Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1861-01-24

exhaustion of money and severe strain
upon credit. The treasures and credits
of small confederacies would often prove
inadequate. Those of the Union are al
was ample. - -..,
DOMESTIC HosTILITIEs OF THE DIsUNITED
STATES.
have thus far kept out of view the re-
lations which must arise between the Con-
federacies themselves. They would be
small and inconsiderable nations, bordering
on each other. and therefore according to
all political philosophy. natural enemies.
In addition to the many treaties which each
must make with foreign powers. and the
causes of war which they would give by
violating them. each Of tho Confederacies
must also maintain treaties with all others;
and so be liable to give them frequent Of
fense. They would necessarily have diff
ferent interests resulting from their estab-
lisment of different policies of revenue, of
mining. manufactures and navigation, Of
immigration, and p .rhaps the slave trade.
Each would stipulate with foreign nations
for advantages peculiar to itself, and in
furious to its rivals.
INCEssAST WAR THE RESULT OF DIsUNIoN.
If, indeed, it were necessary that the
Union should be broken up. it would be
in the last degree important that the
new Confederacies to be formed should
be as nearly as possible equal in strength
and power, that mutual fear, mutual re-
spect might inspire them with caution
against mutual offense. But such equality
would not be long maintained. One Con-
federacy would rise in the scale of politi-
cal importance. and others would view it
thcnceforward with envy and apprehension.
Jealousies would bring OH frequent and
retaliatory wars, and all these wars from
the peculiar circumstances of the Confed-
eracies. would have the nature and charac-
ter of civil war; f.
THE BALANCE OF POWER ON AMERICAN SOIL.
Dissolution. therefore, is for the people Of
this country perpetual civil war. To nit
igate it. and obtain occasional rest, what
else could they accept but the system of
adjusting the balance of power, which has
obtained in Europe, in which the few
strong nations dictate the very terms on
which all the others shall be content to
live. When this hateful system should
fail at last, foreign nations would inter
vene, now in favor of one. and then in aid
of another, and thus our country having
expelled all European powers from the
continent. would relapse into an aggrava-
ted form OF its colonial experience. and
like Italy, Turkey. India, and China be-
come the theatre Of transatlantic inter-
ven,ion and rapacity. II however, we
grant to the new confederacies exemption
from complications among each other. and
with foreign States. still there is too much
reason to believe that not one of them could
long maintain a Republican form of gov
ernment.
DIsUNIoN AND THE CONTINUANCE OF THE RE-
PUBLICAN SYSTEM.
Universal suffrage and the absence of a
standing army. is essential to the republi-
can system. The world is yet to see a
single self sustaining State of that kind,
or even any considerations of such States
except our own. Canada leans on Great
Britain not unwillingly. and Switzerland
is guaranteed by interested monarchical
States. Our own experiment has thus far
been successful, because by the continual
addition of new States, the influence of
each of the members of the Union is con-
stantly restrained. No one. of course. can
foretell the way and manner of travel, but
history indicates with unerring certainty,
the end which the several confederacies
would reach. Licentiousness would rem
der life intolerablc. and they would sooner
or later purchase tranquility and domestic
safety by the surrender of liberty, and
yeild themselves up to the protection Of
military despotism- fs .~r
A MILITARY DEsPorIsM BEGUN IN THE SOUTH.
Indulge me. sir, in one or two details
under this head. First. it only sixty days
since this disunion movement began. Al
ready those who are engaged in it. have
canvassed with portentous freedom, the
possible recombinations Of the States, when
discovered, and the feasible alliances of
those denominations with European ma
tions; alliances as unnatural, and which
would prove ultimately as pcstilential to
society here. as that Of the Tiascalans with
the Spaniards who promised them re-
venge upon their ancient enemies the
Aztecs.
THE DANGERS OF A sERvILE WAR.
Secondly. This disunion movement
arises in another view out of the relation
of African slaves to the domestic popula-
ton of the country. Freedom is to them
as to all mankind. the chief object Of de-
sire. Hitherto under the operation of the
Union, they have practically remained ig-
norant of the controversy. especially Of its
bearing on themselves. Can we hope
that fragrant civil war will rage among
ourselves in their very presence, and yet
that they will remain stupid and idle spec
tators? Does history furnish us any salts
tory instruction upon the horrors of civil
war among people SO brave. SO skilIful
in arms, SO earnest in conviction, and so
intent in purpose as we are?
1t is q mere ehimera which suggests an
aggravation ofthose horrors beyond endur-
ing when on either side there shall occur
The Intervention of an uprising. ferocious
African slave population. Of four, or six,
perhaps twenty millions? The opinions Of
change, and with them the poll
cies Of nations. .....s'..ss - t~
GROWING HOSTILITY TO sLAyERY-THEoRIEs
r.. OF ABOLITION. f., h.
One.hundred years ago. all the commercial
European States were engaged in transfer
ring nigro slaves from Africa to this hemis-