The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1863-02-11

can not Ohio, having only free labor, live
in harmony with Kentucky which has both
slave and free? Above all, why can not
Massachusetts allow the same right oi
choice toSouth Carolina, separatedas they
re thousand miles, by other States who
would keep the peace aud live in good
will2 Why this civil war? Whence dis
union? Not from slavery because
the South chooses to have two kinds OF
labor instead of one; but from sectiona5isn.,
always and every where disintegrating
principle. Sectional jealousy and hate
these, sir, are the oily elements of con-
fict between thesee States, and though
powerful, they are yet not all irrepressible.
lThey exist between families, communities.
towns, cities, counties and States; and if
not rspressed would dissolve all society
and Government. They exist also be-
tween other sections than the North and
South. Sectionalism East, many years
lago, saw the South and West united by
the ties of geographical position, migra-
ton, intermarriage, and interest, and thus
strong enough to control the power and
policy of the Union. 1t found US divided
only by different forms of labor; and,
with consummate but most guilty sagaci-
|ty, it seized upon the question of slavery
as the surest and most powerful instru-
mentality by which to separate tho Vest
from the South, and bind her wholly to
the North. Encouraged every way from
abroad by those who were jealous of our
prosperity and greatness, andsewho knew
the secret of cur strength, it proclaimed
~ =. L. hot an W a
labor and free labor. It taught the pee
pie of the North to forget both their duty
and their interests; and aided by the artI-
fetal ligsaments and Influences which money
and enterprise had created between the
ssaboard and the North-west' It persuaded
- erer,, t;s rl,;ch b;nds al am 10 tho. .,re, i
", uav ~ tba Nf;ss;ss;n,,; end tn ;,,;n 1ba;,
nol;t;..l sortynas asnec;olIv wboIlv With
tha East n res;;ste3 1ba }no;tivs-slava
i,w .nd dem.,aa,ads IA ne avc,ns;on az sl.-
vary fro,,, al - Territories and from this
D;str;et and s morea aeainst St the adn,;s-
sion Of apy nv more lave States into the
IInion II sorg4,,;; Sed as sectional anti
slavery nartv and tins drew 10 ;ts aid as
well na|it;cal ambition and ;nterest as
fanatieism: and aftor twenty-two wears of
.incessant and vehement agitation. it OBJ
ta;nr5 nnssess;on f;nallv and unon tbat
;ssne - tba Fader.I q fSovernmant and of
eyery State government North and West
AID to-day we ara ii The midst of the
o,e.teet most cr,lkl moss s.lastrnetivec civil
E v.,r s, eve, w,oed 3 But IN vears, Sir Of
blood and debt and taxation and ineipient;
comaerc;al min are teaehino the neonle
of the West and r trust Of the North
olso Al. ELL and madnass of tb;s cru
so AZ ana;nst ! fr;can sl.yerv aud tho Wis
i nm nm nd noe necessity IF nn;on IF tho States
80 anr f.,bers made Il anart slave and
~ nart e,aon
What then, sir, with SO many causes
lmpeliing to reunion, keeps us apart to-
days rare passion aheagonilSin ressnse' =:
an a, heatso seven ',ihes ho'.er W war; loir'
these, Wnlie tney las. are 'he lnose power
iuii 81 al mo.ives Wit9a ps opie' ana win
the ihai'iauai man, puS ~ iof'uha.eiy .ney
are tne least uufaoie, ihey hoio oivi-
ued sway IN the same oosoms Win .he
nonier quahtles OF iove, Justice, reason
piaeabillty; ana, excep. when at tnen
| hiSh'' are "eaAei s,iaa ene sense =. nue.
est. ana always, IN ola1es q. leas!' give way
10 IL last. NO statesman VINO y,elos nm = II,
sell up 70 them can govern wisely OF wen
and no state whose pohcy Is controilee "
them can either prosper or endure. bu
war Is both their ohsprlng and their all
ment, and while 1t lasts, all other motives
are subordinate. The virtues fpeace en-;
not flourish, can not evon ind develop
ment in the midst OF fighting; andsthl
! civil war keeps IN motion the eentrifoga
forces OF the Union, and gives to them In
creased strength and activity every day
But such, and so many and powerful, II
my Judgment, are the cementing or centri
potal agencies lmpelllnS us together tina
nothing bnt perpetual war and strife cal
keep US always divided.
!. Sir, I do not underestimate the power o
the preiudices of section, or, what is mucl
stronger, of race. Prejudice is colder
: and, therefore, more durable than tn
lpassions Of hate and revenge, or the spiri
h Of autagonism. But, as | have alreal,
! said, its boundaryin the United States i
not Mason 4 Dixon''s line. The long g-stan
ding mutual jealousies of New Englan'
and the South do not primarily grow ou