The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1863-08-19
From the Hudson Herald
Sectional Parties.

Indignantly frown upon the nrst dawnine o every
attempt 10 asnAe any portion Of country from the
rest % eLfaeble Tie sacred ties which now Ink TO
gether the various parts -WAsHlNGroSs FAEEwEu
AnDEEs
Years long since passed, the Democratic
party commenced quoting the above and simi-
lar portions OF the farewell address Of the
Father OF our Country, with a design 10 bring
his powerful influence 10 bear against the party
opposed TO theirs All other parties we're de
nounced by them as sectional parties No
means we're left uutried 10 gain the ear OF the
Southern politicians 30 as TO make their party
influence predominste in that part OF the onion
Gradually they succeeded until their part,
had absorbed the political influence OF
nearly, d not quite every slave State. With
united South and a divided North they
accomplished their designs and controll-
ed the destinies OF the general government
Among The many uriustifabie means resorted TO
bS them, Was the effort TO get up personal IN
vii among the inhabitants cf the South against
the people OF the North Harmony bad prevail
ed. Northern and southern people visited each
other, end in each part OF our great country all
the members of the d ierent sections could travel
ana ENJOY their rights of citizenship freely and
safely. We were then one nation, one people
occupying different sections and engaged in dit
ierent emp Oyments. But the Democratic party
commenced their hellish policy and With the
words of " ashingtOn on their lips they lost
10 opportunity 10 produce a sectional feeling and
one Of deep and bitter hostility against all who
did not belong 70 their party. Statesmen. edi.
tors and citizens were represented as being en-
gagged ia destroying their peculiar institution. as
wishing 20 gain the ascendency merely that they
might abolish slavery, lay heavy burdens on their
ofn nar rfob 81,
selves out OF the labor of the Southern people
At the same time they represented their party
as the friend OF the South aud standing between
them aud all others who we're expected 10 do
such horrible things. The result soon appeare b.
Gradually northern papers, unless they bore the
earmarks OF the Democratic party and Northern
Statesmen and Others not Of that organization
were exclgded by Lynch law from ali the States
where this policy mad become dominant And.
taking advantage OF the illiterate condition of
the majority OF the Southern people, the party
which vas continually crying out against section.
al parties had succeeded in establishing a sec.
tiona party OF the btterest kind, and have raised
storm which they cannot control SO far had
these Influences prevailed, and the hopes Of
Southern demagogues been excited, in regard 20
the a'd they could command from the party, that
they deter mined TO make their institutions the
OASIS OF the government, ana themselves IFS per
petual administrators, and, failing in this, they
relied on the democratic promises of aid to ena-
ble them to succeed in a war against the gov
ernmeut.
In this course Of proceedings lie the occult
causes Of the war. Had they not pandered to
the low passions and sectional preiudices of the
Southern people, aud had they discountenanced
every improper hope and expectation Of South
ern demagOgues, there could have been no seri
Gus alienation OF mind from, or opposition TO,
the Government. And while with br1zen impu-
dence. they, the copperhead portion of the dem
ocratic party, charge the war on other parties,
they, themselves, have laid the foundation aud
reared the supersiructure which now is over
shadOwing the land in the form of civil war. and
by their own acts have proved the prophetic
character OF Washington's last advice to the
country. No wonder IL view of their promises
to Southern men, their completely with the trai
tors, and their own treason aud guilt, that they
are opposed to the continuance of the war OF
the part Of the government No wonder they
cry out "nO subjugatiOn, don't hurt them,
offer them terms Of peace" "they are our
brethren," &c. Il il said there is honor
among thieves and they are anxious to get
their brother traitors out OF Ga Uncle Sans
clutches as well as they can.