The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-01-02

ss So long he the e'stes were at
peace, 60 long We enjosed the great
est meseufe Of prosperity ever me-
ted out to. q people. NJ country
under heaven can exhibit 80 mighty
4 record ot progress; no people bad
ever fhsde so rapid sudies towardsI
bower as we. Commencing with
but 5000 600, in less than a century
80 600 600 found protection undu
our flag. With resources not yet
fairly commenced upor; with bund
seds Of millions of lands not yet
occupied, with thousands OF mines
not yet opened; with rivers not yet
explored; there was every hope III I
dn ing the next century we would
progress at rate compared with
which, our advance in the lsst W iuld
be but snsils pace. We w,rs sud
denly interrupted in our career In
one portion Of the Union all enter
Prise, all Improvement is stopped.
and the other is sinking into per 'ect
barbarism. We have in th,
North, thus far, escaped the peiis
and Losses OF war. While Improve
ynent has been checked to great
degree. we have escaped the more
terrible evils incident to civil con-
vulsions. The war has been distant
from US. We have lost men =. we
have expended money--but no wo
men or children have died OF star, o
ton and cold, and our E rms have
not been ruinc1 by the destroying
tread OF armies, nor has the torch o.
an incendiary foe destroyed our
workshops. Every branch Of busi
ness is going on as It did before
cramped and confined in instances,
but still going on.
It is different in the South. An
ARMY is worse than the locust, worse
than pestilence, and is a famine.
Wherever it passes, it lesves lie
track OF desolation b.hini. Ken
tacky, one Of the most prosperous
o; the states, is now almost a desert
A hundred years Of toll will no,
place Virginia where che was two
years ago. Tennessee is ruined
Missouri nearly 30. Louisiana ha,
retrograded century, and so on
through the whole dismal list. II il
war that has wrought this direful
change, war that ha, devastated fail
fields and destroyed pleasant home
steads w.r that holds the oos'lies,
and grandest structures as no'li,s,
that in o year has destroyed the toi
pf o century.
Do our farmers, merchants anc
mechanics want Ohio in tho same
situation that Tennessee now is?-
Do they want to be one day q. TIE
mercy OF the marauders of one party
and the next of annothers DO they
desire their towns laid in sshes
their fields made barren. their bousel
occupied by s'ldiery, their bridge
burned, their railroads torn up; il
short do the want misery, waste anc
we to take the place OF the thrift
and prosperity that now cheers tn,
eye upon every side.
So sure as the Copperhead le2 der
carry out their schemes, go sure vii
the fate Of Tennessee be onrs Th
government pnce desiroye The worl
pf secession vii! not stop with on,
division. New complications vii
arise, different sections will conflict
and in theplace Of one benc6cen
government, we shall have as man
as there are states. Interminahls war
will be the natural result, and OH
prosperity is gone, the accumulate
wealth OF century melts like
dream, and anarchy worse than eve
daspotism, takes The place of tn
mild rule under which we live.
Onr future depends entirely upo
ourselves. II the people Of tn
North, give the cpvernmt Mt the
b pnited snpport, the rebellion can an
will be ppt down, and order ono
more restored. If, on the other han
the traitors in the North fuccee
IN their work oiiividing the peopl'
u must be successfpl. Let the pee
pie II they love their homes, II the
love their country, n they wopl
have liberty instead of despotisn
security in place Of anarchy, peat
in place of war, tnrD dcai car