tns has Ss% certainly sba
find that the principles oi this G"yeInment have be-
some esS 90 s to 1M 70, TO WHICH
Ssas tn fSTo 99q 81 but
that conti gency never having come, 1 have never
yet opened my mouth in opposition to the Union
{, You CANNOT FoRcIBLY HOLD MEN IN THIS
WOULD SURVERT THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF THE
GoVERNMENT UNDER WHICH WE LIVE. ~ Congress-
tondt Globe. s4t@ Congress. Sd Session. page Is.
"There are some Senators who profess a gre.t
regard for the rights Of the States am one of
of the 5 ates some Who make louder professions
on the subject an do. am one OF those who,
m Ta Bqs e N
fhE Sik2fAia REsoH6TIoSs of i7ss ANP SP
standing upon them. denounce this bill as a VIC,
ation. not only of the spirit of those resolutions
States aud deprive them Of the power to protect
their owncitzens from aggression and abuse. Do
Fse1 sense Of their rsbs sad s dsnas
consotfddtion. VIII ever submit to such bill as
this Itell you nay 20
W1o Is to Be judge Il, the last ,eso-s of the o;oln
tim Of the Cor,siitution of III United States by the
The 1enersl Government or the states in th Ell r
sovereignty Why. sir. to yield that point is
their citizens. and to consolidate this Govern
ment into miserable despotism, / tell you sir,
aUn sS aa5aK s a ena
Tisdicti0ns- conflicts more dangerous than all the
sscrsy wars " which are got up in Congress
with acts like this: the greater will be their resist
Il stated that this bill was intended to promo.e
and help the execution of the fugitive bill. The
in this U Union whose highest tribunals had aojuged
that bill to be unconstitutional, and that one
O. those who believed il unconstitutional; that my
State believed it unconstitutiona and that under
oaly % ne Judge Or t1a sas Senssdy IN such
d case.
There is one sovereign State which has asserted
the great doctrine which your State SIR (Mr Mason
in the ch r invoked 10 179s to free yourse YES from
the exerci of power that threatened to reduce you
to slavery. Your great ancestors rose against il
and made the declaration of the pl itform on which
l stand to-day. and which you who are honest
Democrats stand, an ! from which you will not
shrink in the day Of trial. unless you mean to in
dorse them at Baltimore and deny them at Wash
ineton. lLaughter.] Taen l am not to be condem-
ned IS nuhher or as adsunionist unless fall with
80 m tha I.
the last plstfnrm which they ere ted '-S<e Con-
0ressionat Globe Appsndi-, 33rd Congress- Ind Ses-
sion ID 2i3-l5