The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-06-13

present war, on another day awful
day for those who have kinlle1
thesyar fame. "
iNye are sweeping on irrssIgthy though
insehhRly, to the destiny aTsits S8
things human-a great and radical change.
individuals die while governments continue;
the latter are -eorpQrptiops, that can epdare
cohyulsiona and feel no sickness; but even
they must soniefIlhss Yield TO everything
events, and undergo dissolution or great
changes, Our Government, the-Pride of
freemen and of the lovers Of freedom the
world over, is nowintha process of change,
to be known no more forever. as it has been
On Thursday last the Hon. N. P. Banks, as
he stood upon Arlington lights in company
with distinguished military and civil officers
said, as he waved his hand toward Washing.
4on: This is the end Of this Government as
It no'o erists. There wiH bea reconstruction
on different principles Such is the uni.
versal impression 9here, and the conviction
weighs like the pall- of death on every mt
riotic heart. The Great Republic is rome
and Its Government is fast iosingit: anchor.
age m p0Fsiar liberty, and drifting to a
.espotc harbor as a safer refuge from the
storms Of revolution.
The great people, whose pursuits or whose
} opportunities do not allow them to see more
than the surface currents, might as well ibe
given to understand at once the powerful
undertoHe that is sweeping from under them
' their PERSONAL freedom, the rights of the
states and their republican government /
t tell them they are no longer freemen, in that
large and-comprehensive sense we have all
hpnderstoodwas conveyed and embraced BY
that word, when applied to the rights and
privileges of American citizens Phey vii
i wake upJere long to tho realization Of thu
horrid truth, but when lieis too late to recov
er what despotisrh shall have clutched in iii
~ iron hands. l write this as fact and proph
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ut has already been asked: why all these
State lines2 Why all this needless, cumber
d some, intricate entAnglemodt IF diFeren0
Y powers to make law and to decree Judgment
We cSn, afford now to effase the old Colonia
(, Geography. 1t, is the admitted powers 0
> States within the nation that has been tn,
source Of an our trouble. Nor will the re
IT moval of State power, and the creation of i
i Nationality, be a task SO formidable
1.-THE idea is to do away with State line.
and with LOCAL State governments, and con
sequently with much of the elective franehis,
as now enjoyed by the people. In othe
~ words, the grand conception is to make tn,
G Government of the United States rs nea
that Of Great Britain as it is possible to ge
4 it. 1t is old Federalism, with astoundin,
m.onarchichl additions, revived and unde
very favorable auspices for its success, Yor
y must not suppose that this thing is not Sc
: .O' on'or'"'neo' iof II Is, anu 'ne cOn'ic
ir ton lere isunivcrsal,, that the ehange is nee
essary, and will be made. A strong centra
governments is now the cry; and army an,
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