Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-01-23
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d Friends at the South! brothers in blood
I fellow-eitizens of this great Republiel paqs
aud reflect one moment before you blindll
dash yourselves upon DESTRUCTION Nol
are augry; yeu are peweraful. p So are tn
J waters when they are lashed into turbu
lence by storms like that of your now rag
! ing passions But as they hurl themselvei
upon The silent rocks which guard th'
! shore. only to be broken. SO will you retire
foiled and foamiDg if you precipitate your
selves against the mighty barrier which
stands between your fury and the country
whose existence it seem to threaten Youl
ears are ldeafened with your own clamor;
your eyes bewildered with your.Own. con-
fusion; and yon mistake the-solemn stiffness
of the power with which you may have to
cope, for an evidence of aGathy, or an indi-
cation of conscious weakness You seem
unable to comprehend a quiet determine
ton, or to apprehend the truth that calm
ness is one sign of conscious strength.
Cease, we pray you; cease thus to de-
ceive yourselves. The government of this
country can fail to be sustained in all parts
Of the country only because the entire force
of the loyal States is unable to sustain it.
Upon that question Il e, people of those
States do not think of party ties; they do
not know them; they are unit You
tslkIiof resisting the government of the
United States, and you measureits strength
by its support of Major Anderson, its wis
dom by the wisdom of Mr.. Buchanan S
Administration, its wealth by the condition
of his Treasury. and its faithfulness by the
integrity of his late Cabinet But the
Government Of the United States is the
people of the United States; its wisdom is
their patriotism; Its strength, their lives;
its wealth, their whole possessions Some
of you are plotting the seizure of the place
which bears the illustrious and beloved
name of him who did more than any other
man to make us one free nation. Attempt
1t, and you will see around the Capital
half of the millions of the North in arms;
for they, unlike you, can leave their wives
and DAUGHTERS safe in the sole protection
of their hel plessncss. In this struggle
you will have to meet the whole of us
Remain no longer IN error on this point
We have all of us, but one mind, one heart,
one soul. upon this subject; and should the
little knot of bankers and brokers, who for
their fancied interest have been endeav-
oring to mislead you, raise their voices in
favor of your traitorous schems. we should
only not leave them behind us hanging up
on trees because here We deal. even with
traitors, according to the Constitution and
laws which we as well as you. and you as
well as We, have had voice in making.
But for what are you ready to overthrow
this Government, and blot this nation from
existence? That you may have more
slaves. and moe slave territory, and that
you may safely keep the slaves you have.
The revival Of the slave trade presents
itself more or less distinctly to you in the
future Of the new republic; and YOU suppose
that England and France would at least
connive at the westward and southwark
march of the contederacy which will sup.
ply them with cotton. Misguided menI
upon your separation from this Govern
ment, should that ever happen, you would
become the Cain of the christian world, !
the Ishmael of civilized nations. he
cruisers of Great Britain, ofFrance, and of
the Northern Republic, would line your
shores so thickly that they would shout
the watchword of humanity from maintop
to maintop, and not negro be borne past /
them into bondage Slave captains and
slave crews would not be handed over to
the tar1y and uncertain justice of Courts
in the formation of which you have an
but within the hour when they
were taken they would swing from the .
yardarm, over decks slippery with the
blood of those who had dared to make the
resistance of the desperate. Establish 1
your cOnfederacy as one to be distinguished 4
by slavery, and attempt to add one State
to it, and, as England and France have
already told you through their press, you
will have to do it in the face of all civiliz-
ed Christendom. Do you look towards
Mexico? Already Great Britain has her
hand stretched out upon that country to
right the wrongs of her own citizens, and
here you must, even in her own interests,
1t once encounter her Influence, if not her
armies Have you still your eyesO Cuba?
Turn them upon yourselves and see in
what condition you, as an isolated slave
would be to meet the powers
of Spain, and most probably of France.
But perhaps you look for your expan-
son westward of yourselves: and there
probably you may secure it if you remain
part of this Republic For, understand
it clearly, if for one reason or another YOU
are enabled to dissolve your connection
with the Uuion, you acU not be alEoaced to
break sp this Government. You NAV
possibly 60 yourselves, but you will take
nothing with you; not an acre of the Gov
ernment lands; not ship-no, not even a
'ree or rope for any purpose. A consent
% the partition of the possessions of this
country for the ends of slavery, or for any
.nds, the great masso of the people will new
II give. The cordan of free. States, the
prospect of which awakens in you such 4
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