The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1863-02-04

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tho niny Northwest. She thought you
OhicI earnest, and gave you all, ale
werfhan you demanded.
pfhe wifs whose BABE first smiled'that day,
The fair, fond bride of yester eve,
And sged sire aud natrou gray,
Saw the loved warriors haste away,
And deemed it sin to grieve." ssss
Sir, in blood she has atoned for her
crcdulity; and now there is mourning in
every house, and distress and sadness in
every heart. Shall she give YOU any
) more?
- But ought this war to continue? I an
swer no-not day, not an hour. What,
then? Shall we separated? Again l an
swer no, no, mol What then? And now,
sir, come to the grandest and most sol
ema problem of craftsmanship from the
: beginning Of time; and to the God of
Heaven, Hummer of hearts aud minds,
3 L would humbly appeal for some measure;
at least, of light and wisdom and strength
30 explore and reveal the dark but posi-
bic future of this land.
GAN THE UNION OF THESE STATES BE RE-
STORED ?-now sH-ALL IT BE DONE!
And why not? Is it historically i'm
possible? Sir, the frequent civil wars and
; conflicts between the States of Greece did
not prevent their cordial union to resist
( the Persian invasion; nor did even the
: thirty years Peleponnesian war, springing
In part, from the abduction Of slaves, and
smbittcred and disastrous as it was-let
Thucydides speak destroy the
fellowship of those States. The wise Ro-
mans ended the three years social war, af-
s ter many bloody battles, and much afro
! CITY, By admitting the States of Italy to
all the rights and privileges Of Roman cit
!. izenship--the very object to secure which
these States had taken UP arms. The
border wars between Scotland and Eng
5 land, running through centuries, did not
prevent the final union in peace and by
adjustment, of the two kingdoms uRder
one monarch. Compromise att last what
ages of coercion and attempted conquest
1had|faiIed to effect. Engiand kept the
s.crown,s while Scotland gave the king to
wear it. and the memories Of Wallace and
!, the Bruce of Bannockburn, became part
of the glories OF British history. pass
By the union of ireland with Engiand-a
union of force, which God and just men
abhor; and yet precisely, the Union as
Il should be- of the Abolitionists of
Amsriea. Sir, the riyalries of the houses
OF York and Lancaster filed all England
with cruelty and slaughter; yet comprom
ise and intermarriage ended the strife at
last, and the white rose aud the red were
blended in one Who dreamed month
4 before the death of Cromwell that i'll two
years the people of England, after twenty
years of civil war and usurpation, would,
with great unanimfty, restore the house
of Stewart in the person of its most
WORTHLESS prince; whose father, but eleven
! years before, they had beheaded2 And
who could have foretold, in the beginning
Of 1872, that within some three. years,
Napoleon would be in exile upon desert
island. and the Bourbons restored? /? Arm
cd foreign intervention did it; but it IS q
arrange history. Or who then expected
e see nephew of Napoleon, thirty live
years later, with the consent of the people,
supplant the Bourbon and reign Emperor
Of Francef Sir, many States and people,
s once separato, have become united in the
eonrse of ages through natural causes and
without conquest; but remember a sin
gle Instance only in history of States or
people once united, and speaking the same
language, who have been forced perma-
4 nsnfly aaunder by civil strife or war, un-
lsss they we're separated by distance or
vast natural boundaries The secession Of
4he Ten Tribes is the exception; these
parted without as.ual war; and their sub
aequent Il n is not encouraging to Se-
I aassion. But when Moses, the greatest
Of eli staAssmen, would secnre distinct
nationality and government to the He
hrevs Ia left Eg pc and establ s..ei his
pa0yle in distant country. In modern
finss, tha Netherlands, three centuries
ago, won their independence blythe sword;
hnt Franco and the English Channel sep
aratsd them from Spain. So did our Thir-
tAsn Colonies; but the Atlantic Ocean di :
yoroad rs from England. So did Mexi-
!. "a and other Spanish Colonies in America
but the SANG ocean divided them from
4 Spain. Cuba and the Canadas still ad-
I hare to the parent Government. Aud who
I. now, N orth or South, in Europe or Amer
lea, looking into history, shall pIesnmptu-
: ously say that because of civil war the
reunion of these States is impossible? !?
War, indeed, while it lasts, is disunion;
and, II it lasts long enough, will be final,
eternal separation first, and anarchy and
despotism afterward. Hence | would has
ten peaas now, to-day, by every honorable
appliance.
6. Are there physical causes which render
reunion impr a icablS? None Where
other causes do not control, rivers unite;
but mountains, deserts and great bodies Of
water oce1ai dissociabiles separate a
people, Vast forests originally, and the
lakes now, also divide us not very widely
Or whelly, from Canada, though we speak
the same Language and are similar in man
moys, laws and Institutions. Our chief
{ nayigable rivers run from north to south
Most of our bays and arms Of the sea take
the. sams direction. Natural causes all
tend to union, except as betweea the Pa
cifc coast and the country east of the
Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic. 1t is
amanifast Destiny Union is empire.
Hence, hitherto We have continually ex-
tended our territory, and the Union with
!, it, south and west. The Louisiana pur-
nboaa Elori1a and Texas all attest it,