The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-02-04

spindles Of New England, and given employ.
ment, directly or remotely. to full half the
shipping. trade, and commerce Of the United
States, More thap that: cotton has kept
! the peace between England and America for
thirty years, aud had the people OF the
North been as wise and practical Is tho
st atssmen Of Great Britain, 1t would have
maintained Union and pesce here. But we
are being taught in our first century and nj
our own cost, the Lessons which England
learned through the long and bloody efperis
ence of eight hundred years. We shall bs
wiser Lext time. Let not cotton be king,
but peace maker, and Inherit the blessing.
A common interest, then, still remains to
US. And union for the common defense; 1t
the end OF this wal, taxed, indebted, impoy.
erished, exhausted, as both sections must be,
and with foreign fleets and armies around us,
will be ffty iold more essential than ever be-
fore. And finally. sir, without union, our
domestic traneuillity must fortser remain
unsettled. II it cannot be maintained with
IN the Union, how then outside OF it, withs
out an exodus or colonization OF the people
of one section or the other TO distant ronri {;
try? Sir, repeat that two governments 30
interlnked and bound together every way
by physical and social ligamen's, cannot ex.
ist in peace without common aFbitsr. VIII
treaties bind usY What better treaty ihan
the Constitution? What more solemn, moro
durabIef Shall we settle our disputes, then,
by arbitration and compromise? Sir, let US
arbitrate and compromise now, inside Of the
Union. Certainly it will Ee quite as easyi
And now, SIR, 10 all these original eauses
and motives which mpelled to union at first
l must be added certain artificial llgsinents,
which eighty years Of association under 4
common Government have niost fully dsvel-
oped. Chief among these are canal. steam
navigation, railroads, express companies, the
post office, the newspaper Press,and thai ter.
rible agent OF good aud evil miSed -Hspirit
OF health, and yet goblin daInned"--if free,
the geDtlest minister OF truth and liberty;
when enslaved, the suppest instrument of
| 'alsehood and tyranny--tbe magnetic telsS
graph. All these have multiplied the speed
or the quantity Of trade, travel commtnica-
tion, migration and intercourse OF Gll kinds
between The different States and sections;
and thus, So long as healthy condition OF
the body polite continued, they became DOW.
erfui eementing agencies Of union. The mi.
merous voluntary associations, artistic, liter.
ary, charitable, social, and scientific, until
corrupted and made isnatical; the various
ecclesiastical organizations, until they digi.
ded; and the political parties, so long as they
remained all national and not sectional, wers
also among the otfong ties which bound us
together. And yet all Of these, perverted
and abused ior some years in the hands OF
bad or fanatical men, became still more pow
erful instrllmentalities in the fatal work OF
disuniop; just as the veins and arteries Of
the human body, designed to convey the VIA
talizing fluid through every part OF it. will
carry also, and with increased rapidity il
may be, the subtle poison which takes life
away. Nor is this all. 1t was through
their agency that the imprisoned winds Of
civil war we're all let loose at first with such
sudden and appalling inrys and, kept IN mo-
tion by political power, they have lhinistered
to that fury ever since. But, potent sliks
for good or evil, they may yet. under tho
control of the people. and in the hands Of
ths wise, good, and patriotic men, be made
the most effective agencies. under Providence,
in the reunion Of these States.
Other ties also less material in their na
ture, but hardly less persuasive in their IN
fiue ce, have grown up under the Uhioh-a
Long ASSOCIATION, Q common history, nation.
al reputation, treaties and diplomatic iuter-
course abroad, admission ci hew States, a
common Jurisprudence, great men whose
names and fam5 sfo the patrimony of the
whole country. patriotic music and songs.
common battle Fields, and glory won under
the satne flag. These make up the poetry
Of Union aud yet, as in the marriage rela.
tion, aud the family with similar influences.
they are stronger than hooks of steel. He
was wise statesman, though he may pevsr
have held an office, who said, "Let me write
the songs Of people, and | care not who
makes their laws" Why is the Marseillaise
prohibited in France? Sir, hall Columbia
and the Star Spsngled Banner--Pennsylva-
mia gave US one, and Maryland the other
have done more for the Union thah all tho
legislation and all the debates iii this Capitol
for forty years; and they will did more yet
again than all your armies, though you call
out another million af men into the fsld.--
Slr,I would add Yankee Doodle" but first
let me be asstred that Yankee Doodle loves
the Union more than he hates the slavehol-
der.*
And now, sir, propose to briefly consider
the causes rhich led to dlsunon and the
present civil war; and to inquire whether
they are sternal and ineradicable in their ms
ture, and at the same time powerful enough
to overcome all the causes and considerations
which lmpel to reunion.
Having two years ago discussed fully and
elaborately the more abstruse and remote
causes whence civil commotions Id all Gov.
ernments, and those also which are peculiat
to our complex and Federal system, such as
the consolidating tendencies OF the General
Government, because of executive power and
patronage, anG Of the tariff, and taxation
and disbursement gsiieraliv ill ,i7fstst and