Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-06-20

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the rights of their section in an une-
quail military contest.
We fully realize that the dilemma
of the incoming administration will
be critical one. Unjust eudeaver
to uphold and enforce the laws, as
well against rebellious slave%olers as
fugitive slaves. The new President
must fulfill the obligations assumed
in his Inauguration oath. no matter
how shamefully his predecessor may
have defied them. We fear that
Southern madness may precipitate
bloody collision that all must de.
plore, But if ever "seven or eight
States" send agents to Washington
to say. I'VE want to go out of the
Union," we shall feel constrained by
our devotion to human liberty to
say, "Let them go!.' And we do
not see how we could take the other
side without coming in direct con-
fict with those rights of man which
we hold paramount to all political
arrangements, however convenient
and advantageous.
NO RIGHT To CoERCE THE SOUTHERN
STATES.
From the Tribune, Dec. "a, 1860.
Most certainly we believe that
governments-that the latter "derive
their just power from the consent of
the governed; )" and whenever q por-
ton of this Union, large enough to
form an independent self, f,subsisting
nation, shall see fit to say, authenti-
caIly, to the residue, "We want to
get away from you," we shall say
and we trust self-respect, if not re-
gard for the principle of self. govern
ment, will constrain the residue Of
the American people 10 say-"Go ~
We never yet had so poor an opinion
Of ourselves or our neighbors as to
wish to hold others in a hated con-
nection with us. But the dissolution
of a government can not be effected
in. the tine required for knocking
down house of cards. Let the cot.
ton States Or any six CT more States,
say. unequivocally, "We want to gel
out of the Union," and propose to
effect their end peaceably and inof.
fensively; and we will do our best to
help them out-not that VIC want
them to GO, but what we loathe the
idea of compelling them to stay. AL
we ask is, that they exercise a rea-
s0nable patterned, so as to give time
for effecting their end without blood.
shed. They must know, as we'll as
We do, that no President recognize Q
mere State ordinances of secession,
nor neglect to enforce the laws oi
the United States throughout theil
whole geographical extent. 1t takes
two to make bargain, whether oi
admission of secession; but with
reasonable forbearance all may be
brought about
THE noKAL ktGHT OF SECESSION.
| From the Tribune ofen OF FEBRUARY. 1861 five
ldays after the inauguration OrJsf. Davis.
| We have repeatedly said. and VIC
once more insist, that the great prin.
ciple embodied by jefferson in the
Declaration of American Indepen-
dence, that governments derive their
just powers from the con.
sent of the governed. is
sound and just; and that If the slave
States, the cotton States, or the Gulf
States only, choose to form an indc.
pendent nation, they have a clear
moral right to do so. We have said
and still maintain, that. provided the
cotton States Eave fully and definite.
ly made up tl.eit minds TO go by
themselves, there is NO need of fight.
Ing about it; for they haze only to
exercise reasonable patience, and
they will be let of in peace ahd good
will. Whenever it shall he clear
that the great body of the Southern
people have become conclusively
alfenated from the Union, and anxi-
Gus to escape from it, we will do oul
best to forward thei: views.
MR. GREELEY IN 1862.
In letter to Ii. McCeesney, ot
Troy. N. Y, dated Sept. %, 1862
and published in the New York Tri-
bune of the 26th of the same month
Horace Greeley, speaking of the
right of secession, thus declared
himself.
"But I stiH insist that, If it had
fbeen proved that the people of the
slave States-or seven of the cotton
States alone-had really desired to
dissolve the Union, and had peace
fully, deliberately, and authoritative
ly expressed that wish we should
have assented to it. At all events,
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