Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-23


unctious official phrase by the President
Americans Of African descent" Certainly
sir there are two white races in The United
States, both from tbe harie conitaoa stock,
and yet so distinct--one Of them so peculiar
that they develop didtkent forms Of civiiixa-
ton: and might belong almost, 60 different
types of mankind. But the BOUNDARY Of these
two races is not at ali marked By the line
which divides the slaveholding from the non.
slaveholding States. II the race is TO be the
geographical limit Of disuRion, then Mason
and Dixons can never be the line.
Next, SIR DO not the Causes which, in the
beginning, impelied TO union, ssin exist in
theit utmost force and extent ? What were
thew
First the common deseeut-and therefore
eonsaneuiniIy-of the great mass Of the peo-
pie from the Ang,o-Ssxon stock Had the
Canadas been settled originally BY the Eng-
lish, they would doubtless have followed the
fortunes OF the thirteen colonies Next, q
common language, one Of the strongest Of
the ligaments which bind people Had We
been contiguous to Great BEitian. either the
causes which led to the separation would have
never existed, or else been speedily removed
or, ailerward, We would long since have beeu
reunited as equals, and with all the rights ot
Englishmen Aud along with these we're sim
liar, at least not essentially dissimilar, man
Ders, habits laws, religion aud institutions of
all kinds, except one. The common defense
was another powerful incentive, and is named
in the Constitution as one among the objects
Of the more perfect Union" Of 1887. Stronger
yet than all these, perhaps, but made up Of
all of them, was a common interests Variety
of climate and soil and therefore OF produc.
tion, implying also extent Of country, is not
al. element of separation, but, added 10 con
tignity, becomes part of the ligament OF in
terest, and is one of its toughest strands
Variety Of production is the parent of the
earliest commerce and trade; and these, in
their full development are, as between foreign
nations, hostages for peace; and between
States and people united, they are the frmest
bonds of Union. But, after all, the strongest
of the many original impelling causes to the
Union, was the securing Of domestic tran
quilhty The statesmen Of 1887 well knew
that between thirteen Independent but con
tiguous States, without natural boundary
and with nothing to separate them except the
machinery of similar governments, there must
be perpetual in fact an "irrepressible con
1ict of jurisdiction and interest, which, there
being no other common arbter, could only be
terminated by the conflict of the sword And
the statesmen of 1862 ought to know that two
or more confederate governments, made up
OF similar States, having no natural boundary
either and separated only by different govern
meuts, can not endure long together in peace,
unless one or more of them be either too
pusillanimous for rivalry, or too insignificant
to provoke it, or too weak to resist aggres
sion.
a. al ussl Al 4
Justice, and the securing of the general vel
fare, and of the blessings Of liberty to them
selves and their posterity, made up the causes
and motives which impelled our fathers to the
Union at first
And now, sir what one of them is wanting {?
What one diminished? On the contrary,
many of them are stronger to-day than in the
beginning. Migration and -s
have strengthened the ties of
Commerce, trade and product
mensely multiplied. Cotton, aim
here in 1881, is now The chief pruuurt ana
export of the country 1t has set in motion
threeiOurths of the spindles Of New England
and given employment directly or remotely
to full half the shipping, trade and commerce
Of the United States More than that, cotton
has kept the peace between England aud
America for thirty years and had the people
o. o. lne North . oeeH as WISE ana practical as
,he s.A!esu1Gu M oI "rea' britain II wou,a nave
maintained m . oh,oh anu peace mere but we
are oe,ng auSnl' .n our nIst n.. century ana at
our a own COS. ane ,essons wn,ch EngIana learn
;at, odo 'os anu W. o'opuH eAPerience OF
,sn' nu"u'ep yeSrs ~, we 'ha'i oe wiser the
neH' .'u,e hes NO. eo',1n DC A'ng' ou' peace
"aSer, anu lnherlt merit. the oiesslng
"A AI e1TlnoA interest, men SUI remains to us
fLiu anu onl'n LOT common ueiehse' al me end