Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1861-01-24


DOMESTIC HOSTILITlEs OF THE DisUNlTED
STATES
have thus FAR kep, out Of view the relations
which mus; arise between the Confederacics
themselves. They would be small and inconsd-
cradle nations bordering on each other, and there
fore, according to all political PHILOSOPHY,
natural enemies In addition to the many treat
les which each must make With foreign powers.
and the causes Of war which they would give by
violating them each of the Confederacics must
also maintain treaties with all the others, and so
be liable to give them frequent offense. They
would necessarily have different interests result
ing from their establishment of different policies
of revenue, Of mining, manufactures and navi-
CATION. of immigration, and perhaps The slave
trade. Each would stipulate with foreign na-
tions for advantages peculiar to itself, and njuri
ou. TO its rivals.
INCEssANT WAR THE RESULT OF DIsUSIoN.
If, indeed, it were necessary that the Union
should be broken up. il would be in the last de-
gree important that the new Confederacies TO be
formed should be nearly as possible equal in
strength and power, that mutual fear and mutu-
al respect might inspire them with caution a.
ganst mutual ohense. But such equality would
MT long be maintained. One confoderacy would
rise in scale of political Importance, and the
others would view it thenceforward with envy
and apprehension. Jealousies would bring on
frequent and retaliatory wars, from the peculiar
circumstances of the Confederacies, would have
the nature and character of civil war.
THE BALANCE OF POWER oN AMERICAN SOIL.
Dissolution, therefore, is for the people of
this country perpetual civil war To mitigate it,,
and obtain occasional rest what else could they
accept but the system 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 system should fall at lg/,
foreign nations would intervene, now in <1vor
of one, and then in aid Of another and thus our
country having expelled all European power from
the continent, would relapse into an aggravated
form of its colonial experience, and like Italy,
Turkey, India and China, become the theater
Of transat t,antic Intervention aud rapacty. If
however, we grant to the new confederacios
exemption from complications among each other,
and with foreign States, stili there is too muci.
reason 70 believe that not one of them could
long maintain Republican form Of government
DisUNioN AND THE CoNTINUANCE OF THE
REPU BLICAN SYSTEM.
Universal suffrage and the absence Of stand
irg army, is essential to the Republican system
The = orld IS yet to see single seli-sustaiming 2
State Of that kind, or even any considerations
Of such States except our own. Canada leans
on Great Britain not unwillingly, Switzerland
is guaranteed by interested nonarchical states
Our own experiment has tnus far been successful
because by the continual addition ofnew States,
the influence of each Of the members Of the
Union is constantly restrained. NO one, of
course can ioreteu the way and manner of tray Ell,
but history indicates with uncrring certainty.
the end which the several confederaccs would
reach. Lcentousncss would render life in
tolerable, and they would sooner or later pur-
chase tranquility and domestic safety .y the
surrender of liberty, and yield themselves up to
the protection of military despotism.
A MILITARY DEsPoTIsM BEGUN IN THE SOUTH
Indulge me sir, in one or two details under this
head. First, it is only sixty days sirce this dis
union movement began. Already those who are
engaged init, have canvarssed with portentous
freedom, the possible denominations of the
States, when discovered, and tie feasible aillan-
ces Of those reconbinations of the States, when
discovered and the feasible alliances of those
recorhbinatons with European nations; alliances
as a untnsural and which would prove ultimately
as pestiential to society here, as that of the
Tlascalans with the Spiniard who promised them
revenge upon their ancient enemies the Aztecs
TUE DANGERS OF A sERvILE WAR.
Secondly, This disunon movement arises in
another view out of the relation OF African slaves
to the domestic population ofthe country. Free
dom is to them ~ TO all mankind the chief OBJ
ect of desire. Hitherto, under the operation of
the Union, they have practically remained igno-
rant of the controversy, especially of its bearing
on themselves. Can We hope that fagrant civil
war will rage among ourselves in their very
presence, and yet that they will remain stupid
and-dle spectators Does history furnish us any
satisfactory instruction upon the horrors of civil
war among people so brave, so skiIlful in arms
earnest in conviction, and so intent in purpose
as we are7
l. it n mere chimera which suggests an az
grayation of those horrors beyond endurance
when on either side there shall occur the inter.
,crtion of an uprising fcrocious African slave
population of four OF six, perhaps twenty mill.
ions' The opinions Of mankind change. and
with them the policies Of nations.
GROWING HOSTILITY u stAyERy-TuEoRIEs or
ABOLITION.
One hundred years AGO, all the commercial
Europen states were engaged in transferring
negro slaves from Africa to this hemisphere.
To-day all those s'Atcs are firmly Sc IN hostility
20 the ext.s s.on. aud even 20 tic practice OF
slavery Opposition toll takes two forms. Oae
European vhisb : sislple, dlreel abolition. effect
cl II need be, by eompa.son. Lie other, Amce.
can. which seek TO arrest the African slave
trade and resist the entrance ofdomeslic Slavery
into Territories where it's yet unknown. while IL
leaves ihe disposition Of existing Slavery to the
cousiderats action Of the states " which II Is re
tanned.
ruE UNION rHE PROTECTION OF THE SLAVE OWNER.
Il is the Union that restricts the opposition 10
Slavery IN this country within these limits If
dissolution prevail, what guarantee shall there be
against tie fall development here Of lie fearful
aud uncompromsing hostility 10 Slavery which
elsewhere peryades the world, Of which the re
cent iosasion Of Virginia was an Illustration
NArioxAL GREATNESS lxsEr.RABLs PROM NATIONAL