Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-06
The journal Draweth Our Fire
and Is Shot.

| IL IL were eulIOIldl, as lOliOWS. 4 a~ Pa
"Wade and Lincoln both, in Congress,
long years ago declared that the States of
the American Union were at liberty when
ever they saw fit to change the relation
they bore to the General Government, and
the former announced in the Senate that
any denial of this right was destructive of
the fundamental principles Oh which our
Union is based."-Stdtesnd'l
And, thereupon, the Josrnal denounces as
follows: I'd saBissSNgssR t5 II
There is not a syllable of truth in the
above assertion. The STATESMAN has a
chronic habit, through ignorance or mall
lice, of falsifying history. We defy it to
point to any speech 5or letter of either
secession is advocated or maintained.
Come, the public records are accessible.
Produce your proofs" ~x--r x-v,-rr,-
We Will produce the proof, and as the
Journal has denounced THE STATESMAN as
guilty of falsehood, we demand of that
sheet, if its editor has particle of fairness
in his composition, to give his readers the
proof we submit, taken from the speeches
of both WADE and LINCOLN. Here it is
The Hon. BENZ. WADE, U. S. Senator from
Ohio, made a speech in the Senate, Decem-
ber 4, 1856, in which he coined the follow
ing Gong. Globe, Sd Sess. 34tt Cong. p. 25.
"But Southern gentleman stand here and
in almost all their speeches, speak of the
dissolution of the Union, as an element OF
every argument, as though it were pecul-
lar condescension on their part that they
permitted the Union to stand at all. If
they do not teel interested in upholding the
Union-if it really trenches on their rights
if it endangers their institutions to such
an extent that they cannot feel secure un-
der tiff their interests are violently assail-
| ed by means OF this Union, I am not one of
| those who expect that they wilflong con-
tinue under it. I am not one of those who
would ask them to continue in such
Union. 1t would be doing violence to the
pl atform of the party to aofich I belong. We
have adopted the old Declaration of Inde-
pendence as the basis of our political
movements, which declares that any peo-
pie when their Government ceases to pro-
tect their rights-when. it is SO subverted
from the true purposes of Government as
to oppose them, have the right to recur to
fundamental principles, and II need be, to
destroy the Governnleiat under tofich they ltUe,
and to erect on its ruins another more con-
dusive to their walfare. r hold that they
have this right. I aoiH not blame any people
for exercising it, whenever they think the
contingency has come. You can
not forcibly hold men in this Union, for the
vert the first principles of the Government
under which we live."
So omueh for WADE-now for LINCOLN.
On the 18th day of January, lS4S, during
the Mexican war, and while opposing it,
on question of reference of the Presi-
dents Message, (see Appendix Congress
sional Globe, 1st session, 30th Congress,
naoe 94) Mr. LINCOLN said:
"Any people, any where, being inclined
and having the power, have the right to
rise up and shake off the eriSting government
and form q 1e,o one that suits them better.
y Nor is this right confined to
cases in which the people of an existing
government may choose to exercise it.
Any portion of such people that can, may
revolutionize, and may make their own of
so much territory as they inhdbit More
than this, a majority of any portion of such
people may revolutioniZe, putting down a
minority, intermingled with or near about
them, who may oppose their movements"
Thirteen years after LINcoLN's speech,
and five years after that of WADE, South
Carolina thus responded to the sentiments
they inculcated:
ave, the people of South Carolina, in
Convention assembled, do declare and
ordain, and it is hereby decleared and or
dained, that the ordinance adopted by us
in convention. on the 23d day of May, A.
D. 17SS, whereby the Constitution of the
United States of America, was ratified, and
also all acts and parts of acts of the Gen
eral Assembly of this State ratifying
amendments of the said Constitution, are
hereby repealed, and the Union now eX-
isting between South Carolina and other
States, under the name of the United States
of America, is hereby dissolVed"-ayes loS'
noes 0-. - - ---7 -rr-en
It was the secession and reasonable doc
trines that BENJAMAN F. WADE Had been
in the habit of preaching, that drew from
ANDREW, JOHNSON, just before the war
commenced, the following:
81 am charged with being 'an ally of
the Senator from OhioI /, who, from my
earliest infancy, or from the time first
comprehended principle, down to the pres
ent time, have always stood battling for the
same great principles that I contend for
now My people know me; they have tried
me; and your little inuendoes and your little
indirections will not scare them. Even in
furiated. seeding Southern men dare to
intimate that / am an ally of Mr.. Wade.
The Senator charges me with being IAN ally
aoltile he and the leaders of Abolitionisn1 are
uniting az their energies to break ssss glorious
L
in alliance with Giddings, with Phillips,
with Garrison, and the long list of those
who are engaged in the aoorE of destruction, and
in suiolatating the Constitution Of the Union
States" asas' le575- =uriaH odi Z oaf ~
Thus the Journal will see that we have
produced our proofs against WADE and
LINCOLN, proving more than our cores
pondent ayerred.
We now propose to show that in ad
dition to ABRAHAM LINCOLN and BENJA-
MIN F. WADE being original secessionists,
that their organ-this same Ohio State
.Jo,rnal-after the war commenced, boldly
and openly justified the breaking up of the
American Union, and charged that the
Democratic idea in America has outlived
the Union," and that " reason, justice and
humanity gladly accepts" this breaking
up of an unnatural compact" and that
none but "politicians and dotards may
gable and weep tears of imbecility" over
the efforts to rend it asunder.
This reasonable article from the Journal
not communication, but published as ed
itorial, has always been attributed to the
pen of SALMON P. CHASE. We give it en-
tire IOr Gne purpose VI suo"lus IuaG Gne
paper that now charges us with falsi-
flying history, in the case of WADE and LIN
colin, was itself an advocate of the doc
trines our correspondent charged, and
which we have proven were advocated by
them.lsls us.l7an e.F.r' ii
lFrom the Ohio State Journal. March 27l
ssTHE UNIoN-NoT REPUBLICAN INSTITUTIONS
fBSsEe- Ezzr. - ON TRIAL. -sE f-= 80"
1.-THE erroneous impression of many OF
our own people that Republican or Demo-
cratic institutions are on trial, and that the
fall of the American Union carries down
with it, not only these institutions, but the
f..no odcr,n rhlara hoc hoo