Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-01-31

n common interest tDon, SILL remains
to us. And union for the common de-
fense, at the end oi this war, taxed, in.
dobted, impoverished, exhausted, as both
sections must be, and with foreign fleets
and armies around US, will be 6lty-fold
ESSENTIAL than ever before. And finally,
sir, without union our domestic tranquilli-
ty must forever remain unsettled. If it
cannot be maintained within the Union,
how then outside of it, without an ex-
odus or colonization of the people Of one
section or the other to a distant country
Sir, | repeat that two governments so
interlinked and bound together every way
by physical and social igaments, cannot
exist in peace without a common arbter.
Will treaties bind us ? What better treaty
than the Constitution What lore SOL
emn, more durablel Shall we settle our
disputes, then, by arbitration and com
promise Sir, let US arbitrate and com
promise now, inside of the Union. Ger
tainly it will be quite as easy.
And now, sir, to all these original causes
and motives which impelled to union at
first, must be added certain artificial
ligaments, which eighty years of associa-
tion under a common Government have
most fully developed. Chief among these
are canals, steam navigation, railroads,
express companies, the post Office, the
newspaper press, and that terrible agent
of good and evil lnixed-"spirit Of health,
and yet goblin damned"-if free, the
gentlest minister of truth and liberty
when ens!aved, the supplest instrument of
falsehood and tyranny-the majestic te'-
egraph. All these have multiplied the
speed or the quantity Of trade, travel,
communication, migration, and Intercourse
of all kinds between the different States
and sections and thus, so long as a
healthy condition of the body-politic
continued, they become powerful cement
ing agencies of union. The numerous
voluntary associations, artistic, literary,
charitable, social and scientific, until
corruption and made fanatical the various
ecclesiastical organizations, until they
divided; and the political parties, so long
as they remained all national and not
social, we're also among the strong ties
which bound US together. And yet all of
these, perverted aud abused for some
years in the hands of bad or fanatical
men, became still more powerful instru-
mentalties in the fatal work of disunion /;
just as the veins and arteries of the hu-
man body, designed to convey the vital
izipg fluid through every part oft, will
carry also, and with increased rapidity it
may be, the subtle poison which takes life
away. Nor is this all 1t was thought
their agency that the imprisoned winds
of civil war were all let loose at first with
such sudden and appalling fury; and,
kept in motion by political power, they
have ministored to that fury over sence.
But, potent ike for good and evil, they
may yet, under the control of the people,
and in the hands of wise, good, and patri.
otic men, be made the most effective sgen-
ces, under Providence, in the reunion Of
these States.
Other ties also, less material in their
nature, but hardly less persuasive in their
influence, have grown up under the Union
Long association, common history,
national reputation, treaties and dipIoma-
tic intercourse abroad, admission Of new
States, common jurisprudence, great
men whose names and fame are the patri-
mony of the whole country, patriotic
music and songs, common battle fed, and
glo~y won under the same flag. These
make up the poetry of Union; and yet, as
in the marriage relation, and the family
with similar influences, they are stronger
than hooks of steel. lie was wise states
man, though he may never have held n
office, who said, "Lct NE write tho songs
of people, and care not who makes their
laws"
Why is the Marseillase prohibited in France ? Sir,
Hail Columbia and the Star spengled Banner-Prnn-
dome more for the Union than all the Legislation and
ai'the debates in the Capitol for forty yoars; aud
though you call out another miliGn of men into the
mold Sir, would dd. yankee Doodle" but first
let me be assured that Yankee Doodle loves the Union
more tiah he hates the STAKEHOLDER
And now, sir propose to briefly consider the causes
which led to disuhon and the present civil war; aud
to inquire whether they eternal and incradicabe
in their nature, and at the time powerful enough
TO overcome all the causes and considerations which
impel TO reunion.
Having two years ago discussed fully and elaborate
lythe more abstruse andremote whence civil
cO,nmot0ns in all overame hts a0d those also which
peculiar to complex aud Federal system, such
as the consolidating tendencies eff the General Gov.
and OF the tariff and taxati Oh and disbursement gen.
orally, all unjust and burdensone TO the West eaaay
with the South pass them by now,
What thep, l ask, is the immediate, di.
rect cause Of disunion and this civil war
Slavery, it is answered. Sir, thas is the
philosophy in the play-"that great
cause of the night, is lack of the SUI. =
Certainly slavery was in one sense-very
obscure indeed-the cause of the war
Had there been no slavery here, this par
ticular war about slavery would never
have been waged, In like sense, the
holy Sepulchre was the cause Of the war
of the Crusades; and had Troy or Car
thage never existed, there never would
have been Trojan or Carthaginan war,
and no such personages as Hector and
Hannibal; and no Iliad or ,Eneid would
ever have been written. But far batter
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 demands it ? colo
nize him! How? Where When! At