Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-11-26

Poonio ara noltrn ihs6Nn into antagoniBtic'
posisIods without ngpe6sasIlI becoming enemies
Thar desire maybe slne@e fnd saFness oRad-l
IuA h1J aslils w dlapq's ihAt P,Ay hessasiaea
WIihout u tesofti 70 adverse aud hostile proceed
ings, while yet they maybe compelled to take
Members Of ehdsches. Of societies and cOrpo-
rations, sndp.lnfg ipdiyidaals afe eit6p drawn
into, sbd 6e6ons p4fties % controversies which
shsy would gladly have avoided, and which, had
thslIa@ubsb ssai 1AioSsa 70. would Shsssr
have taken place. Taxes familiar instance
A disputs dtises among heirs or other claimants
ss 70 the distribution Of property. portion,
perhaps majority. of the. claiments on each
sids g Ahxi6dstS sstsIs the controversy With
out resortiugFfe thgHxpense5 delay and uncer
taInties of litigation, and propose terms of com
promise and adjustment But there happen 70
be psss6hs oh one siae or Oh both, who are self
wllled, and oba.inet0ly peEsiss in - dstermina'
tiOn to have ell they claim or nothing. They
are impracticaBIsi they know they are in the
right. and the right, theyywill have, though ~
may cost more than their claim is worth to OBJ
cain IL, or esen'to contend fot 1t. The conse-
quence 10 that those who wOuidoand could have
settled amicably are involved along with the
rest in an expensive and protracted lawsuit,
The f6ader can hardly avoid applying this
example to the civil war now raging in the
United States. Had the wishes. Of large
portion, bsobably majority, Of the people,
both North and South, been consulted, this ter
rlble national calamity would have been avert.
ed. All terms Of ,compromise and settlement
Of the disputes which bad arisen, were rejected
BY those onaeac6 side who had been legally in.
vested with, Or had illegally assumed the con.
troll Of public affAirs- The consequence 10, that
those On both sides who would and could, had
their wishes been.regafaed and their warnings
needed, have prevented the resort to the sword,
are forced along with those whose obstiDacy
was the immediate cause OF the bloody strife,
iuto adesperate struggle for llayiug waste each
others' homes and cutting each others' throats. !
North and South, the mass of the people who
remain ss home, and ibe mass Of those who go
into he Rsld spi sngagssin actual battle, bear
no malice against each other. They are driven
BY force Of circumstances and by an apparent
necessity to take position. OF deadly hostility
TO each other This can only be ended, as it
mighthHye been prevented at the outset, by
coming to mutual understanding. As there is
40 tribunal to which the parties can appeal, and
whose decision shall be final, this mutual I'M
derstanding muss'be and WILDE arrived at some
day, ID order to prevent the horrors Of an inter-
miuable intestine war. y l.iall hl a9i
The sooner this understanding is arrived at,
the betterfor the whole country. All that is
wanting is for the mass of the people in the
two sections now apparently hostile to each
other, 70 see the controversy in its true light.
When the people Of Che South come to under
stand that this war is, on the part Of the Fed
eral Government, merely an effort to Aesest the
authority Of the Constitution and maintain the
Union as existed from the beginning, and
when the people at the North shall bsoOnvinced
and act upon that conviction, that the mass OF
the southern people desire nothing more than
the protection of their rights under the Federal
Constitution and the laws of their respective
States, we may look for return to the old con
cord and harmony Of former days 4