Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-30

any more than Mr.. Lincoln, in this speech
expressly admits to be their right !? He
said :sfs Any peopls"--well. that will il
: cluae the, South. WON'T it? for they sre
a lssme peoPle-f any people, any where''-
that will include them; they were some
I where in lS4S, though pretty nearly no.
4, where now any people any where, be-
] ing inclin,d and having the power. have
the right to- rise up, and shake off the
! existing government, and form q new
! one that suits them BETTER Now,
1nw hat did any Southern man ever CLAIM,
: more than that?, But that is not all r Q
Il ays, *This is a most valuable and a mott
n sacred right; a right which we hope O. d
! believe is to libeTate the world.nr Let ne
p stop one moment. there. and ask you what
= is a sacred right 1t is not right of mans
IL is not right of mans dis
p icovery; if is not a. mans gift to man, but q
Il sacred right is a right which we derive
. from that Almighty Ruler of the universe
who made us out of the clay of the earth
to obey his will That is, what a sacred
right is.yg A. sacred right is a .God-giyen
right, not man-given right; and such
/, right Mr.. Lincoln declared was the rightof
: any people, any where, to rise up and de-
ID stroy their Government and form a new
S Government that suited them better. He
said in effect, then, to the people of the
South, tsYou have God-given right TO rise
I up, shake of this Gevernment and estab-
I. lsh a, Government that suits you better"
= But, my friends, he did ,netsstop here. Lest
it might be supposed that he confined this
right to case in which all the people lof
the country were dissatisfied with their
Government, he says, ''nor is this right
q confined to cases in which the whole peo-
!. pie of an existing Government may choose
to exercise it, Any portion f7such peo-
= ple'-th was just saying to the South,
this right is not confined to cases in which
all the people of the United States are con-
pqrna6- hnt norton Of the nannlQ Of
the United States. Amy portion of such
people that can, may revolutionizei and
make their own of SO much of tt eterritory
as they :inhabit." Now. did you ever hear
anything said by any Southern man
stronger than that? In fact, he says TO the
people of the South: ''It is not necessary
that all of the people of the U Dited States
should seek to shake off theirlown Govern
ment aud establish another, but if you, the
speopleof the South, want to do this thing,
3 ii you, can, you may rise, up, shake off this
Government, and establish a Government
that suits you better, and this is your Coz
given right" 1 .b5or If 3G i0id
THE MEN OF THE NORTH DIsUNIoNIsTs.
-. But he goes still further than that. At
the time Mr.. Lincoln made this speech it
was not the South that was talking the
most of dissolution. The men VINO were
talking the most OF dissolution and openly
advocating it were the Abolitionists otitne
North. They were the men who had IT at
the head of their papers that the Con tifu-
tiou of the Union was ''eov inaht VITA
death and a lesgue with hell. They
were the men VINO cried out, Fear down
the starry flag; tear down the Haunting
lie.o They were the men who, as Wendell
Phillips admitted in his speech. but a few
years ago az Cincinnati, had said, s"Dis-
Solve the UDion." They were the men who
were petItioning Congress and the
State Legislatures to dissolve the Union.-
1t was not the South, then, that talked of
:. dissolutiV+, or talked of it in any serious
strain. 1t was these men of the North. and
therefore Mr.. Lincoln was saying, both to
the Northern dissolutionists and the South
ern secessionists, that if their portion of
the Union saw fit and could do il, they had
right to rise up and shake off the Gov
ernment and establish another Govern
: ment that would suit them better, and to
possess and to. hold all the territory which
T such portion inhabited. But he foresaw
that, ffthe South should attempt to dissolve
the Union, there would be party down
: there in favor of maintaining the Union,
that there would be Union men there, and
so what does he say to the Disunion men of
E the South? He goes on, "a majority of any
I portion of such people may revolutienize,
, putting down minority, not mingled
: with or one about them, who may oppose
g. their movements. Such a minority was
! precisely the case of the tories of our Rev
!. ,olution." 10 Now, my friends, what was that
L 4Dub say W buG ScCcSctOulobSO VI
! -sf you can get a majority down there
4 for dissolution you have right to rise
. up and shake off this government.
! aud you have a. right to put, down
I'll the Union r. men in, your midst or
i near by you, and if there should be Onion
i men down there when you rise up and at
q tempt to shake off this Government, those
t Union men will be just like the Tories Of
: the Revolution of 1776." ri n, 9te,--4 Ii ..i
I'll Now, / appeal to you, suppose l bad got
n up here two or three years ago and made
a that speech, and no one had known that
j was quoting Mr.. Lincoln's words, but
made it as my own speech, and denounced
the Union men of the South, and denounced
+ them as a set of Tories, what would every
l Radical within the sound of my voice have
: said? "Hang him to the nearest tree ~
III And yet that is what Mr.. Lincoln, in the
y House of Representatives of the United
= States, under the obligations of his official
q oath, declared to the whole world, and
d therefore to the pc (ple of the South. w
# WE'LL in time Mr.. Lincoln came to be
. President of the United States, and when
: he did become President, and portion OF
!, the people of the South had come to be OF
!, the opinion that their interests required
s them to go out of the Union, did they not
a take Mr.. Lincoln at his word? He had
# never retracted one word of that speech,
J. and they had no right to expect that ne
III who had thus solemnly under his official
g oath declared that they had sacred and q
= God given right to shake off the Govern
r ment and set up for themselves-they had
: no right, say, to expect that he would
y take that back, and. if they made the at
2 tempt, would make their land one vast sea
! of blood and desert of desolation. - -
Show me, If you can, the Democrat thai
ever gave them half that encouragement
Is Show me one word ever uttered by Vallan
Ie diehani, or Pendleton, or Thurman, or an!
ID other Democratic speaker, that gave to tn
n South oue-thousandth part of the encour
he agement TO GO out that the President Q
ut the United States, the chosen Chief Magfs
N trate of these Radical men, gave them Il
ID that very speech. 1t cannot be done, an'
T. whenever they talk about who encouraged
the South to go out ask if their owl
ll President did not encourage them. % .
.. .t'i" WHAT SENATOR WADE SAID. ~
,f Now let us pass to another man. You Sc,
4 that 1 am dealing with big fish, and no
= minnows, as l said would when started
: !, out; come to Mr.. Benz. F. Wade. Let "
- see what he says, and l won't quote from
II any stump speech of his; will quote from
h what he said in the Senate hall of the ma
q ton, under the obligation OF his oficia
= oath, what he was bound by his oath not Il
!, say unless it were true. He was one o
a your Senators in 1855. There was thel
ir pending before the Senate a bill known a
i tory to it. Mr.. Wade opposed il in speeel
- of no small ability. What was the grount
:. of his opposition to it? Why, my friends
YOU at least who are read in the polibicsio
d the country win remember that there werl
,e such things as the, Virginia Resolutions o
: 1898 and 1899, and you know that If q mai
II we're to rise up in this audience and pro
/ claim himself a Democrat, in. favor of tn
g. resolutions of '9S and so, it would be take
Dad alyor,