The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-09-16
From the Columbus Journal.
THE OFFICIAL RECORD
OF
HON. GEORGE 4. PENDLETON.
From the Columbus Journal

Votes and Extracts from Speeches,
Showing His Status During the
War.
Hon. G. II. Pendleton, as the DEM
Ocratic candidate for Governor of Ohio,
asks the people to investigate his quail
ifications for that position. He is a
gentleman of respectable talent and
high culture, and has occupied official
positions of honor and power. He
was a member of the National Con-
gress during the dark days which pre-
ceded the breaking out Of the rebel
lion, and for several years while the
Igreat struggle was in progress. What
Ibis course was during this period it is
the object of the following extracts,
from his official record, to show. If
his eloquent voice and official power
were used to encourage secession and
mot to put the mark of infamy upon
it; if used to dampen the National pa
triOtism, and not to give it new ardOr;
if used to embarrass the Government
in its patriotic efforts and not to sus-
tain it, then Mr.. Pendleton deserves a
rebuke from the people of Ohio as Sc
we're as the one administered to @. l..
Vallandigdam in 1868. If Mr.. Pen
dletOn was not patriot when our
country needed the support Of patri-
otic men, if his love of country is of
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.
IREFUsEs TO SUSTAIN THE PRESIDENT
IN CONSTITUTIONAL MEASURES TO
PRESERVE THE UNION.
During the closing days of 1860,
Maj. Robert Anderson, who was sta
toned at Fort MOultrie, Charleston
Harbor, with a small force, withdrew
from that fort to place of greater secu-
Irity, Ft. Sumpter. This act, which was
nothing more than an act of common
prudence, was heartily approved, and
Mr.. Adrian, of New Jersey, in offer
ing the following resolution in the
House of Representatives at Wash
lingtOn, on the 7th of January, 1861,
but gave expression to the feeling of
the loyal people Of the nation:
"ReSOLUed, That we fully approve of the
bold and patriotic act of Major Anderson
lin withdrawing from Fort MOultrie to
Fort Sumpter, and of the determination of
the President to maintain that fearless Of
ficer in his present position and we will
support the President in alt constitutional
measures to enforce ute lars md Ereser0e
the UlliOn."
A motion was made to suspend the
rules so that the resolution could be
acted upon Immediately. The motion
was sustained by a vote of 124 yeas
to SO nays. S. S. Cox, and G. 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
Iaudigham of Ohio voted in the mega
tive with the Southern members,
many of whom were afterward officers
in the rebel army. Congressional
Globe, volume 81, page 280.l
When the vote was taken on the
adoption of the resolution, Mr.. Pen
dIetOn dodged. S. S. Cox and other
Democrats voted with the majority
for the resolution, while Mr.. Vallan-
digham and the Southern members
voted against it. Congressional Globe,
volume 81, page 281.l By this action
Mr.. Pendleton said that he a0OltLd not
support "tbe President (James Buch-
anan) in all constitutional measures to
elJorcetbe Jalos and preserve the Union"
THE DOCTRINES OF THE CONSPIRA-
TORS PROCLAIMED.
On the 18th of January, 1861, Mr..
PendIetOn in his place in the House
made speech in reference to a pend
ing 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 20.
i 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, arsen-
ais and custom houses of the United
States, thus rendering it impossible to
execute the laws or to collect the rev.
enues of the country. The object of
the bill, which had been introduced
by Mr.. Bingham, of Ohio, was to en-
able 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 hearted
patriot, Andrew jackson, so summar-
! ily suuelched rebellion and treason in
South Carolina. Mr.. Pendleton, fail
ing to follow the noble example of
jackson, opposed, most bitterly, this
bill, which was intended to destroy re-
belliOn and treason in 1861.
Mr.. PendIeton said:
"But sir, money, armies, blood, will not
maintain the Union. Justice, reason,
peace, may. This Union, Mr.. Chairman,
! is a confederation of States. The Consti-
tuition is the bond. In order to attain GER
tain ends, beneficial to all, these States
came together in voluntary association
They organized a central Government, and
invested it with certain powers, they them
selves agreeing to do certain things, and
to refrain from doing certain other things.
which were clearly within the, scope of
their sovereign power. In order to main
tain this Union, in order to maintain this
Constitution, it is necessary that every
lagency in this complicated machinery
the General Government, the States uni
ted, the States severally-should perform
the functions allotted to them by the Con-
stitutiOn.
esNow, sir, what force of arms can COM
pel State to do that which she has agreed
to do? What force of arms can compel a
State to refrain from doing that which her
State government, supported by the senti-
ment of her people, is determined to per-
sist in doing? 1t is provided in the Con-
stitution that the citizens of every State
shall have all the privileges and immuni-
ties of citizens Ofthe several States. What
force of this Federal Government can COM
pei the observance of that clause if a State
D is determined to pass and exc cute laws