Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-30

Of the power to protect their own cit
izens. Who is to be the Judge in the
/. last resort of violation of the Constitution
/ of the United States, by the enactment of "a
Government, or the State in her soyer-
ereignty?" He talked about sovereign
States then. And further. = To yield that
point is to yield up all the rights of the
( States to protect their own citizens. and to
consolidate the Government into misera7
Bile despotism." That, is, to yield up the
: right of each State to decide for itself, was
to Weld up the right of q State to protect
Il It's own citizens, anil to erect instead mis-
. cradle lespotisins The Senator also con-
: tends that the State was to be the Judge
the act was constitutional or not,
and also to be the judge OF the remedy to
: opply in case it was Unconstitutional.
0This was the very thing that Calhoun and
the secessionists coutended for. 1t was on
precisely that platform that the South at
tempted to dissolve the Union. 1t was
precisely on what Mr. Wade asserted, at
/, least implicitly, that Ohio might do, THAT
u these Southern Stases undertook to go out
D of the Union. Now, come, my friends,
3 to- what he said at the succeeding session
b of Congress. We will see what this man
> that now cries aloud for blood, and says
: that every one OF these Southern leaders
b ought to suffer death, and that it is owing
= to weakness ION our part ~ that they were
g not all hung up-we will see what he said
. to them in his place In Congress, on the 4th
q day of December, 1856. read from the
4 Congressional Globe, the official record OF
= the second session of the Thirty-fourth
Il Congress, beginning on page twenty
8 And now, mark it. this man who is de-
9nouncing you all as disloyal, deDouncing
you as traitors, ,denouneing you as disunion-
lists. mark what he said under the obligation
{ of his official oath. He said: II have
o before me paper containing portion OF
3 the recent message of Governor Adams, of
I. South Carolina, and resolutions Introduced
into the South Carolina Legislature as pre-
liminary steps toward the dissolution of the
g Union. That is Action.o He said that he
chad before him message of the Governor
1iofJ South Carolina and resolutions intro
j duced into that Legislature as preliminary
= steps toward dissolving the Union. Did he
2 raise his voice to condemn it? Did he raise
= his voiceit to demonstrate against it? Did
Z he entFeat South Carolina to reconsider
what she was doing and to stay ia the
Union. or did he threaten her with the ven
ogeance of the General Government If she
I went on withiher disunfon steps Not one
word of any such thing as that, but he told
Z her and he told the world, these are his
; identical words, 'sThat is actions" that is,
these steps to dissolve the Union, and he
does not object to it. What stronger words
Ethan that? He didn't object to dissolu-
tion of the Cnion when he had the evidence
: of steps to dissolve it right before him in
. the Senate, and he was speaking under the
obligations of his oath. He declares before |
God and his country that he does not object
to these efforts to dissolve the Union. But
now he Is for hanging all the men who took
him at his word. Further, he said. "What
/ object to is the eternal writing on this
topic. l say the time for action is come
If a man thinks the Union has performed
its functions and should be dissolved, let
him stand up as the advocate of dissolu-
tipn." He invited them to stand up as the
,aIiyocates of dissolution, aud to show that
when they did stand up he did not mean to
reproaeh them with it. he goes on to say
f.sWhen l think that time has eome"-that
Is, when. Wade thinks that the Gov
Its proper functions -"I hope
Il shall not lack the nerve to state my views
here" When he should happen to think :
that the time had come to dissolve the
Union, he hoped he would have the nerve
to declare it. and he invited all to stand UP
who advocated dissolution, But he said
also: Let us not deceive ourselves. When
either section OF this nation becomes salts
fled that continuance of the Union is not
in accordance with its best interests, that
In the Union its rights can not be secured,
and its best and permanent interests require
d disruption of the Union, then that event
will be brought about. OF this i think
there can be no doubt" When either sec
ton, he says. becomes convinced that its
interests require disruption ofthe Union,
there coald be no doubt that that event
would be brought abont. Very well, the
South did come to that conclusion, but
when they asked Mr.. Wade to stand up to
what he had said, then bis'cry was, BLOOD,
blood. blood." And again, my friends,
still further to invite them to 20 out of the
Union if they wanted to, what more did he
say 2. These men that he is now calling BY
every harsh name that his bitter tongue
can utter, these men whom he now says
ought every man of them to be hung,
what did he say to them, right in the pres
ence of these Southern leaders, of Jefferson
Davis, of Robert Toombs, and OF men of
that class He said: Il assaiI no mans /
motive. have pondered enough on the |
motive of mind and the motive of action
to know that circumstances have much |
more to do with our opinion and actions /
than we are generally willing to avow. / |
am now Black Republican, as you call |
universal freedom and real democracy
its advocate on all occasions; but if had /
been born on the other side Of the line, if I !
had been nurtured by those who held prin-
ciples Numerically " opposite to those pro-
tess, no doubt should have principles di-
ametrically opposite to those now hold"
I. He says to, these Southern gentlemen, /
am now a Black Repu blican;;r but if had
been, born and educated down South, as
you have been. have no doubt should +
hold exactly the principles you hold: in
other words, should be as good JEFF.
Davis as you have here. [Laughter.l And
these are the men; whose motives he, said T
he would not assail that if he had been Il
born and nurtured where they were he
would have been one of them; these are the II
men whom. having taken him at his word, I
be now cries out, slaughter, slaughter,
,langhter.n .ssiari ~, q .,si, -, =, -as.s
!, he goes on in his speech and says, .But
Il other sections think otherwise, if they
ind it cannot be done consistently with
heir interest, do not expect them TO act II
n opposition to their well settled convic-
ions Of interest, These, sir, are my senti-
nents." ss.sios,, ~, - I,5,e .a.,rr III
Again, in the, same speech he says, stu
more clearly "Southern gentlemen stand
lere, and in almost all their speeches
peak of the dissolution of the Union.
I'm, not one OF those who would ask them
q continue in the Union" ,5eq, - 49,,
n You have heard what he said at the pre-
vious session, when he had the steps before
him that were being taken to dissolve the
Union. He said: Il do not object to it,"
but now he says to the South that he is not
one OF those who would ask the South to /
stay in the Union. No, he would not ask
them to stay in the Union. Washington
could issue his memorable farewell address,
and ask every section to stay in the Union; 1
jackson, could issue his farewell address
and ask all the people to stay in the Union;
Webster and Clay could, in language as
eloquent as ever fell from the lips of man,
lmplore all the people to stay in the Union;
but Mr.. Benjamin F. Wade could not even I
ask a sovereign State to stay in the Union.
He could not ask a State to remain in the
Union, but he could bury beneath the soil
Of his native land 100000 of her young
men and make bankrupt country of one
that before scarcely owed dollar, in order
60 punish these men for taking him at his
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