Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1861-08-15

about peace without pointing out some
method by which it may be obtained |
know of buttgO conditions now upon
which il can be had. The first is by sub
mitting to the disruption of the Union and
the destruction of the Government. The
second is by the submission of the traitors
now in arms. Ard appeal to you to-day
to answer the question in your own hearts,
upon which Of these conditions do YOU
demand peace' Who are the men that
are thus camoring for peace upon anv
termsl They are not the Union men of
Kentucky, of Missouri, of Tennessee, oe
MARYLAND, or of Virginia. But they are
small clans scattered throughout the
Northern States, who are violently sus-
rected by their neighbors Of not being
Union men, but men who would flourish
most, and rejoice most in a pc lod of gen
eral anarchy, and social and political dis
solution.
But we are told that unless we at once
suspend hostiltes. and secure peace upon
any terms, an enormous public debt will
be contracted which viii Cypress the peo-
pie for generations to come. A large
public debt is undoubtedly calamity; but
there are greater calamities. What will
it profit a people if they should gain the
wealth of the whole world, but lose their
Government, and with it their liberty p
In my judgement the man who can delib-
erately weigh goldin the scale against the
existence of this government, and the
liberties of this people, is either an idiot
or traitor. If there is such man in
Parke county, may God forgive him, for
cannot. What matters it whether this
war shall cost an hundred millions or a
hundred thousand, if we are thereby ena-
bled to maintain the Union, and transmit
this government to our childrenl Con
sidered in merely financial point of view
it would be the best investment the Amer
lean people ever made. II the govern
men: falls, what becomes of the value OF
property? What becomes Of commercel
of public and private Institutions of pros
perity of every kind
The folly of the man who refuses to
sustain the government because it will
cost 4 large amount of money to do so, Is
equaled BY him who should refuse to pur-
chase necessary food because it is eXpen-
sive, and voluntarily starves himself to
death in order that he may live to enjoy
a large fortune. Finally considered, Sc
cession is the greatest misfortune that
could befal the nation, and especially the
people of these Western States. The
Mississippi River would become the prop
erty of foreign government, and we
should be cut off from any outlet to the
Gulf, except upon such terms as should
be graciously vouchsafed to Us by the trait
ors now in arms.
The manufactures and agricultural pro-
ductions of Indiana would not be allowed
to float down the Mississippi River to find
A market, except on compliance with the
conditions and payment of the duties pre-
scribed by the Dictatorship at Richmond
The Revolutionary War is estimated to
have cost two hundred millions of dollars
How much easier would it have been to
have paid the little duty of three pence
pound on tea. And can you doubt that
the men who now urge the cost of TIN:
war as an objection TO it would, for the
same reason, have objected to the Revolu-
ton had they lived during that period
COMPROMISE.
But il is said that this war might have
been avoided by compromise, and could
now be settled by compromise. While
we were babbling of compromise last win
ter, the tritors were stealing arms, plum
dering mints, investing fortresses, and
marshalling armies into the field. What
is there to compromise now but the integ-
rity of the Union and the existence of the
Government No. On the contrary
their ultimatum is the destruction of the
Constitution and the Union. But how
would these men 90 about proposing d
compromise to an enemy who has an han
dred thousand men in the field, and who
spits in the nations face whenever the
word is mentioned; who declares that Sc
cession and dsunion are the glorious con
sumation of the toll and travail of more
than thirty wears; who affirm that the
free institutions at the North are a fail
ure; that the only true foundation for
government is African slavery, and that
the laborinr classes of the North are seris
and vassals beneath the mental and moral
dignity of the slave upon the plantation
1t i now well known that the secess-
ion movement was inaugurated as early
as le29. Its first effort at the destruction
of the Government was made in lc33, IN
the ratification movement in south Caro-
lima, based ostensibly upon the tariff ques-
ton. Gen. Jackson then predicted upon
the slavery question, and the prophecy
has been fulfilled. From that time for.
ward secession has been kept alive under
the deceitful and spacious title of "State's
rights" and yet these constitutional doc
tors proposed to cure this chronic seces-