The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1863-02-19
A REPUBLICAN, CONGRESSMAN PRO
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hafs Of Congress, made a strong speech 10
IssOr Of peace and the stOppag . Of the war.
The speech is said to have the approval Of
Governor Andre v Charles Sumner, Wen
dell Phillips, and other leading AbolitiOpiStS,
1t is an important demonstration. We take
the following extr acts from it, which show
w. character: .yQf9iTq0Tq
He is Against Reunion.
Sir, / am not in favor Of restoring the
constitutional relations Of the Shareholders
totho Union, NOT Of tie var 10 that end
On the contrary, I am in favor of recogniz-
ing the loyal States as-ths American nation,
based as hey are on the principles Of free
dom for all, without distinction IF race
color or condition. ! believe it to be the
manifest destiny Of the American nation 10
ultimately control the American Continept
on this principle.
l conceive, therefore, that the true object
of this war is to revolutionize the n%stional
Government by resolving the North into the
nation and he South into a distinct public
body, leaving us in a position TO pursue the
latter ps a separate State, i believe that
the direction of the war to any other end is
q perversion of it, calculated to subvert
the very object it was designed to effect.
The South Independent.
The war which has some in bctweea the
North and the South for the past two years
has made 0. revolution. 1t has substituted
in the South another government for that
of tho Union. This is the fact, aud the
fact in such a matter is the important thing.
It settles the law, No technicality in q
question OF this kind can stand. The war
has utterly dissolved the connection between
the North and South, and rendered them
separate and independent powers in the
world, This is tho necessary legal effect
Of civil war anywhere. It makes the bclig-
grent parties independent for the time be
ing, and unless the one succumbs to the
other, they continue independent forever.
The principle is laid down by Yattcl as
follows:
When o nation becomes divided into
two parties, absolutely independent, and no
longer acknowledging. common superior,
the State is dissolved, and the war between
the two parties stands uponthe anne ground
in every respect, as q public war between
two different nations. "-[Book iii, chap.
II, p, 42S.
1t Is MOTTO be wondered at therefore, that
so learned and profound a jurist rs the
honorable member from Pennsylvania GMr.
Stevens should express the same opinion.
The Proclamation a Failure.
Many suppose that the effect Of the Proc
lamation Of Emancipation will DO to thor
oughly, speedily, and completely annihilate
and extirpate slavery, that the shareholders
will have no longer a motive to act together.
This is an egregious mistake. The Procla-
nation will have no such effect. 1t cannot
have any such effect. Its con~stitutisnality
is denied. II is still unexecuted, and its
validity undetermined. The whole subject
is yet open to debate and final settlement.
The Judiciary Department is to render-its
decision upon it; and, in the mean time,
IL is tobe the controlling issue in a popular
I..an. e. p-;lok 1rL;. ,k.n ~ Ain.
will undoubtedly inspire. tho shareholders
with q more r~esolute purpose than ever
Their effort will not, as heretofore, he 10
prevent vhe Abolitioulsts from freeing the
slave, as a distant and speculative PROPOSE
tion, bat to rescue him from the grasp OF
the enemy already actually upon hin. 1t
win redoublO their will and bring out every
latent energy 4 ~. \
| can not refrain from expressing my in
diyidual opinion that the true policy OF the
North is to terminate this war at once. The
longer it continues, the worse our situation
becomes, Let the two Houses of Congress
adopt tho following resolutions:
Resolved, by the Senate and House oil
Representatives, &c, That the Executive
be- and he is hereby requested to issue q
general order to all commanders Of forces
in the several military departments Of the
United States to discontinue offensive oper
atoms against the enemy, and to act for the
future entirely on the defensive. t
RESOLVED, That the Executive be, and
helis fnrther requested, to enter into ncgo,
~tiations with the authorities Of the Cohfed
crate States with reference to cessation o.
hostilities, based on the following propo'i
tons; /. Rec gnition Of the independence
Of the. Confederate States. 2, A uniform
system of duties on impo.ts. b Free trade
between the two States. 4. Free naviga
ton Of the Mississippi River. 5. Mutua'
adoption Of the Monroe doctrine.
Can Lice Together.
entirely disag rec with those who asser
that it is impossible that the North anC
South could live peaceably side by side, be
cause there are no natural boundaries be
tween the two, such as the Rocky Mountain
, or the Atlantic Ocean. Thigis a bugbeal
with which we impose or ourselves. The
people of the North aud Sonth can nevdI
become foreign nations to each other in thu
|, sense in which the French and Engl sh o.
Russians are.S They are sprung from thu
same origin, speak the same language, pos
cess d common literature, inherit similar
L~poIitiOs and religious views, and iphabi: re
rions closely connected by natural and or
ti6cial ties. They will, therefore, both bt
always american. The only great differ