Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-22
The DisunfOnism OF Radical
H.aah0ra

kwere disunionists-in favor of breaking up
the confederacy and discovering the con-
nection between the North and the South,
as the fathers of the same men. in 1912
were in favor of cutting off the great Wes t
from the Union. -,--r, .-s--- ---.-.-
Aspecimen OF this fierce disunion feeling
on the part of the Northern Abolitionists,
is seen in the following, copied from the
Journal of the Ohio Senate, for 1867, page
80: .gH. r. u
"TUEsDAY. Feb. 8, 1857.
prayer by Rsv. Mr.. Gurley.
"The Journal OF yesterday was read and
approved.
"Mr. Brown presented the petition OF
VIM. Stedman and sixteen legal voters and
Rachel Savage and twenty-seven non
voters, of Stark and Portage counties,
PRAYING THE PEACEA BILE WITH
ORA WALOF OHIO FROM THE UNION,
which was read at the Clerks desk" &c.
Who this VIM. STEDMAN, who, in 1857,
was so much of asecessionist that he want
ed Ohio withdrawn from the Union, by the
action of the Legislature, is. can be seen
by the following, which shows that he is a
representative man of his party, and is
nominated as a candidate for a seat in the
very Senate where his REASONABLE petition
was presented, but few years since. We
copy from the Columbus. Journal of Sept
2lst:
General VIM. Stedman has been nomi-
mated by the Republicans of Portage and
Summit counties to fill the unexpired term
of the Hon. p. B. COnant, in the Ohio
Senate" isA sssHo@ -fe,
i
The District is largely Republican and
STEDMAN Sc much of a representative man
of his party that his election is beyond the
possibility of doubt.
The next Senate will not be the first leg
islative body that this STEDMAN has been a
member of. He was in the last Republican
Legislature, and was foremost among
those that voted for Negro Suffrage, and
the loudest brawler against those he chose
to call Copperheads, Butternuts, Secesh
and Disunionists. He was truly ''loyal" to
his early teachings, and the Disunion Con-
gress had no more blatant admirer than
this same WILLIAM STEDMAN, who, with
RACHEL SAVAGE and other strong
women, were Secessienists in 1857, and, a.
members of the Radical party, are still up
holding it. n''7I 7i ~ ''l4'9f '' @ st8 90
BEN. WADE ON THE SECESSION RAMPAGE.
The, Hon. Benz. WADE, U. S. Senator
from. Ohio, made a speech in the Senate.
December 4, 1856, in which he coined the
following Gong. Globe Sd Sess. 34th
Cong, p. %.
"But Southern gentlemen stand here and
efan n0ff fl,oir r0cf
solution of the Union, as an element of ev-
cry argument, as though it were peculiar
condescension on their part that they per-
mitted the Union to stand at all. If they
do not feel interested in upholding the
Union-if it really trenches on their rights
it it endangers their institutions to such
an extent that they cannot feel secure un-
der it, if their interests are violently as
sailed by means OF this Union, I am not
one of those who expect that they will
long continue under it. am not one of
those aoho ,1ould ask them to continue in
such Union. 1t would be doing violence
to the platform of the party TO solttch I belong
We have adopted the old Declaration of
as the basis of our, political
which declares that any people
aohen their Government ceases to pro
tect their rigltts-arhen it is so subuert-
ed from the true purposes of aG0UeT7l-
nent as to oppose them, have the right to
refer to fundamental principles, and if need
be, to destroy the Government under s1iaich they
line and to erect on its 77ins another more
conducive to their welfare. 1 hold that
they have this right. I aoiu not blame ang
people for erercising IL, whenever they think
this contingency has come xsaYoa
cannot ,forcibly hold men in this nion, for the
attempt to do so. seems to me, aoould subuert
ne first principles of the Government under
olich zoe live."
LINCOLN ON THE RIGHT OF SECESSION.
On the 18th day of January, 1s4s, during
;he Mexican war, and while opposing it,
IN question of reference of the Presidents
Message tsee Appendix Congressional Globe,
st session, 3Oth Congress, page 94J, Mr..
LINCOLN said:
.sAny people anywhere, being inclined,
md having the, power, have the right to
Use up and shake off the existing Govern
bent, and form new one that suits them
potter. This is most valuable, a most sa-
,red right-a right which we hope and be- |
ieFe is to lfberate The world. Nor is the |
light confined to cases in which the whole |
people of an existing Government may
,hbose to exercise it. Any portion of such
jeOple, that can, may reyOlutionize and |
make their own of SO much of the terrific |
n as they inhabit. More than this, ma
ority OF any portion OF such people may
putting down a minority,
with, or near about them, who
nay oppose their movements. Such mi |
lority was precisely the case OF the Tories
# our own Revolution. 1t is quality of
evolutions not TO go by old lines or old |
avs. but to break up both and make new
nes.n5 .3c ~ "a r
In 1859, the Mil,odukee Free Democrat,
litter and malignant Abolition sheet, now
alling itself Republican, in long article.
to educate the public mind to
he idea that it was to the interest OF the
North to dissolve the Union, favored its
eaders with the following Radical con-
lusion: T-rf5H
1--WE repeat the assertion, that the Union
8 not soorth a copper to the North in any
otnt of uielo, but is perpetual sacrifice OF
10Th money and morals, ri an assertion
which we can make good"
JOHN A. BINGHAM, now a member of
congress from Ohio, and on the stump in
be Cadiz District as a candidate for re-
lection, in 1858 said:
sWho in the name of God wants the cot
On States, or any other State this side OF
10 remain III Tue Union, II sla-
cry is to continue?'
THE AMERICAN FLAG.
originally published in 1853 or "a, and as re-
printed in the New York Tribune Of February
26th. 1s64.]
All hail the fauntino liel
The stars grow pale and dim |
The stripes are bloody scars -...
'' e the vaunting hymni
Itshields pi1Gts's deck
1t binds man in chains
= -f And round the captive's neck, rH
r Its folds are bloody stains
g - = 10 1777-l 80 |
Tear down the faunting lie
Half-nast the starry flag; |
Insult no sunny sky |
.. With hates polluted rag! |
Destroy it, ye who can;
Deep sink it in the waves! |
1.5 Ii bears fellow man.
- To groan with fellow slaves
Awake the burning scorn-
The vengeance long and deep.