Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-09-09
THE OFFICIAL RECORD.
OF
HON. GEO. HI. PENDLET0N.
Votes and Extracts from Speeches. Show.
ing His Status During the War.

ocratic candidate for Governor of Ohio
asks the people to investigate hie quail
ifications for that position. Hei is gen.
tleman of respectable talent and high
culture, and has occupied official posi-
tions of honor and power. He was a
me Der of the National Congress due
ing the dark days which preceded the
breaking out of the rebellion, and for
several years while the great struggle
was in progress. What his course was
during this period it is the object of the
following extracts, from his official rec
ord, to show. If his eloquent voice and
official power were used to encourage
secession and not to put the mark of in
fanny upon it; IL used to dampen the
National patriotism, and not to give it
new ardor; If used to embarrass the
Government in its patriotic efforts and
not to sustain 1t, then Mr.. Penol-ton
deserves rebuke from the people of Caio
as severe as the one administered to C..
L. Vallandigham,i in 1882. IfAfr. Pendle-
ton was not a patriot when our country
needed the support of patriotic men, if
his love of country is of such an uncer-
tain character that he could not stand
firmly by her in the hour of danger, it
is not proper, that he should be honored
after this peril has been dispelled by
men, with Saore courage and more
genuine devotion than he possesses.
REFUSES TO SUSTAIN THE PRESIDENT
IN CONSTITUTIONAL MEASURES TO PRE-
SERVE THE UNION.
During the closing days of 1850, Maj.
Robert Anderson. who was stationed at
Forte Moultrie, Charleston Harbor, with
a small force, withdrew from that fort
g ifr Fort
ter. This act, was nothing more than
an act of common prudence, was hearth
Iy approved, and Mr.. Adrian, of New
Jersey, in offering the following resolu-
tion in the House of Representatives at
Washington, on the 7th of January,
1861, but gave expression to the feeling
of the loyal people of the nation.
"ResoiUed, That we fully approve of
the bold and patriotic act of Major An
derson in withdrawing from Fort Moul-
trie to Fort Sumter, and of the deter
minatien of the President to maintain
that fearless officer in his present posi-
ton; and that we will support the Pres
ident in all constitutional measures to
enforce the tf,cs and preserve the Union. I"
A motion was made to suspend the
rules so that the resolution could be ac-
ted upon Immediately. The motion
was sustained by vote of 124 yeas to
SO nays. S. S. Cox, and G. ID. Martin of
Ohio, McClernand and Logan of Illinois,
Sickles of New York, and many other
Democrats voted with the Republicans
for the suspension of the rules, while
Pendleton and ValaDdigham of Ohio
voted in the negative with the Souther-
members, many of whom were afterward
officers in the rebel army. [Congres-
IL slQD-1
When the vote was taken on the a
doption of the resolution, Mr.. Pendleton
doclqed S. s. Cox and other Democrats
voted with the majority for the resolu-
ton, while Mr.. Vallandigham and the
Southern members voted against it.
TCong. Globe, vol. 81, page 2S1. By
this action Mr.. PendletOn said that he
,pouLd not support 'the President James
Buchanan) in all constitutional measures
to enforce the lars and preserve the
Union.
THE DOCTRINES OF THE cONsPIRATORs
PROCLAIMED.
On the 18th of January, 1861, Mr..
Pendleton in his place in the House made
speech in reference to pending bill
entitled'an act further to provide for the
collection of duties on imports" which
is fully reported in the Congressional
Globe. Appendix, vol. 55, page 40.
Atthat time four States had withdrawn
from the Union, had spurned the author
ity of the General Government and had
seized the forts, arsenals and custom
houses of the United States, thus ren-
dering it impossible to execute the laws
or to collect the revenues of the coun-
| try. The object of the bill, which had
been introduced by Mr.. Bingham of
! Ohio, was to enable the Government to
execute its revenue laws. 1t was drawn
in almost the exact language of an act
of 1888. under which that iron-hearted
patriot, Andrew Jackson, so summarily
squelched rebellion and treason in South
! Carolina. Mr.. Pendleton, failing to
follow the noble example of Jackson,
opposed, most bitterly, this bill, which
was intended to destroy rebellion and
treason in 1861.
Mr.. Penuleton said:
"But sir, money, armies, blood, will
not maintain the Union. Justice reason,
peace. may. This Union, Mr.. Chair
man, is confederation of States. The
Constii ution is the bond. In order to
attain certain ends, beneficial to all,
these States came together in voluntary
association. They organized central
Government, and invested it with GER
tain powers, they themselves agreeing to
do certain things, which were clearly
within the scope of their sovereign
power. In order to maintain this Union,
in order to maintain this Constitution,
/ it is necessary that every agency in this
complicated machinery-the General
4 Government, the States united, the
States severally-should perform the
functions allotted to them by the Con-
stitution."
"Now, sir, v hat force of arms can
compel state to do that which she has
agreed to do? What force of arms can
compel State to refrain from doing that
which her State Government, support
ed by the sentiment of her people, is
determined to persist in doing? Ii il
provided in the Constitution that the
citizens of every State shall have all the
privileges and immunities Of citizens OF
: the several States. What force of this
Federal Government can compel the OBJ
servance of that clause If a State is de-
termined to pass and execute laws where.
by citizens of other States shall not have,
!. within its limits, the same privileges as
its own citiZens?"
LET THEM DEPART IN PEACE.
AS Mr.. Pendleton gave expression in
TIE aDONc do LIS Wv II pCiiOis thc
Theory of the leaders of the Southern re-
bellion, the reader will not be surprised
that the following language may he
found in the same speech:
"My voice to-day is for Cancellation;
my voice is for compromise and it is but
the echo of my constituents; beg you
: gentlemen, who with ME, represent the
Northwest; you who with me, represent
the State of Ohio; you who with me rep
resent the city of fCincinnati-I beg you
gentlamen, to hear that voice. Ifyoy
will not; If you find Cancellation i'm
possible; If your differences are SO great
that you cannot or will not recocile them
then, gentlemen, let the seceding State,