Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-02-18

South The master and the slave. the
white laborer and the black. work tooe.ll-
er IN the same field or the same silon. and
/ without tha slightest sense Of degradation.
( They are not equals, either socially or no
ii;lcally. And why not, then. cannot
Ono, having only free labor, live in mar
mony with Kentucky which has both
slave and free? Above aiI, VIII cannot
Massachusetts allow the same right of
+ choice 70 South Carolina. separated as
they are thousand miles. by other States
who would keep the peace and live in
+ good viii! Why this civil war? Whence
disGnion? No: from slaye-y-not because
the South chooses TO have two kinds OF
/ iabor instead of ore: but from sectional
( ism. always and everywhere 2 dissintegra-
ting principle Sectional jealousy and
. hase-these, sir, are the only elements OF
conflict between these States, and though
powerful. they are yet not az all irrepres-
slb!e. They exist between families. com
munliIcs, towns, cities. counties. and
+ States: and if not reprcsscd would dis
Z solve all society and government They
exist also between other sections than the
I North and South. Scctionalism East
1 many years ago, saw the S0uth and West
'united by the ties OF geographical position.
migration, ntermarTiage. and interest. a:.d
thus strong enoagh to control the power
and policy Of the Union It found US Ii
vidcd only b. different forms Of labor ::
and, with consummatc but most guilty
s92acity, If seized upon the question of
slavery as the surest and most powerful
instrrImcntality by which to separate the
[ West from the South. and bind her wholly
. 10 the North. Encouraged every wav
nom abroad by those who were Jealous of
CIR prosperity and greatness, and who
knew the secret Of orr strength. IL PRO-
claIned The - irrop-cssib,c conflict =" be-
tween slave labor and free I:tbo-. Il
taught the people of the North TO forge,
both their duty and their interests: and
aided by the artificial liaamcnts AMI in
flucnce which money and enterprise had
created between the sca-board and the
Northwest, it persuaded the people OF ;hat
section. also. to yield UP ovcr- tie which
binds them TO the great valley of the
Mississippi, and 70 join ;I,cir political for
tunes especially, wholly with the East. Ii
n,ac'ded the exclusion Of slavery from nj
the Territories and from this District. ana
cianored against the admission oF any
more slave States mo the Union. II Or
G;lnized n sectional anti-slaycry- party. and
thus drew f. lis nil rs we'll political ana
biiiou and intcrcsras ianaticisn: and after
twenty-five years of ineessaat and vehe-
!nent agitation, it obtained possession
finally. and upon that issue. of the fecle-
raj Government and of ever,y State govern
mont North and West. And to-day. We
are IN the midst of the greatest. most
cruel. most destructive civil war ever
wa1cd. But two years. sir. of blood AMI
debt and taxation aud iiicigient CONNER
cial ruin arc teaching ihs people of the
West, and trIs; OF the North also. the
folly and madness Of this crusade against
African slavery. and the wisdom and re-
ccssity of union Of the States. as or
fathers made it, part slave and part irec.
What, then, sir, with - many causes
impclling 10 Reunion. keeps Us apart to-
day ! Hate, passion, anta.onisEl, re-
vcnge, all heated seven times hotter by
war. Sir. these. while they last. are the
most powerful of all motives with = peo-
pie. and with the Individual man l,ut
fortunately they are The least durable.
They hold a divided sway IN the same
. bcsons with the nobler qualities Of iova.
justice, reason placab;lity; and, except
when at their height, are weaker than the
sense of interest, and always, in States at
least, give way to it at last. No states
man who yields himself up TO chem can
govern wisely or well ; and no State
whose policy Is controlled bv them can
either prosper or endure But war Is
both their offspring and their ailmen;, and
while it lasts, all other motives are sub
ordinate. The virtues of peace cannot
flourish, cannot ever find DEVELOPMENT in
the midst of fighting and this civil war
keeps in motion the centrifugal forces of
the union, and gives TO them increased
strength and activity every day. But
such, and so many powerful. in nv
judgement, are the ccmenting or centIipe-
tai agencies impelling us together that
nothing but perpetual war can keep US
always divided.
Sir, do not underestimate the power
of the prejudices of section, or, what is
much stronger, OF race. Preindice is
colder, and therefore, more durable than
the passions of hate and revenge, OF the
/ spirit Of antagonism. But as 7 have
( already said, its boundary IN the United
States is not Mason AMI Dixun's Iipo Tho