he published an extract from a card in the
Cincinnati _Enquirer_ of November 10, 1860, from which I quote:

"And now let me add that I did say, ... in a public speech at the
Cooper Institute, on the 2d of November, 1860, that if any one or
more of the States of this Union should at any time secede, for
reasons of the sufficiency and justice of which, before God and the
great tribunal of history, they alone may judge, much as I should
deplore it, I never would, as a representative in Congress of the
United States, vote one dollar of money whereby one drop of
American blood should be shed in a civil war.... And I now
deliberately repeat and reaffirm it, resolved, though I stand
alone, though all others yield and fall away, to make it good to
the last moment of my public life." Here was another strong man of
large influence solemnly pledged to allow the Union to be broken up
and destroyed, in case the rebel conspirators chose that
alternative, rather than forgo their demands in favor of oppression
and against human rights.

On the 23d of January, 1861, the Democratic party held a State
Convention at Columbus. Remember, at that date the air was thick
with threats of war from the South. The rebels were organizing and
drilling; arms robbed from the National arsenals were in their
hands; and the question upon all minds was whether the Republic
should perish without having a single blow struck in her defense,
or whether the people of the loyal North should rise as one man,
prepared to wage war until treason and, if need be, slavery went
down together. On this question, that convention was bound to
speak. Silence was impossible. There were present war Democrats and
peace Democrats, followers of Jackson, and followers of Calhoun.
There was a determined and gallant struggle on the part of the war
Democrats, but the superior numbers, or more probably the superior
tactics and strategy, of the peace men triumphed.

The present candidate of the Democratic party for Governor of Ohio,
Judge Thurman, a gentleman of character and ability, a
distinguished lawyer and judge and a politician of long experience,
succeeded in passing through the convention this resolution:

"_Resolved_, That the two hundred thousand Democrats of Ohio send
to the people of the Unite