Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-04

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upon this pusillanimous wretch. A mans
death does not alter the record of his life.
The popular verdict concerning Buchanan
is correct. Let it remain through all time.
Ohio State Journal.
The above article is scandalous, indecent
and perversion of the truth. What bet
ter, however, can be expected from the
JournalP
How had Mr.. BUCHANAN SIT in his power
to save the Republic from Civil WARP" 1t
was by the success OF the Republican party
in 1880, that "Civil War" came. It was not
In his power to prevent that success but
it was in the power of ABRAHAM LINCOLN
and Republican leaders in Congress to have
prevented it. The power to adjust the dis
agreement between the North and the
South passed out of President BUcHANAN's
hands upon the election of Mr.. LINCOLN as
his successor. To Springfield, Illinois.
then, and not to Washington. did the eyes
of all Union men turn imploringly for a
written assurance from the President elect,
that he would make his administration
conform to the Constitution and not to the
Chicago platform, as it had been construed
by politicians. Conservative men and Rad
icals journeyed thitherward. Not an au-
thoritative word, cheering to the Union
men, could be got out of Mr.. LINCOLN.
GREELEY, through his Tribune, who was
among the pilgrims to Springfield. almost
as soon as the joyful shouts of the Repub-
licans over the election of LINCOLN had
ceased, told the Southern States, if they
felt aggrieved by the election of LINCOLN
they could withdraw from the Union that
there was no disposition to keep them in
the Union against their will; that there
was no disposition to pin them to the Union
with bayonets. fo
Even the Ohio State Journal, the same
paper that now so foully maligns Ex-Pres-
ident BUCHANAN, instead of wishing to help
him keep the South in the Union, demand
ed that South Carolina should be expelled,
and argued the right of secession, and
secuted, as incompatible with our whole
theory of Government, the resort to coer-
cion to keep any State in the Union. In
November, 1860, in one of its editorials,
under the caption, rs the American Union
- shAo Aohk dokC OCCuIS.
1The General Government is but a rep
resentative of all the States. 1t is not a
genuine Federal,centralized power. No,o
u any State or States toish to renounce the ben
e1sts of this general protection, how can they be
compelled to continue the recipients of such
adcantaQes? The Cotton States are not rebel
ling against the Federal authorities, nor null
tynq any particular general law. They sim
ply request to be released from the Union
compact. TO COERCE THEM TO RE-
MAIN IN THE UNION, BY THE
FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT, Is TO ENTIRELY
CHANGE THE NATURE OF FEDERAL
On the 18th of November, 1860, the Jour-
nal devoted an editorial to an advocacy of
the expulsion of South Carolina. Other
leading Republican papers re-echoed these
sentiments. In Congress, the Republican
members and Senators would do nothing
to stay the work of attempted secession,
President BUCHANAN threw his
influence in behalf of conciliation. He
submitted the whole matter to Congress,
and asked to be invested with power to act
as they in their judgment thought right
and proper.
Congress refused to invest him with DOW
er to coerce the Southern States to remain
in the Union, and he did not usurp the
power; but he did see to it that not one
drop of blood was shed between the North
and the South, and he did see to it also that
ABRAHAM LINCOLN was peaceably inaugu-
rated President OF the United States.
Congress out of the way, and the Spring
elections having generally gone adversely
to the Republicans, a meeting of Republic
can Governors was held, and President LIN
COLIN was by them prevailed upon
to do something to arrest the over
throw of the Republican party. He
usurped power and by trick he
brought "Civil War" upon the country.
Whatever Of crime or honor, therefore,
attaches to allowing the country to drift
into the late "Civil War" belongs to Presi-
dent LINCOLN and not to President b.
CHANAN. Through him, and not through
President BUCHANAN. ''the lives of a mil
'sSAA - AAOA "SAo OhOAOo up q odCIlHC6.
Through him, and not through President
BUCHANAN, was the curse of the present
public debt saddled upon the country.
There are those who regard the War to
rave been all right and pleasing to the
Almighty, inasmuch as thereby came free
lom to the Slaves in the South. Those
Who SO believe should honor President
LINCOLN. In no event and under no cir
does the name and memory of
President BUCHANAN deserve to be cursed,
Ifter the style of the Ohio State Journal
's having inflicted upon the country the late
Civil War, with its chapter of outrages and
OF the Government and the peo-
Die by Republican officials.
General Morgan Unseated.
Yesterday the Repu blican members of
he Federal House of Representatives out
aged majoriGy of the voters of the 18th
Ohio Congressional District by voting
General MORGAN out of his seat, and voting
hat COLUMBUS DELANo was entitled to it.
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