Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-09
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which If established, would at any time
destroy the Unien, by making the author
itv of the Nation secondary to that of a
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We always thought that the boot was on
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The Ohio State Journal in, its issue of
November 13, 1861, under the caption, SIS
THE AMERICAN UNION MyrH,' thus ar
CUES in favor of the right of Secession:
tJust now we are passing an important
climacteric. 1t will soon be determined
whether we are capable of fexisting as a
confederacy of States, or whether we are
subject to disunion at the will of any one
| or more States I; whether the American
| Union is grand, startling reality, or
myth. a fiction, with which we have been
deluding ourselves and cheating the world.
| This question seems to pose our states
men and rulers at this time. They appear
to consult our written Constitution. in vain.
| The trainers of that Instrument evidently
never anticipated secession. Provision was
made to let States into the Confederacy,
BUT NO OBLIGATION IS IMPOSED, BINDING
STATES TO REMAIN IN THE UNION, norpower
given directly to any constituted authority
TO CoERCE THEM INTO oBEDIENCE in case
they wish quietly to withdraw from the
| family circle. Our President Lincoln has
declared he would resist notification but
not secession. Can any State or. States. Sc
cede. and continue to obey United States
lawsP
1.-The object OF the American Union is to
provide Tor the common defense, general
welfare, sc. 1t, is SO stated In the pream-.
BILE to the Constitution. The General Gov
ernment is but a representative of all the
States. 1t is not a, genuine Federal, GEN.
tralized power. Now, any State or States
| ,oish to renounce the benefits of this general
protection. can they be compelled TO continue the
recipients of such advantages? The cotton
States are not rebelling against the Federal
authorities nor nullifying any particular
general law. They simly request to be re-
leased from the Union compact. To CO.
ERcE THEM TO REMAIN IN THE UNION,
STATES GOVERNMENT, IS TO EN-
TIRELY CHANGE THE NATURE OF
FEDERAL LoAUTHORITY. 1t will be to
make the Federal Government, not rep
resentative of the States, their instrument
in providing for the common defense, &C.,
BUT SUPERIOR, CENTRALIZED POWER, HAy-
ING AN EXISTENCE INDEPENDENT OF She
STATES. We regret being compelled 10
take this view OF the matter, but it seems
Inevitable"
The right Of Secession, thus claimed by
the journal for the States of the South
the attempt to coerce them to remain in
the Union "by force would entirely change
the nature of Federal authority"-was also
claimed for Ohio by leading Radical, now a
candidate of the Radical party for seat in
the State Senate, to fill a vacancy. The
disunionist to whom we allude is the VIM.
STEDMAN named in the following from the
Ohio Senate Journal for 1857, page 49,:
10 sMr. Brown presented the petition of
VIM. Stedman and sixteen legal voters and
Rachel Savage and seventy-seven non-yo-
ters of Stark and Portage counties, PRAY
ING THE PEACEABLE WITHDRAW-
AL OF OHIO FROM THE UNION, which
was read at the Clerks DESK" &c. 59;-a
This STEDMAN, now among the bitterest
of the class who yelp out secession at men
who never for one moment favored it, like
the journal would like to hide his own in
fanny by charging it on others. Az 0H,t-a
The Author of the FOrney-Robert's
Letter ISLANDERS MIR. Vallandig-
ham. '--''i' 80.
We give the following, italics and all. as
it appears in the Philadelphia (FoRNEY's)
Press: --Hi-E ~. gH -og.1~ ~
Z sc. l.. Vallandigham, a man bdnished the
country for treason, and who acted as the spy
ran the blockade and reached Canada, tods
the man selected to nominate Seymour to the
cOnUeRtiOn." p.
There are three willful, deliberate and
scoundrelly falsehoods in the above. =,
b, c. L. .VALLANDiGHAM was not .'banished
his country for treason" The charge
against him was certain language said to
have been used in a speech at Mount Ver-
non, which Hons. S. Cox swore was not
used by Mr.. .VALLANDIGHAM, but by him.
self. There was no charge of treason pre-
Iferred against him, and the Military Court
that gave him pretended trial, has. for its
infamous outrage oflaw and Justice, re-
eeiyed, as it merited, the loathing contempt
of all honest men. ..-.-....-,
The Judge Advocate who prosecuted
Mr.. VALLAND1GHAM, was afterwards charg-
ed, and the, charge proven true, with con-
duct unbecoming an officer and gentle
man, by being caught in the act of peeping
through the window over the door occu-
pied by young lady, while she was un-
dressing.
Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM a spy of the Conted-
crate Government? The charge owes its
origin toJoHN w. FoRNEY. whose fame, as
the author of the FoRNEY- ROBERTS letter,
wherein he advised friend to get o actor
drunk, and then to get from him an admis- |
sion of improper intimacy with a lady, in
order TO enable her husband to get a III
vorce, is that of the basest, meanest of man
kind. ri -oe7s,s.i -rt saai7udT s-5uT
Mr.. SEYMOUR was not nominated by Mr..
VALLAN NpIGHAM! This fact is history. Col.
GEO. w. McCooK as chairman of the Ohio |
delegation, made the nomination, and cast
the vote of the Ohio delegation for Mr..
SEYMOUR. -ii. - 90. = 49, --.-.,r.rFj
Thus in a single article of half dozen
lines, there are three falsehoods-two of
them highly slanderous, which the editor
knew to be, SO when he penned them. The
author of the ;FoRNEY-RoBERTs letter is a
fit tool to do this dirty work for the party
that kicked him out of Office because he
could not account for the money placed in
his hands as Secretary of the United States |
Senate. ..sosrfFouT - aZJ
No Troops to Defeud the Frontier
from Indian 1ncursiOns.
General SHERMAN, as we learn by tele-
graph, complains that he has no troops to
defend the frontier settlers, and that, unless
his demand is acceded to, and the troops
promptly sent, nothing can prevent wide
spread and disastrous series of conflicts
with discontented tribes of hostile Indians.
He complains of the tedious delaysin fur
nishing him the troops be needs. si
While thus the frontier settlers, men,
women and. children, are in danger of the