Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-01
The Cincinnati Commercial


HE C1uC1Mna11 COmHmerCA8L :
Again.
Some days ago the Cincinnati Commercial
expressed the opinion that we had done a
'sbrilliant thing in quoting DOUGLAS, For
NEY, GREELEY and .THURLow WEED to
show that the Republican politicians could
have averted the War. Thereupon we re-
produced a quotation from an editorial it
gave the public in March, 1861, wherein it
declared to have given good and substan-
tial reasons for its advocacy of Peacesble
Separation, and ,badgered" the Cincinnati
Gazette for "wrongheadedness" in not do
ing likewise. In reply to this the CONNER
cial said, substantially, that great fear
rested upon it that the majority that had
voted against the election of LINCOLN in
1850, would make common cause against the
Republicans; that had it not been afraid;
that had 1t then known as much as it knew
after the War broke out, it would have
been the very impersonation of bravery
and would have been for maintaining the
Union at all hazards. 1t now holds that to
have been in favor of Separation before the
War-of allowing the South to withdraw
from the Union-was treason; that such
people are not entitled to be looked upon
with any sort of favor. 1t thereby con-
victs It's editor with having been a traitor;
but seeks exculpation because he had not
maturity of vision, and because the then
editor of the CddiS Sentinel maintained
position that did not essentially differ
from its position. 1t alleges that the fol-
lowing appeared in the Cadiz (O.) Sentinel,
January 9: tt
"The Republicans are now playing a
good game of brag. But we assure our
Southern friends that it is all gas. =
When the time for action arrives-we
speak what we knoU-they will find ene-
mics enough to fight at home, without GO
ing South" la
says: .S,,aa- 80 Iit
1.-THE truth is, such newspapers as the
OHIO STATESMAN, and such politicians as it
represents, had deceived the South. The
Southerners7 believed they would have
Northern Democratic help in the Rebel
lion, which they intended to be revolu-
tion." -ea-nl-',t ts lf--'t5a
If, inasmuch as the Cadiz Sentinel said sun
dry things, .'the ONO STATESMAN, and such
politicians as it represents, had deceived the
South" why did not the Commercial quote
an editorial from the STATESMAN wherein
it gave the South to understand that if she
unfurled the banner of Rebellion, "such
politicians as it represents" would make
common cause with her? Why
attribute certain language to the Cddis
Sentinel giving to it the construction that
it gave encouragement to the Secession
movement, and then accuse THE STATES
MAN and its political co-laborers of having
acted with bad faith toward the South?
The Commercial can not, however, get out
OF the way of its damaging secession re-
cord by getting behind the coat tail of the
editor of the Cadiz Sentinel. 2
On the 3lst of January, 1861, the C1ncin-
natl Commercial, in an editorial (mind yon
an editorial, and not an extract from the
Cddiz SentineI) gave notice to the South,
and the whole world for that matter, if the
whole world were disposed to stop and lis
ten to it, that the sentiment of the North,
which but short time before was unani-
nous "for the preservation of the Federal
Union," "exists no longer;" that "a revo-
luton in the public sentiment of the free
States has been accomplished within sixty
days" and that sit is not now the settled
opinion of the people of the North that our
Federal Union must be preserved at all
hazards Furthermore, the Commercial
said:
"Gentlemen of Virginia and Kentucky,
there a1iH be no coercion. SET ASIDE ALL
FEARS ON THAT POINT. We could and would
readily sacrifice men and money by thou
sands and millions to put down factions, to
vindicate the Government against mobs;
but zoe do not 1cdTlt to conquer people, and
WE WILL NOT TRY TO DO IT. there
are any unconditional Union men Tin the South,
THEY MUST FIGHT THE BATTLE IN THEIR OWN
WAY. THE NORTH WILL NOT INTER-
POSE ITS MILITARY POWER BE-
TWEEN THE SOUTH AND THE ES-,
TABLISHMENT OF ANY GOVERN
MENT- THAT MAY BE THE PLEAS
URE OF ITS PEOPLE,"
Again, we ask the reader to note that this
is not quotation from the Cadiz Sentinel;
but from an editorial that appeared in the
Cincinnati Commercial on the 3lst of Janua-
ry, 1861. 81 .-
e POLLARD, in his work on the Southern
Rebellion, and its truthfulness remains un-
denied, said that Mr.. SEWARD promised
Judge CAMPBELL, of the Supreme Court,
that Fort Sumter should be evacuated to
prevent War; but that faith was never kept
in that regard. See page AZ. Ha
The Cleveland Herald (Radical) of the
29th of April, 1861, said:
''Ve haze it. from authority not to be doubt
ed, that Mr.. Chase is opposed to War measures,
that, had he the pOuer, he would not fire
gun +; BUT WOULD RECOGNIZE THE INDEPEN-
nENCE or THE SECFnFn STATESo
To use the language of the Commercial,
sit may. seem tedious to go back and dis
cuss the issues that were made at the be-
ginning of the War, but the" Republican
s'organs will have it so.'
In view of the foregoing evidence, we
charge that i''the truth is," that the Cincie-
natl Commercial, ''and such politicians as it
represents, had deceived the South" and
thereby contributed to inflict upon the
country the recent great calamitous War
a War that desolated the fairest portion of
the Union, and burthened the other por-
tions with a grevious debt-a War that
through battle-ields hurried hundreds of
thousands of our people into premature
eternity, and filled the land with widows
and orphans, with wretchedness and mis-
cry. If there is an avenging God, the Cops-
qnercial, land such politicians as it repre-
sents,n will fearfully have to answer before
the Almighty when he shall pass upon the
quick and the dead, for helping to bring
upon the country this great crime.
1.-THE Zdnesuiue Signal is mistaken in its
assertion as to Deacon Gray. j. w. Gray
was the proprietor of the Plain Dealer, but
n. A. Gray was the best and principal
,oriter on the paper during most, if not all
the time, of his brothers proprietorship.
For some time previous to his death, J. w.