The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-11-21
.THRoueHour the entire Northwest there

aTHRoueHour the entire Northwest there
is perfect unanimity of sentiment,
words in Moore's Record Of the Rebellion
under the date of May l, 1861; and We
might fortity them by columns of citations
going to the same point. But this unaniml
ty had an exponent in STEPHEN A. DOUG
Las. who, ON this day addressed an immense
sssemblage at Chicago, in which he spoke
of the magnificent ovation as expressing
adeyotion to the Union, the Constitution
and the Flag of our country" Then thu
Republicans solemnly avered that the wa
sbould be one to restore the national au'
thority; and the Democracy Of the North
vest. to a man almost, rallied round the
fac. 7"Thank God" Senator DOUGLAS sale
in his noble speech, "it is not divided or
this question" This declared object oil the
war made the unanimity.
Let ma be more particular as to the posi-
Stion Of the Democracy of the Northwest
we cannot" DOUGLAS said, "recognize Sc
csssion. Recognize it once, and you have
not only destroyed social order, upturned
the foundations of society. You have In
.ugurated anarchy in its worst form, and
will shortly experience all the horrors ofthe
French Revolution" Men calling them
selves Democrats and recognizing secession
Where is there line of the accepted creed
of the party recognizing secession? Is it in
the great ninety eight resolutions? None
were more opposed to secession that Jeffer-
son and Madison, the trainers of these reso-
lutions; and did not the Democratic press,
with the Richmond Enquirer at its head,
Tor two whole administrations, hold up Sc
csssion as but another name for treason to
the country? In 1861, Senator DOUGLAS
expressed as solidly the voice of the modern
Democracy of the Northwest against seces-
sion, as the Richmond Enquirer did the
voice of the early Democracy, when the
heresy first dawned in New England. And
to-day, every voice from the Democracy oil
the Northwest is just as firmly set against
secession, as it was in 1861. Therefore its
position is not changed on this head.
Nor have the Democracy of the Northwest
allowed the terrible pressure of the radical
set to surge them on to the suicidal bnsl-
ness of making this revolutionary war; OF
invoking ssrvile insurreotion; of going out
from the Constitution and into centraiza-
ton. They stand to-day where they stood
10 1861, if language amounts to anything;
and the Democracy say what they mean
and mean what they say. They stand in
solid phalanx for the Constitution and TIE
country with no idea of leaving any portion
of il to the cold chill of Secession and dis.
union. The Government must be main
tanned and its enemies overwhelmed" were
the words OF DOUGLAS in this speech; and
the Democracy OF the Northwest are say
ing this now in every form; are giving men
and money for this, without stint or measure.
But the Democracy, Of to-day, also protest
against negro equality, against making this
a negro war, against making Alb 'lition first,
and the Union, the Constitution and Flag;
secondary. Senator DOUGLAS, speaking the
voice of the Northwest in 1861; said-"We
must remember certain restraints on our
action even in time of war. We are
Christian people. and the war must be prose-
cuted in a manner recognized by Christian
nations. We must not invade Constitu-
tional rights The innocent must not sui
fer, nor women and children by the victims.
Savages must not be let loose" His clos
NO words were-"Illinois had proud po-
firm, determined never to
permit the Government to be destroyed"
The Democr of Illinois occupy this
proud position to day. 1t is the position
of the Democracy of the Northwest They
noblv refuse to start from 1t III order to
follow the suicidal set into the abolition
crusades.
In this they stand shoulder to shoulder
With the conservative phalanx in
every State, in Kentucky as we'll as Mas
sachusetts, in Missouri as well as New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. They
desire peace, but not on the basis of di
Sided country. The peace they yearn for
Is one that shall be restoration Of all the
sections of our country to their old pros
perity and the complete triumph of the
SUPREME Law.