Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-01-23
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From the Western est. Loui,) Banner.
Union and Disunion.

! the Union. When, alter brief term OF eighty
years, the finest government that the human
mind ever devised or human hands ever framed,
is threatened with immolation at the shrine of
fanatioism and folly, we may well be pardoned
for stepping aside from our usual cOurse and
raising our voice against such stupendous
sacrifice,
We are not OF the number who lock upon die
union az q sovereign remedy for the grievances
which now agtate the country. The records of
the past speak to US in unm!stakable language
| of the dangers o! division, and the condition of
nations upon our very borders, renders more
omnious the gloomy warnings OF those impartial
monitors. The history Of Il nations iall is but
the history OF her intestine quarrels and dsin-
tegration. Since the destruction OF the Roman
Empire the annals of the world furnish us with
ample testimony to the truth o! this MAXIM
In the present distracted state ol Germany; in
the partition of Poland; 10 the condition OF
Italy, in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Of Russia and
England; in the vassalage OF Ireland and Nor
way, and in the anarchy of Mexico and the
Southern Republics, We behold the work of dis
union.
For seven hundred years the Iilu3tti0us Ger
man CWsars governed a powerful and happy
| empire. During that long period, foreign en-
emies feared and respected that greatest and
! ablest of nations. Freed from the terror of e1.
ternal foes, and undisturbed by civil strife, tho
German people occupied themselves in pIo-
noting commerce and cultiyating the arts and
sciences. Mankind owes TO them an eternal
debt OF gratitude for those glorious municipal
institutions which we're the pride Of Germany,
and models for all subsequent liberal govern
ments. In the sixteenth century, poll
tico religious revolution inaugurated disun-
ion, and from that period Germany has been
,; a., x,c,s ,s,r.I
The municipal institutions were the first to fall.
The Empire vas divided into petty states, with
q nominal connection, and finally even its name
was abolished by the order Of foreign mon
| arch.
! Since the Invasion of AlaIic the state Of TIA
y has been scandal to Europe Divided into
a number Of petty independent governments, il
EesembIe6 that abode of torments, where "each
man devours tho arm OF bis brother, Manassas
of Ephraim, aud Ephraim of Manassas u
"DiVide aud destroy" has been the maxim OF
England since the days of the C0Dqueror. She
has observed it rigidly. At this time the Queen
OF Great Britain reigns over two hundred mil.
Iions of subjects, the people Of Ireland are sce.
tered over every portion Of the globe, and an
English magistrate iseues dcg.ees from the
palace of Au!upgzebe.
Previous to the year 1910, Mexico, and al!
the country South, except Brazil submitted to
hesupremacy OF the Spanish crown. In 1921
they were independent governments, scknowl.
edged by England ard the other great powers.
u is eignifcsnt fact that blayery wes soon
| At!er abolished in all these countries. The
provinces Of New Spain, except Paraguay and
Chilli, soon formed themselves into three dis
| tinct federal goyernments-the Mexican, the
| Columbian ana the Argentine republics. The
Mexican Republic was no. long in existence
7hen Guatemala and Nicaragua seeded. Civil
| war enEued, and has not yet ceased. Ricara-
qua was blessed with the rule of Walker, and
is uow little better than an sppendage of Great
Britain; whilst, with regard to Mexico, the
London Times mas declared that "the time has
come when the cause of humanity requires the
use OF forcibe foreign intervention for the
smelioration (O OF her condition.
Columbia soon resolved herself into iler con |
stituent acknowledgements, ECUADOR and
New Granada. The first, with splendid soil
and climate, is little better than @ waste; the
second is not much in advance-both arc dis
sracted by revolutions. In New Granada some
signs Of energy are exhibited, but vet 60 bad is
the condition, that, last year the Attorney Gen.
erai recommended annexation to the United
States as "the only effectual remedy for the
evils which afflicted the country" The Argen.
tine Republic could not help being in the fash
ion; Buenos Ayres was enctoachiny on Monte
Video, and pice Versa. First came cisuuion,
then civil war, and succeesion OF tic:eters,-
Now Crguizn is supreme, but he, in his turn, is
the slave of the all-powerful Saxon, And SO
it has ever been; disuniop, civil war, dictators,
aud foreign domination, the one SO necessarily
result OF the other that the order aud number
are never broken.
Should IL, unfortunately, be the the lot OF any
future historian to.write "an account OF the fall
OF the great American Republic, and Of the
causes which led to that deplorable event." he
will be compelled TO give an unpleasant promi-
nence 10 New England and South Carolina in |
his work. From the earliest times OF the Re- |
public the fanatics of Massachusetts have been
engaged in their aggressive measures On the |
23d March, 1898, we find Mr.. Thatcher of that |
State, moving that the Mississippi territory be !!
closed to slave labor, although its geographical !
position rendered slavery inevitable as things |
then stood. Such motion could only have
been made for the purpose of irritation The |
opposition TO the admission of Missouri, in 1890
WAS almost entirely the work of the New Eng
land States. They could not admit Missouri |
with clause in her constitution prohibiting the
immigration Of free negroes, because they
thoughtit roas uncOns.tutionqlto deny The Tiqh of
residence or citizenship in one Slate 10 indipid-
u0ls toho ,oere citizens of Gnoiher-thereby claim
ing the rights of United States citizenship for free
negroes. Thus, whilst the laws of New Lamp
shire, Vermont and Massachusetts prohibited
the enrolment of negroes in the militia, and
made q distinction in the punishment of ne
groes and whites, whilst the Massach usetts
marriage act of 1895 lin forcein lS20) prohib-
tied the marriage of any white person with a
negro, mulatto, or Indian, on penalty of ffty
pounds fine, the New England Representa- atiyes
were claiming abroad perfect equality for those
persons whom they crushed at home. Since
1920 the Abolitionists of the East have become
more active and ardent. They have filed the
the South and West with emissaries, acting as
teachers, who nstil into the minds of the pupils
alongiwith their ideas on slavery, cotempt for |
all authority; they have founded and extended
Common School system, which gives the ut
most facility for tho dissemination of inf
deity and nsubordination throughout the
land; they have filled the evangelical meet.
ing houses with prea shers, who make anti
slavery discourses, and convert the Bible
into an anti-slavery weapon; and, just now,
they are seriously troubled for an anti slav.
cry God, They have passed unconstitu
tional Personal Liberty bills, and thus initiated
O system of notification which has spread over
the largest portion of the Union. They have,
by words and Ceeds, done all that is possible to
irritate the Southern people, thus usnecessitating,
to some extent, retaliation from the latter
Certainly, that is not the way to preserve the
Union. IL slavery be an evil it existe to too
great an extent to be cured in day, and we
must put up with it as best we can. The Church
of God has quietly procured the removal OF this
institution from many nations, and might not
the good example be followed by the people of
Massachusetts, Have they not yet per ceiyed