The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-02-13

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mercenary spirit of Judas, that she would
sell herself out to the rebels of Louisia.
M and Mississippi for the sake of a
market for her products Let the con.
ductof the Northwest answer the SLAM
der If she had sought her gain simply,
If she had looked only to profitable re-
turHs for the products of her fields, to
The prosperity of her great industrial in.
tereSts alone, according to the logic OF
the gentleman, she would long ago have
struck hands with the rebels, instead OF
sending out, as she has sent out, half a
million of the bravest and noblest of her
sons, who have, in this war, upheld your
banner with strong arm upon every
field of conflict west of the Alleghanies,
and in the East as we'll. If she had |
looked only to her pecuniary l,terest,
would she thus profusely have cast the
Jewels of her life, the coinage Of her
heart, into your treasury
Why, sir, the gentleman is deludiug
himself with wild dream. He seems
to fancy that his project for disunion, to
which before referred, will be accept
able to The West. l suppose that be
believes it. / wondered before what
possessed my colleague that he should
introduce such proposition. We now
haye clue to it. First he seeks, by a.
mending the Constitution, to legal
ize rebellion in the South, and enable
the rebel States, in arms by agreement
only among themselves to secede each
from the Union, and then, by appealing
to the cupidity and avarice of the free
] West, he hopes to induce them to fall
into the Southern rebel section by an act
of constitutional secession, effected only
by the consent Of "the section of the
, West" Out, sir, upon all such incip'
lent treason, ~ 't'f s..
: Now, sir, one word more, and then ]
: believe / have done with my reply to the
r remarkable speech of my colleague. Ht
G said that you cannot maintain this Union
y or the authority Of this Government, BY
force of arms; that you must do it BY
I compromise; and he undertakes to make
= this good by reference to some CAREFUL.
considered references to history. Their
Q is ore fact in the history Of the worlt
: which be has overlooked, and that is thl
great fact, that there is not single vel
y authenticated instance upon record of
Ie great Government, assailed by interna
If dissensions and armed rebellion, tina
,r submitted and surrendered to the rebel
lion and survived-not one. Yet tn
m gentleman would have us, in the light Q
III that great fact and warning of history
j. to lay down our arms, disband Our al
is mics, submit to the rebellion for the tim
ly being, and undertake to settle this grea
j controversy afterward in favor of reput
to lican institutions by compromise +!
that could be thus accomplished, an
he the integrity of the Constitution mali
I'D tanned, / am not free to say that l woul
nd wholly disregard the gentleman's SUI
al gestion; but, sir, l ask any man to poll
n me to a single instance of we'll authel
,r. ticated history where Government, a
p sailed by internal armed rebellion, su
ed mitted to the rebels in arms, and su
mi yived it, No Government can survive
in. base surrender of its own authority
Ids armed rebels. The rebels in that eve
on, become the Government.
'od Mr.. Speaker, know the effect of su
ins an appeal to the people of the countT
TO / know that the good people of this Ian
J TO who have given the first born of th
ngs homes for the defense of the Union o
in the Constitution and the suppression
you the rebellion, love their noble sons q
0 in cherish them as they do the apple
their eye. know that after their da
der work is done, in the quiettwilight of
nee evening they mourn over their abser
and the broken circle of their homes.
lark Hence it is that l would answer the 81
My gestion of my colleague, lest it n
the have some weight with the fathers 9
ring mothers of the land in inducing them
de- call back their sons from this holy "
the and thereby permit the Union and
llths Constitution to fall and be forever
sely to human vision. l beg them to
ions member that though by disbanding
New Army they may for the moment m
they whole again the golden circle of t
great homes, they may thereby lose to th
chill. selves and their children country.
llow- ask them to remember that beautiful
a his terance, than which none more beau
let of ever fell from human lips, of one of
alton dying fathers of the Republic, 81
Eng. NIT my spirit to God and my dang
Nv of to my country" How could he,
men could any man, die in peace leavinI
within child without country and Go
rob- ment to shelter and protect it whit
pro- was gone?
. pre- No, sir, there is something mort
these portant to be considered here Il
It, my than the question whether this Ii
them that life, even though it be the nj
,untry and most promising in the land,
Of the survive this war, and that questi
,mem- shall the Republic live immortal q
ich he the nations, and cover with the sc
by re- its protection your children and
nen or and all the children Of this land,
md by we ourselves shall be no more upc
Army earthY Yes, sir, the great quest
st will to-day is, shall the Republic live?
n and sacrifice of blood, any present loS
tleman of "this intellectual abeing,P ism
7ent of great to be made, if thereby W,
North maintain intact that Constitution
liant in our fathers gave US.
ly, for The conflicts of the Old World
them taught us other lessons than th
against which the gentleman referred.
and oil has its sacrifices it also has its tri