Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-12
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leased from the Union compact. To coERCE
THEM TO REMAIN IN THE UNION, BY
THE FORCES OFTHE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT, IS TO ENTIRELY
CHANGE THE NATUREO OF FEDERAL
AUTHORITY. 1t toiu be to make the Fed
eral Government, not representative Of the
States. their instrument in providing for the
| common defense. DC, BUT SUPERIOR, CEN
TRALIZED POWER, HAVING AN EXISTENCE
INDEPENDENT OF THE STATES. We regret
being compelled to take this uieao Of the matter,
| but t seems inevitable"
Four days after, November II, 1860, the
same Ohio State Journal edited as above
stated, fearing that the Union would not
otherwise be dissolved, determined to drive
South Carolina out, whether the people re-
siding therein were willing to go or not.
Under the caption, Expulsion of South
Carolina" the Journal said:
1--WE begin to have serious dpprehensions
that the wretched little oligarchy of South
Carolina intends to remain in the Union, af-
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 earnest fire. But
there was not, it seems. South Carolina
formauce Is regarded as of so little conse-
quence, that 1t has even ceased to be tele-
graphed 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
"Weregre this. and we have to propose
as MEANS of avoiding future annoyance.
THE EXPULSION OF SOUTH CARO-
LIMA FROM THE AMERICAN UNION.
She has never been anything but source of
Ue1dtton, trouble and erpense. At once i'm
pudent and cowardly, boastful and brutal,
her people have at each succeeding Presi-
dental election, filled the air with direful
threats OF disruption, disunion, and all the
kindred calamities beginning with dis and
ending in ton. They have been an ele-
ment of discord and panic-and nop, we
say, let US cast then, forth though they enter all
the ssoiae Of Cincinnati, and run into the sea.
=" Let the thing be regularly and deliber-
ately done. Petitions circulated among
the people for the expulsion of South Caro-
lima would receive innumerable signatures;
and on the meeting of Congress, we might
"batter the gates Off the Capitol with
storms of prayer for that purpose. The
body ,olich has the poacer to admit a State into
the Union has the poaoer to eTpeI State. and zoe
HOPE THAT OUR MEMBERS MAY BE INSTRUCTED
TO ACT PROMPTLY IN THIS MATTER.
"South Carolina does not roto audnt to secede.
LET US EXPEL HER. She always tries to
be held back, in order that she NAV make a
valiant show of intention where there is to
be no performance. Now let us see that
she fulfills her own threats. Tom said
the first man who caught a TARTAR .I've
taken prisoner well, fetch him along.'
1 can't do it, well, come yourself
then.' He ,oont let me-
sit Is precisely in this interesting attitude
that South Carolina now stands before the
country.
sShe has taken the Union prisoner, and
can't fetch it. We go for relieving her
embarrassment, so far as her own depart
ure is concerned, and even forcing her to de-
part in peace, without her prisoner.
LET THE SOUTH GO IN PEACE-THE TRIBUNE
WILL AID THEM.
@If the cotton States shall become satis-
fled that they can do better out of the Uni
on than in it. zoe insist on letting them 90 in
peace. The right to secede may be revolu-
tionary one, but it erists nevertheless.
We must ever resist the right of any
State to remain in the Union and nullify or
defy the laws thereof. To aoithdrG,o from the
Union is quite another matter. Whenever
considerable section of our Union shall deLib-
erately resolue to go out zoe shall resist all CO.
erciue measures designed to keep them in. We
hope never to live in Republic whereof
one section is pinned to another by bayOn-
ets."-Ne,o York Tritune, Nou. 8, 1860.
s'If the cotton States unitedly and earn
estly wish to withdraw peacefully from the
Union, zoe think they should and toould be al
lotced to do so. Any attempt to compel them By
force to remain, aoouLd be contrary to hteprinct-
pies enuncidted in the immortal Declaration of
dependence-contraryt to the fundamental
ideas on which human liberty is based."-
Neto York Tribune, Nou. 26, 1860.
.sIf it (the Declaration of Independence)
justified the secession from the British En-
of mil nj COl0nictc n
zoe do not see aohy it should not JUSTIFY the
secession of ttue millions of Soittherners, from
the Union. in 1861."-New York Tribune,
Dec. IL, 1860.
'sWheneuer it shall be clear that the great
body Of the Southern people haze become con-
to escape from k. WE WILL DO OUR BEST
TO FORWARD THEIR VIEWS."-Nea0
York Tribune, Feb. %, 1861.
In review of the speech of Mr.. LONG,
of this State, the Tribune editor in his pa
per of April IL, 1864, says:
"Now. we do not care to deal at this
time with the falsehood and sophistry
which thoroughly pervade this speech-its
continual assumption that the Loyal States
have made war on the seceders in order to
coerce them back into the Union. : We hold
that the secessionists could haze had a peaceful
dissolution of the Union had they really de-
u,
after free and fair discussion, decided to
separate from the Union. So zoe told them
at the time; so most of the leading Repub-
icdn journals told thens-dU in absolute good
faith. President Lincoln Gouernor Morgan,
and nearly all of US, openly favored Conuen-
tion of the States, tofsich, (and which only, as
the disunionists well know ,oould haze had
authority and po'oer to decree a peaceful dtsso-
luton of the linton. But this they utterly
spurned and scoffed at."-NeU York Iri-
bu,se, april IL, 1864.
BEN. WADE ON THE SECESSION RAMPAGE.
The Hon. BENZ. WADE, U. S. Senator
from Ohio, made speech in thu Senate,
December 4, 1856, in which he coined the
following Cong. Globe, Sd Sess. 34th Cong.
D. 25.
s "But Southern gentlemen stand here and
in most all of their speeches, speak OF the
dissolution of the Union, as an element of
every argument, as though 1t were pecu-
liar condescension on their part that they
permitted the Union to stand at all. If
they do not feel 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, am not one of
those who expect that they will long con-
tinue under it. am not one of those tcho
tooaild ask them to continue in such q Union
It would be doing violence TO the platform of
the party to ,ohich belong. We have adopt
ed the old Declaration Of Independence as
the basis of our political movements, which
declares that any people aohen their Gouern-
n.ent ceases to protect their rights-,ohen it is
so subuerted from the true purposes of Gouern-
,nent as to oppose them, have the right to
refer to fundamental principles, and il need
be, to destroy the Government under aohich they
liue, and to erect on its ruins another more
conducive to their welfare. L hold that
they have this right. ,oiI not blame any
people for exercising it, whenever they think
this contingency has come. You
cannot torcibly hold in this Union, for the