The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-09-24
THE OFFICIAL RECORD
OF
HON. G.. e. PENDLET0N.
Votes and Extracts from Speeches,
Showing His Status During
the War.

occupied official positions Of honor
and power. He was member of the
National Congress during the dark
days which preceded the breaking out
of the rebellion, aud for several years
willie the great struggle was IN FRO
gress. What his course was during
this period it is the object Of the fol
lowing extracts, from his official rec
ord, to show. If his eloquent voice
and official power were used to en-
courage secession and not to put the
mark of infamy upon it; if used to
dampen the National patriotism, and
not to give it new ardOr if used to
embarrass the Government in It's ia
triotic efforts and not to sustain 1t,
then Mr.. Pendleton deserves re
buke from the people Ohio as severe
as the one administered toe. L. Val
landigham in 1868. If Mr.. Pendie-
ton was not a patriot when our coun-
try needed the support of patriotic
men, if his love of country is such an
uncertain character that he could not
stand firmly by her in the hour Of
danger, it is not proper that he should
be honored after the peril has been
dispelled by men with more courage
and more genuine devotion than he
possesses.
REFUSES TO SUSTAIN THE PRESIDENT
IN CONSTITUTIONAL MEASURES TO
PRESERVE THE UNION.
During the closing days of 1860,
Mai. Robert Anderson, who was sta
toned at Fort Moultrie, Charleston
Harbor, with a small force, withdrew
from that fort to a place of greater Sc
cGrity, Fort Sumter. This act, which
was nothing more than an act of
common prudence, was heartily ap
proved, and Mr.. Adrian, of New Jer
sey, in Offering the following resolu-
tion in the House of Representatives
at Washington, on the 9TH of Janu-
ary, 1861, but gave expression to the
feeling of the loyal people of, the ma
tion:
"Resotred, That we fully approve
of the bold and patriotic act of Major
Anderson in Withdrawing from Fort
Moultrie to Fort Sumter, and of the
determination of the President to
maintain that fearless officer in his
present position; and that we will sup
port the President in all constitution
al measures 10 ruf0r0v-tlse-4u aTza
preserve the Union.
A motion was made to suspend the
rules so that the resolution could be
acted upon Immediately. The mo-
ton was sustained by vote of 124
yeas to 50 nays. S. S. Cox and 9. D.
Martin of Ohio, McClernand and Lo
gan of Illinois, Sickles of New York.
and many other Democrats voted with
the Republicans for the suspension of
the rules, while Pendleton and Val
landigham of Ohio voted N the mega
tive with the Southern members,
many of whom were afterward officers
in the rebel army. Congressional
Globe, vol. 81, page $50.
When the vote was taken on the
adoption of the resolution, Mr.. Pen
dletoD lodged. S. S. Cox and other
Democrats voted with the majority
for the resolution. while Mr.. Vallan-
digham and the Southern members
voted against it. TCon. Globe, vol. "a
page 29. By this action Mr.. Pen~
dleton said that he would not support
"the President james BuchanaL) in
all constitutional measures to enforce
the laws and preserve the Union"
THE DOCTRINES OF THE CONsPIRA-
TORS PROCLAIMED.
On the 18th of January, 1861, Mr..
Pendleton in his place in the House
made a. speech IN reference to a pend
ing bill entitled Gan act further to
provide for the collection of duties
on imports" which is fully reported
in the Congressional Globe. Appen-
dix, vel. 55. page 20.
At that time four States had with
drawn from the Union, had spurned
the authority Of the General Govern
ment and had seized the forts, arse
nails and custom houses of the United
States, thus rendering it impossible
to execute the laws or to collect the
revenues of the country. The object
of the bill, which had been introduc-
ed by Mr.. Bingham, of Ohio, was TO
enable the Government to execute its
revenue laws. 1t was drawn in al
most the exact language of an act
of 1888, under which that iron-heart>
ed patriot, Andrew Jackson, so sum-
marilJ squelched rebellion and trea-
son in South Carolina. Mr.. Pondlo-
ton, falling TO follow the noble exam
pie Of Jackson opposed, most bitter
iy, this bill, which was intended to
destroy rebellion and treason in 1861.
Mr.. Pendleton said
"But, sir, money, armies, blood. will
not maintain the Union. Justice,
reason, peace, may. This Union, Mr.
Chairman, is confederation of States.
The Constitution is the bond. la or
der to attain certain ends, beneficial
to all, these States came together in
voluntary association. They organic
ed central Government. and invest
ed it with certain powers, they
themselves agreeing to dc certain
things. and to refrain from doing GER
tain other things, which were clearly
within the scope of their sovereign
power. In order to maintain this
Constitution, it is necessary that ev-
cry agency in this complicated ma
chiDery-the General Government,
the States united, the States severally
should perform the functions al
lotted to them by the Cons titution.
Snow, sir, what force of arms can
compel State to DO that which she
has not agreed to do? What force
of arms can compel State to refrain
from doing that @hieh her State gov
erument, Supported by the sentiment
of her people, is determined to persist
in doing? 1t is provided in the Con-
stitution 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 observ-
snee of that clause If State Is deter
mined to pass and execute laws where
by citizens other States shall not
have, within its limits, the same priv
ileges as its own citizens?
LET THEM DEPART IN PEACE.