The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-08-08
to secure a seat therein for four years.

a candidate for Governor, and l did
not discourage them.
I am sure Weed did not mean to
humiliate me, but he did it. The up
shot Of his discourse {veTy cautiously
stated was this: If were a candidate
for Governor, I should beat not N.Y.
self only, but YOU. Perhaps that was
true. But, as I had in no manner So
licited his or your support, / thought
this might have been said to nv
friends, rather than me. l suspect it
is true that I could not have been
elected Governor as 4 Wing. But had
he and you been favorable, there
would have been q party in the State,
ere this, which could and would have
elected me TO any post, without injur-
ing myself or endangering your re-
election.
It was in vain that / urged that I
( had in TO manner asked a nOmina-
ton. At length, / was nettled by his
/ language-well intended, but very
cutting, as addressed by him to me-
! 10 say, in substance, well, then,
make Patterson Governor, and try
nv name for Lieutenant Governor
| To lose this place is matter Of no
/ importance, and We can see whether
I am really so OdiOus."
Having quoted from the early let
ters Of Gen. Grant, it is proper to
I quote from the early letters of Gree
ley, so that the men may be fairly
contrasted.
/ HIS ENCOURAGEMENT OF SECESSION
Before Abraham Lincoln was inau-
gurated i'm March, 1861, seven States
| had seeded. They did not secede be-
lieving the twenty-One millions ofthe
North, would deny their right, and
desOlate their land by war. They re-
lied upon q divided sentiment in the
North.
They thought the Democratic party
in part would sustain them and they
did not believe the Republican party
could be brought up to the point OF
| IcOercing them. No man in the land
said or did so much to create that i'm
preston rs Horace Greeley. The elec-
ton was not more than known before
! Greeley uttered the following, dated
November 9th, 1850:
"And now, if the Cotton States con-
slider the value of the Union debat-
able, we maintain their perfect right
to discuss il. Nay, we hold with JEFF
/ ferson to the inalienable right CT COM
munities to alter or abolish forms OF
government that have become Oppres-
| Isive Or injurious; and if the Cotton
States shall decide that they can do
better out of the Union, than in it, we
insist on letting them 90 in peace.
The right to secede may be 4 revOlu-
tionary one, but it exists nevertheless;
and we do not see how one party can
have 4 right to do what another party
has a right to prevent. We must ever
resist the asserted right of any State
to remain in the Union, or nullify OF
defy the laws thereof; to withdraw
from the Union is quite another mat
ter. And, whenever a considerable
section of our Union shall deliberately
resolve to go out, we shall resist all
coeTcive measures designed to keep il
in. We hope never to live in a Re.
public whereof one section is pinned
to the residue by bayonets."
On the 18th of December, 1860, just
before South Carolina seeded, South
Carolina being the first State to go,
Mr.. Greeley published the following
: editorial:
, We have repeatedly asked those who
dissent from our views of this matter
to tell Us frankly whether they do oil
not assent to Mr.. JeffersOn's state
ment in the Declaration of Indepen-
, dence that Governments "derive theiI
Just powers from the consent of the
, governed: and that whenever any
form of government becomes destruc-
tive of these ends, it is the right of the
] r,nnv,1a FC otFar alnn1fg1n ~ onH TO in.
stitute q new government &c, &c.
We do heartily accept this doctrine,
believing it intrinsically sound, bene-
ficent, and one that, universally ac.
cepted, is calculated to prevent the
shedding of seas of human blood
And if it justified the secession from
the British Empire of three millions Of
colOnists in 1776, we do not see why il
would not justify the secession of five
million of SOUthrOns from the Federal
Union in 1861. If we are mistaken on
this point, why does not some one at
tempt to show wherein and why.
For our own part, while we deny the
{ right of shareholders to- hold slaves
against the will of the latter, we can
not see how twenty millions of peO.
pie can rightfully hold ten or even
five in q detested Union with them by
military force.
We could not stand up for coercion,
for subsection, for we do not think il
would be Just. we hold the right Ol
self-government sacred, even when
evoked in behalf Of those who deny il
to others. So much for the question
of principle.
We fully realize that the dilemma
of the incoming Administration vii!
{ be a critical one. 1t must enforce and
: uphold the laws, as well against re-
bellious shareholders as fugitive
slaves. The new President must full
fill the obligations assumed in his in
: auguratiop oath, no matter how
shamefally his predecessor may have
defird them. We fear that Southern
uIadness may precipitate bloody col
= lision that all must deplOre. But il
ever "seven or eight States" send
agents to Washington to say, "We
want to 90 out of the Union" we shall
feel constrained by devotion to human
liberty to say, let them go! And we
do not see how we could take the 9TH
er side, without coming in direct con-
fiict with those rights of man which
we hold paramount to all political ar
rangements, however convenient and
advantageous.
On the 24th of December, 1860, Mr..
Greeley published the following edit
Orial:
Most certainly we believe that Gov
ernments are made for peoples, not
peoples for GOvernments-that the
latter "derive their just power from
the consent of the gOverned;" and
whenever a portion of this Union,
large enough to form an independent,
self subsisting nation, shall see fit to
say automatically, to the residue,
: ave want to get away from yOu,n We
: shall say-apd we trust self-respect,
if not regard for the principle Oi
self-gOvernment will cOnstrain the
residue of the American people to say
: -"GO ~ We never yet had so poor
, an opinion of ourselves or our neigh
bOrs as to wish to hold Others in q
hated connection with us.
Two months later, Feb. %, 1861, five
p days after the Inauguration of jeff. DaV-
is as President, Mr.. Greeley published
the following editorial
"We have repeatedly said, and we
once moreinsist, that the great principle
: embodied by Jefferson in the Declara-
ton of American Independence, that
governments derive their just powers
from the consent of the governed, is
= sound and just; and that if the slave
= States, the cotton States, or the Gull
States only choose to form an inde-
pendent nation they have a clear NOR.
al right to do so. We have said and
still maintain, that, provided the cot
ton States have fully and defnitively
made up their minds to go by them
selves, there is no need of fighting
about it for they have only to exercise
reasonable patience, and they will be
set off in peace and good will. When
! ever it shall be clear that the great
body of Southern people have become
cOnclusively alienated from the Union
and anxious to escape from it, we will
do our best to forward their views"
When Stephens inthe Georgia leg
islature was trying to prevent the
secession of Georgia, TOOmbs replied
by simply reading the above editorials
from the Tribune.
We give the testimony of the last
candidate of the Democracy for Vice
President, as to the effect of Greeley's
editorials in Georgia.
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