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

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souri, trampled under the feet of your soldiery
As well talk to me OF Ireland Sir, the desti-
ny Of those States must abide the issue of the
war. But Kentucky you may find tougher
And Maryland
"R'en in their ashes lived their wonted fires"
Nor will Delaware be found wanting in the
day of trial. li ..,.
But deny the doctrine 1t is full of dis.
union and civil war. 1t is disunion itself
Whoever frat taught it ought to be dealt with
aS not only hostile to the Union, but an enc
my Of the human race Sir, the fundamental
idea of Constitution is the perfect and eternal
compatibility of union of States, 'part slave
and part free else the Constitution never
would have been framed, nor the Union found
ed; and seventy years of successful expert.
ment have approved the wisdom of the plan
In my deliberate judgment, Confederacy
made up OF slayehOlding and non-slsve ehold-
ing States 49, in the nature of things, the
strongest of all popular governments Afri-
can slavery has been, and is, eminently con.
seryative. 1t makes the absolute political
equality of the white race every where prac-
ticable. II dispenses with the English order
Of nobility, and leaves every white man,
North and South, owning slaves, or owning
none, the equal Of every other white man. II
has reeonciled universal suffrage throughout
the free States with the stability of govern.
ment speak not now of its material bene-
fits to the North and West, which are many
and more obvious, But the South, too, has
profted many ways by union with the non.
slayeholding state4 Enterprise, industry,
self reliance, perseverance, and the other
hardy virtues Of people living in higher
latitude, and without hereditary servants, she
has learned or received from the North.
Sir, il is easy, know, to denounoe all this,
and to reyile him who utters it Be it so.
The English is, Of all languages the most CO.
| pious in words of bitterness and reproach.
A'Pour on will endure"
Then, sir there Is not an "irrepressible CON
tlict between slave labor and free labor.
There is no conflict at ALL Both exist togeth-
er in perfect harmony in the South. The
master and the slave, the white laborer and
the black, work together in the same field or
the same shop, and without the slightest sense
of degradation They are not equals, either
socially or politically. And why not, then,
cannot Ohio, having only free labor, live in
harmony with Kentucky, which has both slave
and free2 Above all, why cannot Massaehu.
sets allow the same right of choice to South
Carolina separated as they are thousand
miles, by other States who would keep the
peace and live in good will2 Why this civil
WARP Whence disunion2 Not from slavery
--not because the South chooses to have two
kinds Of labor instead nf lone; but from sec.
tionglisRl, slwAys and everywhere a disinte.
grating. principle, Sectional Jealousy and
hate-these, sir are the only elements of con.
fiiet between these States and, though pow
erful, they are not at all ifrepressible, fhey
texlst between families, communities, towns
cities, counties, and States; and ii not re
pressed would dissolve all society and Gov
eminent They exist also betwesn other sec
tuona thar. The North and South, SECTIONAL
lsm East, many years ago, saw the South and
West IqBted By ths tjes ptlgepgrRpheA posi-
tlonr migration, Iiptermarriage, aud interest
and thus strong enough to control the power
and policy Of the Union 1t found us divided