Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-09-15
THE OFFICIAL RECORD
OF
HON. GEO. HI. PENDLETON.
Votes and Extracts from Speeches, Showing His
Status During the War.

/ HON. GEO. H. PENDLETON.
Votes and Extracts from Speeches, Showing His
Stains During the War.
Hon. George H. Pendleton, as the
/ Democratic candidate for Governor of
Ohio, asks the people to investigate
his qualifications for that position
| He is a gentleman of respectable tai
ent and high culture, and has Occu-
pied official positions of honor and
power. He was a member of the Ma
tlonal Congress during the dark days
which preceded the breaking out of
| the rebellion, and for several years
while the great struggle was in pro-
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 its
{ patriotic efforts and not to sustain it,
then Mr.. Pendleton deserves rebuke
from the people of Ohio as severe as
| the one administered to c. L. Vallan-
digham, in 1862. If Mr.. PendletOn
was not a patriot when our country
needed the support of patriotic men,
/ if his love of country is of such an
uncertain character that he could not
stand firmly by her in the hour of
1 danger, it is not proper that he should
/ be honored after the peril has been
dispeIled by men, with more 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 1860,
/ Mai. Robert Anderson, who was sta
toned at Fort Moultrie, Charleston
Harbor, with small force, withdrew
from that fort to place of greater Sc
curity, Fort Sumpter. This act, which
was nothing more than an act of COM
mon prudence, was heartily approved
and Mr.. Adrian, of New Jersey, in
offering the following in the
House of Representatives at Wash
| ingtOn, on the 7th of January, 1861,
but gave expression to the feeling of
! the loyal people of the nation.
"ResotUed, That we fully approve
of the bold and patriotic act of Major
Anderson in Withdrawing from Fort
Moultrie to Fort Sumpter, and of the
determination of the President to
maintain that fearless officer in his
present position and that We will
support the President in all cOnstitu-
tiOnaL measures to enforce the ldUS
and preserve the Union"
10 Il ha
rules so that the resolution could be
acted upon Immediately. The motion
was sustained by vote of 124 yeas to
So nays. s. S. Cox, and c. ID. Martin
of Ohio, McClernard 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 Valandig-
: ham of Ohio voted in the negative
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
dleton lodged. S. s. Cox and other
Democrats voted with the majority foI
the resolution, while Mr.. Valandig-
ham and the Southern members voted
against it. ICon. Globe, vol. 81, page
2Sl.l By this action Mr.. Pendleton
said that he UouLd not support "tht
President James Buchanan) in al
constitutional measures to enforce the
ldsOS and preserve the Union.
THE DOCTRINES OF THE CoNSPIRAToRs
PROCLAIMED.
On the 18th of January, 1861, Mr.
Pendleton in this place in the House
made a speech in reference to a pend
ing bill entitled ''an act further to pro-
vide for the collection of duties on
imports, ~ which is fully reported in
the Congressional Globe. Appendix
vol. 55, page 20.
At that tinle four States had with
drawn from the Union, and spurneC
: the authority of the General Govern
mentand had seized the forts, arsenal!
: and custom houses of the United
States, thus rendering it impossible t.
execute the laws or to collect the reve
nues of the country. The object o
the bill, which had been introduced
bv Mr.. Bingham of Ohio, was to ena
BILE the Government to execute it:
revenue laws. 1t was drawn. in al
most the exact language of an act o
. 1888, under which that iron-hearteC
; patriot, Andrew Jackson, so summari
, ly squelehed rebellion and treason il
South Carolina. Mr.. Pendleton, fail
i ing to follow the noble example o
f Jackson, opposed, most bitterly, thii
bill, which was intended to destroy
rebellion and treason in 1861.
Mr.. PendletOn said:
"But sir, money, arms, blood, will
not maintain the Union. Justice, reas
on, peace, may. This Union, Mr.
Chairman, is cOnfederationo of States
: The Constitution is the bond. In or
der TO attain certain ends, beneficial
! to all, these States came together il
5 voluntary association. They organ
lied central Government, and in
vested it with certain powers, they
themselves agreeing to do 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 thi
Union, in order to maintain this Con
stitution, it is necessary that ever
: agency in this complicated machiner!
the General Government, the State
[ united. the States severally-shoult
perform the functions allotted to then
: by the Constitution"
!, "Now sir, what force of arms cal
| compel State to do that which sh
has agreed to do? What force of arm
can compel State to refrain from do
ing that which her State government
. supported by the sentiment of he
e people, is determined to persist in do
Il ing? 1t is provided in the COnstitu
tiOn that the citizens of every Stat
shall have all the privileges. and i'm
- munities of citizens of the severs
/, States. What force of this FEEDERS
y Government can compel the Observ
n ance of that clause if State is deter
!, mined topass and execute laws where
by citizens of other States shall nc
have, within its limits, the sam
privileges as its own citizens?"
J. LET THEM DEPART IN PEACE.
e AS Mr.. Pendleton gave eXpressio