Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-08

nMast We Recognize The Independence of
the Southern States y That wasthe question
put to US, afew days ago, by a prominent law
yer Of this city and . shining light ~ the
Black Rephblican party. HB abilhy IN sitting
and accepting Of evidence, had convinced him,
ut length, that Lincoln's and Stewards War
was done up. He otuned his surprised and
unwilling conviction that 4idobIn aud his
whole 0dbinent we're imbeciles. We we're on
record, in our own columns, to the same par
pose, long ago. SO soon as they tried It, we
said they could never "rtn" the Federal Gov
eminent. When they tried icur, we said they
could not manage the sOar, When the war
began TO show signs OF exhaustion, 1weas said
they could not bring about peace, except on
terms and in a way too disgraceinl for our
NortheFn States TO- accept What. wasl Inst
year, prediction, is now history
Are we in favor of recognizing the "inde-
pendenee Of the Southern States p We we're,
from infancy, Je6srsonidn Democrats We
are, therefore, in favor OF the independence
of all States. We are, for the independence
OF Ireland, Of Scotland, Of Poland, Of Hun
gary, Of Lombardy, Of Naples,
We are educated TO believe that all the
States of the old Unions were free and ipdsi.
pendent States The English Government,
at the close of the war of Independence, rec
OBuANcQ CuCW OFtC Vi tnC Otu AuiibcChi sNNOt
ally and by name, as an, independent State.
Each one Of them so considered itself-though
Yankees are too ignorant of the history, even
of their own country, to know that such was
the fact The Untop that was protected, in
1881, was accepted by each State as a SoUer-
eignsg la, dslegeting and conceding certain
accurately defined sovereign powers~ TO the
Federal Union, each and every State reserped
to itself, and to its people, the whole residue
Of underlined and ungranted-inaliendble SOW
e%reignty. There is our answerf We have
never supposed the Southern States, or the
NortheR States, or any one Of either OF them,
to be otherwise than independent. The Union
was a voluntary Union. So it tohad continue,
or else it had, by reUotHtion, to be changed in
to- some other9hipg mot the Union, end NOT
provided for by the Constitution that made
and constituted the Union. Iu We argued, q
year and a half ago, that Secession was Rep
luton. 1t was not a Constitutions right, aud
it was madness to suppose that it could be per.
manent, and yet be bloodlessS Therefore we
opposed it, and with a force that no Black
Republican paper ever e~qualled.
We. opposed the, sicaf0 against Secession,
Thank God, we did sos ave saw then, nas
clearly as now, that loar could not Wevent
Secession, but that it would, 10 the extent to
which it could go, perpetudfe Disunfon The
weak, bad members of Lincoln Cabinet either
saw the same, or else they were political IDIOTS.
What is to be done then Are VIZ now to
recognize the independence ofahe LSohthern
States2 They are independent, whether Ue
recognize them or not They are so in giabo,
by the very Constitution of the old Unioh.&
They are so, in facial except loyal Mary
land, loyal Missouri, and loyal Kentucky
If the British were totake and hold New York
eiI,g IL uynuld mot dastrpv tho fact nf tho in
dependence of the State of New York. They
are harrassed. They suffer intolerable evils.
But, they are Independent Stdtes--those
States Of the South.
. Wa has not robbed them Of their indepen-
denee. War ioiLt not, GaRnot rob them Of il.
1t cannot rob them even Of their negroes. 1H'
Is it not time to recognize, at length, the
impoteucy of the Federal Government to do
what il has no authority to do ? Were the
administration indeed taking care of its ctti-
Gems, and not exclusively of negroes who cam
not be its citizens, a solution of the problem
would be eaPy. 7' on
Peace PEACE PEACE We cry, by the
Holy Name of Him who at this Christmas
time, was heralded by Angels as bringing
peace to men Of good wild 'vigg .aDuf
oh, stop this horrid b1tchery of Americans
by Americans Stop this food of woe and
desolation, by which this land is becoming
most desolate Hare you accomplished any
thing2 Did we not Grew you sol II
you are so blind as not to. see, you oHghtto
trust those who have proved they can see
Stop this war; Wicked and foolish men, you
are in despair at the prospect before you, and
yet you dare, as if you were fully sold to the
demon, to cry cut still l''slay stay more
blood more carnagel"
Call a truosl Let US pat OF the yepewal Of
the contest If il hustibe renewed, TIL we
know for phat we are fighting, Let us put
il off till the vile cause Of it, The abominablt
thing, New England fanaticism and she mani
~pulation of New York rogues, has been pu.
out of the way Then, then ohlys we may
have not a truce only, but peace-Nei0 TorL
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