Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-07
Tbe IsIrbt of scces.ion.

before the war that every State had right
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Our opinion is, that this was the doctrine
IF the party now calling itself Republican,
and that among its strongest advocate was
that self same Ohio State Journal. We may
be wrong in this, but we think that the
proof is sufficient to convict that sheet and
Its party, before any Court in Christendom.
In 1860, the Journal in its leading editorial,
headed, "Is THEAMsBIcAN UNION MYTH?"
said that:
"Prouision toas made to let States into the
Confederdcy, BUT NO OBLIGATION is IMPOSED,
BINDING STATES TO REMAIN IN THE UNION,
nor poeoer giuen directly to any constituted du-
thority TO COERCE THIN INTO OBEDIENCE IN
case they acish quietly to aoithdrG,0 from the
family circle. Our President has declared
he would resist notification but not seces-
sion. Can any State or States secede, and
continue to obey United States lawsl
THE object of the American Union is to
provide for the common defense, general
welfare, &c. 1t is so stated in the preamble
to the Constitutions. The General Govern
ment is but a representative of all the States.
1t is not genuine Federal, centralized
power. Now, If any State or States aoish to
renounce the benefits Of this general protection,
eipients of such adUantdgesP The Cotton
States are not rebelling ag inst the Federal
authorities. nor nullifying any particular
general law. They simply request to be re-
leased from the Union compact. To CoERCE
TaEN 70 RES11S in THE UNi0N B1
GOVERNMENT. Is TO ENTIRELY.
CHAMGETHE NATURE OF FEDERAL
AUTHORITY. 1t ,oiI be to make the Fed
erdt Government, not a representative Of the
States, their instrument in pr0uiding for the
common defense &c, BUT SUPERIOR, CEN
TRALIzED POWER, HAVING AN EXISTENCE
INDEPENDENT OF THE STATES. We regret
being compelled to take this uie,o Of the matter,
but it seems Inevitable" WV y lSt'
Four days after the above was written
and printed (November IL, 1S60), the
Journal, finding that secession would not
come at its bidding, determined to force
South Carolina into it whether her people
were willing or not, said: II -r-s.ri
"We begin to have serious apprehensions
that the wretched little oligarchy of South
Carolina intends to remain in the Union, after
all her threats of secession.
1--WE reqret this, and we have to propose
THE EXPULSION OF SOUTH CARROLL
MA FROM THE AMERICAN UNION.
She has neuer been anything but source of
ve1atio,a, trouble and e1pense. At once inn
pudent ana coWaroly, Soasolal ; anu 11ueai' pa;
dentioI er aelection fiIIed the air viii direfnl
threats of disruption, lisunion, aud all the
kindred calamities beginning with dis and
ending in ton. They have been an ele-
Inent of ,discord and panic--and nolo, we
say. let us cast them FORTH though they enter all
the saoiae OF Cincinnati, and run into the sea.
Let the thing be regularly and delioer-
ately zone: fetltioIls clrcuiateu S ath0uS
olina would receive innumerable sigma
lures; and on the meeting OF congress, we
might batter the gates on the Capitol
with storms OF prayer lot tnat purpose.
Ihe body aohtch has the poacer 10 ddnett Stdte
into t'e Onton mas the po'oer 10 e1pet STATE,
ana zoe HOPE THAT OUR MEMBERS MAY BE
INSTRUCTED TO ACT P8oNPrLY IN THIS MAT
TER. Sn%l3-e
Thus the Journal not only nelu 10 Cne
right of a State to secede, but went fur
tber and argued tho right and the expe-,
diencv of forcing States to exercise the
r;nht whether tbav wished to do so or NOT
After Fort Snmter had been invested bv
tba Confederate forces under REAuREGARD
tbo exr1ta,,on- of ,be Journal at what If
81 Ia daCf frtnn inn n mi
euppoeeu was o"o ,.'o.
scarce khe" any Dou'ius' on Ino H''n Vi
March, 1861, after LINCOLN and HAMLIN
had been in power for twenty days, this
,o,,o r,b;o S,oto To,,rnol said
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fottttc'd"s 4Ht uo'u. 20 n'uy gIGoso o't~
toeep tedTS oI WsOec'esy ooe' Sse =. o'.a.y ~ VI
9t III T, .con, o"s ~ 49,
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cAee,thg eONemees Su ,.tG t6ro.,oS ~ nsns
COCA 70 Hte creatures " ee'"' .'"oug'' '"o P'o-
cess ol eos1ss. ,f A o+;oa,,
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uiscoVels ouC ,o.a 80 S.t;t;eo.. Tha "
Me mdSses "su1o Nv, enIit;oian0
Cnloil mas ueoh III ~ ~ hns
LOT Ghelr oTn sen Fl s;, ,'I't;i - nas
Deen llaue Ihet. % ~ ;Sost - ,',;.t, Ho 90,
tn.n@.ng nau stt,,S ~. hna ooob a 20,
td de9reey Seo, t.,g; ''',' ,.e'S ~
ca tae popular u@ oo yp%l
tar naenu any .,le ntasss ~ IaS
giant strengGn ol p1ys'oal auiGriSa ga anu
the measure OF lreeuom en9oyeu ny our
people unoer Ine Oonsthsu'lon, hat n p properiy i;
ulrscV';I, na'e ni"Oe 10 "'o ''' 'p''o
OF uae Y mon ....-r
The Journal was not alone in its advoca-
cy of the right of secession. The Neo
-, 1-i,..,. ioined its Ohio onfadsrate
"" : t''o'''0 1st. ~ 80 ,.;,ht.
ana tnus argued Cle saihe lisne'
"If the cotton States shall become salts
fled that they can do better out of the
Union than in it, zoe insist on letting them go
in peace. The right to secede may DC rev
olutionary ome'ouC IL es.s.s tSa I'LL %
.a, s,ots n re,,o;n Mn in ne Union and ngIIify
or defy the laws thereof. To aoithdra,o from
the Union Is quite another matter. Whenever
considerable sectt0a OF our Y mon Sndtt 0e1tO-