Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-08
Not Pleased with it's IS Rebellion
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Evidently, the Jo,tssad5 is not pleased
with its rebellion Record" It finds sat-
isfaction in denouncing Democrats as hav-
ing helped beginthe War, as having held
out to the South encouragement that they
would aid them with force to help carry
Secession successfully through. 1t speaks
of the war asa democratic Rebellion
When its arguments are reproduced prov
ing TO the Soufir that the Southern States
had an indisputable right to withdraw from
the Union. and that there was nothing in
the Constitutionor in the the theory of our
Government authorizing the employment
LOT force to compel a State to remain in, the
Union--that the South was not, in UNDER
taking to Secede, inaugurating either Re-
beilion or Nullification, and that the use OF
United States troops to keep. the South in
the Union would be q complete perversion
of our torn of Government, it occasions
that Journal unpleasant sensations. 1t
ought to. Z = y : = = r = - Z =
/ gIt was the Ne0 York Tribune Ohio State
Journal, Cincinnati Q Commercial, Indian
dpolis Journal and such Republican
papers as they-speaking in the name
of the Repnblicaha party (which had
just elected Mr.. LINCOLN President
that ,encouraged thes South TO 7embark
in Secession = sEThe Southern States
were told by these journals that they could
Withdraw from the Union, If they wanted
to do so, that they had-the clearest sort OF
right to do so; that force would not
be used to keep them in the Union that. .op
that point they could make their minds
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And yet with this record in existence,
they have the dishonesty to charge that
the Democray of the North encourage the
Sodth to Secede. . The DemocsraticN party
had been voted outo of power, and the Re-
publican party had just been voted into
power. = N NaturallyF eand rightfnlly ethe
Southern people looked to the organs of
the Republican party, and not to the or
gans of the Democratic party, to ascertain
how they were likely be dealt with, in the
event of attempting Secession. From the
Republican press, and not from the
Democratic press, did they receive
the announcement to withdraw from the
Union. Having taken the yRepdblican
press at their word-believing that they
spoke for the successful party-they be-
came involved in War. xxs
To them and to the people did the Re
publican press and Republican politicians
prove false. Had they from the very be-
ginning, from Immediately after the Pres
idential election in 1860, told the Southern
people that neither by the terms of the
Constitution. nor by the theory of our
Government, was it allowable for State to
withdraw from the Union, and that il they
undertook to withdraw their Seates from
it, that effort would be resisted by what
ever force audi means the Federal Govern
ment, administered by the Republican
party, should consider necessary, matters
would have taken an altogether different
turn. There would not have been much
War, and hence we should mot have our
present intolerable Public Debt and crush
ingly dull times. S@eSs, =
Senator DOUGLAS, in private letter to
Hon. JOHN ]. TAYLOR, dated Washington,
December 20, 1860, said that the difficulty
in the way of an amieable adjustment be-
tween the North and South, was that
''many" of the Republican "leaders desire
disunfon on party grounds" In the great
speech that he made in the United States
Senate, January 8, 1851, he said - .sal
..The sole responsibility of our disagree
ment, and the only difficulty in the way of
an amicable adjustment, is with the Re-
publican spartysi g - $ LOO
THURLow WEED, in 1862, then editor of
the Albany Journal, which was the under
stood organ Of Mr.. SEWARD, in an editorial
discussing the War, used this language:a
"And finally Congress adjourned,@ hav-
ing done and said nothing to strength.
en- or encourage the Ypion 2men of
the Border States.9 Virginia, a long
time poised, finally took the plunge.
North Carolina and Tennessee followed.
These great and powerful States were lost
to the Union because the Republican press
dad Repubt btioGn representatives. l1ere beguiled
ssith the popssJds ided5 they discharged their
first and highest duty in standing By and on
the Chicago Rlatform.p -
We]doS not wonder that the Republican
press and the Republican leaders of 1860
generally don't like reference to their
4 Rebellion Record" 1t shows that they
played into 5 the hands ofsdthe' Southern
tire-eaters, and that between them the
couptry-w was precipitated into War To
their account it is chargeable, and it is
craven ih the Hepd dblican press and the Rez
publican leaders to undertake to shirk
their share of that terrible responsibility.
One Repubffcan Recruit.