The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1868-07-31
NEVER oUr-AN ANSWER

NEVER oUT-AN ANSWER
Some weeks ago we published an
editorial news item in regard to the
of certain Southern
States to practical relations with the
Union. 1t read about like this
"FIorida" land other states) ''were
last week admitted into the Union
On this, and particularly on admitted
into" the editor of the Courier hangs
numberless questions and divers and
sundry articles all tending to show
that we, by implication admitted that
the Union was dissolved, or the
States had been out. 1t has asked
several times SHOW and when" those
estates got out"
We do not think they were ever
out in legal or Constitutional point
of view. We claim that this Union
is Union indivisible That wher
a State of its own free will asks foi
admission and is admitted into Tho
Union its allegiance and that of Its
people, belong to that Union first
last and at all times. And that th'
Estates Rights doctrine as SET forti
by the rebels is rank heresy.
Therefore we'held when the rebel
lion first broke out
l. That the rebels had no right tt
withdraw, as they did, on paper, from
the Union.
3 That the adoption of a Consti
tuition and the establishment of STATE
governments were wrong
B. That they had no right to levy
war against the Government.
4. That their whole operations
from first to last were illegal, uncon
stitutional and wicked.
We differed radically from Sey.
mour when he said that the Confed
crate Constitution. was better thar
that of the United States and WI
ought therefore to adopt it to settle
the question-from Vallandighan
and Pendleton when they said thai
the war was a wicked one and the lie
gally constituted Government had ne
right to wage war for perpetuatins
the Union,-from the Democratic
party when it denounced the war as
unconstitutional and a crusade
against the dearest rights of man;
when they pronounced it failure in
1864, in national convention; when
they tried to stop drafts by mob pow
er, and when they denounced the sol
diers as Lincoln thieves and hirelings,
bent upon expeditions of thieving
and outraging Of women.
These things we did not believe in.
Rather we did our best-as stay at
home patriots, ifthat expression suits
the editor of the COiTier-to uphold
the hands of the soldiers and make
the War for the Union a success
Can the Courier editor say as much ?
Can he account for persistentiy act
ing with the party that did all the
above recited things and more 2 Can
he give a satisfactory reason why he
drafts, opposed issuing
greenbacks that the government
might have money to pay off the
army, the many apologies he has
published exculpating rebels from
blame and the general support he
ent the rebels during the rebellion ?
AS respects the Southern States,
they were out of the Union as far as
they were able to put themselves.
They established Government, levi
ed war and collected customs belong
ng to the United States dc.
The people of the North raised up
IN a body and after an arduous war
crushed the rebellion.
Now should these States have re-
,umed their old places in the Union
with original rebels at the head of
heir Governments ? We think not.
We will amend our sentence that
The fearful gentleman of the Courier
san have rest. Let it read
Congress last week re- admitted to
practical relations with the Union,
he States of Georgia, Florida &c,
which had been in rebellion against
he Union and Government, had lev
ed war against it, had murdered the
soldiers of the Government, sent
here to enforce the Constitution and
avs of the land, and done all intheir
power to break up irretrievably the
Union; they having fairly acknowl-
edged their wrong doing and elect
ID loyal men to Office" Is the COur-
er satisfied?
The Rochester Democrat says