The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1862-03-08


of this nation will ever again ba one peor,e
Did You ever think how vain the a,temp
always is to lead men away from their owl
Interests You have had evidences OF tha
right here iu Indiana. The effort to buti'
up cities. to create a great commercial EN-
porium as is sometimes the case-how i'm
potent it is Men go where their iuteref
is, and they will go nowhere else. W
cannot always live in this state Of excite
ment. The war will be- over. There viii
be time when men will think coally. and j
is then thar they will begin to coasult shei
own interests.
A gentleman holding an important Office
ia Europe-a consul At one OF the important
commercial cities-communicared to mt
some facts that throw light upon this ques
ton. He became an agent tor several large
merchantile houses in Charleston and Sa
vannah. and was employed by them in
making purchases Of boots and clothing foI
the negroes. He was advertised in the pa
psrs OF Charleston. have seen letters re-
ceived by him from Charleston firms in
which the contracts which he had made are
pronounced in,olerable. on &C. count Of ex-
pense. Said one man--'I caa buy clothing
Tor my slaves cheaper in Massachusetts, than
could from Europe, even il there was no
duty to pay Oh foreign importaiions." Look
~ our commercial and manufacturing in
teresis. Every day new inventions and dis
coveries are springing up, and new modes
of industry are coming into use amongst US
Look at the siny gle article OF coal oil. Ga
single raiiroai three hundred thousand bar
rels Of coal oil are shipped where there was
but thirty thousand fe y mon hs ago. And
-, =, - k.o
than two years until the trade in coal oil
alone viii be equal to the entire value OF
the cotton crop. The great forward move
meut OF this country will yet make us one
people il we Will only do our duty in break
ing down this rebellion. o ar interests. our
position, and our trade. all
speak tor our remaining forever one people.
was much interested not long since IN
reading q speech Of . British politician to
his ,nsrituents. in which hs asserts that
whatever changes may come over the face
Of the nation this great Mississippi Valley
never csn be separated. 1 W. I'D that my
fsIlo citizens would take the map Of the
United States and Just look at Indians--
hsr central positioa. right in the midst Of
This great Republic. with the trade OF the
sass and the west fpwing over her, and
shen tell me whether Ind,aua can ever see
his Uniou dissolved under any circumstan-
,es? Dissolve the Union and our farming
interests arc totally destroyer. If we
% be cut off from the 'utlet Of the Mssissip'
ii river, if we are not to have the free nav
gation OF that stream with,us duty or i'm
,oss or anything of he kind. there is not an
Icre Of ground in Indiana that will be worth
i've dollars to any man. The Union Of the
fsta aS< s,t ho -
md repeat it. that in nine mouths from
his time the people Of this country viii
lave far more important question to con-
ider than this war. and that question will
-, .'how shall we be re- united and be one
,eople as heretofore?'
In the next place, one word in regard to
oreign interference. The late effort to
,lacs me uber Of the House Of Hapsburg
N the throne Of Mexico is one that the pa
riotic Statesman cannot but contemplate
With deep interest. If it shall prove to be
rue that the Southern States have offered
0 give Great Britain a monopoly of their
rade for fifty years, and TO abolish slavery
n condition thar they shall have their as
issance in this struggle. then you and are
wing in times in winch the m nst m,men-
ous questions are to ariss for solution. l
ASS by without giving any opinion upon
his subject. alth NJ, ,h Ihave my views
)ne word, however, in regard to Napoleon.
1ere ID one man that believes Napoleon will
ever engage in a contest against US. II
7ould be directly adverse TO his interests
{ learned anything from my interc 'urse
nth foreign ministers at the Prussian Court
was this: that Napoleon can use his Alli-
nee With England Hs used it n the war
nth Austria He broke the treaty Of 1875
Il to atoms and John Ball stool by all the
me and saw it done without say ing a word.
Ie took fifteen millions of people from the
austrian Governmen, and gave them to
'lctor Emanuel. That's the way he can use
is ALLAN with England. Will he not use
again
This man Napoleon is a man of his own
,iui. and has sense enough TO keep his own
nouyhts to himself II has more intel
,ct. TOO. than any of the ruling monarchs
Europe. These royal f.miIes, you know
ensrally have very long geneaiogies. and
lost Of the crowned heads OF Europe in i5er-
their 10y atty through so many generations
hat all the intellect is usually exha 1sicd
efore it reaches them Napoleon is the
rst OF his line, and cons quen,ly he has
lore blood and braius and intellect than
uy one Of them.
How, then. does Louis Napoleon now
tsnd The rival and enemy OF England.
Veil. you say all this difficulty in America
aboa. slavery. There is no people upoa
srth to-day IS strongly anti-siavery as the
'rench. Taking into view this fact along
nth the fact tha, Napoleon is the heredi-
sry enemy of Enslsnd. that has a navy
cry nearly equal to that of Great Britain,
~ - prry <ya tio1ee suuarior Iaac -
eem likely that he will lose SO favorable
"a opportunity Of crushing his most formid-
bic rival? Let England intef-re in the
fairs of ,his nation. Napoleon unises all
he nations of Europe-he puts down his ri
al without invading England. ard that he
ntends to do Just AS certain as John Bull
n,e,feres in behalf Of the Southern States.
But, my friends. the grea; and the all
question cow is-"Shall We have
Government or shall we ro.s'' and that
question means . grest deal more than that.