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

the same State Journal, edited al
above. stated fearing that the Unior
would not otherwise be dissolved, de
termined to drive South Carolina ont
whether The people residing therein
were willing to 20 or not Under the
caption, "Expulsion Of South Carolina
the journal said:
"We begin to have serious apprehen
sions that the wretched little oligarchJ
of Sourh Carolina intends to remain il
the Union, after all her threats of SC
cession. zsEG 8
SAT first, we had some hope that in
the vast quantity Of smoke which she
breathe6 forth, there was a little earn
est FIRE. But there was not, it seems
South Carolina may still! be vaporine
away, but her performance is rsgarde ed
as Of so little consequence. that it has
even ceased to be telegraphed from
charleston.
"There is no more sensation. PEG.
pie do not look any more for the Sc
cession news. 1t is become to
A tale OF little meaning. though the words
awe regret this, and we have to
propose as ameaus of avoiding future
annoyance. THE EXPULSION OF
SOUTH CAROLINA FROM THE
AMERICAN UNION. SIZE has new
err been anything but q source of vexa-
riop, trouble and expense. At once
impudent and cowardly, boastful aud
brutal, her people have al each rue.
ceedipg Presidential election, filed the
air Nv direful< threats of disru ton,
disnnisn, snI all the kindred calama
ties beginning with dis and ending in
ton. They have been an element of
discord and ranic-and now, we say,
let u. cast them forth. though they en-.
ter all the swine of Cincinnati, and run
into the sea.
"Let the thing be regularly and de
hberately done Petitions circulated
among the people for the expulsion OF
South Carolina would receive innumer
able signatures and on the meeting of
Congress. we might batter the gates
Off the Capitol with storms of prayer
for that purpose. The body which has
the power to expel State, and We
Hope that our members may be in
structed to act promptly iu this
. "South Carolina does no: now want
TO secede. LET US EXPEL HER
She always tries to be held back, in
order that she may make q valiant show
Of intention where there is 10 be no
performance. Now let US see that she
her own threats. Tom said
the first man who caught a Tartar
I've taken q prisoner 'Well, fetch
him along''I can't do it We'll, come
yourself them she wont let me-
at is precisely in this interesting at
fitude that South Carolina Low stands
before the country.
"Shs has taken the Union prisoner,
md can't fetch iJ We go for reliev.
own departure is concerned, and eve
her to depart in peace, without
her prisoner.
LET THE SOUTH GO IN PEACE-THE
TRIBUNE PROMISES ITS AID.
"If the cotton States shall become
that they can do better out of
The Union than 10 it, we insist on let
ing them 60 in peace The right to
may be revolutionary one, but
t exists nevertheless X
We must ever resist the right of a
state to remain in the Union and multi
y or defy the laws thereof. To with
raw from the Union is quite another
Wheuever a considerable
resolve to go out, We shall
esist allcoercive measures designed
o keep them in. We hope never TO
i've in a Republic whereof n section
5 pinned to another by bayonets."-
Neu York Tribune, Nov 9. 1860.
"If the cotton States unitedly and
arnestly wish " withdraw peacefully
the Union. we think they should
nd would be allowed to do so. Any
to compel them by force to re-.
lain, would be contrary to the princi
les c%nunciated In the immortal Declar
ton Of MISUNDERSTANDING to the
fundamental ideas on which human
berty is based ',-Neao York 7rib-
ne, Nou 26, 1860.
Gift (the Declaration OF Independ.
nee, justified the secession from the
Empire, Of three millions OF
o~lonists in 1776. We do not see why il
ould not JUSTIFY the secession of
re millions of Southernors, from the
'niop, in iS6l-Neu York Tribune,
Zee II, 1860.
whenever it shall be clear that the
reat body of the Southern people have
,come conclusively alicnated from the
MON and anxious to escape from it, i;
IL WILL DO OUR BEST TO :
ONWARD THEIR VIEWS,"- :
ec York Tribuue. Feb. %, 1861. ;
In a review Of the speech of Mr. ,
ong' of this State, the Tribune editor,
his paper of April IL, 1864, says F.,
"Now. we do not care. to deal at this :
me with the falsehood and sophistry ,
thoroughly pervade this speech q
its continual assumption that the n
val States have made war or the Sc =.
ders in order to coerce them back I
to the Union. We hold that the Sc q
could have had a peaceful /,
solution of the Union had they really
sired it, and had the people of their n
ates, after a free and fair discussion, {
cided to separate FROM the Union = 3
we told them at the time; SO most :,
the leading Republican journals told a
email in absolute good faith
Lincoln. Governor Moran, p
d nearly all of us. openly favored a i,