The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-02-13

name, do it. Do patriotic duty! Give US
peace in stead of discord Maintain this Gov
eminent, and preserve the unity OF confeder-
ated empirel My voice to-day is 6r concilia
tion; my voice is for compromise, and 1t is but
the echo of the voice of my constituents. beg
you, gentlemen, who with me represent the
Northwest; you who with me represent the
State Of Ohio; you who with me represent the
city ofCincinnati--l beg you, gentlemen, to
hear that voice you will not; ifyou find
conci.istion impossible; if your differences are
so great that you cannot or will not reconcile
them, then, gentlemen, let the seeding States
depart in peace; let them establish their govern
ment and empire, and work out their destiny
according to the wisdom which God has given
them
My colleague (Mr. stantonl said the other
day, that war seemed inevitable. He SAID at
the end of that var was dissolution and d dsu-
MON. II he said truly, If he judged wisely, in
Gods name, let US leap over the intervening
agony Of war, and come to the end and conclu-
sion at once.
II George III had eonciliated his colonies,
how much wiser man would history have pro-
claimed him! n, failing to couciliate, he had
allowed the paialitn without the disgrace and
defeat Of the revolutionary war, how mnch WI
Mr. Stanton. would be glad to know Of
my colleague II he holds that there is any pow
er in any department of this Government to
recognize the secession of State under the
Cons tituton? As to the matter OF conciliation
and compromise, the people Of the seeding
States say they want none. and will accept
none /; aud therefore 1t is useless to talk OF it.
again ask my colleague whether there is any
power, under the Constitution, to recognize the
secession Of a State, and recognize them as a
foreign nation?
Mr.. Pendleton. What may be the consti-
tutional power OF this Government to recognize
the secession OF a State, decline to discuss at
present. But this say il we should become
engaged In war with foreign enemy, and
portion OF our territory should be captured and
reduced to possession BY the enemy, and we
should be obliged to make treaty of peace on
the basis OF retaining what each party had ac-
quired--uti possidetis- acknowledging the SOW
erelgnty Of that territory to have passed away
from us, certainly the Federal Government
would have the power to conform to our restrc-
| ted limits and to confine its jurisdiction to our
admitted boundaries. If war be dismember-
ment, as my colleague declares, has not the
Federal Government as much power to treat
that question now as at the end ofa warf--
| Will conflict OF arms confer constitutional
power upon the Federal Government? | do not
know--l do not belisve--that the people Of the
seeding States desire no conciation, no COM
promise. Try them, think they do. The
position OF Stephens and johnson and Houston
| the declared intentions Of Toombs and Davis
to say nothing oil Crittenden CT Etheridge--
leave no reason TO doubt it. How have they
| been met? By voting down in this and the
other House every proposition looking to recon-
ciliation; by adopting every resolution threaten
ling coercion by force OF arms. Before my coli
repeats that statement, let him make tender
Of compromise.
Mr.. Chairman, I say again, that MY constitu-
ents are in favor OF conciliation; they are in fa
vor OF peace. They love the Union beyond all
| things; but If dissolution is inevitable, they
want it peace. Peace may preserve this
| Cover nment peace may reconstruct this Union;
peace will preserve friendship, and give us an
opportunity for acts reciprocal kindness and
good will. Ifthese southern States cannot be
concilated, ifyou gentlemen cannot find it in
your hearts to grant their demands, If they
must leave the family mansion, / would signal
| ize their departure by tokens of love; would
bid them farewell so tenderly that they would
forever be touched by the recollection of it; and
Il, in the viesstades OF their separate existence
they should desire to come together with US a.
gain in one common government, there should
be no pride to be Inundated, there should be no
wound inflicted from my hand, to be healed
| They should come, and be welcome to the
PAGES they now occupy.
! But, Mr.. Chairman, if none OF these things
can be; there is TO be no Cancellation; If there
| is TO be no compromise; il there is to be no
peace. ask gentlemen to-day to pause before
they 60 further. ''Now is the accepted time"
Learn lesson from history, When he Sam
mites en- raped the Roman army in the Can
dine forks, without the possibility Of advance or
| retreat, the yictors took counsel of the wise
| Herennus. Dismiss them all unharmed," said
he. But they did not rise to that magnanimous
act of craftsmanship; they thought there had
been some mistake, and sought him again
"Exterminate them all, to the last man." They
ere appalled, at this gigantic act Of cruelty, and
sent for him to come into the camp He came,
his limIs all trembling under the accumulated
experience ofa long and chequred life, and spoke
to them: "The first course, which is best,
would have made Rome your friend, and con-
summated perpetual peace; the last course
would have destroyed her power, and so have
preserved your State for many years. There
is no middle course. You only preserve those
whom you exasperate--seyafs mode. quos i9
noutiuia i,ritave,itis. This Roman people know
not how to remain quiet under defeat. The
ignominy their present necessity compels them
to endnre will rankle in their breast until they
wreak manifold vengeance on your heads" A
middle course was pursued; the Roman leginns
were sent under the yoke. Before two SUM
iners had passed away, that same army return
ed TO devastate the country of the Samnites de
stroy their cities sack their capital and obit-
crate even the name and being Of their State.
Gentlemen, today yeu must make your
choice. 10. day lay aside all thoughts Of war,
and cultivate the AT Of peace. To. day deter
mine upon course Of conciliation and compro-
mise. Ifyou do not; II you insist upon draw
| ing the sword and dipping it IN your brothers
blood; if you insist upon this unnatural and un /.
holy war prepare to wage it TO the last extrem-
| ity; for warn you, that every wound which
| yoi infict upon the southern people, every de
feat to which you subject them, every degra.
dation you may have the power to make them
endure, will rankls in their breasts until they
wash out the last STAN in your blood and mine,
or it may be, in that Of our children.
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s'The Day of Compromise rs Gone,
and the Day of Fighttng Come"
The Commercials Springfield (Ill.) correspond.
ent, in his dispatch of the 2Sd, says: "FRAsx
P. BLAm arrived to-day. he says the day Of
compfoiseis gone. aud The day Of fighting come %
Terrible wordsl And who have brought these
days, so full Of woe to the country and to hu
mani,y, upon us2 The FRANK BLAtns, the
SEwARps the CHAsEs, the BEEcHkas, the SUN.
a. Al Al ~.