Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-02-17
Tea down the Haunting lie!
Half mas the staIrs fla !
Insult no sunny SIX
= " ith hates p.luted rag N

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" ith hates p iuted ragp ~
b At the same time, Wendell Phillips in
!. x4mininx the work thus commenced, de-
clar.d that there was merit in the Re-
publican partyGit was a sectional party
Lh.. North arrayed against the South"
=. The promise t1ns early made OF the ha-
tired of this party to the union of these
States was not disappointed in its further
development. Defeated in the Presidential
contest by the Democracy. then, as now.
and ever. standing by the Union and the
CONSTITUTIONS. iI next engaged in the busi-
ness of notification. What South Carolina
ing in no less tina six OF the States OF the
Nnrth. They passed in these States what
was termed :. Personal Liberty bills,'' nul-
iIiying ami setting at nau2ht law of
Congress passed in pursuance OF the plain
and Imperative provision OF the Constitu-
ton of the United States. Out of this
gr,w what has ben alluded to here as tn.
!. Wellington rescue casef in Ohio, the
Booth case in Wisconsin, the Burns case in
Massachusetts,, and numerous other kind
red cases. wherein this p.ctacle was pre-
sented OF a party encouraging an armed
r.. sistanee to the laws of the United States.
Nav more. men in high official position in
the Republican party ind"rsed it. and tn.
aid OF partisan courts was invoked to give
it the 8 mbiance of judicial authority.
The Republican party of ONO were not
behind their brethren of other States ia
Jn.i utterances on these subjects. but
through its conventions and in the per-
suns OF its highest officials fully endorsed
their arts.
% In 1859. this party held convention al
lev, land. which was, accordi q To the re
port of its principal organ there largely at
,en0ed. and its proceedings qaue to,te 10 lhe
Republ,cdn party politics of the State in the
fall canapdign of 1892 That convention
was addressed by the then Governor of the
81 ate, Mr.. Chase. and iJ s'undniaOusly' anu
with -qreut enthusiasm adopted Lhe follow
ing declaration:
sTnat every violation OF the Constitution.
should be watched with jealousy and re-
,en.ed with spirit;
..Trat the history of every free people
has shown the impossibility of cordia
romplianc. " ithlaws " hich neither embou,
uor xcuse the public wi; -.
That the enforcement of such law>
against a., unwilling people Is productive
only OF evils threatening public order amt
tue .saoli'.y OF governmental institutions;
DO therefore, publish and
'-DkCLARE:
II. That the several states composing tn.
United States of America are not united on
tie principle Oh uniinIit.d d Submission to
their Gent raj Government. but that BY
compact. under tiie Al y l- and title OF Con-
stituti"n tor tue U tied States and -ot
amendments thereto, they Constituted a
General Government tor certain d. finit.
y. wers. re~erviug each State 10 itself the
i+siduary mass of right 10 their own sell
governments; and that " henSOrvtr the G4n-
rral G,vtrnme fit assumes undelegated U w.
ers it, acts are unauihoritative. void and of
n" f,rce. and being void can derive no va
iidity from mere judicial Interpretation ::
that TO thi- cOmpat zach State acceded H.
n State.aand Is All iuts gral party; that this
e,oveihment, cr ated BY this compact, wa.
not made the exclusive or final judge OF the
extent of the powers delegaJ. q TO itseIi
s,i,ce t. at would have made lis discretion
aud not the Consiii utIOn the measure of its
powers; but that, IN all other cases of COM
pact betn ern parties having no common
Judge, each party has an equal right to
Judge for itself. as well of ipfractiOns as OF
the mode and m, asure of redress" r75as.as-
This is the first Kentucky resolution
without chau ge of q word or syllable.
That resolution, that has been so often re-
terr-u to here as the very essence OF the
Goclrint OF secessiOn-was made the plat
form. as late as 1859, of the Repuhlica,
party oi OHIO, that now has tn etfrontery4
To charge the Democratic party with sym
pathizilig with secession. That resolution
save as modified and Construed by TIL
fathers Of the Constitution. was never made.
q T. atiOrn OF the D.mOcracy
True to the doctrines and theories th,,.
aDmuhced. this Republican or selt-styIed
Union party-for they are convertible
terms. meaning the same political organ
ization-in the spring If 1850 was found at
Chicago nominating as their candidate for
| Prpsident, A0ranain Lincoln, VINO in his
place In Congress had declared that ..apy
people, any where, being iuclined, aud hay-
lug tlie power. have tile right to rise up
and shake off the existing government,
and term anew one thai suits them betGer.',' =
After the elections had resulted in their
success. their OPTIONS emed to have un-
dergone no cliange, for we then found
them, at time when the coming storm of