Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-23

evil they may yet, under tbs control Of the
people, and IN the hands Of wise, good and pa
triOtic men, be made the most effective agen-
eies, under Providence. in the reunion Of these
States
Other ties also less material in their a.
iure, bat hardly less persuasive, have grown
up under the Union. Long association, Z
common history, national repRiAtion, treaties
aud diplomatic intercourse abroad, admission
OF nee States, AeommoA Jurisprudence, great
men whose names and fame are pairimony Of
the whole country, patriotic music aud songs
ecmmcu baWle-6elds, aud glory won under
the same hag-these make up the poetry Of
Union and YET, As in the marriage relation,
aud the lsmily with similar influences, they
are stronger than hooks Of steel He was. q
wise statesman, though he may never have
songs Of people, and care not who makes
their laws" Why is the Marseillaise prohibit
ed in Franee9 Sir, Hail Columbia and the
Star Spangled Pennsylvania gave
as one, ard Maryland the othsr---hAve done
more for the Union than ell the legislation
aud all the debates in this Capitol for forty
wears and they will do more vet again than
all your armies, though you call out another
million of men into the field Sir, j would
add yankee Doodle" but first let me be
assured that Yankee Doodle loves the Union
more than he hates the Shareholders
And now, sir, propose to briehy consider
the causes which led TO disunion and the
present civil war and to inquire whether
they are eternal and ineradicable in their
nature, and at the same time powerful enough
to overcome all the causes and considerations
which impel to reunion.
Having two years ago discussed fully and
elaboratey the more abstruse and remote
causes whence civil connections in all gov.
ernments, and those also which are peculiar
to our complex and Federal system such as
the consolidating tendencies of-the General
Government because of executive power and
patronage, and of the tariff and taxation
and disbursement generally all unjust and
burdensome to the West equally with the
South, pass them by now.
What, then, ask, is the immediate, direct
cause of disunion and this civil.war2 Slavery,
it is answered Sir that is the philosophy Of
the rustic in the play--"that a great cause Of
the night is lack of the sun Certainly
slavery was in one sense-very obscure in
deed--the cause of the war Had there been
no slavery here, this particular war about
slavery would never have been waged In
like sense, the Holy Sepulcher was the cause
Of the war of the Crusades; and had Troy or
Carthage never existed, there never would
have been Trojan or Carthaginian war, and
no such persouages as Hector and Hannibal ;
and no Had or Enead would ever have been
written. But far better say that the negro is
the cause Of the war for had there been no
negro here, there would be no war just now
What then Exterminate HIM Who de-
mands t2 Colonize him? How2 Where {?
When AT whose cost Sir let us have an
end Of this folly
But slavery is the cause Of the war. Why Z?
Because the South obstnately and wickedly
refused to restrict or abolish it at the demand
Of the philosophers or fanatics and dems-
gogues Of the North and West Then, sir,
it was abolition 'hn ----r-r "