Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-04

tleaan nom Maine. tMr Pike. at the last sea
: on sbe the trinity OF our salvation Sit, thcy
have become the trinity of your deep dsmaatien.
TIE war for the Union u. IN your hands, = most
bloody and costly failure. The Prcsteid con
fessed Il on the 23i Of September, ,.,iernDly. OH
caliy, and ander the broad seal Of the Unittd
States And he has nov repeated the confession.
The priests and rabbis of Abolition taught him
that God would not prosper such a cause War
FOE the Union abandoned; war for the negro
openly begun. and Nth stronger battaliOns than
before With what SUGGEST Let the dead at
Fredericksburg and vicksburg answer.
And NV, sir, can this war continueF whence
the money 20 carry Il ont Where the meny Can
you borrowf From whomf Can you tax more!
Will the people bear IL! Wait till you have col
lected what j. already levied How many millions
more Of illegal tender'-to day forty one per
cent below the par Of gold-can you hoatl VIII
men enlist now at any pficer All, SIR, u Is easier
to die at home-1 beg pardon; but trust am
not "discouraging enlistments. III am, then
first arrest Lincoln. Stanton and Halieck, and
some of your other Generals. aud will retract;
yes, / will recant. But can you draft agsiny
Ask New England-New York Ask Massa-
chusetts. Where the nine hundred thousaDdl
Ask not Ohio--the Northwest. She thought you
were in earnest and gave you ALL all-more than
you demanded.
.'The wife whose babe frs, smiled that day,
The fair. fond bride Of yester eve,
And aged sire and matron gray.
Saw the loved warriors ha>ta away,
Aud deemed II lin to grieve."
Sir in blood she has atOned for her credulity
and now there is mourning in every house, and
distress and sadness in every heart Shall she
give you any morer
But ought this war to continue? | answer no
not a day. not an hour. What thenl Shall we
separate7 Again answer no, no. no, And now.
sir. come TO the grandest and most solemn prob
lem of states manship from the beginning of time;
and to the God Of Heaven, Hummer OF hearts
and minds. | would humbly appeal Tor some meas
ure at least. Of light and wisdom and strength to
explore and reveal the dark but possible future OF
this land.
CAN THE UNION or THESE STATES BE REsToREDr
HOW SHALL 1T DONE?
And why notg Is il historically impossibler
Sir. the frequent civil wars and conflicts betw
the States of Greece did not prevent their cordial
union 10 resist the Persian Invasion: nor did even
the thirty wears Peloponnesian war, sprnging, in
part, from the abduction of slaves, and embttered
and disastrous as il was-let Thucyddes speak
wholly destroy the fellowship of those States
The wise Romans ended the three years social
war; after many bloo'y battles. and much atroc-
ity. by admitting the States of Italy TO all the
rights and privileges Of Romin ctizenshp-the
very object To which these States had taken
up arms The border wars between Scotland and
England, running through centuries, did not pre-
vent the final union. IN peace and by adjustment,
of the two kingdoms under one monarch Com
promise did at last what ages Of coercion and at
tempted conquest had failed TO effect England
kept the crown, while Scotland gave the king TO
wear il; and the memories of Wallace and the
Bruce az 3tnnockburn, became part OF the glo-
rie> OF British history. pass by the union of
Ireland with England union of force, which
God and just abhor; and Yet precisely 1.-The
Union it should be" of the Abolitionists OF
America. SIR the rivalres Of the houses of York
aud Lancaster fillel ali England with cruelty and
slaughter; vet compromise and intermarrage
ended the strife ut last. and the white rose and
the red blended in one. Who dreamed a
month after the death OF Cromwell that in two
years the people of England. after twenty years
OF civil war and usurpation, would, with great
unanimity, restore the house OF Stewart in the
person of its most worthless prince whose father.
bu' eleven years before. they had beheaded? Aud
who could have foretold in the beginning of
1912. that within some three We r.. Napoleon
would be an exile upon desert island, and the
Bourbons restored? Armed foreign intervention
did il; but il is strange history. Or who then
expected TO see nephew of Napoleon, thirty. FIVE
years later, with the consent of the people, sup
plan, the Bourbon and reign Emperor OF France?
Sir, many States and people. once separate, have
become united In The course of ages through nat
ura causes and without conquest; but | remem-
Der u single instance only in history of States or
people once united. and speaking the same Ian
guage, who have been forced permanently asunder
by civil strife war, unless they were separated
by distance or vast ratural boundaries The Sc
cession of the Ten Tribes is the exception; these
pirted without actual war; and their subsequent
history is not encouraging TO Secession. But
when Moses, the greatest OF all statesmen. would
Il.
the Hebrews. he left Egypt and established his
people in distant country. In modern times.
the Netherlands. three centuries ago. won their
independence 10y the sword; but France and the
English Ch'nne separated them from Spain.
So did the Thirteen Colonies; but the Atlantic
Ocels divorced US fIom Englasd So did Mexico
and other Spanish Colonies in America but the
same ocean divided them from Spain. Cuba and
the Canadas still adhere to the parent Govern
ment. And who now, North or South. i'll Europe
or America, looking into history. shall presump
tuously say that because OF civil war the reunion
OF these States i impossbei War. indeed. while
il lasts. il dsunion: aud if il lasts long enough,
will be final. eternal separation first, and anarchy
ami de-poiism If c ward Hence would hasten
peace nov, so day. 10y every honorable appliance
Are there physical which render reunion i'm
practicable, None. Where other do control
rivers nitc but mountains deserts and great bodies Of
waier-oceaai a sSocid5ass-Sepa,a ate PEOPLE. Vast
veiy widely or wholly, from Canada though we speak
the same language and similar i'm and
Institutions Our chief navigabe rivers from north
10 south Most OF bays and of the the
same direction. Natural all tend unou except
as between the Pacific coast and the country east of the
Rocky Mountains TO the Atlantic. II i manifest desti-
ny Union is enpire. Hence, hitherto, have
tinuay extended territory, aId the Union with
south and west The Louisiana purchase, Florida and
Texas all il. We passed desert and forest and
scaled the Rocky Mount +in- extend the Union TO
the Pacific. Sir there is natural boundary between
the North and the South, and line Latitude upon
which 10 separate. and II ever line OF lonsn e shall be
established, " viii be Of the Mississippi Valley The
Aeghanes are no longer barrier. Highways ascend
them everywhere. and the railroad climbs their
ms and spans their ohasm peneirate their rockies
sides The electric &c egraph follows, and stretching it,
connecting wires along the clouds there mnges its vocal
hghtuings with the fires OF heaven.
But disunonists in the East will force separation
any OF these State and boundary line, purely
Onal is at last TO be marked it must and it will be
either from Lake Erie upon the shortest line the Ohio
river, or from Manhattan 20 the Canadss.
And now. sir. j. there any difference OF here so
radical e. forbid reunion, do refer 10 the
race styled now uncous official phrase. by the Presi
dent, "Amrricans Of AZ lean descent" Certainly sir
there two hitv in the United States both from
the common stock and YET di~tinct"ne Of them
pecuiarthat they develop different forms Of CIV liza
ton. and sit belong. ames, 10 different types Of man
marked by the line which divides the s!avehc,ng from
the ncn-slayehOldng States II j. 10 he the geo
graphical limit Of disuaon then Mason aud Dxons
never b, the line.
Next. sir. do not the causes which. ia the be
ginning, muellel To union. still exist in their ut
most force and extentf What were they?
First. the c. mmon de>cent-and therefore con-
sangunty- of the gres, mass ut the people from
the Anglo Saxon stock Had the Cluadss been