The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-02-04

prevent their cordial unioi to resist the Per
si2n invasion !; nor did even the thirty years
i Peloponnesian war, springing, in part, from
the abduction Of slave, and embitte-cd
and disastrous as it was-let Thucididcs speak
wholly destroy the feilovship OF those States
The wise Romans tnded threa years social war
after many bloody battles, and much atroeity,
y by admitting tie States af Italy to-aH the
rights and pririfegcso of Roman citizepshiP-
-tktAe-rery object to secure which these States
Il mad taken up Thc bordey-Hars hetWren
u Scotaznd and Eng land, rupzs Though cen
turtles, did not prevent the final union; 10 peaeS
and by adj ustment, of theStNo ki-gdoms un-
der one monarch Compromise did at last
what ages of coercion and attempted conquest
had failed to effect. England kept the crown,
while Scotland gave the king TO wear it; and
the memories of Wallace aud the Bruce of
Baanockbuin, became part of the giories of
British history I pass by the union of Ire
lani with England--a union of force, which
God and just mon abhor; aud yet precisely
s'the Union as it.should bee Of the abolition
| lists of America. Sir, the rivalries of the hou-
ses of York and Lancaster filed all England
with cruelty and slaughter yet compromise
and intermarriagn ended the strife at last and
/ tho white rose and the red were blended in
one. Who dreamed moath before the death
OF Cromwell that in two pears the people of
England, after twenty years Of civil war and
usurpation, would with great unanimity, re-
store the house of Stewart infthe person Of rs
me st worthl IS prince, whose father but eiev-
en- years before they had beheaded Z And
who could have forctold in the beginning of
1912, that within some three years, Napoleon
would be in exile upon q desert island, and
the Burbons restored? Armed foreign inter-
vention did it but it is strange history
Or who then expected to sec nephew of Ma.
poleon, thirty i've years later, with the consent
of the people, supplant the BuIbon and reign
Emperor of France? Sir, many States and
| people, once separate, htvc become united in
| the course of ages through natural causes and
without conquest /; but remember o single
instance only in history, of States or people
once united, and speaking The same language,
who have been forced permanently asuDder
| by civil strife war, unless they were sepa-
ted by dista.ce vast natural boundaries.
Thc secession of the Ten Tribes is the excep-
tion these parted without actual war /; and
their subsequent history is not encouraging to
secession. But when Moses, the greatest of
all statesmen, would secure distinct nation.
ality and government to the Hebrews, he left
Egypt and establish, d his people in a distant
country. In modern times the Netherlands,
three centuries ago, won their independer ce
by the sword but France and the English
Channel separated them from Spain. So did
our Thirteen Go1oifess sIr the tiutia sa4as>1a-
divorced from England. So did Mexico,
and otIer Spanish colonies in America but
the same oo can divided them from ST an. Gu
ba and the Canadas still adhere to the parent
Government. And who now, North or South,
in Europe or America, looking into history,
shall presumptuously say that because of civil
war the reunion of these States is impossible
War, indeed, while it lasts, is disunion and
if it lasts long enough, will be final, eternal
separation first, and anarchy and despotism af-
terward Hence would hostcn peace now
to-day, by every honorable appliance.
A--- tsincre physical csus which render ss
union imprac.icable Mono. Where other
causes do not control, rivers unite but noun
tains, deserts, and great bodies of water
aceani acknowledgements people. Vast
forests originally, and the lakes now, also di-
vide us-not very widely OF wholly-from the
Canadas, though we speak the same language,
and are similar in manners, laws, and institu-
tions. Our chief nayigable rivers run from
North to South. Most of our bays ard arms
of the sea take the same direction. So do our
ranges of mountains. Natural causes all tend
to Union, except as between tie Pacific coast
and the country east of the Rocky mountains
to the Atlantic. 1t is manifest destiny"
UEiep is empire. Hence, hitherto we have
continually extended our territory, and the
Union With it, South and West. The Louis
lana purchase, Florida, and Texas all attest it.
We passed desert and forest, and scaled even
the Rocky mountains, to extend the Union
to the Pacific. Sir, there is no natural be un-
Diary between the North and the South, and
no line of latitude upon which to separate
and if ever line Of longitude shall be estab
lished, it will be east of the Mississippi val
ley. The Alleghanies are no longer bar
rier. Highways ascend them everywhere, and
the railroad now climbs their SUBMITS and
al n1,. -
lest sides. The electric telegraph follows,
and, stretching its connecting wires along the
clouds, there mingles its vocal lightpings with
the fires of heaven, ST.
But if disunionists in the East viii force 4
separation of any of these States, and bonn
daryl purely conventional, is at last tn be
mar ked out, it must and it will be either from
Lake Eric on the shortest line to the Ohio
river, or from Manhattan to the Canadas.
And, nov, sir, is there any difference of
race here, SO radical as to forbid reunion 1
do not refer to tho cnegro race, styled now, in
unctuous official phrase by the President, "A-
mericans of African DESCENT" Certainly, sir,
there are two white races in the-United States,
both from the same common stock, and yet so
distinct-one of them SO peculiar-that they
develop different forms of civilization, and
might belong, almost, to different typos o.
mankind. But the boundary of these two
races is not at all marked by the line which
divides the slaveholding from. the non-slave-
holding States. If race is to be the geograph :.
ical limit of disunicn, then Mason and Dixon's
can never be the line
+ Next, sir, do not the causes which, in the
beginning, iDpelled to Union still exist in
their utmost forco and extent? What were
they
First, tho common descent and therefore
consanguinity-of the great mass of the peo-
pie from the Anglo. Saxon. stock. Had the
Canades been settled originally by the En-
glish, they would doubtless haye followed the
fortunes eof the thirteen colonies Next,
common lapeuage, one Of the strongest of the
lgamehts which bind people Had we
been contiguous to Great Britain either the
causes which led tc a separatiop would have
never existed, or else been speedily removed :;