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May 14, 1872
Grant County Herald
Lancaster, Grant County, Wisconsin
What is this article about?
Extracts from the New York Tribune in 1859 and 1864 present Horace Greeley's views advocating for the peaceful secession of Southern cotton states if they choose to leave the Union, citing the Declaration of Independence's principles of consent of the governed.
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The following extracts from the Tribune of 1859 and 1864 will be good reading for those who think Mr. Greeley would be a safe Executive:
[From the N. Y. Tribune, of November 9, 1859.]
"If the cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless * We must ever resist the right of any State to remain in the Union and nullify and defy the laws thereof"
"To withdraw from the Union is quite another matter; and whenever a considerable section of our Union shall deliberately resolve to go out, we shall resist all coercive measures to keep them in it. We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to another by bayonets."
[From the N. Y. Tribune of November 26, 1859.]
"If the cotton States unitedly and earnestly wish to withdraw from the Union, we think that they should be allowed to do so. Any attempt to compel them by force to remain would be contrary to the principles enunciated in the immortal Declaration of Independence, contrary to the fundamental ideas on which human liberty is based,'"
[From the N. Y. Tribune of Dec. 1, 1859.]
"If it [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 Southerners from the Federal Union in 1861. If we are mistaken on this point, why does not some one attempt to show wherein and why? For our own part, while we deny the right of slaveholders to hold slaves against the will of the latter, we can not see how twenty millions of people can rightfully hold ten, or even five, in a detested Union by them by military force."
[From the N. Y. Tribune Feb. 23, 1864.]
"We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, that governments derive their just power from the consent 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 independent nation, they have a clear moral right to do so.
Whenever it shall be clear that the great body of the Southern people have become conclusively alienated from the Union, and anxious to escape from it, we will do our best to forward their views."
[From the N. Y. Tribune, of November 9, 1859.]
"If the cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless * We must ever resist the right of any State to remain in the Union and nullify and defy the laws thereof"
"To withdraw from the Union is quite another matter; and whenever a considerable section of our Union shall deliberately resolve to go out, we shall resist all coercive measures to keep them in it. We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to another by bayonets."
[From the N. Y. Tribune of November 26, 1859.]
"If the cotton States unitedly and earnestly wish to withdraw from the Union, we think that they should be allowed to do so. Any attempt to compel them by force to remain would be contrary to the principles enunciated in the immortal Declaration of Independence, contrary to the fundamental ideas on which human liberty is based,'"
[From the N. Y. Tribune of Dec. 1, 1859.]
"If it [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 Southerners from the Federal Union in 1861. If we are mistaken on this point, why does not some one attempt to show wherein and why? For our own part, while we deny the right of slaveholders to hold slaves against the will of the latter, we can not see how twenty millions of people can rightfully hold ten, or even five, in a detested Union by them by military force."
[From the N. Y. Tribune Feb. 23, 1864.]
"We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, that governments derive their just power from the consent 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 independent nation, they have a clear moral right to do so.
Whenever it shall be clear that the great body of the Southern people have become conclusively alienated from the Union, and anxious to escape from it, we will do our best to forward their views."
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
Biography
What themes does it cover?
Justice
Moral Virtue
What keywords are associated?
Secession
Horace Greeley
New York Tribune
Declaration Of Independence
Cotton States
Union
What entities or persons were involved?
Mr. Greeley
Jefferson
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Mr. Greeley
Jefferson
Event Date
1859 And 1864
Story Details
Extracts from the New York Tribune edited by Horace Greeley argue that Southern states have a moral right to secede peacefully if they wish, based on the Declaration of Independence's principle of consent of the governed, and oppose using force to keep them in the Union.