Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-02-05

again be surrendered by tn ir farmers {,
slave culture and the production OF slave,
and Boston dnl New York become Que
more markets for trade in the bodies an
souls OF men" If so, there is an end q
all Union and forever. You cannot abol
ish slavery by the sword; still less b,
proclanations, though the President wer
to proclaim every month. Of what pos
sible avail was his proclamation Of Sep
tember? Did the South submit? Wa
she even alarmed? And yet he has nov
Illuminated another "bull against the com
et."-brutum taimcn--and, throatcnn!
servle insurrccton with all its horrors,
has yet coolly appealed to the iudgmcn
OF mankind, and invoked the blessing o
the God Of peace and love But dccla
ring 1t military necessity, an essentia
measure OF war to subdue the rebels, yet
with an admirable wisdom, he expressl,
exempts from its operation the only State
in the South where he has the militar,
power TO execute it.
Neither, sir, can you abolish slavery
by argument. AS we'll attempt to abol
lsh marriage or the relation of paternity
! The South is resolved to maintain it a
every hazard, and by every sacrifice, and
/ If "this Union can not be endured part
slave and part frce," theiS it is already
and finally dissolved Talk not to me o
"Wcst Virginia" Tell inc not of Mis-
souli, trampled under the feet of youi
soldiery. AS well talk to me OF Ireland
Sir, the destiny OF those States must abd,
the issue of the war. But Kcntuky yor
may find tougher aud Maryland
"E'cn in their ashes lived their wontcd fires +"
Nor Will Delaware be found wanting in
the day of trial.
But deny the doctrine. 1t is full OF
disunion and civil war. 1t is disunion
itself. Whoever first taught it ought to
be dealt with as not only hostile to the
Union, but an enemy of the human race.
Sir, the fundamental idea of the Consiitu
ton is the perfect and eternal compalibiIi.
ty ola 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 cXpe-
rlment have approved the wisdom of the
plan. In my deliberate Judgment, a con-
icderacy made up Of slaycholding and
non-slaveholdiug States is, in the nature
OF things, the strongest of all popular gov
crnmants. African slavery has been, and
Is, cmncntly conservatives. 1t makes the
absolute political equality Of the whiteIacc
cvcry-wEcre practicable. II dispcpses
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. 1t has recon.
ciIed universal suffrage throughout the
free States with the stability of govern.
mcnt. speak not Of its material bene
fits to the North and West, which are
many and more obvious. But the South
too, has prolitcl many ways by union
with the non-oaveholdug States. Enter
prise, industry, sclf,rcliance. perseverance
aud the other hardy virtues OF a people
living in higher latitude, and without
hereditary servants, She has learned o re-
ceiycd from the North. Sir, it is easy,
know, to deHounce all this, and to rovie
him who utters it. BE it SO. The Eng.
Iish, isof all language, the most copious
in words OF bitterness aud reapproach.-
"Pour on: | will endure"
Then, sir, there is not an "irrepressible
conflict between slave labor and free J.,
bor. There is no conflict al all Both
exist together in perfect harmony in the
South. The master and the slave, the
white laborer and the black, work TO-
gether in the same field or the same shop.
without the slightest sense of degradation.
They are not equals, either socially or
politically. Aud why not, then, cannot
Ohio, having only free labor, live in har.
mony with Kentucky, which has both
slave and free? Above all, why cannot
allow the same right of
choice to South Carolina, separated as
they are, n Thousand miles, by other States
who would keep the peace and live in
good will Why this civil war? Whence
dlsunlun? Not from slavcry-uot he.
cause the South chooses to have two
kinds of labor instead Of one but from
Sect'onolism, always and everywhere dis
rntcgraling principle, Sectional jealousy
and hate--Ihcse, sir, are he only elements
81 conflict between these States, and,
though powerful, they are not at all ire
preSsluIe, They exist between families,
communities. towns, cities, counties, and
States and if not rcplcSscd would dis
solve all society and government. They
exist also between other sections than
the North and South. Sectionalism
Last, many years ago, saw the South
anu West united by the ties OF gcogroph- .