Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-30
NO.11.

and we have nothing at all to take back.
and nothing that needs to be apologized for.
They may speak of that just as long and
just as much as they please, and they will
find it impossible to point to one single act
ofsthe Government that we opposed, unless
that act was unconstitutional. That is the
truth of it.. Was it opposition to the Gov
ernment to oppose unconstitutional acts !
Why, what gave the Government the right
to do anything but the Constitution? And
was it unpatriotic to require of those who
were destroying the Constitution, and who
held their whole right to rule by virtue OF
the Constitution, to obey the mandates OF
tnat instrument? n9cH 71'93 - @.Hi |
+ WAS THERE A DEM oCRATIC REBELLION? |
But further, Mr.. Wade says that this late
rebellion was a Democratic rebellion.
Why, pray, who were more interested than
any Others in preventing this disunion OF
the States? 1t was herDemOcratic party of
the North. We knew full well if the South
went out of the Union and succeeded in go
ing out that with it went 4 great Demo-
cratic strength. We knew that it left our
tate in the jaws of the Abolition lion, and
therefore if party feeling could have sway
ed any man upon such a subject as this, we
of all others had the most interest ia keef-
ing the South in. But we were aetuated
| by higher motives than that-higher than
any party, motives whatever. This great
country of ours was one in which we had
a, common: inheritance, with its glorious
memories, with its free institutions and
with its mighty prosperity. and we had the
same interest that other people had thatit
should not be discovered, but that it should
lcontinue to be the great and mighty and
exemplary republic of the world. That
was our interest. What more interest had
! the Radicals than we had in the preserva-
ton of the country. Had they any more
! lives to be saved, any more liberties to be
enjoyed. any more character to maintain
| than we? Ii they had property, had we not
property too? lfthey had wives and child
ren, had we not wives and children too
and quite as good and quite as beautiful as
theirs? If they were interested in this be-
ing one great and mighty republic. had we
not the same interest? and, in addition to
that, had we not the party interest to which
l have alluded, and did we not try to save
the Republic? Did we rot, year after year,
say to these agitatOrs North and South
to the Secessinnists South and
the Abolitionists North-tO the
twhole people, both North and South
lr' If you continue this agitation about the
negro, if you continue this strife. if you go
ION with this of words, becoming heated
more and more every day, the inevitable
result will be that it will become war OF
arms and an attempt to dissolve the
Union ?'''' Did we not tell them so year af-
ter year, and did we not appeal to them by
! everything that was sacred, by their love
of country, by their love for those who had
achieved our independence, by their re-
: spect for Washington and Jackson, allay
these sectional arimosities, not to encour-
, age sectional hopes, but to remain as their
: fathers had been before them, one people
from Canada to the Gulf of MeXico? And
what was the answer that we receives
Why, then as now, they had their clap
trap words, and when a man got up and
> spoke with the eloquence of Patrick Henry
: and the patriotism of Washington, and in
l voked the testimony of Washington, ol
, Jackson, of Webster, of Clay, and of every
! great man almost't the country has ever pro
{ duced, to allay this storm, this agitation
. which was threatening to dissolve the Un'
/. tion of these States and destroy the Repub
! IIic, when he did that, what was the answer
received from Radical speakers! why, y0r
f are s.-Union shriekers." Union shriekel
r Pwas the slang word then, just as Copper
8 thead is now. ' tH
-: wHAT Is THE UNION? .. ,-
!, / They told us that the South could not b.
: : taken out of the Union; they ridiculed oul
fears for the perpetuity of the Union; /; thcr
1 they said it was mere electioneering clap
, trap on the part of Democratic speakers
= that there was no truth in it, for the Soutl
! EcOuld not be kicked out of the Union
y Very we'll !; they erected their sectiona
party; they got into power in an evil da.
. for this country, and they pretty sooi
: found whether Or not the South could b.
= kicked out of the Union. They pretty sooi
= found thabiit cost this country world o
!, blood and treasure; /; but now that this bloot
y and this treasure has been expended am
: the South lies Frustrated at our feet, thes
: men who insisted that the South could no
y be kicked out of the Union, have most ef
i Ifectually succeeded in kicking her out
: She is kicked out this day. This is Uniol
| tuha fan down
bayonet, Union where the negro Is placet
above the white man. to rule over him;
,el Union where the white man is dlstran
- Echised; and the stupidest, most ignoran
Z and degraded negro that ever trod our sol
% is elevated over the intelligence, the edu
: oeiIcation, the wisdom and the virtue of til
i, country. That is a pretty Union. The.
= = call themselves Union n-savers-God save til
:, !, mark !-Union- savers, indeed ! They hav
AL a Uuion between Northern Radicals an
Il Southern negroes, to rule the white men 9
,o the country. Call this the Union of Georg
II Washin gton, call this the Union of Thoma
= :, jefferson, call this the Union of Madison
) of jackson, of Webster, or of Clay! why
- it is to profane those great names; it
I blasphemy against them to call this such
. Union as theirs. No, this is the Union c
= the Wendell Phillips, the Fred. Douglass
. the Benz F: Wades, the Charles Sumner:
I : and the vilest and most ignorant negroe
= upon the lace OIL Luis COltIU6HIs udb
y the Union held together by the bayone
y and enforced by setting aside all civil gov
= ernments, and placing the heel of militar
q power upon more than one-third OF tn
. Republic.
Ie WHO ENCOURAGED THE SOUTH TO, sgCEDl
s. But if they want to know who it wa
u that encouraged the South to dissolve th
y Union; if they want tue past to be locke
e Into; if they want to see their own faces
i.,l Ia, xyhO FL
lie men that told the South they had a rigl
'r to 90 out and set up for themselves, [ al
)e disposed on this occasion to crafty thel
he by holding up that looking-glass for lii
l tie while.
s. And now, my friends, 1 shall not de;
IN with obscure newspapers or obscure mel
lie What private citizen like Allen G. Thur
1T min may have said in 1861, is a matter {
e, indifference; but what men who occupie
y the highest offices in this Government
z, what men who are rulers set over the pee
se pIe,-wh6t they said, or what they did, wa
i, pregnant with good or with evil for thi
ID land, and, therefore, shall not deal wit
t. any small fry; l shall begin with their lat
Je President and come down to their sc
N called Acting Vice President, and fror
at him to the Chief Justice of the Unite
y States, from him to the members of the
v Cabinet. and possibly. touch upon one c
two other newly canoniZed saints in TIL
s, Radical calendar. l8 -u- f4
" r ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND SECESSION.
y. ~ Now, mark it, who was it encourage
~ the South to go out ofthe Union, and spok
as against any attempt to coerce her to re
a. a. main init? The first thing to which | ca
=, your attention, is speech made by Abrs
af ham Lincoln. on the 18th of January, ISL
~ " in the House of Representatives of til
% Congress of the United States. Nov
y mark it, nv friends, first. that member
ho Congress takes an oath to support the Cor
oe stitution of the United States, and implied
he hh ly, at least, to faithfully and honestly dis
Oo Il, rnn his dntv. and second. thai that Oat