The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-09-30
The DisunfOnism of Radical
Leaders.

All general rules have their excep
tons. While the causes which led t,
the late civil war were eliminating, il
order to bear that fruit of death nnt
financial disaster, Of which the Govern
ment and the people hava reaped Sc
fearful a harvest, that rule, which if il
had exceptions they were few and fal
between, was that the leaders of the
party, then best known as the Adolf
ton party, were disunionists-in favcr
of breaking up the confederacy and
discovering the connection between the
North and the South, as the fathers Of
the same men, In 1912 were in favor
Of cutting off the great West from the
Union.
A specimen of this fierce disuniou
feeling on the part of the Northern
Abolitionists, is seen in the following.
copied from the Journal of the Ohio
Senate, for 1857, page SO:
TUESDAY, Feb. 8, 1857.
"Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Gurley.
"The journal # yesterday was
reld and approve.
"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 PEA
CEABLE WITHDRAWAL OF
OHIO FROM THE UNION,
which was read at the Clerks
desk " &c
Who this VIM. Stedman, who, in
1857, was so much Of a secessionist
that be wanted Ohio Withdrawn from
the Union. by the action of the Legis
lature, Isl can be seen by the following,
which shows that he is a representative
man of his party. and is nominated as
q candidate for a seat in the very Sen
ate, where his reasonable petition was
presented, but a few years since. We.
COPY from the Columbus Journal of
SEPT. 2lst:
general VIM. Stedman has been
nominated by the Republicans of Port
age and Summit counties t. fill the
Seat of Hon. P. b. Conant, in the
Ohio Senate"
The District is largely Republican
and Stedman so much of a representa-,
tive man o. his party that his election
is beyond the possibility of a doubt.
The next Senate will not be the first
body that this Stedman has
been a member of. He was in the last
Legislature, and was fore
most among those that voted for Negro
Suffrage. and the loudest brawleI
those he choose 70 call Copper
heads, ButterDuts, Secesh and Disuni-
onists. He was truly 'loyal" to his
Early teachings, and the DisuDion Con,
press had no more blatant admirer
than this same William Stedman, who
with Rachel Savage aud other strong
women, were Secessionists in
1857, and, as members of the Radical
party, are still u~p-holding it.
BEN. WADE ON THE SECESSION RAM
The Hon. BENZ Wade, U. s. Sena-
or. December 4, 1856, iu which he
'oine6 the following - Cong. Globe,
Sd Sess Safe COny p. rs.
"But Southern gentlemen stand here
nd in most all of their speeches, speak
f the dissolution of the Union. as an
of every argument. as though
were a peculiar condes,ension on
heir part that they permitted the
Union to stand at all. If they do not1
eel interested in u~pholding the Union
If it endangers their institutions to
UGH an extent hat they cannot feel
ecure under it. if their interets are
ioleutly assailed by mean of this
Union, l am not one of those who ex-
ect that they will long continue uuder
:. I am not n of those toho soouId
SIX them to continue IN such a Uninn
t would be doing violence to the plat Z
ofhe party to rhich I belong. +,
We have adopted the old Declaration
Independence as the basis of cur .
movements, which declares .
Iat any people sohen their Govern, :
ent ceases TO project their r,aht-tohen :
as SO subserted from, the true purposes !
GoUe-nmeat as to oppose them, have :
right to ref to fundamental prin-
Piles, and if nesd be, to destroy Ike