M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1861-01-24

senate-He opposes Coercion.
We make the following interesting
extract from the late speech of Senator
Douglas in the Senate of the United
| States:
Ho argued against making war
against 10,0O0,000 people. He saw
there was an eternal separation, but
he would not consider war until all
hope was passed. There is 10 other
way or recourse left to enforce the law
in seeding State, except to make
war and bring the State within your
possession first, and then enforce the
law aftcsward. A war between eigh,
teen States on the one eide, and fifteen
seeding States ON the other, is to me
a feyolAng thing. For wha! pdtpOke
isthswArto bs waged9 Certainly net
for the purpose 5oflpresefving the I'm.
ion. Ihave too much respect for gen.
t!emen on the other side Of tue cham.
Der, collectively, and Individually, to
believe there is one among them who
does notiknow what war is. You can
not expect to exterminato ten millions
Of people. whose passions are excited
with the. belief that you mean to in.
wade their homes'and ligBtthefames
Of ins1Hection in their midst. You
mast expect to extermiuate them or
Subiugate them, or else, when YOU
have got tired of war, to make q trea.
ty with them. No matter whother the
war lasts one year, or seven years or
thirty years, it must have an end at
some time. Sooner or later both par.
ties will become tired and exhausted,
and when rendered incapable ofhght.
ing any Ilonger, they will make trea,
ty Of peace, and that treaty will be OF
separation. The history of the world
does not furnish an example Of q war
of ssctiops, or between States Of the
nation, where the war ended in recon
ciliations Such war always ends in
q treatyfof peace, and final eternal
separation,
/ doRt understand, thon, how q
man can claim to be a friend Of the
Uhion, .and yet be in favor ola war
upon ten millions Of people in the I'm
lion. You can not cover it up much
longer under pretext Of love for the
| Onion. Nov, the question must be
lasRes, ahR whatever concessions | am
called upon TO make, choose to make
voluntarily, before blood is shed, and
not afterward. No man has more
pride Of country than 1. 1t humbles
my pride to sec the authority of the
Government question, but We arc not
the first nation whose pride has been
humbled. Republics, empires, king
doms, alike, in all ages, have been
subject to the same humiiating fact.
But where there is a deep seated dis
content peryading ten millions Of peo.
pie, penetrating every man, woman
and child, and involving everything
dear 20 them, it is time tor iuquiring
whether there is not some cause for
the feeling. lfthere be just cause for
| it, in Gods name let US remove it,
Are we not criminal IN the sight Of
Heaven and posterity, if we do not re-
move the just cause! If there is no
cause, and yet they believe there is, SO
much greater the necessity for remoy-
ing the misconceptions. Are you SO
elated with the pride of your recent
triumph, or pride OF opinion, that you
cannot remove an unioundOd appge-
hension, when 1t is rushing ten mil
lions ofpeOplo into disunion and break
ing up the Government OF our fathers,
aud leaving us, hitherto proud re
public on earth, to become a by-Hord
among the nations I
still entertain the hope that this
question may be adjusted, although
| the indications are that blood will be
shed and war will rage before gentle
men fully appreciate the crisis through
which We are passing. don't think
my nerves are any weaker than ordi-
nary, nor do ! think there is much
courage in shutting the eyes in the face
of danger, and the saying you do not
see it. Every man must see it, and
hear it, and breathe it. The atmos.
phere is full of it. have determined
that | will do all that is in my pow
er to rescue the country from such q
dreadful fate. But will not consider
this question OF war till all hope ot
peaceful adjustment fails. Better, q
thousand times better that all politicaI
armies be disbanded and Dissolved
Better that every political man now in
existence be consigned to retirement
aud political martyrdom, than this
Government should be dissolved, and
this country plunged in civil war.
trust we are to have no war Tor plat
form. lean fight for MY country, but
there never was a political platform
that I would go to war for. l fear il
this country is going to be wrecked, il
is to be done by those who prefer par.
ty to country. Party platforms and