Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-02-11

separated by distance or vast natural
boundaries The secession of the Ten
/ Tribes is the exception these parted
without actual war, and their subsequent
[ history is not encouraging TO secession.
But when Moses, the greatest of all states
men, would secure distinct nationality
and government 10 the Hebrews, he left
Egypt and established his people in dis
tant country. In modern times, the
Netherlands, three centuries ago. won
their independence by the sword but
France and the English channel separated
them from Spain. So did our Thirteen
I Colonies but the Atlantic ocean divorced
us from England. So did Mexico, and
and other Spanish colonies in America ::
but the same ocean divided them from
Spain. Cuba and the Canadas still
adhere to the parent Goverement. And
who, now, North or South, in Europe or
America, looking into history, shall pre-
sumptiously say that because of civil war
/ the reunion of these States Is impossible ?
. War, indeed, while 1t lasts. is disunion.
and, if it lasts long enough. viii be final,
eternal separation first. and anarchy and
/ despotism afferward. Hence / would
hasten peace now, to-day, by every homo
rable appliance.
Are there physical causes which render
reunion improbable None. Where
/ other causes do not control, rivers unite ;
but mountains, deserts, and great bodies
! of wateT-ocsoI4 diSSsocaJiies-Separate a
/ people, Vast forests originally, and the
! lakes now. also divide us-not very
widely or whoIly-irom the Canadas
though we speak the same language, and
/ are similar IA manners, laws and iHsiItu-
tions, Our chief navigable rivers run
. from North TO South. Most ofour bays
and arms ofthe sea take the same direc-
+ ton. So DO our ranges of mountains.
/ Natural causes ali tend to Union, except
as between the Pacific coast and the
/ country east of the Rocky mountains to
/ the Atlantic II i :. manifest destiny
! Union IS empire. Hence, hitherto we
: have continually extended our territory :;
/ and the Union with Ii, South AMI West.
( The Louisiana purchase Florida, and
( Texas all attest. We passed desert and
! forest and scaled even the Rocky 'nomn-
! tains. to extend the Union to the Pacific.
.
/ the North and the South. and no line OF
/ latitude upon which 10 separate; and ii
+ ever line of longitude shall be estab-
/ iished, it will be east of the Mississippi
/ valley. The Alleghcmies are no longer a
/ barrier. Highways ascend them every
where, and the railroad now climbs their
/ SUBMITS and spans their chasms. or Pene-
! trafes their rockiest sides. The electric
/ telegraph follows. and, stretching It's con-
Meeting wire along the clouds, there min
( gles Its vocal Lightning with the fires Of
heaven.
! But if disunionists in the East will
force a separation OF any of these States,
and u boundary purely conventional, IS al
! last to be marked out, it must and will DC
/ either from Lake Erie upon the shortest
! line to the Ohio river, or from Manhattan
/ to the Canalas.
! And now, sir, is there any difference o.
race here. so radical as to forbid reunions
do not refer TO the negro race, STYLED
now. in unctious off cial phrase by tbs
President. - Americans of African de-
cent" Certainly, sir, there ars TWO whit,
races in the United States, both from thC
same common stock, and Yet 80 distinc
enc of them 50 peculiar-that they de
velop different forms of civilization, an'
might be said 10 belong, almost, TO differ
er: types of mankind. But the boundary
of these two races is not at all marked
by the line which divides the slaveho!dinE
from the no-Slaveholding States If rac'
is to be the geographical limit OF diSunion
then Mason ani Dixcn's can never be th
line
Next, sir: DO not the causes which, i
the beginning, impelled 10 Union stl
exist in their utmost force and their eS
tent What were thcyE
First. the common deccnl-and there
fore consanguinity-of thc great mass {
the people. Had the Canadas been SCI
, tied originally by The English, they woui
, doubtless have followed the tortungs I
, the thirteen colonies. Next comno
: language, one of the strongest hgamen
I which bind a people. Had we been COZ
=, tiruous TO Great Britain, either the caus
which led TO a separation wouid ha,
never existed, or else been speedily r
, moved or. afterwards, we would loI
since have been reunited rs equals al
;. all the rights Of Engiishmon And aic'
= with these were similar. at least Il
! essentially dissimilar. manners. habit
- laws. religion, and institutions of :all kln'
- except one The common defence ~
> another powerful incentive. and Is nam
! IN in. Constitution a. onc among ihe "
- ircts Of iiis. =. more p'rieci Jnirn