Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1863-07-31

Of country and devotion to the Union;
but by words and deeds of encourage
ment will help on our cause it will not
carp at every measure Of the ndminis-
tration, and will pardon much to the I'M
mense difficulties tina. beset it i; it will
not deprecate or deprcciate the success Of
the Union arms; it will not disparage
the character of our soldiers as compared
with the rebels; it will not fail to rejoice
at our victories by whatever General they
may be won ; nor to be cast down by
: disasters whenever they befall us; it will
not decry the national credit nor cast
suspicion on the national integrity; nor
will it endeavor to prevent the operation
of laws, designed to give efficiency to the
army by filling it ranks, either by mob
violence or by seditious Indictment thereA
to. Differences of opinion there be on
some matters, but the discussson of such
differences may well be postponed till va
have achieved the objects, for which tho
war on our part is waged-to wit: the
undisputed supremacy of the United
States within its ancient and rightful
limits.
| Sympathizing at the outset with the
movements for the suppression of the re;
bellion, nothing has occurred in the course
Of the contest to change my opinion as
to the Importance and necessity Of pros
ecuting it to successful termination
There are those among US who are crying
"peace," and peace would indeed be welI
come to every household in the land, but
it must be such an one as will endure
Peace on any other terms, than COM
pletc restoration of the authority Of tho
nation, could by no possibility be moro
than brief armistice, a temporary truce.
Transient peace we might have if We
would accept terms dictated by rebels,
but such would be Indignantly secuted by
patriots. Peace, perhaps for short
time we might have if, among other things.
we would surrender to their insolent de.
mands the rights to establish such BOUND
aries as they might choose to fix, and con-
cede to them the right to make the lower
Mississippi another Dardaneles, to be
lined with cannon, to levy tribute in all
time to come, upon the commerce Of the
Empires, which are rapidly growing up
on its tributaries in the West and North-
west.
Senator Douglass, name still dear to
hundreds of thousands of his country
men, proclaimed years ago that the men
of the Northwest would never permit tho
disenberment of the Union, that they
would claim their natural highways to the
Gulf and the Atlantic unobstructed by
commercial regulations Of alien States
The idea of that vast tract Of country,
fast becoming granary Of capacity suf-
ficient to feed the entire world, suing
humbly to the States of Mississippi,
Louisiana or Arkansas, singly or togeth-
er, for permission to float their products
on what has been fitly called the inter-
nal sea of the West-which, with its
afiuents, counts miles Of navigation by
thousands, the purchase Of our ancestors,
out of a common treasury, and the com.
mon inheritance of every American citi-
zen-s proposition so preposterous, as
requires it on y to be stated to ensure its
scornful rejection. In the language Of
the gallant Logan the men of the North
west will clcave their way to the Gulf
with their swords" and even now they
and the men of New England have sha-
ken hands, at Nicksburg and Port Hud.
son, on this declaration of the freedom Of
the Mississippi.
The progress Of this war has develop.
ed the vast military power of the entiro
nation, and it is no figure of rhetoric to
say, that the Union restored, it could de.
fy the world in arms. If the Union is
dissolved, this vast military power, in
stead Of slumbcring, as it has in the past
years, amid the pursuits of civil life ready
to be awakened at the first alarm Of
danger will be required to be held con-
stantly in hand to guard ourselves from
each other With the Union restored in
Il quarter of century, these United
States will hold the front rank among the
nations of the earth.
Divided, at first, into two confederacies
the process Of distintegration is but just
begun. 1t would 20 on till nothing but
fragmcntary states would remain too in
significant for offcnse, too feeble for self
protection, ready to become the victims
of any cntcrprising ruler, who might
have an ambition to extend the sway of
the " Latin race or of any untriendly
power, who mi ght desire to " read just
its Boundaries A people who would
voluntarily throw away, or suffer to be
wrcsted from them the inestiaable priv
ilegcs Of our magnificent and powerful
Union as it was, strongly cemented in
any ether,
1t WAS we'll remarked, in the British
rarimcnt, by shrewd observer Of hu-
man affairs that " nations which border
on each other never can agree for this
single reason because they are neigh.
bors, " and all history tends to confirm tho
sad apherism, The American colonies,
under the sway of England, and tho
states under the old confederation and
the const tuition, have been exempted
from the scourge of internal war, for
period, perhaps without parallel for 50
extensive country, in the annals Of
mankind, Cover the map of Europe,
embracing its different governments, with
Il sheet representing the size of the Unit
ed States, and then ask history which Of
those nations has not been disturbed by
war sevcnty-Gve years For twenty
years after our career commenced, ths