Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-04

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which. there being no common arbiter, could only
BE- terminated BY the conflict Of the sword And
the statesmen OF l-62 ought % know that or
more confederate governments, made up OF SINH
lar States. having 10 natural boundary either,
aud separated only by different governments, can
not endure long together in peace. unless one or
more OF them be either too pusillanimous for n
valry. or too Insignificant 10 provoke il, or too
weak 70 resist aggression.
These. SIR. along with the establishments of jus
tee. and the securing OF the general welfare, and
OF the blessings Of liberty to themselves and
their pos,erity made up the causes and motives
which impelled our fathers to the Union at first
And now, str, what Of them Is .ingf what
annnsnea on the contrary many Of them are stronger
mage have strengthened the lies Of consequently Com
merce, trade and production nave Immensely multiplied
Cotton, almost unknown here in l757, j. the chief
product and export OF the country has set in motion
three fourths Of the spndes Of New England and given
employment, directly remotely TO full bali the ship
ping, trade and commerce Of the United States. More
than that c,tton has kept the peace between England
and America for thirty years and had the people OF the
North been wise and practical the Of Great
Britain would have maintained Union and here
But we are being taught, in first century and AZ
cost the lessons which England learned through the
long and bloody experience OF eight hundre years We
shall be wiser time Let not cotton be king but
peace maker and inherit the blessing.
:, common interest. then, sun remains to US. As
taxed, indebted impover he'd, exhausted, both
tons must be, and with foreign fleets and armies around
will be hfy fold essential than before
And finally sir without Union our domestic tranquility
must forever remain unsettled II II c1nnot be main
tanned within the Union, how then outside Of il, without
the other 20 distant country Sir I repeat that two
governments inernked aud bound together every way
by physical and social hgaments, exist in peace
without a common arbiter. Will treaties bind usi What
better treaty than the Constitution What solemn
more durable shall settle our disputes then, by ar
brson and compromised Sir let arbitraie and com
promise now, inside Of the Union. Certainly il will be
quite easy.
And now, sir. 10 all these original causes and
motives which impeiled TO union at first, must be
added certain artificial ligamenis, which eighty
years OF association under "A common Govern
ment have most fully developed. Chief among
these canals, steam navigation, railroads.
press companies, the postotiice, the newspaper
press. and that terrible agent OF good and evil
mixed-''Spiri. o. health. and yet goblin damn
ed"-if free. the gentlest minister OF ruin and
liberty: " hen eusla, ell the SIMPLEST instrument OF
falsehood and tsranny-the magnetic telegraph
All these have multiplied the speed or the guam
tity of trade, travel, communication, migration
and intercourse of all kinds between the different
States and sections; and thus SO long as healthy
condition of the body polite continued. they be
came powerful cemenlng agencies of union
The numerous voluntary associations, artistic,
literary charitable, social and scientific, Ln, cor
rupted and made lanatical; the various ecclesias
teal organic ,tious, until they divided; and the
political parties, so long as they remained all
national and not sectional, were also among the
strong ties which bound Us together. And yet all
of these, perverted and abused Tor some years IN
the hands of bad or fanatical men, became still
more powerful nstIumentaties in the fatal work
OF dsunion; Just the veins and arteries OF the
human body. designed To convey the vltalizng
fluid throu u every part Of IT, will carry also. AID
with increased rapidity il may be. the subtle poi
son which takes life away. Nor il this all. 1t
was through their agency that the imprisoned
winds of civil war were all let loose 1T first with
suct sudden and appalling fury; and. kept in mo
ton by political power, they have ministered to
that Jury ever since But, potent alike for good
and evil, they may yet. under tie control OF the
people. and in the hands of wise. good and patri
otto men, be made the most effective agencies,
under Providence, in the reunion OF these States
Other ties also, less material their nature,
but hardly less persuasive, have grown up under
the Union. Long association, common history,
national reputation, treaties aud diplomatic in
tercourse abroad, admission OF new States, n
common jurisprudence, great men whose names
and fame are patrimony OF the whole country,
patriotic music and songs, common battlehelds,
and glory under the same hag-these make
up the poetry of Union, and yet, as i'll the mar
rage relation, and the family with similar lntiu
ences, they stronger than hooks OF steel. He
was a wise statesman, though he may never have
held office, who said, LET me write the songs
of people. and | care not who makes their
laws" Why is the Marselase prohibited i'll
Francel Sir, Hail Columbia and the Star Span
eled Banner-Pennsy vania gave one. and
Maryland the other-have done more for the
Uno, than all the legislation and all the debates
in this Capitol for forty Years and they will do
more yet again than all your armies, though you
cali out another million OF men into the field
Sir, would add Yankee DOODLE" but first let
me be assured that Yankee Doodle loves the
Union more than he hates the laveholder#
SIN truth the song written in derision, by British
officev, and not by an American.
CONTINUED TO MORROW