Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-31

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The Journal sneering at Judge Van
TRUMP, says:
"Judge Van Trump has changed parties
two or three times, but he has never
changed his principles"
Judge VAN TRUMP entered political life
a Wing, and continued in that party until
its disruption, an enthuastic admirer and
supporter OF its gallant leader, HENRY
CLAY.
Not single question which then divid-
ed the two great parties of the country, is
now at issue-all of them have been passed
upon and new questions have taken their
place.
Every question of importance then held
ia common by the Whig and Democratic
parties, is now in issue and the battle is
being fought upon them-the Democratic
party and the honest portion of the Whig
party standing now where they always
stood-the recreant Wings who, as soon as
the breath of life passed from their gallant
old leader, apostatized their life long prin-
ciples, and have found new lights and new
leaders in the Abolition party. This ac-
counts for the seeming paradox that Judge
VAN TRUMP was Whig and is now a Dem
ocrat, without change of principles. ~ ~
No man, living or dead, ever had a more
correct estimate of men, their aims and de-
signs. than HENRY CLAY had of the Aboli-
ton leaders, who now control the Radical
party. Near thirty years before the
late civil war commenced by the acts of
their leaders, Mr.. CLAY, in the United States
Senate, depicted their designs and the con-
sequences that must ensue therefrom, all OF
which has since become history. We quote
from CoLroN's Life of Henry Clay, page 157,
volume6. He said:
"S1R: 1 am not in the habit of speaking
lightly of the possibility of dissolviug this
happy Union. The Senate knows that
have deprecated illusions, on ordinary oc-
casions. to that direful event. The country
will testify that if there be anything in the
history of my public career worthy of rec
ollectian, it is the truth and sincerity of
nv ardent devotion to its lasting preserva-
tion, But we should be false to our allegi-
ance to it, If we do not discriminate be-
tween the imaginary and real dangers by
which it may be assailed. Abolition should
no longer be regarded as an imaginary
danger. The Abolitionists. let me suppose,
succeed in their present aim OF uniting the
inhabitants of the free States, as one man,
against the inhabitants of the slave States /:
union on the one side will beget union on
the other, and the process of reciprocal
will be attended with all the
violent prejudices, embittered passions
and implacable animosities which ever
degraded or deformed human nature.
A virtual dissolution of the Union
Na1x ralan rrytnf he
forms of its existence remain
The most valuable element of Union, mu-
tual kindness, the feelings of sympathy,
the fraternal bonds which now happily
unite US will have been eXtinguished for
ever-one section will stand in menacing
hostile array against the other. The colli-
sion of opinion will be quickly followed by
the clash of arms. l will not now attempt
to describe scenes which now happily lie
concealed from our view. Abolitionists
would shrink back in dismay
and horror at the contemplation of desc
lated fields, conf1agrated cities, murdered
and the overthrow of the fair
est fabric of human government that ever
rose to animate the hopes of civilized man.
Nor should these Abolitionists fatter them
selves that, if they succeed in their object
OF uniting the people of the States, they
will enter the contest with q numerical su-
pcTlOEIlJ budb uuSb luoulO NlOoOhJs oAL
history and experience proves the hazard
and uncertainty of war. And we are ad-
monisheA by Holy Writ that the race is not
to the swift, nor the battle to the strong
But it they were to conquer, whom should
they conquer? A foreign foe; one who has
insulted our flag, invaded our shores, and
laid our country waste? No, sir; no, sir
1t would be conquest without laurels,
without glory; self, suicidal conquest: :
nf hr0thars hr0thers.
achieved by one over another portion of the
of common ancestors, who
nobIy pledged their lives, their fortunes
and their sacred honor; and fought and
bled, side by side, in many hard battle on
land and ocean-severed our country from
the British Crown, and established our in
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g Never did prophet paint the future in
colors more true, than did HENRY CLAY,
years since, paint the scenes
which the misguided ambition of Aboli-
tionism and the inordinate longing for Of
fee of its followers, has plunged the coun-
try.
Because Judge VAN TRUMP believed that
Mr.. CLAY was right in his opposition to the
mad and disunion sentiments of the Aboli-
ton leaders, and for the reason that he
Joined that party that in 1850 struck hands
with the "Great Commoner to save the
Union, he is twitted with changing his
party and with holding on to his princi-
Piles, as if the latter tact was one that, in
,hese degenerate days, was one worthy of
When Judge VAN TRUMP Joined the
oroon;1afiop tha old Whio
party had ended its existence. Itwas dead
murdered by pretended friends anxious
10 escape from it, that, like mercenaries
with their swords, they would carry their
votes to a better market. Rotten with the
corruption of such men as now compose
he main body of the Negro Suffrage party,
t is no wonder that B. F. WADE said it was
lot only s'dead but stinketh." Judge VAN
TRUMP and those who acted with him
patriots in hearts and in deeds-had no
,ther party organization to which they
could attach themselves but that of the
Democracy. The country was in dan
ger, and as CLAY and CAss and WEB
sTER and DOUGLAS, casting aside all
differences, rallied to its defense
in the compromise measures of 1850, so
the more patriotic of the Whig party join
ed the Democratic party for similar OBJ
ject, That portion of the Wings, who, as
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS in his letter to DUTrE
J. PIERCE, of Rhode Island, in 1886, said,
had no honest principles to keep them to-
gether, and who were bound together only
By a common longing for office-a common
ietestation of the people who had put them
1own, and by sympathy of hatred to
every man of purer principles than them
selves, Joined the Negro Suffrage ranks,
and in SO doing, as they repudiated every
principle they once held dear, they incur
red the contempt of the entire community,