New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1863-02-27

10 speak with decisive voice on this
great occasion.
Thare are also in this House gentle
men whose words on this momentous
theme the country will listen to with
intense interest. The honorable men,
Der from Pennsylvania, (Mr. Thaddeus
Stevens one Of the truly great men Of
America--ful! of learning and wisdom
tried by long years Of ardious service
in this cause, who has never faltered,
and is now reelected in his district by
overwhelming numbers, stand foremost
among those of whom tho nation will
expect deliverance from the dangers
which encompass it.-Let these men,
and such as these, speak. and tell tho
country what to do in this hour oftrans.
cendent peril.
Nevertheless, l cannot refrain from
expressing my individual opinion that
the true policy of the North is to term
mate this war at once. The longer it
continues, the worse our situation be.
comes Let the two Houses of Congress
adopt the following resolutions:
Resolued by the Senate and House
Of Representatives, &C., That the Ex-
ecutive be, and he is hereby requested
to issue general order to all comman-
ders of forces in the several military
departments Of the United States to
discontinue offensive operations against
the enemy, and to act for the future
entirely on the defensive.
Resolved, That tho exccutiref,c, and
he is further requested tc enter into
negotiations with the authorities of the
Confederate States with reference to
cessa ton of hostilitics, based on the fol-
lowing proposition: /. Recognition of
The independence of the Confederate
Staes. 2. A trade between the two
States. 8. Free navigation Of the Miss.
ssippi river. 4, Mutual adoption of
the Monroe doctrine.
CAN WE LIVE TOGETHER.
I certainly disagree with those who
asaert that it is impossible that tho
North and South could live peacibly
side by side, because there are no nat.
ural boundaries between the two. such
as the Rocky Mountains or the Atlantic
Ocean. This is bugbear with which
we impose upon ourselves. The people
If the North and South can never be-
come forei0n nations to each other in
the sense IN which the French and
English or Russians are.-They arc
sprung from the same origin, speak the
language, possess a common literature.
inherit similar politics and religious
views, and inhabit regions closely con-
nected 'y natural and artificial ties. They
will, therefore, both be always Ameri
can. The only difference between them
is Of a social and political nature, namely
that which arises from tie existence Of
African slavery in ono, and it's absence
in the other.
This fact however, offers no obstacle
whatever to such q separation as is in
volved ia independent political jurisdic-
tions; ON the contrary, it greatly facili-
ates it.
Before the Federal Union was estab-
lished all the States were independent,
and associated under Articles ofConfed-
Grafton, in the nature of q treaty. The
arguments now adduced to show the i'm
practieability of present separation be-
tween the North and South, go with
equal force to prove the impossibility
of what then actually existed and was
accepted in the case Of the thirteen orig
nal States of the Union. The latter
stood toward each other precisely as
the North and South would stand, should
they sop the war and enter into treaty.
It wonld simply be resolving the North
and South into confederate States, re-
su,ning, US to them, the old basis Of tho
Confederation. This would be the
whole of it. It is therefore very sim.
pie operation.
d, not suggest this, however, on
the idea that should it ever be adopted,
the separation it implies would insure
an ultimate reunion on an anti-slavory