The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1867-08-21

Is grand, startling reality, or myth,
fiction, with which we have been deludins
ourselves and cheating the world.
This question seems to pose our states
men and rulers at this time. They appear
to consult our written Constitution in vain
The trainers of that instrument evidently
never anticipated secession. IroriSi0n aOa.
made to let States into the COnfedeTacy
BUT NO OBLIGATION is IMPOSED, BINDING
STATES TO REMAIN IN THE UNION, nor Ioic
er giren directly to any constituted authority
TO CoEBCE THEM INTO OBEDIENCE an cas-
they ,ohich quietly to scithdraao from the finn
iIy circle Our President has declared be
would resist notification but not secession
Can any State or States secede, and continue
, to obey United States laws2
The object of the American Union is tc
provide for the common defense, general
welfare &c 1t is st ted in the pr Gamble
to the Constitution. The General Govern.
ment is but Represeltdtire Of all the
States. 1t is not genuine Federal, cen
tralized pnwer. Now, If any State on
States ,oash to renOunce the benefits Of this
general protection, ho,o cnn they be compel
ed to continue the recipients Of such adcd1t,
to9es? The Cotton States arc not rebeling
against the Federal authorities, nor nuli
flying ans par lticular general law. They SIM
ply request to be released from the Uaon
| THE UNION, BY THE FORCES OF
MENT IS TO ENTIRELY CHANGE
i THORlTY. 1t ,oiW Jc to make the Fede1'-
al Goreroment not n represent attire Of the
States their Instrument IN proridmg for the
a. UDT-n err
TRALIzED POWER, HAVING AN EXISTENCE
INDEPENDENT OF THE STATES. We regret
Je1ag compelled to take this ciea0 Of the mat
ter. Gut At seems iReoitaJh"
-Four days after, November II, 1860, the
same Ohja State Journal edited as above
stated, fearing that the Union would not
South Carolina out, whether the people re-
Under the caption, Expulsion of South
Carolina, the Journal said
eve begin to have serious dppTehenssonS
that the wretched little oligarchy of South
Carolina intends TO remain IN the Union, at:
| ter all her threats Of secession.
| ''At first, we had some hope that in the
vast quantity of smoke which she breathed
| forth, there was little eur1est fire. But
, there was not, it seems. South Carolina
may still be vaporing away, but her perfoi-
| nance is regarded as of so little consequence,
that ir has even ceased to be telegraphcd
from Charleston.
| "There is no more sensation. People do
not look any more for the secession news.
1t is become to them
"a tale of little meaning though the words
are strong
o,,at o,,J ,ro 6o,,o 10 ,,ro,,oeo
as a means Of avoiding future annoyance.
LIMA FROM THE AMERICAN UNION.
rcrdtiOa, trouble and erpense AT once i'm
pudent and cowardly, hoastful and brutal,
her people have at each succeeding Pres-
threats of disruption, disunion, and all the
kindred calamities beginning with dis and
ending in ton. They have been an ele-
ment is discord and panic-and noac, we
say, let qs cast then, forth, though they en-
ter all the saciac Of Cincinnati, and ran into
the sea.
Let the thing be regularly and deliberate
" DONE Petitions circulated among the
people for the expulsion of South Carolina
would receive innumberable signatures; and
on the meeting of Congress, we might "bat
ter tho gates off the Capitol with storms
of prayer for that purpose. The badly
,oIich has the p0rer to admit State into
the Union has tie po,cer to- apel State,
and zee HOPE THAT OUR MEMBERS MAY BE
INSTRUCTED TO ACT PROMPTLY IN THIS MAT
TER.
"tSonh Carolina does not ecant to secede.
LET US EXPEL HER. She always tries
to be held back, in order that she may make
valiant show ofintention where there is to
be no performance. Now let us see that
she fulflls her own threats, Tom, said
the first man who caught Tartar, I've
taken prisoner. We'll, fetch him along.
L can t do it, We'll, come yourself then.
He aUont let me-
1T is precisely in this interesting attitude
that South Carolina now stands before the
country
'tShe has taken the Union prisoner, and
can't fetch it.. We 60 for relieving her en-
barrassment, so far as her own departure is
concerned, and even forcing her to depart
in peace, without her prisoner.
LET THE SOUTH GO IN PEACE-THE TRIBUNE
WILL AID THEM
eff the cotton States shall become salts
fed that they can do better out Of the Uu-
ion than in it, a0e INSIST on letting them go
IN peace. The riqht to Secede may be u rev.
olutionary one. but it erists nevertheless.
We must ever resist the right Of any
State to remain IN the Union and nullify o.
defy the laws thereof. 10 a0ithdyd10 from
the Union is quite another matter. When
euer a considerable section Of or Union shall
Deliberately resoIre to 90 out zoe shall resist
| all c0erciUe measures designed to keep them
IN. We hope never to live in a Republic
| VIII reof one section is pinned to another by
tayonets "-Neao York Tribune Nov. 9.
| 1860. .. .....
''If the cotton States unitedly and earn
estly wish to withdraw peacefully from the
Union zoe think they should and aoould be
| dilOa0ed to do so. Any attempt to compel
| them by force to remain, ao0utd be contrary
to tie principles enuaciated IN the immortal
Declaration of Iadepeadeace-contrary to
the fundamental ideas on which human lib
erty is based. "-Ne,0 York Tribune, Noo.
26, 1892 y ,. n..;o,, % 1.,,,,,o,,aonao,
| justified the secession from the British Elm
pire, of three millions of Colonists in l776,
aoe do not see aohy 1t should not JUSTIFY
the secession of fve nullaons Of Sonthe,ners,
from the Usion, IN 1861. ."-NcV York
Tribune, Dec. IT, 1860.
"Wheneuer 1t shall be clear that the great
body of the Southern peaple hare become
| conclusttely olienated from the Union aud
d,,niouS to escape from 1t, WE WILL DO
OUR BEST TO FORWARD THEIR
VIEW" ."-Ne,o Hert Tribune, FEB, 23,
1861.
In review of the speech of Mr. Long,
of this State, the Tribune editor in his pa.
I or of April IL, 1864, says:
IN W, We do ot aata 70 a2ol at this tire
sikh yN. is.-,cQ-- -L4 s9sGart wri'i