The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-01-24


, ion are always ample.
: Domestic HOstiIities ofthe Disunited States
have thus far kept out of view The
relations which must arise between the
Contcderacics themselves They would
be small and inconsderable nations, tor.
dering on each other, ani there ore, &C.
cording to all political philosophy, natur
al enemies. In addition to the many
> treaties which each must make with for.
eign powers. and the causes Of war which
they would give by vlol.ting them, each
ofthe Confederacies must also maintain
{ treaties with all the others, and SO be H.
able 10 give them frequent olfenses. They
would necessarily have different interes d
resulting from .beir establishment of diff
ferent policies Of revenue. of mining,
| manufactures and navigation, Of immigra-
tion, and perhaps the slave trade. Esch
would stipulate with foreign nations for
advantages peculiar to itself, and injuri.
Gus 10 its rivals.
Lncessan, ~ar Ms result of Disunion.
II, indeed, it were necessary that the
Union should be broken up; it would be
in the last degree important that the new
+ Confederacles to be formed should be as
nearly as possible equal in strength and
power. that mutual fear and mutual re-
, spect might inspire them with caution
against mutual ofense. But such equal
ity would not long be u ainlained. One
confederacy would rise in the scale of
political Importance, and the others would
view il thence forward with envy and
apprehension. Jeslouses would bring
on frequent and rotaliaory wars, and ali
these wars from the peculiar eircumstan.
ces Of the Confederacies, would have the
nature and character of civil war.
Tile Balance of power on american Soil.
Dissolution, therefore. is for the peoy le
of this country perpetual civil war. To
mitigate it, and obtain occasional rest,
what else could they accep; but the sys-
tenn Of adjusting the balance of power
which has obtained in Europe, in which
the few strong nations dictate the very
terms on which all the others shall be
content to live. When this hateful sys
tenn should fail at last, foreign nations
would intervene. now in favor Of one, and
then in aid of another. and thus our
country having expelled all European
powers from the continent, would relapse
into an aggravated form of its colonial
experience, and like Italy, Turkey, India
and China, become the theater OF trans
atlantic Intervention and capacity. II,
however, we grant to the new confeder-
acies exemption from complications among
each other, and with foreign States, still
there is too much reason to believe that
not one Of them could long maintain
Republican form Of government.
Disunion and the Continuance Of tile Re.
publican System,
Universal suffrage and the absetc ce of
a standing army, is essential to the Re-
publican system. The world is yet to
SEQ single self sustaining Stale of that
kind, or even and confede rations Of such
States except our own. Canada leans on
Britain not unwllingly, and Switzerland
is guaranteed by interested monarchcal
states. Our own experiment has thus
far been successful, because by The con-
tinual addition Of new States, the inAu.
encc Of each of the members Of the Union
is constantly restrained. No one, OF
course, can foretell the way and manner
OF travel, but history indicates with un-
erring certainty, the end which the sew.
eral coniederacies would reach. Licen.
tiousness would render life intolerable,
and they would sooner or later purchase
tranquility and domestic safety by the
surrender Of liberty, and yield themselves
up to the protection of military dcspolism.
Il Military Dtspotism begun in tile South.
Indulge me, sir. in one or two details
under this head. FIRST, it is only sixty
days since this disunion movement
began. Already those who are engaged
in it, have canvassed with portentious
freedom, the possible recombina;ions Of
of the States when discovered, and the fea.
sible alliances of those denominations
with European nations; alliances as un-
natural, and which would prove ultimate
ly as pestiential 10 society here, as that
of the Tiascalans with the Spaniard who
promised them revenge upon their ancien;
enemies the Aztecs. 81
Tile Dangers of Serute War.
Secondly. This disunion movement a.
rises in another view out of the relation OF
African slaves to the domestic population
OF the country. Freedom is to them as
to all mankind, the chief object Of desire.
Hitherto, under the operation Of the .Un-
ion, they have practically remained igno.
rant of the controversy, especially Of its
bearing on themselves Can we hope
that fragrant civil war will rage among
ourselves in their very presence, and yet
that they will remain stupid and idle spec
tators? Does history furnish us any sat
factory instruction upon the horrors Of
civil war among a people so brave, SO
skillfuI in arms, so earnest in conviction,
and so intent in purpose as We are?
Is it mere chimera which suggests an
aggravaton of those horrors beyond en-
duranee, when on either side there shall
occur the intervention of an uprising fe-
rocious African slave population Of four,
or six. perhaps twenty millions? The
opinions of mankind change, and with
them the policies OF nations.
Gro,uiag HosGlayso Slavery-TAeories Of
abolition.
One hundred years ago, all the COM