Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-04
The Democratic . erecting.

OOpNOhb'Oh ~ Ii Poshy ~.N ~Nf
port to the Southern secessionists, we have
taken pains to get the exact history OF the
in question. The Democratic
State Convention, which assembled at 20,
Inmbus at the time above mentioned, passed
the following resolutions:
3 '.Resotved, That two hundred sthousand
Democrats. of Ohio send to the people of
the United States, both North and Sonth,
and when the people of the
North shall have, fulfilled their duties to
the Constitution and the South, then, and
not till then, will it be proper for them to
take into consideration the question of the
right and propriety of coercion"
In calling attention to this resolution,
after its adoption, the Enquirer says that
'such men as Judges Ranney and Thurman
and Colonel Medary'' strongly urged and
earnestly advocated the passage of the res
olution." This would seem to be sufn-
ciently explicit and unequivocal. The pur-
pose and effect OF the resolution in encour-
aging the secessionists to go on in their un-
hallowed work is too manifest to require
any comment. The Enquirer. however, sig
nificantly adds in the same connection:
at has been the Democracy mainly who
have fought the country through with
glory and success in their foreign wars, and
upon their stalwart arms the nation must
rely"
In other ,words,s without the Northern
Democracy, which has thus pledged itself
to stand by the seeding Democracy of the
South, any attempt at coercion will fail,
and the. rebellieus South has not-oply the
'greetingn Of two hundred thousand Dem
ocrats in Ohio, but the pledge of their
countenance and sympathy, and OF their
resistance to war for the national lnteg-
rity. At this -timeEJanuary 70, fS6l-
South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, Ala.
bama and Florida had passed ordinances"
Ofisecession.-Cincinna Chronicle.
n Is this the best you can do toward estab-
fishing the assertion that Judge THURMAN,
in Jaiiuary, 1851, made a speech SIN favor
of a resolution rendering to the South the
aid of two hundred thousand Democrats
in the event of the United States using
coercion TO sustain the integrity of the
Union.''
I In the resolution quoted by the Chroni-
Gle the adoption of'which was urged, ac-
cording to an alleged quotation from the
Cincinnati Enquirer, by ''such men as Judges
RANNBY ana THuRMAN and Col. MEDARY,' y
nothing whatever is said, either directly or
impliedly, about rendering to the South
the aid of two hundred thousand Demo-
Gratis in the event of the United States
using coercion to sustain the integrity OF
the Union" IL contained no pledge to
support or stand by the South in the event
of War.
The object the meeting had in view that
adopted this resolutien,s was to- prevent
War. 1t was tributary to the prevalent
feeling that the Republican leaders in Con-
gress should agree to some measure of sat
isfactory compromises The resolution was
not adopted in the interest of the South. 1t
was adopted in. the interest of Peace-in
the interest Of our people-in the interest
of the poor man, who was compelled to do
the fighting-in the interest of labor and
industry, which are compelled to pay the
expenses. of this War. tss 80 -
This resolution was adopted a few days
before Senator SEWARD presented mon-
ster petition in. the United States Senate,
signed by the business men and capitalists
of New York City, deprecating War and
urging the adoption of some measure of
pacifcation.. Senator SEWARD said, in pre-
senting this petition, thatia petition of that
character, expressive of the wish of the
capital and the business, would decide; the
question of peace and war in any European
country; and Mr.. SEWARD, touched with a
fervor of patriotism, said that if the
question were narrowed down to
between the preservation of the Union
and the abandonment of the Republican
party, 2he would abandon the Republican
party and throw his influence in behalf of
the Union. Next day HORACE GREELEY, in
the New York Tribune, took Mr.. SEWARD
to task and declared that in avowing his
readiness to abandon the Republican party
for the sake of the Union he did not repre-
sent the Republican party, nor the President
elect-that rather than abandon their prin-
ciples, which, it was thus admitted, were
incompatible with the preservation of the
Union, they would allow,'if need be, fifty
such Unions to be shattered to atoms.
If the resolution quoted by the Chronicle
Gas having been adopted), at the instance Of
Judge THURMAN, gave bone and gIistle to
the Secessionsmovement, what did this dol
That resolution was adopted some time
before the mechanics and laboring men OF
Philadelphia met, fifty thousand strong. in
Independence Square, and therevfesolved
in favor of the CRrTTENDEN or some other
satisfactory compromise, and sent to Wash
ingten committee to enforce that resolve.
If the adoptionspf the resolution to which
it is claimed Judge THURMAN gave fis'sup-
port, encouraged the Southern people to
rebellion, what did this do ? .,
This resolution was adopted about the
date that the Cincinnati Commercial had
given this editorial notice:
"Gentlemen of Virginia and Kentucky
there a1iU be no coercion. SET ASIDE ALL
FEARS ON THAT ACCOUNT. We could and
would readily sacrifice men and money by
thousands and millions to put down fac
tions, to vindicate the Government against
mobs; but WE DO NOT WANT TO CONQUER A
PEOPLE, and WE WILL NOT TRY TofDo IT
= If there be any unconditional Union
men in the South THEY 1tusTFIGHT THE BAT
TIE IN THEIR OWN WAY. THE NORTH
WILLe NOT INTERPOSE ITS MILL
TARY POWER BETWEEN THE SOUTH
AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF ANY
GOVERNMENT THAT MAY BE THE
PLEASURE OF ITS PEOPLE,"
Doubtless, the Commercial based its au.
thority for its assurance to the South thai
coercive measures would not be used to
compel them to remain in the Union or
the following from President LINcoLN's
speech, delivered in the Federal House O
Representatives Son the 18th of January
1s4s. (See appendix to Congressional Globe
1stSession, Both Congress, page 9D:
"Auy people anywhere. being inclined
and having the power, haze the right to rise
up, and shake off the existing Government
and form one that suits them better. Thi
is a most ualadble,, or most sacred right
right which we hope and believe is to lib
crate the world. Nor is the right confined
to cases in which the whole people OF an
az i-tir,cr Gnunrnnaant NAV chnnSa To eyer.