Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-10-15

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csIt -is practicable TO save the Union II all
the loysl men, North and South, unite IN .
firm and unwayering determination TO restore
and maintain il as IL existed one year ago. !
d practicable, because II 10 what Is atdenty de-
sired and earnestly longsd for byt tho mass on
the people, in both the Northern and Southern
sections Of our Confederacy, in the proportion
of ten to one Of ous entire population sy,rh
ao' II il impracticabls 70 save the Union without
the consolidation Of loyal men upon such . oaSi'
as this. s.,.,si,-s tgas,,.n.9 s.,e.n :,
~ II cannot be saved by the North uniting, |"
4, oould be united, in m attempt to aooiish sA-
,,'-.sv .Da make the States oil free States
I. Equally futile Is the scheme Of saving .ne vu'
ian Nv making slavery universal, or making tne
IA States in theory, " not in fact, all siavenola
;,1 These extreme sectional ideas produced
our present unhappy division; If cherished and
instillsd into the popular mind in eaen section,
as the only ground upon which the Union snouio
~ reconstructed and reconciliation take place,
tben. that division will become permanent, and
tho sooper the people consent to a separation,
vh;cb persistence in such extreme views Will
soms day render inevitable, the better.
Our past political history teaches one import
ant lesson which cannot but make upon sober
and rejecting men, at this time, a deep impress
siou. Fanatics and monomaniscs OF course Will
not heedit II is this that as one section o'
the Union has attempted to obsrude Its peculiar
and extreme views upon the other, not only nave
such attempts met with determined resistance
bu. the latter section has invariably sought 70
match the former by making as extreme sec
.iopal IDEAS paramount II is this insane striie
this idle and foolish attempt OF one section 70
mako the civil institutions and social status o'
the other conform to its own, that has been 'ne
or;v;n Of our recent national controversies
vhicb have eliminated in the present civil war
Everybody now admits what 10 obvious to the
most limited intelligence, that If one year ago
the conservative Union men OF the country, VINO
occupied the middle ground between the North
orr, and Southern extremes, had united ano
made their voice heard at the ballot box on tne
9Th of November last, this civil war never
would have broken out. II is equally plain ano
obvious that what would have prevented both
secession and the consequent war, may now put
an end to both and save the Union 1t is also
clear, and is becoming every day more and more
palpable, that aside from this, there is no sal
vation-not even ray Of hope for our once
"Model Republic" =,
It ia impracticable to save the Union by any
of the means that have bsen and are now &C
lively at work to effect its destruction. AZ
we'll might we expect to cure sick friend oy
administering dose of poison sufficiently large
and powerful to take his life. Yet there are
crazy men in the North who 60 about preaching
through newspapers, in pulpiis and on the high
ways, that the only way to save the Union, is to
compel the Southern States to become like the
Northern, free States. They are throwing the
6rebrands on the FIRE to increase the confsgra-
ton, and burn up the building as quickly af
possible.
Strange as it may seem TO the unsophissicatec
Northern man, this extreme is matched In th'
South, as extremes always have been in eacf
section, by one equally monstrous and imprac
ticable. It is that of making all the State
slaveholding, and never consenting to end th'
war till that ia done. And the rebel Leaders
make this or our acknowledgment Of their inde
pendence their ultimatum. eFDE #5
Il is practicable for loyal and conservative
Union men now, by concert Of action, 70 put
down the extremists in both sections. and save
the Union. But it may soon become impracti-
CABLE, If the anti-slavery extremists obtain
the full control of the North, as the pro slavery
extremists have done in several Southern States,
the "day Of grace" may be past.