The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1867-01-17
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fighting with hearts firm as ram.
parts and with iron arms received
and conquered the hosts of the
Saracens. Let him remember that
Cressy and Agincourt are glorious
because valor and eonstancy made
up for numbers. Let him remem-
Der that John Sobieski, with fifty
thousand soIdiers,rescu Christen-
dom under the walls of Vienna
from the grasp of three hundred
thousand Turks. Let him remem-
Der the pride and pomp of the
Spanish Armada and its speedy
and inglorious end. Let him re-
member the retreats, and defeats.
and disasters which befell Wash.
ington, and the crowning glories
of Yorktown. And if he needs
further encouragement, let him re-
member against what odds of num-
bers Jackson saved New Orleans.
And what shall the Southern
States do in their extremity2 /
have saidsthat | am speaking as
an Ohio man to Ohio men of their
duty to their own State and peo-
pie. Iwould not dictate, nor urge,
nor even, advise others, They
must follow the dictates Of their
judgements and consciences. But
if | might be permitted to say that
which lies near to my breast, it
would be this: Let the Southern
States be passive and patient.
They took up arms, they were de-
feated, they surrendered. That
surrender involves the necessity of
faithful obedience to the Constitu-
tion and the laws; that faithful
obedience entities them to the
rights and liberties guaranteed by
the Constitution and the laws.
They may be powerless to secure
these rights and liberties. They
may be subjected by the strong
arm to oppression and wrong; but
they can decline to advise change
of the Constitution. They can re-
fuse to consent to the creation ofa
desDotism. They can refuse to do
voluntarily that which their iudg-
ment rejects and their feeling dc.
tests. They can maintain their
honor and self-respect-they can
at least decline to b., at the facile
instruments of their own degra-
dation, and they can bear
the consequences of their course.
They may be deprived of represen-
tation-they may even he reduced
to Territorial condition. This is
no easy task-it will not be lightly
undertaken-it will not be easily
executed; difficulties will arise at
every step. 1t is so bold a usurpa-
tion of power-lnvolving so many
interests, both of the people and
the States of tho North-so revo-
lutionary and disorganizing-so
aagrantly at war with every pro-
vision and theory of the Constitu-
tion, that it will scarcely he posi-
bic to execute it fuHy. But if the
attempt should be made success .
fully, this too, being imposed by
superior force, they can bear. Let
them oppose it by the passive re-
sistance of masterly inactivity
Let them repair their shattered for
tunes; let them reconstruct their
industrial system; let them woo
prosperity and wealth; let their
fields whiten with cotton, and their
plantations yield their increase of
corn and sugar and rice; let them,
moved by their own just impulses,
and not by dictation from Others,
revise, if necessary, their legisla-
ton in regard to the freedmen, and
secure to them all their cs;yI rights
by the same processes of law ex-
pressed by the same courts, and the
same penalties as are used in the
case of the white men, Let them,.
if necessary to secure this ample
protection, revise and change the
public opinion of their communi-i
ties. Let them be Jealous in Sc
curing to them every opportunity
of fitting themselves for their
changed condition, end every ad,,
vantage for good development
which healthy, social and gov
ernmental system will permit. The
necessity of both sections will CO.
cree social and commercial inter-
course; and this, in time, will soft.
en- asperities and assuage bitter
ness and promote good will, and
restoration, if it ever comes at all,
will be upon a sound basis. 5''
Nor, in this connection, is the
fact to be overlooked, that very few :