The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-03-21
in them for discouraging every species OF traffic

in them for discouraging every species OF traln
in their fellow men,"
The subject Of this memorial, after repeated
discussion, was referred 10 special committee
Their report was submitted to committee OF th'
whole and Mey striking out considerable por
ton Ofsthe report confined themselves At last tC
the simple declaration that Congress had no au
thorityfto interfere with the emancipation O.
slaves, or in the treatment Of them within any
of the States, it remaining with the several
States alone to provide any regulations therein
which humanity and true policy may require
And so that question seemed then to have beer
wisely and definitely settled and set al rest FOL
ever. In the hearts Of the people OF the United
States, North and South, peace and good vii!
seemed to reign-now, how strangely and how
wofuIly all is changed.
! America has drawn sword against itself. BY
! American hands American blood is shed, Aneri.
can cities ruined, American fields are ravageo
and lsids@aste.
! A cIaff war Of magnitude and destructiveness
scarce ever equaled in the annals of barbara ie'
rocty RACES throughout the land.
! American ports are blockaded, American COM
! mercc is proved upon by American ships, Amer
lean money is lavished, American lives are spent
in periecting aud applying the most elilcien'
means OF spreading among Americans deatn'
havoc and desoation.
Christianity, shuddering, wells its head in woe
There is no glory in civil war. There are no
! laurels to be gathered there. 1t is national
disgrace. aud ouly admissible when some over
ruling necessity rondcrs it inevitable.
! The cause of quarrel in this instance is OF OLD
standing, and really and in fact in the Beginning
only between certain Of the Southern anu certain
of the Eastern States. The Southern States
complain that their Eastern brethren were oao
ncighbors, meddling, troublesome, lnqulSl'iFe
aud interfering in the conduct OF domestic con-
Germs over which they could have no conceiV-
able right or control and they gave repeated
warning that unless that lncdding was dlScon-
tnued they should part company.
The Eastern States, on the other hand, ayerred
that their Southern neighbors were, IN tact, IN
vicious. God-forsaken condition: that they mo-
paced their domestic affairs in highly disrepu-
table manner. that they (thc Easternsl would
meddle lust as much and whatever way they
pleased. and that whether their Southern neigh
hors liked it or not they should mend their ways
as instructed, and stay in the Union to the end
Of time
Now if the quarrel had been left between these
two bcligercnts possibly nobody would have
been much hurt.
But the Eastern people were determined not 10
let the matter rest there, and so they set 10 WORK
with admirable adroitness, and by degrees LED
the North and West into the quarrel, and so 1t
grew from bad to worse until it famed out at
last in civil war Let ME stop here to pay trl-
butte to the extraordinary energy OF that same
New England race.
II calls itself Anglo-Saxon, and perhaps is
but however that may be, it has put forth in tins
affair force and subtilty Of intellect admirable
in their way. 1t is omnipresent. 1t thunders
from the pulpit; it prevails in the Senate II has
the press under its control. 1t manufactures
every erything-boots, arms, shOddy, and puollc
opinion. Cheers and laughter.
1t gives its treasure for public purposes with o
prodga liberality, and reimburSeS itself by inc
shrcwdness Of its spcculations or the immensely
of its contracts.
It bids the West and Mddlcs States 60 und
fight its battles, and they go. 1t governs tbs
Senate, the army, the navy, the Cabinet, the
President, and keeps turning the whole danger
Gus machinery Of Government round It's plant
| fingers with Il quiet confidence in It's own infalll-
billy which would be pleasant 10 look at were II
not so exceedingly alarming. Loud and con-
| tnued applause 1t has now the management
of this civil war What is TO be the result OF II!
As to its Object we are all agreed; North, East
and West, all parties say il is 1rGr for tie CA',
on. In order 10 preserve the Union we are called
ON to prosecute the war yigorouslv, and II we
can the reby preserrc the Union, by all means let
! the war 90 on. Secession consider fatal mis-
| taKc-a great calamity TO the South as we'll MS
! the Norh-and would adopt oil honorable anu
! legitimate means 10 prevent 1t.
| If this Union is divided into two confederacies
! very much fear further division will be found
necessary. don t believe the principle ot CO.
! ~, ,b.r in tho SouIh i'll the North
or West
We have. no doubt, by the severity OF our
measures, done much TO harivu and consolidate
! into one common sentiment Of strong aversion
to ourselves the jarring elements in the Southern
States.
In the North and West, on the other hand,
the pressure Of the war has not been OF Kind
! TO produce any such nvigoratng effect.
In a word. / fear The great confederation would
break into fragments, both in the South ana IN
the North. European intrigucs would keep theH
! apart. and utter exhaustion and disgrace be inc
! result. Whatever, then, can be legl:mately
done to avert this mighty evil ought 10 be done
Is war the way TO stay it? Can you unite a
people BY a war? BY war you can overpower,
| subiugatc. dcvastate, annihilate; tut can you
uniie? "War fora Union sounds to me like
! nonsense.
The experiment has been often tried before
now but know Of no case in which 1t has
completely succeeded Holland tried it in 800,
when Belgium revolted, and Holland failed
Rnssia is in state of chronic war for union with
| Poland. It tries the bayoncnt, the gallows, the
/ knont and can't succeed. Austria plays the
same came with Venice and Hungary, with wha
success we all know. Even England and Ire
! land, for six hundred years, have been vigorous
" Drosecutinr a war for union. and verify be-
! lieye that they are as ia7 from any real, cordial
reliable union now as they were ON the day wher
thev commenced. Loud cheers.l Histor.' l:
against the experment-reason reTolts at it.
Bv war YOU repel not attract or unite. Every
battle fought, every town destroyed, every field
laid waste. is o drop more in the chalice of bit
| ter memories which make aversion instructive
and eternal.
If this be so-if by war we cannot restore I'M
Union but rather render it impossible-on wha
grounds can thia war be defended 2
But | may be told, by successful war we may
be able to conquer the Southern land We car
| then set the negroes to work for US; and grow
| cotton, and rice, and sugar for ourselves. Tba
idea is ineligible enough. That however, il
not restoring the Union.
To unite the land, and not the people, is wha
simple men are in the habit of calling 'uyK K9d
ti0n and subjugation Of q most cruel, baE6a
rous. and inhumau kind. But, even at the best
such subugation never is complete Destroy
! Charleston; destroy Yicksburg; open the Mis-
sissippi: break the back of the southern power
trarpe it under foot: You will still have to keel
it under foot, aud for this purpose an army OF oc
cupation and feet will be permanent necessi
sy: and permanent army. and permanent ca
w, such as would be needed for such service
would be, as Washington warns you in his Fare
well Address, permanent danger to the repuo
lie. Great appIause.] Iou see what inroad
on republican liberty have been made thus far
Rnt these find men to excuse them on the grount