The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-02-04

three years, Napoleon Wouto W al S4fo oP
on q desert island. and ths Bourbons restor-
ed2 Armed foreign Intervention did ii; but
il is q strange history. Or who then expfct-
ed to see nephew Of Napoleon, thirty five
years later, with the consent OF the people,
surplant the Bourbon and reign Emperor oi
FranceP Sir, tnahy States and people, once
seperate, have become united in the course
OF ages through natural causes and without
corquesit but remember o single instance
oblS III history, OF States or people once
United, and speaking the satie Language. Who
have been forced peamahently asunder by
civil strife or war, unless they were separa-
ted by distance CT vast natural boundaries.
The secession of the Ten Tribes is the excep-
tion. these parted without actual wari and
their subsequent history is not encouraging
to secession. But when Moses, the greatest
OF ell statesmen, would secure distinct na
tionalty and government to the Hebrews,
he left Egypt and established his people in
distant country. In modern times, the
Netherlands. three centuries ago, won their
independence by the sword; but France and
the English Channel separated them from
Spain. So did our Thirteen Colonies; but
the Atlantic ocean divorced lis ffofn England.
80 did Mexico, and other Spanish colonies
in America; but the same ocean div ded
them from Spain. Cuba and tho Canadas
still adhere to the parent Government. And
who now, North or South, in Europe or
America. looking into history, shall presump
tuously say that because OF civil war the 70
union of these States ia impossible? War,
indeed, while it lasts. is disuniop, and, if 1t
lasts long enough, will be final, eternal sep
aeration first, and anarchy and despotism
Hence / would hasten peace now,
to day, by every honorable appliance.
Are there physical causes which render re-
union impracticable? None. Where 9TH
er causes do not control, rivers upite; but
mountains, deserts and great bodies oi water
--oceani aissociai les sepefate a people,
Vast forests originally aud the lakes now, al
so divide us--notyery widely or wholly
from the Canadas, though we speak the same
language and are similer in manners, laws,
and institutions. Our chief navigable rivers
run from North to South. Most OF our bays
and arms OF the sea take the same direction.
So do our range Of mountains. Natural eau
ses oil tend to Union, except as between the
Pacific coast and the country east OF the
Rocky mountains to the Atlantic. 1t is
manifest destiny" Union is empire. Hence
bi herto we have continually extended our
territory, and tie Union with it, South and
West. The Louisiana purchase, Florida and
Texas all attest it We passed desert and
forest, and scaled even the Rocky mountains
there is no natural boundary between the
North and the South, and no line OF latti
tude upon which to seperate; and if ever a
line OF longitude shall be established, 1t will
be east OF the Mississippi valley. The ALE
gbani are no longer barrier. Highways
ascend them everywhere, and the railroad
now climbs their submits and spans their
chasms, OF penetraies their rockiest sides
The electric telegraph follows, and, stretch
ing its connecting wires along the clouds,
there mingles its vocal lightnings with the
fires Of heaven.
But if disuhionists in the East will force a
separation ,ofany of these States, and boun
dairy purely conventional, is at last to be
marked out, il must and it will be either
from Lake Erie upon the shortest line to
the Ohie river, or from Manhattan to the
CanadaS.
And, now, sir, is there any difference oil
race here, so radical as to forbid reehion?--
do not refer to the negro race. styled now 4,
in unctious official phrase by the President,
OF African descent" Certainly
sir, there are two white races in the United
States, both from the same common stock,
md yet SO distinct--one OF them SO peculiar
hat they develop different, forms of civiliza-
lion, and might belong almost, to different
" pes OF mankind. But the boundary OF
,hese two races is not at all marked by the
line which divides the slave holding from
he non slavebolding States. II race is TO
,e the geographical limit Of disunion, then
Masons and Dixon's can never be the
inc.
Next, sir, do not the causes which, in the
beginning impelled to Union still exist in
heir utmost force and extent2 What were
hey?
FIRST, the common desceut-.and therefore
,onsanguinity-oft the great tt1ass Of the peo
pie from the Anglo Saxon stock. Had the
Csnadas been settled originally by the En-
gish, they would doubtless have followed
the fortunes Of the thirteen colonies. Next,
a common lsrguage, one OF the strongest
Of the ligaments which hind people, Had
we been contiguous to Great Britain, either
the causes which led TO separa ion would
have never existed, or else been speedily ~
moved; Or afterwards, We would long since
have been reunited as equals and with all
the rights Of Englishmen, And along with
these were similar, at least not essentially
dissimiiar, manners, habits, Jaws, religion,
and institutions Of all kinds, except one
The common defense was another powerful
incentive, and is named in the Constitution
as one among the objects of the "more per-
ect Union" Of lT9y. Stronger yet than all
these. perhaps. but ri.ade up Of all of them,
was common interest. Variety OF climate
and soil, and therefore OF production. imply
ing also extent oi country, is not an element
Of separation, bit, added to coutiguity, be
comes part Of the ligament OF interest, and
is one of It's toughest strands. Variety Of
production is the parent of the earlies! COM
msrce and trade; and these, in their ull de
are, as between foreign ma ions,
hostages for peace; and between States and
people uuited, they are the firmcst bonds OF
Union. But, after all, the strongest oI the
many original impelling causes to the Union,
was the insuring Of domestic tranquility
The statesmen OF 1887 well knew that be.
tween thirteen independent but contiguous
States without natural boundary, and
with nothing to separate them except the
Of similar guterhmehts, there
must be a perpetual, in Iact an ''irrepressible
conflict" OF jurisdiction and interest, which.
there being no other common arbiter. could
only be terminated by the conflict Of the
sword. And the statesmen OF 1862 ought
to know that two or more confederate gov
ernments, made up Of similar States; having
no natural boundary either, and separated
only by different governments cannotendure
long together in peace, unless one or more
oi them be either too pdsillshimous for ri
valry, or too insignificant to provoke 1t, or