The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-02-06

Money and credit, ihen, you nave mao
in prodie Al proIusion. And were men
wan,sdf More shan million rushed 20
srmsl Ssxeuiy>fse thousand first, (and
tho country stood aghssl at The multi>
luds, then elghty-lhree thousand more.
were derasnled, and three hundfed and
len ,houland responded 10 The csll.--
The Prssidsnl nexi asked for four huns
dred thousand, and Congress, in its
yenerous confidence, gsvs him five
ssndred ,RoSsshdy ara HSg 10 be out
don,, he sS6E]Eik Ih66dred and thirty
se,sn lhonsaad. Halt of these melted
awsy'ln' their hfsl canpaign; and the
President demanded three hundred
thousand more for the war, and then
drafted yer another three hundred thou>
sand for nine months. The faOled hosts
of Xstxss have bSen outnumSsred.--
And vel victory strangely follows the
stsndstds ofthe foe. From Great Bethel
10 ViSksburg, the battle has not been to
.hs strong. Yet every disaster, except
,he iast. bas been followed by call for
more iroops. and every time SO far they
have been promptly furnished. From
the beginning the war has been con
ducsed like a political csmPaign' and 1t
has been Ihs folly of the party in power,
th.ttLey have assumed that numbers
alone would win the field in contest moi
7. with baliois but with musket and sword
Q Buthumbsrs yoa have had almost with
,oSt ,numher-,he largest. best appoint
ed, bes, armed, fed, aud clad host of
bri,o-tmen, well organized and well
disciplined, ever marshaled. A navy,
too, MOI the most formidable perhaps.
bu, N. mos, numerous snd gallant, and
the e0sllis.t IN lhe wUrld, and sglinst a
foe . almost without navy al all.
Twenty million people, and every ele>
msnt oi strength and t0rce at command
power, patronage, influence, unanl>
n,ty, enthusiasm, confidence, credit,
meDay, men, az array end navy the
lacFesl ard the noblSsI ever set in tho
field or shnal upon che sea; with the
support, almost serViIe. Of every State,
counN, and municipality in the North
and West; with a Congress swirl TO do
tho bidding of the Executive; without
opposition anywhere at home, and with
an Arbitrary power which neither
Variety of climate and soil, and there
fore Of production, implying alss sxsen.
Of country, is aot an element Of separs-
zion, but, added to contisuity, becomes
par. Of the ligament Of interest, aAc
il one of It's toughest strands. Variety
Of prSduc,ion is the parent Of the ear
lisss commerce aud trade; and, these, in
lhsir full development, are, as between
foreign nations, hostages for peace; and
between Stites and people united, they
are the 6rmsst bonds of Union. But
after all, the strongest of the many olig'
inal impelling causes TO the Union, was
the securing Of domestic tranquility
The statesmen of 1857 well knew thai
between thirteen independent but con.
tisuouS States without a natura! boun'
dafy, and with nothing to seperate then
except the machinery Of similar govern
msnls, there must be perpetual, in fact
!. an "irrepressible conflict" Of jurisdic
lion and interest, which, there being NJ
other common arbiter, could only b
terminated BY the conflict of the sword
And the statesmen Of 1862 ought 4
know that two or more confederate gov
srnments, made up of similar Stale'
huSing no natural boundary eithersanc
separated only by different governments
cannot endure long toge.herin peace
unleas yons or more Of them be eitfe
too pusiIlsnimous for rivalry, or toe in
a.. .slsnifcant TO provoke it, or too weak
bet aggression.
o,E.se, cir, along with the establish
q jus,ice, and the securing OF I'll
my welfare, and Of the blessings
terminal themselves and their posterit'
Asths q causes and motives whic
~. Ifn;onS r fathers 10 the Union
.f., ,..ut. ..'.. %.
s''ou s r, what one Of them
oI Other pta, bat one diminished 0
restoration ! lany. Of thsm are strong
sings. IA Il the beginning. Mgr
,,asal 81 nv arriage have strengthen,
,,any ~ ,snquini,y. Commerc
Hs reyiple iuc,ion have immense
aa az l4n Cotton, almost unknoV
fnecs< ap1, is row the chief produ
alacSoop>ts Of the country. 1t has .
~rm IN .hree.fourlhs Of the spindl
K. sw England, and given empIoymel
!, ,e,s,,iEectIy or remotely, to full half 4
shibpinV, trade, and commerce Of 4
U6ited States. More than that; cstt
has kept the peace between England a
kmsrica for thirty years; and had 1
people of the North been as wise a
prasiIeal no the statesmen OF Gre
Bruain, il would rave msiDtained Uni
snd peace here. Bot We are bel
t,ught 4. our first century and at G
own css, the esarAs which Engla
learned through the long and blondy {
perrenee Of s,ghi hundred years.
oiIatF!bsrplsrr mex ,Ime. Let NOT s.
ton he King. but peacemaket, and inh
Il t.hs blessing. I,
4 common interest, ,.hen, stills rema
10 us, And union for the common {
fence, at the end Of this war, taxed,
debtsd, Impoverished, exhausted,
both secliens must be, and with forei
Aeats andartnHs ground w, will be fif
fold more esssn,isi than ever before
Asa GpAlly, sir, without union, our
mestic tranquility must forever rem
nifsaqtled. slf il can not be m sintaiI