The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-02-04

! $ aid as well political ambition and interest
fanaticism ; and after twenty-five years of
scesssnt aud vehement agitation, it obtained
! assession finally, and upon that issue, of the
Federal G~svcrnment and of every State gcv-
arnmsnt North and West. And to-day, we
49, in tho midst of the greatest, most cruel;
most destructive civil war ever waged. But
fxo years, sir. of blood and debt and taxation
nd i~ncipieut commercial ruin are teaching the
seplc of the West, and l trust of the North
lso, the folly ard nadncss CT this crusade
sea;nss African slavery, and tho wisdom aud
~ccessity Of a union OF tho States, as our faith.
rs made II, sspart slave and part free"
What, then, sir with go many causes impel-
sing TO reunion, keeps US apart to-day ? Hate,
passion, sntaSonism revenge, all heated scsen
mes hotter by war. Sir, these, while they
.st, are the most powerful of all motives With
$ people, aud with The individual man ; but for
unaiely they are the least durable. They hold
dividend sway in tho same bosoms with the
;.cbler qualities Of love, justice, reason plaza
s.iIity; and, except when at their height, are
1ka serse of interest, and always,
n States at least, eivG way W-fT4IT Inst. NO
s.atcsnsan who yields himself up to them can
Govern wisely orwell and no State whose pol
.cy is coutroiied by them can either prosper or
endure. But war is both their offspring and
heir ailrncnt, and whilci it lasts, all other mo-
axes arc subordinate. The virtues of peace
@annot flourish, cannot e5en end develop ment
IN the midst of Fighting and this civil war
keeps in motion The centrifugal -fofccs Of the
Union, and givesto them increased stTength
and activity every day. But sachs and SO many
and powerful, in my Judgment, are the ce9.
Gneafing or ccntripetal agencies inipeiling US
together that nothing hut perpetual war and
strife can keep us always divided.
Sire do not nder-estinzateth b powerofthe
preiudiccs of section, or what is much strong.
CT; Of race. Prejudice is colder, and, therefo.e,
more durable than the passions of hate and re-
vensc, or the spirit of antagonism. But, as l
have aIrcsdg said its boundry in the United
States Is not Mason and Dixon,s line. The
long standing mutual jealousies of New Eng
land and the South do not primarily grow out
Of slavery. They are deeper, and will always
be the chief obstacle in the why of full and alb
soluts reunion. They are founded in differ.
ent notions abous politics, morals, and religion.
Sir, after all, this whole war is not SO much
one Of seciions-least of all between thu slave
holding and non-sla yeholding sectieps--as of
srases, representing not difference in blood,
but mind and Its development, and different
types Of civilization. It is the old conflict Of
The Cavalier and tho Roundhead, the Liberal
ist and the Puritan or rather 1t is q conflict
upon new issues, of the ideas and elements
5represenfed by those names. It Is a war OF
the Yankee and the Soufhron. Said a Boston
writer the other day, eulogizing a New Eng
land officer who fell at Fredericksburg This
Is Massachusetts, war :: Massachusetts, and
South Carolina.madc it,, But in the begin
saing, the Roundhea lssoutwitted the Cavalier,
and by q skillfal use of slavery and the negro
united an New England first, and afterward
the entire North and West, and finally sent
out to battle against him Celt and Saxon, Ger
mar and Knick erbocker. Catholic and Episeo-
palian, and even a part of his own household
and of the descendants of his own stock. Said
Mr.. Jeffeason, when NeW England threatened
secession some sixty years g -No, let uskeep
The Yankees to quarrel with" All, sir, he for
get that qnarreling is always hazardous exper-
imens and after some time, the countr5men OF
Adams Proved themselves too sharp at that
work for beecouErrym sn OF Jefferson. But
every day the contest now tends again to its
natural and original clements. In many parts
if the Northwest might add Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, and New York city-the prejad-
ice agaiLst thesaYankee" has always been al
most as bitter as in the South. Suppressed
Tor a little while by the anti slavery sentiment
and tho war, it threatens now to break forth
in one of those great but unfortunate popular
uprisipEs, in the midst of which reaseu and
!. Justice are for q time utterly silenced. I speak
advisedly and let New England heed, else she
and the whole East, too, in their struggle for
power, may learn yet from the Vest the same
lesson which civil war taught to Rome, that
~erukqdfo ianpcrii arcane, posse principen aliJi,
guam Romeo feri. Thu people of the West
demand peace, and they begin to more than
suspect that New England is II the way. The
storm rases and they believe that she, not
slavery, is the cause. The ship is sore tried
and passengers and crew arenow almost ready
10 propitiate the waves by throwing the lilo
Iaened prophet overheard. In plain English
net very classic, but most expressive-they
ahreatsn to "set New England out in the cold.
And now. sir, T, who have not one drop Of
New Ezgiand blood in my veins, but was born
in Ohio, and am wholly of southern ancestry
with a slight cross of Pennsylvania Scotch
Irish46ould speak a word to the men of the
West aud the South, in behalf of New Eng
land Sir, some years ago, in the midst OF
high sectional controversies, and speaking as
= western mani said some things harsh OF
the North, which now, IN a more catholic spirit
rs q United States man, and fer the sake OF
reunion, I would recall. My prejudices, In
deed, upon this subject are as strong as any
mans but in this, the day of great national
humiliation and calamity, let the voice of pre-
judice be hushed.
Sir, they who would exclude New Esgland
In any reconstruction of the Union, assume
that all New Englanders are yankees and
Pnritans; and that the PGrsian or pragmatical
element, or type of civilization, has always
held undisputed sway Well, sir Yankees
certainly, they are in one sense /; and soto CID
Englsnd VA are all Yankees, North and South
and to the South just now, or a little while
ago, we of the middle and western States, alsc
are, or were, Yankees, too. But there is rea,l,
; very large, and most liberal and conserya
tive aon-Puritan element in the population O
New England, which for many years, strug
gled for the mastery, and sometimes held it
It dixided Maine, New Ham pshire, and Con
necticut, and once controlled Rhode Islant
wholly. Ithe1d the sway during the Repo
luton, and at the period when the Constitu
ton was founded, and for some years after
ward Mr.. Calhoun said very justly In 1917
that to the wisdom and enlarged patriotism o
Sherman and Ellsworth on the slavery qucs
ton we were indebted for this admirable Gov
ornment and that, along with Patterson, 0