The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1861-04-12

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troll the passaEe between the two oceans.
"In short, Il the Union let's South
Carolina go, thcre is no saying what may
80 with il. IL is very well 20 speculate
ON the return Of an erring sister, but eN-
peri,nee shows that soccssions when
once made are not easily recalled"
The Union is valuable TO Us in a COM
mercial point Of view. In the Norh We
raise wheat, which docs not grow in the
South, aud our form Of civilization en-
couragcs manufactures. Every riyulct,
and coal mine, and forest, gives power 10
impol machinery, and the South is a vast
market for our maRulattuol articles
Governor Wise, Of Virginip, year ago,
said that the North manufactured ull
that was worn, and used and consumed
in the S nth, even 10 broom handlcs and
coilins. Tho very black budgca Of trea-
son now worn at the South, were manu-
iucturod in New York, aud Northern
guns in the hands Of southern traitors,
now menace us with intcruooinc war aud
death. Bolletontaino manufactures car
riages for Texas. Now iC we divide the
Union, Cincinnati will DO transferred TO
hatcher, the spindlcs Of New England
will travel to tho water falls Of the Car
olnas.
The decline Of Charleston commerce
is no Insignificant motive for secession,
in the hope that il will become the New
York ofthe South, and New York will
become but a Charleston for the North
The Almighty has made tho Ohio, tho
Mississippi, the Mssourito flow from the
North 70 the South that we may trans
port our breadstulh manufactures there,
aud that our steamers may return laden
with rice, cotton, and sugar. God made
us for one nation, and the Constitution
but ratified his decree. There is no er-
ror In the record aud II can never ba re-
Iverscd. We can not cut the Mississippi
river in two, and permit one-hah 10 be
owned by foreign nation. The Con-
sutution was m0dS 10 secure free trade
among the States. Divide the Union
and duties will be lowed on all tho prod
uois we send South. The rebel Congress
at Montgomery have already levied duties
upon the articles we ship into tho se ces-
, sion cOuicdoracy. The South now can
not cut of our commerce and trado be-
cause II is free, while we can ro;uin il by
duties leviod upon the products OF otl or
nations. But the Secession ConGedsra-
cy as an independent nation con eN.
change her cotton for the wheat of Can
ada and the manufactures of England
The hostility which would prompt a d.
vision Of the Union wouldinduee her to
cut off our Northern commerce.
The Union gives US confidence, power
and respect at homo aud abroad. Three
great nations occupy the continent, Rus
sia, England and the United States A-ours
the greatest among the great. All 9TH
srs are Insignificant. Aud what has the
Union done for psl A few years ago
we sent Commodore Perry and man-ol.
war to Japan. Her ports were closed to
al nations. He was forbidden 20 enter
But he did enter, and We have a CONNER,
cial Treaty with that vast empire. II
was not the man-of-war or the guns that
did this. 1t was the power Of our name
Two years ago we had war with a
foreign nation, yet not one in hundred
remembers the fact. We made war on
b, Paraguay-we sent three steamboats, Ia
] Conquer that nation and to coerco a trea,
ty 70 pay our IIllzens their money de.
mands. Three steamOouts Co5a.3ouered
Paraguay. Ne, no, il was not the thre,
steamboats,, it was the fact that tho Uni
ted States simply said il must bo so. Il
was the fact that 800 STEAMBOATS, could
be sent, or if necessary men enough and
munitions Of war to digup Paraguay and
cover il with another Dead Sea.
A few years ago, Gen. Jackson said to
France, eve must have satisfaction for
injuries" and it was granted. We said
to England, "the right ofscarch must be
abandoned" and it was done. We an.
nOunced new chapter in the laws Of ma.
tiOns-the Monroe doctrine, that this con.
iunent could not be conquered or colon.
szed by other nations, and there the law
tands. These are fruits of the Union.
If we dissolve it, aud divide into petty
confederacies, we cease TO be known
among the nations Of tho earth; or We
will only DO known as insignificant
States, submitting to the demands of oul
more powerful nGighbors.
Like Mexico, we will be "rent will
civil feuds," eternal strife; property will
become insecure: exhausted with taxa
ton, our schools and colleges will di.
out; our people, envoloped in ignorance
will fall an easy prey to military deta-
tors and despotism.
would preserve tho Union for the
power Of its name abroad. | would have
every citizen Of our vast Republic carry
with him, wherever no goes, his nation
ality as an American citizen, Iwould
| have the nations Of the earth to under
stand that an insult or an outrage on a
native or naturalized citizen, should be
cause for instant redress, or war.
would not agree with the statesmen
who said "thOt form Of government is
best in which an insult to the meanest
citizen is an insult 10 the whole constitu-
alton" but would preserve a ntionali-
ty that would pro teet from wrong the
weakest Of our citizens throughout the
habitable globe.
If We permit this government 10 be
/ broken up and deStroyed-this experiment
of popular liberty to fail--ths hopes OF
freedom oil over the world will die out
forever.
Stimulated by our example, France
once spoke for freedom, end iha rights OF
man but the Republic has given place
to the Empire, and liberty 10 crushed out
there. Hungary, away in the interior OF
Europe, heard the name Of Washington,
and Kossuth endeavored 10 follow his ex.
amDle. But there too
"Hope for season bads tlis world farewell,
And freedom shrieked When noble Kossutli
fell"
Here Is a government Of the people;
here liberty finds almost its only resting
place among the nations OF men And
here now, before the great jury Of the
American people, ciTil liberty Is on trial.
IL now IL ia crushed-if free govern nnenf