Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-22

or more States; whether the American
Union is grand, startling reality, or
myth, fiction, with which we have been
deiuding ourselves and cheating the
world.
"This question seems to pose our states
men and rulers at this time. They appear
to consult our written Constitution in vain.
The trainers of that instrument evidently
never anticipated secession. Provision was
| made to let States into the Confederacy,
BUT NO, OBLIGATION Is IMPOSED BINDING
STATES TO REMAININ THE UNION, nor power
| given directly to any constituted authority
TO CoERCE THEM INTO OBEDIENCE in case
they wish quietly to- withdraw frCn 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 laws?
"The object OF the American Union Is to
provide for the common defense, general
welfare, &c. It is SO stated in the preamble
| to the Constitution. The General Govern
ment is but representative of all the
States. 1t is not a genuine Federal, CEN
| traliZed power. Now, II any State or States
wish to renounce the benefits of this general
protection, who can they be compelled to
continue the recipients of such advantages?
The Cotton States are not rebelling against
| the Federal authorities, nor nullifying any
particular general law. Theyosimplyz re-
quest to be released from the Union COM
pact. To COERCE THEM TO REMAIN IN THE
| UNION. BY THE FORCES OF THE
| UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. Is
| To- ENTIRELY CHANGE THE MA
| TURE OF FEDERAL AUTHORITY. 1t
will be to make the Federal Government,
not representative of the States, their in
strument in providing for the common de-
| tense. &c, BUT SUPERIOR, CENTRALIZED
POWER, HAVING AN kXIsTENCE INDKPENDENT
OF THE STATES. We regret being COM
PEELED to take this view of the matter, but
it seems msinevitable." 80 - '''AA
ATTEMPT TO FORCE SECESSION.
Four days alter, November IL, 1860, the
same Ohio StateJ onrnal edited as above
stated, fearing that the Union would not
otherwise be dissolved, determined to drive
South Carolina out, whether the people re-
siding therein were willing to go or not
| Under the caption, Expulsion of South
Carolina" the Journal said:
"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. lsll NJ
CAT first, we had some hope that in the
| vast quantity of smoke which she breathed
| forth, there was little earnest fire. But
| there was not, it seems. South Carolina
| may still be vaporing away, but her per-
| formance is regarded as of so little conse-
quence, that it has even ceased to be tele-
graphed from Charleston. cIJk-t-t 90
.There is nomore sensation. People do
not look any more for the secession news
| 1t is become to them .JfGI gtH .-iF
| A tale of little meaning. though the words are
strong.'s ,-,--r-... .-...a,. : s..H-Fk \. ~
''We regret this. and we have to propose
as means of avoiding future annoyance,
THE EXPULSION OF SOUTH CAROLI-
hM
She has never been anything but a source
OF vexation, trouble and expense. At once
| impudent and cowardly, boastful and bru-
| tai, her people have at each succeeding
Presidential election, filled the air with
direful threats of disruption. disunion, and
all the kindred. ealamaties beginning with
dis and ending in tion. They have been an
| element of discord and panic-and now, we
say. let us cast them forth, though they en-
ter all the swine OF Cincinnati and run in
to the sea.
"Let the thing be regularly and deliber-
ately done. Petitions circulated among
the people for the expulsion of South Car
olina would receive innumerable sigma
lures; and on the meeting or Congress, we
might batter the gates off the Capitol
with storms of prayer for that purpose.
The body which has the power to admita
State into the Union has the power to ex-
pei a State, and we HOPE THAT OUR MEM
BERs MAY BE INSTRUCTED TO ACT PROMPTLY
IN THIS MATTER. 75l l':, t7 is-
'@South Carolina does not now want to
7ecede. LET Us EXPEL HER. She al
ways tries to be held back, in order that
she may make a valiant show of intention
where there is to be no performance. Now
let us see that she fulfills her own threats
Tom said the first man who caught
Tartar I've taken prisoner fWell, fetch
him along.' Il can't do it, sWell, come
yourself them He won't let me- 1870
ut is precisely in this interesting atti.
tude that South Carolina now stands before
the country. ,f,f0ar,
"She has taken the Union prisoner, and
can't fetch it.n,5We go for relieving her en-
barrassment,I SO tar as her own departure
is concerned. and even forcing her to de-
part in peace, without her prisoner. -
LET THE SOUTH Go IN PEAcE-THE TRIBUNE
mo. u = PROMISES IT'S AID. seq iiN
eff the cotton States shall become satis-
fled that they can do better out of the Union
than in it, we insist on letting them go in
peace. The right tosecede may ybe a revo-
Iutionary one, but it exists nevertheless =
We must ever resist the right of any
State to remain in the Union and nullify or
defy the laws thereof. To withdraw from
the Union is quite another matter. When
ever a considerable section of our Union |
shall deliberately resolve to go out we
shall resist all coercive measures designed |
to keep them in. We hope never to live in
a Republic whereof one section is pinned
to another by bayonets. "-Neto York Tri6-
ane, NoU. 9, 1850. ,yatil4 .1LdI fA3 3at!3I- tAI
IF the cotton States unitedly and earn4
estly wish to withdraw peacefully from
the u nion, we think they should and would
be allowed to do so. Any attempt to COM
pei them by force to remain, would be con-
trary to the principles senunciated in the
immortal Declaration of Independence
contrary to the l. fundamental ideas on
which human liberty is based ."-Neeo
Y ork Tribune, Nou. 26, 1850. 1tif
sit it (the Declaration of Independence)
justified the secession from the British |
1776, we do not see why 1t should not
JUSTIFY the secession of five millions of
from the Unions in 1S61.-l
Neeo York Tribune, Dec IL, 1860. "as Il
whenever it shall be clear that the
great body of the Southern people have
become ,conclusively alienated from the
Union and anxious to escape from it, WE
THEIR VIEWS."-NeD York Tribune, Feb.
%, lS6l.s5r5 ga satsW .ftiGdf. .-a Il
In review of the speech of Mr.. LONG,
Of this State, the Tribune editor, in his pa
per of April IL, 1864, says: 49,
"NOw, we do not care to deal at this
time with the falsehood and sophistry
which thoroughly pervade this speecb-its
assumption that the loyal States
have made war on the seceders in order to
,oerce them back into the Union. We hold
that the secessionists could have had a
peaceful dissolution of the Union had they
really desired it, and had the people of their
States, after free and fair discussion, de-
,ided to separate from the Union. So we
told them at the time; 80 most OF the lead
ing Republican journals told them-all in
absolute good faith. President Lincoln,
Governor Morgan, and nearly all of us.
openly favored Convention OF the States,
which (and which only. as the disunionists
well knew,) would have had authority and
power to decree peaceful dissolution OF
;he Union. But this they utterly spurned
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