Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-03-27
pisu1;oa . Democratie Disease.


We qpOte the following characteristic
passages from a recent speech BIZ Senate,
Wade.
win not boast, for that is weakness;
but | viii say did yeu ever hear. Nh" Pres
ident. or did you ever read. Senators. Of
any Republican that was an advocate for
the dissolution of these states? The whole
Democratic party is tainted with this doc
trine of rebellion and secession. 1t never
has invaded our ranks. No. sir. Thank
God. | al stand here in the Senate. am
| can challenge gentlemen to point me TO
one single man in the two million voters
that We assembled at the polls who has
aEowed himself disloyal to the Union of
the States. What would you not give. sir.
If you could make the same boast On your
side Of the Chamber? You are all. nearly
all affected with dissolution disease. 1t
has invaded you on every department Of
this Government; it Is rife all over the
South; and fear that the North alsn is
not entirely free from it; but it is in the
old Democratic patty; il is not in ours
Is it not a little singular that they who
make these C Inrlaiuts hive been the con
slant goverunrs If this crI',tfl ,.uriu. all
the period q which Ehey complain? Il II
not stranger eiid. that when States were
geina out Of the UEi,5, ami it il cruli-
bling e. pjeOs. you charge u. wno never
vet raised = hostile hand against the Union.
wish Its d~estFuc-isu? Wenever hreathcd q
d oval breath against the Turn; aud get
gc are constantly addressed. till even my
Patience is almost exhausted, and Senator's
point over here and say that We must do
something. or the Union will be dissolved;
that is to say. We must hold your hands.
or you will dissolve it. You know full
we'll that We are not disanionists. You
know that we never threaten it. You
know that We promised to vindicatc It,
even with our blood; aud yet We have been
chsrsed with Icing the cause of your dis
SOLUTION aud you suppose that your disease
isso light that even bread pills may cure it
o Q o @
can trace. and so can any statesman
here trace. our present difficulties to a COM
promise that was made. which. in :he sim
plicity of those who made it. was to give
union and peace to this Government for
ever. Sir. | can trace all your difficulties
to-day to the enactment of that very CON-
promise. A compromise IS never founded
on any principle. Il cannot be; because if
it is really . compromise. there are diff
ent and conflicting principles; of which you
give up . little on each side; and the result
is not much harmony ever. l. is a mix
ing up Of good and bad. Of right and wrong
You do not settle the controversy: but you
agree for the time to abandon it; while the
very irritation that made the controversy,
rankles in the heart even worse generally.
after the compromise is effected. that it
did before. Although the old one stood
for something like thirty years. tha- wound
Was never healed. The :reat Union-saver
NV, who stands forth to advocate the
Union, was the FIRST man to lay his violent
hands upon that compromise; and tear
away that bclwark which had guarded our
controversies and shielded US from them SO
long; and now he stands forth and plunes
himself as being a great c~ompromiser and
an allayer Of irritation. Sir, | shall not
very soon forget that dark and gloomy
period of our history when [ stood upon
the floor of the Senate deplering the act
hat has caused all our woes. If you will
look back into the history of our debates
kbop I'LL E,l tbot,or 49, Ill IL
gloomy night when you repealed that oom-
promise. | predicted what would be the re-
suit of your dOings. l take no credit as a
prophet for doing it 1t was most obvious
what would be the effect ofit. | told you
then. sir, that you would array section
against section; that there would be moth.
ing bet seen but the naked brusdsword. one
against the other implored you then, in
Gods name. in the name of the Union, to
stay your hands, not to plunge US into woes
that We could hardly conceive Of; but moth
ing could stay your ambition The Sour h,
by a recent triumph. had become over
whelming here in Legislation; the had de-
msnded the sacri6ce. and believed that
through the compromising spirit Of the
North, they could carry out that aggres-
sion against right and justice without any
danger. The result has shown great danger.
1t has shown that those who hal predict
ed it might work out the dissolution Of this
Union were true prophets. was among
the prophets then, and a good many others
were also. | am speaking Of it now as a
compromise. How short-sighted are men!
Sir. when with a heavy heart | left this
to 60 to my lodgings. tOwads morn
ing, in exultation over your fancied triumph
you h:uled up your guns and gave u, |
be. ieve, one hundred guns right over our
heads as We passed out. Now the fruits
Of that act are to be seen disastrous to US
and equally so to you; disastrous 10 the