Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-02-19
SPEECH FOR STOPPING THE WAR,
In the U. s. House Of Representatives, By
M r. co N w "A x.
An Able Republican M,m5cr from Kansas.
He Proposes the Acknowledgment Of
the Con fcderatcs.
A RADICAL VIEW OF THE QUESTION

ltC PROPOSES tne ACknOWlcugmcnt Of
the Confcdcratcs.
A RADICAL VIEW, OF THE QUESTION.
A few days since, Mn. CoNwAY, Of Kansas,
one of the most ultra, as well as one OF the
ablest Of the Republican members of Congress,
m ade strong speech in favor of peace and
the stoppage Of the war The speech is said
to have the approval of Governor Andrew,
Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Hor ace
Greeley, and other leading Aboltionists, who
held caucus in Washington just before it was
delivered. 1t is a very important demoustra.
ton. We take the following extracts from
1t, which show Its character:
HE is AGAINST REUNION.
Sir, am not in favor of restoring the
constitutional relations of the slavehold.
crs to the Union, nor of the war to that
end. On the contrary, am utterly and
forever opposed to both. | am in favor
OF the Union as it exists to-day / am in
favor Of leorganizing the loyal States as
the American nation, based as they are
on the principles of freedom for all, with
out distinction Of race, color or condition.
| believe it to be the manifest destiny Of
the American nation to ultimately control
the American continent on this principle
| | conceive, therefore, that the true OBJ
iect of this war is to rovolutiunize the
national government by resolving the
North into the nation and the South into
distinct public body. leaving us in po.
Si'ion to pursue the latter as separate
State. | believe that the direction of the
war TO any other end is a perversion Of it,
calculated to subvert the very object it was
designed TO effect
his UNIoNTsM
| have never allowed myself to indulge
in that supersticions idolatry of the Union
so prevalent among simple but honest
| people, nor that political cant about the
/ Union so prevalent among dishonest ones.
| have simply REGARDED it as form OF
Government, to be vaIu, Il in proportion
! TO its merits as an instrument of national
pros perity aud power.
THE SOUTH INDEPENDENT
The war which has come in between
the North and the South for the past two
years has made revolution. 1t has sub.
stituted in the South another Government
! for that of the Union. This is the fact,
and the fact in such matter is the im-
portant thing. IC settles the law No
technically in "A question of this kind can
stand. The war has utterly dissolved the
connection between the North and the
South. and rendered them separate and
independent powers in the world This
is the necessary legal effect Of civil war
any where. 1t makes the beIigercnt par
ties independent for the time being, and,
unless the one succumbs to the other, they
continue Independent Of each other for
ever.
The principle is laid down by Vattel
as follows:
"Whcn a nation becomes divided into two
parties, absolutely Independent, and no longer
acknowledging common superior, the st ate
is d dissolved, and tho war between the two
parties stands upon the same ground, in every
respect, as public war between two different
nations. Book III, chap II. p. 42S.
1t is not to be wondered at. therefore.
that so learned and profound urist a.
the honorable memhe from Pennsylvania
MIR Stevens should express the same
opinion.