Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-02-28
0Dbio StatssnaaIr.
DR.. ]. DILWORTH.
On Mr.. Jewett's Resolutions, Feb
ruary 9, 1865, I'm the House,
8 PE ECH

Il
raary Q, 1855. I'm the House.
| Mr.. DILwoRTH said:
| Mr.. SPEAKER:-I wish to call the
attention of the Republican members, to
a few facts connected with the history of
the Republican party in the manage
ment of the late war, and particularly to
the conduct of the leaders of that party
since the close of thewar. do not ex-
pect to quote from the extreme Radical
members of that party. who have az
ways ignored and hated the Constitu-
ton, and obeyed the. laws only when
they accorded with their peculiar views.
Neither do i expect to use the proceed
ings and resolutions of township and
county conventions. as authority on this
floor. But / will refer to few declara-
ttions made by the leading men and ex-
ponents Of that party, on the rostrum.
through the press, and in conventions
and legislative assemblies.
Gentlemen on this floor exultingly tell
us that when John Brown invaded Vir
ginia at Harper's Ferry, the inhabitants
of that State were greatly frightened !;
and seem to infer from that circumstance
that the people of Virginia were coward
tIv in beinp so much alarmed WHY
were the people of that noble old State
SO mncb EXCITED over that occurrence 2
1t was because they knew that John
Brown was backed by all the ultra lead
ing Republicans of the North. and that
the liberty and safety of the State were
endangered. So common was this opin-
ion throughout the Sontb and the Nortb
that an ATTEMPT was made to ferret out
those who had actually mt this new rev
olntion in motion for fb. invasion of q
[soyereien State. GIl 77F5
II was sattlad hevond Doubt that
Charles SIMMER. then and now q SEN
otor of tho IIn;t.d States and l.ad;no
Ranrhl;oan baJ a;dsd Iobn R,.own ,z;tf,
nepns 49, ~ and oamnsaI; ~ - ~ tbot nnlawf,,l Cd "a
;nfamous ;nyas;nn Tbese tb;nas com.
in bona 20 tba ,Rannbl;can n.rfv com.
LID H. Iasdsrs r. tha Cbi.aao Co..
pant;on 49, @ &c l1asn - oJnnt rasolnt;nn 49,
dsn,ar;ne tbat tb.t .et df Gobn Rrown
an5 h;s .Ju;s.rs oo,,ld not ba ;nst;6ad
~ .l,a ,,hoIa no,t,, That ..soI,,.;o,,
n:.as % folloust
| aReso1rsd Tbot Tho ~ ;ntononoo IN
v;ol.ts, nf H. r;n5,s of tha S,n,ss .nd
,ssnsc;alIv -I -I .be M r;sht of sac1 Sta,s 70 or.
J .a..s.1 80 ;sa.;
- o.as.a;ns 81 ;.s -" /,
.a.o1,, .;,,ols, ;s asssant;.l 80 that hslano
of rowsr -, wb;ch .ha nsrf..ct;,n ~ n,r
nolit;cal y. f !. "a hr;c dsnsnds pnd ws danonnoa
r.. Sioa,lass -. h., - a..,aJ 80 of
the M soil If anss Stat. ~ ,sr,;,or,, Z M ~
.ao,,e, mnder ,rhg, a,rs,srt 90 onong - Tho
,5s ara,e.,of .r;,nss"
Here Is q resolution fnllv endorsing
the resolutions of 17es, and if ANYTHING
more sweeping in its declarations con-
| cerning Estate rights" and particularly
clear on the "right of a State" to order
and control its own institutions. Did
this put down the John Brown idea of
ridding the South of slavery2 No, sir.
Every pulpit in New England and the
larger portion of the pulpits of the North
and West assumed that Brown and his
foolhardy followers were martyrs to a
great and glorious cause.
This agitation was continued till af
ter the Presidential election of 1860 !;
and when Congress met in December,
the question was again introduced with
fresh violence into that body, and dur
ing the adoption of the ordinances of
fsecession by the Southern States, and
when excitement was running highest in
the halls of Congress and outside in the
press, Mr.. Horace Greeley, of the Ne,o
York Tribune, entered the arena as the
champion of secession, and continued to
advocate the right of the Southern States
to Withdraw from the Union for over six
weeks of that stormy period.
In the Neu York J1ibuue of Novem-
her q. 1860. we find the following
sIf the cotton States shall become sat-
isfied that thew can do better out of
tba Union than in II we insist IN lot.
TING them po in neace Tbe RIGHT to
/ secsde NAV he revolutionary one. hut
| 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
IJnion is unite another matter. When
ever considerable section of our IJnion
shall deliberately resolve to 90 out we
shall res;st all coerci;ve measures design
/ ed to keep them in. We hope never to
Hive in Republic whereof one section
is pinned to anothey by bauonets."
Did any of the Southern leaders offer
[stronger language or reasons in iustif-
cation of their ATTEMPTED withdraw al
from the Union? If SO, 1 have never
been able to discover it. >
When the extremists of both sections
under such advice had succeeded in un-
1 balancing the political elements ef the
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