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10. '6B. J a. WeCOLIX.
FOR THE DEMOCRAT.
Hon. Horace Greeley Invites the South
to Secede from the Union.
On the 10th day of November, 1860,
Hon. Horace Greeley made the following
declaration, and sent it forth to the world
through the N. Y. Tribune :
" Whenever any conslierable section of
this Union shall really insist on getting
out of it, we shall insist that they be al
lowed to go. . And we feel sure that the
North generally cherishes a kindred de
termination. So let there be no more bab
ble as to the ability of the cotton States
to whip the North. If they will fight,
they must hunt up some other enemy, for
we are not going to fight them. If the
people of the cotton States shall ever de
liberately vote themselves out of the Un
ion, we shall be in favor of letting them
go in peace. Then who is to fight ? and
what for ?"
On the 14th of the same month he
writes again:
" The telegraph informs us that most
of the cotton States are meditating a
withdrawal from the Union. Very well.
If any body sees fit to meditate disunion,
let theni do so unmolested. That was a
base row that the House once raised
about the ears of John Quincy Adams, ,
because ho presented a petition for the '
dissolution of the Union. And now, if
the cotton States consider the value of
the Union debateable, we maintain their
perfect right to discuss it. Nay, we hold
with Jefferson to the inalienable right of
communities to alter or abolish forms of
government that have become oppressive
or injurious; and if the cotton States
shall become satisfied that they can do ' ,
better out of the Union than in it, we in- '
sist on letting them go in peace. The
right to secede may be a revolutionary
one, but it exists nevertheless ; and we do
not see how one party can have a right to
do what another party has a right to pre
vent. We must ever resist the asserted
right of any State to remain in the Union
and nullify or defy the laws thereof; to
withdraw from the Union is quite anoth
er matter. And whenever a considerable
section of our Union shall deliberately re
solve to go out, we shall resist all coercive
measures designed to keep them in. We
hope never to live in a Republic whereof
one section is pinned to the residue by
bayonets."
Now here are the precise opinions enun
ciated on the floor of Congress by a Nor
thern statesman, reiterated by one who
has been considered the foremost leader
of the party which elected Abraham Lin
coln President. He assured the South
ern States that if they went out of the
Union, nobody would fight them. Could
they doubt that he spoke for the Presi
dent himself?
0. W. B. LLELLI
In May, 1865, Thurlow Weed, the
warm political friend of Sec. Seward, cen
sured the Tribune hr the following lan
guage:
"The Tribune arraigns Mr. Gilmer and
other Southern Unionists for dehying the
right of the government to coerce' the
: States. But, where does the Tribune
stand upon that question ? How does its
reword read ? While the question was
pt'uding, and half a dozen States hesita
tin g to take the plunge, did not the Tri
butteovow and defend the right of seces
sion ? Did it, not say that if the people of
half a dozen States bad made up their
minds to go out of the Union, they had a
right to do so, and that nobody had the
right or the power to restrain them?
Did not the Tribune, by its iterations of
\ this heresy, invite secession ? And if a
Northern journal vindicated the right of
secession, and denied the authority to co
erce, why should Southern men be blamed
for holding the same opinions?"
Let the Northern people, who consider
the South guilty of an enormous crime for
seceding from the Union, answer that
question. Mr. Greeley skys:
"That was a base row that the House
once raised about the ears of John Quin
cy Adamm, because be presented a peti
tion for thug dissolution of the Union."
Even this . ex-President, who has ever
been looked upon as one of the purest pa
triots, was called a traitor' in the House
of Congress for presenting a petition from
Haverhill, Massachusetts, praying for a
"peaceable discolution of the Union."—
How did this Yew England statesman
I exculpate himself from the charge of trea
son ? He called for the reading of the
Declaration of Independence, and a mem
ber taking up that document, read as fol
lows:
" We bola these troths to be self-evi
dent that all men.are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with
certain inalienilble rights ; that among
these are life, iiherty, and the pursuit of
happiness; that :to-secure these rights,
governments are Instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the con
,sent of thegoverned) that whenever any
form of goirernment iNnom es destructive
of these ends, it is the migght of the people
taalteriorabolish it, se II institute a new
govera Ea eut,,laying Its SOMdation on such
. snd - organitiov its • powers in
.sneis as 30 - thank most
likely to effect their safety st , Absppmese."
MONTROSE, PA., TUESDAY, .JA T . 9, 1866.
This declaration of the fathers who
founded this government was the shield
of John Quincy Adams, when arraigned
before the House for treascn. "It is the
right of the people," said Mr. Adams, "to
alter or abolish their government, or in
stitute a new government. Upon that
fundamental position do I base my de
fense, but I do not think the time has yet
come when a dissolution of the Union is
necessary in order to remedy grievances.
I do not approve of the prayer of the pe
tioners, but present it to vindicate the
right of petition."
Why cannot Jefferson Davis shield
himself under the same declaration ?
When he is brought before his country
for trial, let him produce the following
plea of Horace Greeley written in his de
fence Dec. 17, 1860 :
"If the Declaration of Independence
justified the secession from the British
Empire of three millions of colonists in
1776, we do not see why it would not
justify the secession of five millions of
Southrons from the Union in 1861. If
we are mistaken on this point, why does
not some one attempt to show wherein
and why? For our part, while we deny
the right of slaveholders to hold slaves
against the will of the latter, we cannot
see how twenty millions of people can
rightfully hold 10 or even 5 millions in a
detested Union with them by military
force.
"If seven or eight contiguous States
shall present themselves authentically at
Washington, saying, We hate the Fed
eral Union ; we have withdrawn from it;
we give you the choice between acquies
cing in our secession and arranging ami
cably all incidental questions on one side,
and attempting to subdue us on the oth
er—we could not stand up for coercion
and subjugation, fist' we do not think it
would he right. We hold the right of
self government sacred. If ever seven or
Tight States send agents to Washington
to say, we want to get out of the Un
ion,' we shall feel constrained by our de
votion to human liberty to say, let them
go. And we do not see how we could
take the other side, without coming in
direct conflict with those rights of man
which we hold paramount to all political
arrangements, however convenient and
advantageous."
Well, South Carolina, as if waiting on
purpose for such consent from the people
of the North, passed the ordinance of se
cession, and quoted the declaration of In
dependence for her justification, affirming
that " the Southern States now stand in
exactly the same position toward North
ern States that our ancestors in the Col
onies did toward Great Britain." She
also set forth her grievances toward the
North, (all of which, with those set forth
by the Southern States, will be reviewed
at some future time,) and maintained her
belief that she "could do better out of
the Union than in it."
True to his promise the editor of the
Tribune pleads the cause of South Caro
lina. He says :
"Looking at the whole subject calmly
and impartially, it appears most prudent,
since South Carolina has declared her ha
tred of the Union, to let her depart in
peace. When the President notifies Con
gress of her ordinance, let it be fairly con
sidered and accepted by a solemn vote of
both Houses. Give her the public prop
erty within her borders, treat her liberal
ly in all things, and with the best wishes
for her prosperity, let her make the ex
periment of a separate government. The
case has no precedents in our history,and
has therefore to be treated according to
its necessity.
"Two thirds of both houses may pro
pose amendments to the Constitution,
and a similar vote, or even a majority
might be permitted to release a State
from her obligations under it. In no
event ought coercion to be tried, because
however great the provocation may be to
assert the full powers of the government,
this Union cannot be held together by
compulsion. There is no goo reason
why this rupture of old ties should be
bloody."
How many thousands of people have
been called the vilest of the vile for assert
ing the same sentiment that " this Union
cannot be held together by compulsion,"
and for hoping with Horace Greeley that
they • "might never live in a Republic
whereof one section was pinned to the
residue by bayonets." And yet that is
the way the Republican party are now
holding it together, and the way they
seem determined ever to hold it.
In March, 1861, when state after state
hid seceded, and Jefferson Davis bad been
elected President of the Southern Confed
eracy, Mr. Greeley said:
"it isperfectly idle to talk of subduing
even half of the people of seven states, if
the other half dumbly submit to whatever
the dominant party sees tto impose.
The only object even of holding the fed
eral forts in the revolted states, ismither
to use them as custom houses, oz to make
them, a nucleus around which , the loyalty
of those states may crystalize. and 'take
form,.so as to render its power. :Theme
of fortsto put down a rebellion is inherent
in allgoyernmeats; its neat° bola estate
permanently.m,the union i n, defiallee of
the will of het. people, is not to be thought
of. Whenever the law of gravitation
shall lose its hold on the universe, it will
be vain to expect steam power to replace
it. The free states will not attempt to
subjugate even the gulf states, and hold
them in vassalage, for this neither cau nor
should be done."
Now here is a public pledge to soutberu
states that the free states would not at
tempt to subjugate them, and hold them
in vassalage as is now attempted by the
very party of which he was and is the ac
knowledged leader; dud further, there is
a distinct declaration that the southern
people, had gone out of the union and
were not in rebellion, and were therefore
not rebel; or traitors. On the 7th day of
April following, he still held the same
doctrine, and addressed the union men of
the south as follows:
" Messrs unionists of the south, this is
your tight! Are you prepared to play a
nattily part in it! If not, we may as well
give up first as last. Be not deluded with
idle dreams of 'reconciliation', for if the
federal flag is once ignominiously expelled
!Wm the gulf states, it will not return.
Were Texas once fairly out of the union,
we should protest against, her return as
vehemently as we did against her first,
coming into it. If she does not know en
ough to stay and behave het-self in the
union, sho will certainly stay out if ever
she gets out."
The federal flag was "ignominiously
expelled" from Fort Sumter on the 13th
of the same month - , just six days after be
promised the south that if once expelled,
it should never return, and that the free
states would not fight the gulf states; yet
how does he keep his word of promise?
Would any one dream that, the same man
wrote the sentences now quoted and pla
ced by the preceding pledges and declara
tions? Ou the Ist of May, 1861, Horace
Greeley the secessionist and peace man,
says :
"We mean to conquer the south, not
merely to defeat, but to conquer and sub-'
jugate them, and we shall do it the most
mercifully the more speedily we do it.
But when the rebellious traitors are over
whelmed in the field, End scattered like
leaves before au angry wind, it must not
be to return to peaceful and contented
homes. They must find poverty at their
firesides, and see privation in the anxious
eyes of mothers and the rags of children.
The whole coast of the south, from the
Delaware to the Rio Grande, must be a
solitude, save from the presence of a block
ading squadron, so that no relief shall
come in to the beleaguered people from
the sea. It is iu the power of the west to
literally starve her into submission. She
can drown or starve the lower country as
she pleases. To distress a foe in every
may, to deprive him of the luxuries and e
ven of the necessaries of life, and starve
him into submission, are measures justified
by war."
Now who commenced the starving pro
cesr, the south or the north? "As ye
sow, so shall ye reap," is a maxim often
quoted daring this war. The north sowed
the doctrine of starving men, women and
children at the south into submission. It
was advocated and carried into practice
by the north, and Andersonville was the
fruit which they reaped. Blockading the
American ports by a powerful government
was no new thing. George the Third
sent a blockading fleet into the harbor of
Boston, and John Adams wrote concern
ing that transaction the following letter
to Wm. Woodfall:
BOSTO'N, May, 1774.
"The blockade 'of Boston is received
with a spirit of martyrdom. It will pro
duce effects such as was not foreseen by
the Minister of State, who projected it,or
by the abandoned men in America who
suggested the project to him. Nero wish
ed the inhabitants of Rome bad but one
neck, that be might have the pleasure of
cutting it off with his own baud at one
blow. This, as it would have speedily
terminated their misery, was humanity in
comparison to with the project of turning
famine into a populous city to devour its
devoted inhabitants by slow torments and
lingering diseases."
A Scrap for a Historian.
While General Butler is writing his re
ply to General Grant, let him not forget
to insert a conversation between himself
and an able officer which is not unknown
in army circles.
An expedition was planned against
Richmond. Butler observed to the pro
posed leader—" You must leave nothing
of Richmond." "Do you mean seriously
destroy the city ?" " Yes, and have the
ground plowed up." The officer address
ed, replied, " I am not the man for the
expedition." " Yes you are—you are just
the man." "There must be at least one
thousand children, one thousand aged and
decripid persons, and one thousand wo
men. These 'helpless persons must all
perish if I fire the city, and; setting aside
all promptings of humanity, I do not care
to go down to . posterity with that load of
infamy upon me," i" Better go down
that way than not go at all."
. . .
the ,Bastan .Poet *aye: Thad..
fitsv,eaa j beage . the eosr,,of wound, reoeivr•
ed •whiAn he jnfoped.:tbrelgb tbe, State;
nease wind,ow,afthe Capitol at flatija.,
:burg daring the,Piraekabot ii7F," which.
can't be seen when he bee hie pants on."
1 Weithia Washburne's Reward.
BY lONE IRVING..
" Say yes, papa; do, please."
" What is it, my darling ?"
" I want you to help that poor man in
the jail, papa. He has no one to be kind
to him, and he feels so bad; it makes me
feel sorry."
" Who told you about him, Wellie ?"
" Why, I saw him when I went to the
jail with Mrs. Hapgood yesterday; and
after we came home she told me he had
no friends, and no money to get a lawyer
to—to--I don't know what, but Mrs.
Hapgood said it would get him out of
jail, anyway. Now, papa, you're a law
yer, and wont you do it without money ?
Say yes, like a good papa !" and the child
twined her soft arms about his neck and
kissed him again and again.
It was not in the great lawyer's heart
to refuse anything that this brown eyed
darling—this only child—requested at
any time, certainly not when the same
fountain spring of benevolence that
swelled up so sweetly in his child's bo
som, gushed from his own heart and
whispered of common humanity, urging
him to alleviate the sufferings of his err
ing brothers in this uncharitable world of
ours, where many are willing to render
assistance down life's bill, but very few
in the difficult ascent.
But for a moment he hesitated, while
the eager, earnest child, with loving epi
thets, was pleading, " Say yes, papa
That's a good papa !"
" Welthia, I am astonished I Behave
yourself, child ! Miller, why don't you
make her stop teasing? That comes of
letting her go with Mrs. Hapgood to the
jail yesterday. Ever since she came home
she has been teasing about something or
telling me of the horrid wretches she saw
there. You ought to know better than to
let her go; but you never consult my
wishes,"
" and Mrs. Miller Washburoe ar
ranged the folds of her silk morning robe,
and leaned mournfully back upon the vel
vet cushion.
" What is it so terrible that my bir
die is doing?" and he passed his hand
lightly over the brown curls.
" I don't like the way Mrs. Hapgood is
bringing her up," said the lady, petulant
ly. " She is always talking some Quixot
ic idea into her bead, such as going into
the jail, and I do not want my child to
mingle in such scenes."
" Martha, Mrs. Hapgood is one of the
noblest women God ever placed on this
earth. She has been my teacher, my
more than my mother, through life; and
I am perfectly willing she should lead my
child in the same path; for what little of
good there is in my heart is owing to the
principles she has inculcated. lam pleas
ed to see the kindness of heart this little
one manifests by the interest she takes in
the sufferings and sorrows of others.
Mrs. Hapgood wished Wellie to go with
her yesterday, and I unhesitatingly gave
my consent, as I knew she would be as
safe there as here. Mrs. Hapgood's pro
ject is a noble one, and I think she will
succeed in reclaiming many a falling one
from gulf of ruin beneath his feet, and the
most abandoned there would not dare to
treat her with rudeness. How did the
men behave, 'Wellie ?"
" They wasn't all men, papa; some of
them were little boys, like Charley Wil
son. Mrs. Hapgood took them some
flowers, then she read to them out of the
Bible a long time, and then she had a
school, and great, ig men, as big as you,
papa, said their letters, and some wrote.
Before that, we all sung one of my
hymns, and then we came home. Mam
ma said they would be rude and noisy;
but they wasn't ; and they said I was a
good little girl, and Mr. Monroe said I
was an angel; he didn't think I wore a
white dress, and had wings, and flew in
the sky, did he, papa ? But," suddenly
jumping up, " yon didn't say you would
help him, yet, papa."
" Yes, do all I can for him, dar
ling." And, with a farewell kiss, the de
lighted child bounded away to tell Mrs.
Hapgood the joyful tidings, while, with a
groan of dismay, Mrs. Washburne turn
ed to her husband.
" Surely, Miller, you do not think of
leaving your business to plead for some
miserable creature, whom you know noth
ing,of."
" liknow whom Wellie means. It is
young Monroe, formerly book keeper at
Wilson's. He was arrested for forgery,
a short time ago; and if any one merits
pity, he does; so I shall do all I can for
him." And Mr. Washburne left the
room, while his wife returned to her
conch, while the firm belief that Miller
and Mrs. Hapgood would ruin the whole
family yet. " That child, Wellie, talking
and singing with the horrid creatures; it
was terrible, but there was no use expos
tulating. Miller' would have- his erl
way. "
Miller .Washburne, left an Orphan
when hut a few' Months . 014; 1? egimathea
mother' rlbggd e,
friend, rs. Mapped, loved 'thij.ehilillies
witTow,,Viho fostered 00 - .PitTetltlesi child
se O,4, F ,Apr„ A,Mether:she hadlieeti to
him in ,all these long daye :of . 'childhood;
and uponbis merriage, finding bis wifeit
ly fitted to command a household, hoseat
for that one tree friend to some, sad,
IVOLITHE XXIII, NUMBER g..: r:.
among other cares,. guarded tho ,oree
pearl God had eouogne.l to hiaprot ! ".
tion.
Dignified and quiet, yet
ant, Mrs. Hapgood's sixty winters ASV
every lightly on her head.
A trot) , benevolent woman was Ire-
Hapgood, not in showering pence n on.-3
some wandering vagrant; but nisearching,,
out the truly suffering striving to allevi
ate their sorrow, and rescuing • the erring
from a path of vice and infamy; but her
last and greatest folly, in Mrs. Wash--;
burne's eyes, was entering the. county
jail, to assist, relieve and if possible re- .
claim some of the many children confined
in that soul hardening place.
But let us follow - Air. Washburneitp
stairs, where he rapped at a door, receiv
ing Mrs. Hapgood's pleasant " comein"
in return.
" I was wishing to see you,: Miller.
This little girl,"—and she put her hand
on Wellie's head—" wishes to go with , .
me to visit the prisoners, this Afternoon.
Are you willing she should go r
" Yes, and I will accompany you,
and,
see how young Monroe's case stands."
" Wellie came in a few minutes agr,
and told me you had promised to do
something for Mr. Monroe; she did not
know what." And she smiled quietly
upon the little brown eyes.
Half an hour afterwards, they entered;
the room where Nathan Monroe 'was
confined, little Wellie skipped gaily across_
the floor, and touching the bowed heir],
said " I'm here, and Mrs. Hapgood's here,
and papa's here, too. Are you glad P •
When the lawyer came forth from that
long conference, there was a firm look in
his eyes; and to Mrs. Hapgood's anxious
inquiry, " Have you any hope for him?"
he responded.
"He is innocent, and I will save him."
And he redeemed his' word. The al
most lost was saved; and the lawyer led
the innocent man from the shadowy , fel
lon's doom, looming so black before him. ;
to freedom and honor.
" God bless you all !" said he, as the.
tr;o met him for the last time. "I am
going far from here to try my fortune in
a strange place; but though I can never,
never express my gratitude, I am assured
that God will sometime place it in my
power to repay, at least part of the ,
kindness you lave dews me; cud, if my
life should be the price, I will do it.
Once more bless my good angel!" and,
for a moment, his lips touched the child's
fore bead, then be was gone.
Time passed swiftly, and one by one,
Mrs. Hapgood, with Mr. and Mrs. Wash--
burne, were laid beneath the waving,
willow, until none but Wellie remained;,
and as the wife of the young merchant,
Edward Wynne, trod the stree,te of her
birthplace. But the accumulated Wealth
of years melted away before speculgtion's
frown, and the beggared mercharit, with ,
his little family, wandering westward.to
retrieve his fallen fortunes. In the bug
ling western city, where he made his
home, be soon found employment; but
fortune seemed to sport with the strng
gling man even here, for the, firm by
which be was employed losing several
thousand dollars, charged it to his inat-
tention and carelessness, and ho was
thrown from employment.
After months of ceaseless searching,
which drained the last dollar from his
light purse, he obtained anothersituation;
but, within three weeks a heavy robbery
was committed in the store; suspicion
fastened upon Edward Wynne; an under
clerk asserted to have seen him conceal
the money; and; because be was a friend-,
less stranger the tale obtained ample ere-'
deuce.
Welthia Wynne, her husband in • a mit;
oner's cell, was: left pennileis, homeless,
and friendless, to fold her babes to her
bosom and endure suffering—suffering
such as she bad never known; but hers .
was not a heart to sink under misfortune,.
and though very little hOpe forthe fu
ture illumined her path, she unfearingly
trod the daily routide of almost super-'
human labor to' procure bread for her •
helpless children. God only could read
the future, and in His wisdom her faith
.rested.
It was evening; and in the library of a
noted lawyer the lamp burns brightly,
shedding its • brightest luster open' the
face of an elderly gentleman sitting by
the table busily conning the endlest paroh
mentin preparation for the cooling court
term. E t :;1:
Lines of care and suffering cross the
broad high brow, and shadow the dark
eyes with a kindlylook, - as though he-had
passed through the fiery furnace of rsor.
row. ••
Ho is interrupto by a seritun'announ-
Ong," A itinnAn on business; ski"' 'And'
with a kind respectful air be rises tniiiet
tbe poorly, clad woman; but, ti Ito tandem' _
her- tir a seat', !Ind inquires 'Lei biiiiinoil‘r
be ti ao.sign 'of recognitici:::' POW
blythot are a , tratifors; btie ibireianticie
bC-=yes' it Js =; fairY 'Whine
Washburne of our moinoryi MeV
thin,qf liter ye , #r*i . - ana fa' eliiiti*`
ea r ,
In a' yoiee faiterum Intb the aan g 9r
a man disroksrl, ibe told the
d.anger.t""of •POVio) . ' "'DC
friendieas si t uatio n ,, anneltidingliy,lo46l/(,
him to plead her b‘ustiand's wise hi the
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