The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-02-06

telegraph. AL these have multiplied
the speed or the quantity of trade, traV.
el, communication, migration, and in
tsrco1rse Of all kinds between the differ.
ent States aud sections; and thus, so
long as healthy condition of the body
polite continued, they became power
fol cemslting agencies Of union. The
numerous voluntary associations, artistic,
literary, charitable, social, and. scientific,
until corrupted and made fanatical; the
various ecclesiastical organizations, un-
til they divided; and the political par
ties, so long as they remained all nation
al and not sectional, were also among
the strong ties which bound US together.
And yet all of these, perverted and abus.
ed for some years in the hands of bad of
fanatical men, became still more power.
ful instrumentalities in the fatal work or
disunion; just as the veins and arteries
of the human body, designed to convey
the vitalizing fluid through every part of
it, will carry also, and with increased
rapidity it may be, the subtle poison
which takes life away. Nor is this all.
1t was through their agency that theim'
prisoned winds of civil war were all let
loose at first with such sudden and ap-
palling fsry; and, kept in motion by po-
litical power, they have ministered to
that fury ever since. But, potent alike
for good and evil, they may yet, under
the control Of the people, and in the
hands of wise, good, and patriotic men,
be made the most effective agencies, un.
der Providence, in the reunion Of these
States.
9th er ties also, less material in their
nature, but hardly less persuasive in
their influence, have grown up under the
Union. Long association, a common
history, national reputation, treaties and
diplomatic intercourse abroad, admiS-
sion Of new States, = common jurispru'
dence, great men whose names and fame
are the pAtrimony Of tho whole country,
patriotic music aud songs common bat>
tie fields, and glory won under the same
flag. These make up the poetry Of u
nion; and yet, as in the marriage relation,
and the family with similar influences,
they are stronger than hooks of steel.-
He was o wise statesman, though he
may never have held an Office, who said
LET me write the songs ofs people, and
care not who makes their laws" Why
is the MarseillsiSe prohibited in Frsncel
Sir, Hail Columbia and the Star Span
ElSd Bannar-PeunSylvania gave US one,
and Maryland the other-have done
more for the Union than all the legisla-
tion and oil the debates in this Capitol
for forty years; and they will do more
yet again than oil your armies, though
you call ought another million of men
into the field. Sir, l wOuld add "Yan-
kee Doodle;" bat 6rst let me lie asSur
ed that Yankee Doodle loves the u
nion more than he hates the slaVehol-
} der.*
And now, sir propose to briefly con
slider the causes which led to disunion
and the present civil war; and to inquire
whether they are eternal and ineradica
BILE in their nature, and at the same time
powerful enough to overcome oil the
causes and considerations which impel
to reunion.
Having two years ago discussed fully
D and elaborately the more abstruss ant
e remote causes whence civil commotion!
in all governments, and those also which
O ere peculiar to our complex and FEEDER
/. al system, such as the consolidating ten
, dernesS Of the General Government, be
! cause oiexecutiTe power and patronage
3, and OF the tariff and taxation and dis
;, bnrsement generally, all unjust and bur
r. densome to the West equally with tn
l. South, l pass them by now.
% What, then, l ask, is the immediate
direct cause of disunion and this civi
Is war2 Slavery, it is answered. Sir
Ie that ia the philosophy Of the rustic i
Of the play-"that great cause of tn
y, night, is lack of the sum-" Certainl
n slavery was in one sense-very obscur
al indeed-the cause of the war. Hs
there been no slavery here, this partiC
is ular war about slavery would never hav
IN been waged. In like sense, the Hol
er Sepulcher was the cause of the war {
a the Crusades; and had Troy or Carthag
ID never existed, there never would hav
e, been no Trojan or Carthaginian war, an
" no such personages as Hector and Har
IN nibal; and no Iliad or Nnead would e.
ct er have been written. But far bett,
et say that the negro is the cause Of IL
e' war; for bad there been no negro her
II, there would be no war just now. VIII
ne thenp Extermnate him? Who d
he mands it? Colonize him? Howl
on Where? When? Atwhose cost? 81
nd let US have an end of this folly.
"e But slavery is the cause of the Wa
nu Why? Because the South obstinate
'a' and wickedly refused to restrict or abe
U" ish it at the demand Of the phloSophe
w or fanatics and demagogues of the Nor
W, and West. Then, sir, it was abolitid
u" the purpose to abolish or interfere wi
~ n and hem in slavery, which caused dis
We nion and war Slavery is only the su
DIS ject, but abolition the cause of this ci
Ct war. 1t was the persistent and det,
mined agitation in the free States of t
,ns question Of abolishing slavery in t
ie- South, because of the alleged 'irrepr,
Ills sible conflict" between the forms of lat
as in the two sections, or in the false a
~ mischievouS cant of the day, betwe