The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1863-02-11

NAL, practical recognition. And that Is
precisely what exists to-day, and has ex
listed, more or less defined, from the first; |
Flags of truce, exchange of prisoners,
and sall your other observances of the
laws, forms, and courtesies of war are acts
Of recognition. Sir, does any man doubt
to-daysthat there is confederate govern
msnt al Richmond, and that it is "bel-
ligerent?' Even the Secretary of State
has discovered it at last, though he has
written folios of polished rhetoric to prove
that it is not. Will continual war, then,
without extended and substantial success,
make the confederate States any the less
government in fact?
"But it confesses disunion." Yes, just
as the surgeon, who sets your fractured
limb in splints, in order that it may be
healed, admits that it is broken But the
Government will have failed to "crush out
the rebellion." Sir, it has failed. You
went to war to prove that we had a Gov
ernmeut With what RESULT To the peo-
pie of the loyal States it has, in your
hands, been the Government of King.
Stork, but to the confederate States, of
King Log. "But the rebellion will have
Etriumphed." Better triumph to-day than
ten wears hence But T denv.it The
rebellion mill At last he crushed ont in the
lnnIv way + wb;cb = evor ,vss noss;bIe
l"Rnt M ona will he bune AZ The end of
way,s Neither w;lf,tbere he thoneh the
war shonld last half a centnry excent by
lthe mob or tbc hand of arbitrarv mower
| Rntf reas;1 'ss;r ;f tbar. ;s ~ Ia M ba,,s.
mo let this administrator. and all who
fhays done its bidding eyerywhere. rejoice
and be- exceeding Glad.
And nov ~ s;r -; aIloxv ma !. w,,o,Srd nnon !.
s,h;aet ~ Vow rraat ;nt.rost - n; MO
nsss "a ,,a:t ?;,,,,sorta,,t.;, -. 49, ha - ~
f;nf3nanca s mon the S,tnre.fars;.n ,,. - media.
tt;on I sresL not If ARMED and hostile
;nt.rv.ont;an rb;sb wn,,Ia res;st .s Ions,
az Inf one ma WAS left ia str;k !, : bIow a3
! II ba;nvyss,d dar Rnt fr;ar, 5Iv me ation-tbe
1L;ndlv ofFar ofan n, ,na rt;al powers a. stand
~ . davs,oa3n between the contending mar
les :, III, ,,r,ost LIood,, and a,h.,,st;no
str;fa-onebt r. he met in . sn;r;t as cor,
Idial and sreI,tIv as that in which it is. .prof-
tfared It would be churlish to refuse
tCertainly it ia not consistent with the
former dignity of this Government to ask
ffor mediation: neither. sir, would it be fit
Its ancient macnanimity to reject it. AS
proposed by the Emperor of France, I
woubd accent it at once. Now is the aus
picious mement. It is the speediest, easi-
est, most graceful mode of suspending
hostilities. Let us hear no more ofthe
mediation of cannon and the sword
THE day for all that has gone by. Let US
Ibe statesman at last. Sir, give thanks
I that some. at least. among the Republican
/ party seem ready now to Iiftthemselyes up
| to the height of this great argument, and
/ to deal with it in the spirit ofthe patriots
and great men of other countries and ages
Land ofthe better days Of the United States
And now. sir, whatever NAV have been
the motives of England. France, and the
other great Powers OF. Europe, in with
holding recognition SO long fsom the con
lfederate States. the South and the North
fare both indebted to them for an immense
public service The South has proved
lier ability to maintain herself by her own
strength and resources, without foreign
aid, moral or material. And the North
and West-the whole country, indeed
these great Powers have served. d.incalcula-
4 pJ uoldiuS DaS oOiClhh
to the world that the Union Of these States
was finally and formally dissolved. They
have left to us every motive and every
chance for reunion; and if that has been
the purpose sof England especially--oul
rlIyal SO long; Interested more than any
other IN disunion and the consequent
weakening of our great naval and com
mercial power, and suffering, too, as she
has suffered, SO long and severely because
OF this war-I DO not hesitate to say that
she has performed an act ofunselfish hero
ism without example IN history. Was
such indeed her purpose! Let her answer
before the impartial tribunal of posterity
In any event, after the great reaction In
public sentiment IN the North and West
4 to be followed after some time bya lik5
reaction IN the South, foreign recognition
now OF the coiederatc States could avail
little to delay or prevent final reunion; if
as firmly believe, reunion be not only
possible but inevitable.
j Sir, have not spoken of foreign arbi
itration. That is quite another question