The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-03-06
aEsrL aEs.ossasre NORTHERN

article from the Enquirer, which
10 JET. Cavis' official or9an--lro
worth careful reading. Northern
Copperheads are plainly told that
their plans can never reunlto tho
States, and that the Union az u
was, and the Constitution 90 1t is,"
have no place in the hearts OF their
southern brethren.
"This 9 ction oi tho alien enemy,
which 10 now endeavC ring to reduce
our country by fire, famine and
slaughter--even the bast Of them,
even the most peacably disposed OF
|them--have no idea of making peacs
with us except on tho b,sii OF reun-
ion--that ia submiss' on. Vallan.
diebsm ia the best alI most peac.
ably disposed; ani in his lato "greas
speech" we find not one siuglo pr c.
tic Il idea except a plan for getting
rid Of tho Republican corrnorauts
who now .devour the rev6auo, an
putting in their place the Democra
ic sh lrks who swallowed II boiore,
oil by the help Of the South, in a
reconstructed Union. Forthis great
end, 80 sacrol in Democratic eyes,
he thus suggests a mutual forgive.
nc's o injuries.
Mutual forgiveness Of iniar,es /,
a beautiul thing; but how have W.
inj Irod the North' Was it We
who erectel that "wOrst de3p ''isn"
nn Ter which they sufIer1 Was is
va who shu. them up in Fort Lafa.
ye.te, and arrested their editors. amt
seized their letters in the postofiset
Bat shall W. break mp rhJ Uaion."
crios the Democrat! Just a. you
please sir. il ia no affair of ours.-
5 No sir" cries he, "let US expsl tho
usurperl" Mr.. Lincoln il no u.ur-
.p3r; You have regularly elect d him;
we wish youj)y ofhim. We canaot
ally ourselves with q faction IN n
foreign patton, to displace its regu.
lar Government. Sich proceeding,
would DO con'r.ry to the laws of
nations, aud wo have a great res,
pect for tho laws Of nations.
As for the 'oId htS," we presu no
that Mr.. Vallandigham IN 1ans th
flag which has been waving over
the rullians Of Butler, the brigands
Of Milroy, the flag that has symbol
iz ID to us burning towns and house,
holds desol ted; tho fllg that Wa
have seen flying bcfjrs u5 on evary
b t,lefield OF Virginia; the Il q that
we have torn ani trAnpled with q
III addiction into the mu, of every
camp between Yorktown and tho
Rsppahannock The Democratic
will excuse Us; we can never hoist,
on sea or land, that disholorei ban.
uer
We have no objection to Mr.. Val
landigham aud his Democrats de-
throning "the usurper." Ga tho
contrary we encourage him in that
enterprise; but To must expect no
political allianca with US. AMI may
as we'll drop tho subject OF that old
flag.
CAN TUE UNION or THESE STATES BE
KEsToRED2
Under this head; the Richmond
Dispatch Of February 7th, has an
article on Vallan ligham's sp,,ch,
concluding as follows:
Mr.. Nallandigham makes a gran l
mistake in supposing this to bs IA
civil war. IL ia not a civil war. ls
Iis sectional war. 1t is a war be-
tween two people who are as dis
tinct as the Rus 'ians and the ID IN 70
or the SaxDns anil the Dutch. For
10 we speak no sam the same Ian
guagea The language OF the South
is the English language. The Lam
guags Of the North is Elglish Gar.
nan, Dutch, Spanish "a compound
in a word, OF every known langu,5a
, and dialect in the world. Tho p)p-
nlation of the Sou h is homogeneous
That OF the $ ,uth il moro heterog J.
|, noous than that of tn, Austrian
> Empire Tho great wonder is, noI
that thu two se;tions hav, fallen as
! sunder at las, bu tn At lh,y hold to
gether so long. 1t would bs almos,
, az rational to form the whole cont
} nent OF Europe into a single state
I md then expect it TO coatinue euch
Mr.. Vallan igham takes up tn,
> old geographical argumsnt on which
q Gen. Webb used to dilata with sC
q much junction, and which was a l.
opted bv Lincjl ia his last mesa
ago. Nothing can form tho bounl,
. aries, it seems, of states, but grea
:. landmarks. All the communities
living 0n a great river must belong
. TO the same government. Certain
!, elevation5 or natural water sbedr
, control everything in the direction
in which the water iro II them fl rvs
!. ANY man who knows anything
ofhistory and geography, knows tha
y his style Of argum ent is perfectly
! ridiculous. How manv nations ar,
!, there on the lhinel How mlny OF
the Danubes How many on th,
sPo? Where is the grand natura
q division between Spain and Portu
i yal2 Between Franc, and Belgium
3 stwecn Pavarit and Anstrisp =