Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-24

and tree to grow again upon the hundred bat.
tle-iields of this terrible war
nBut this is recognition" tits not formal
recognition, 10 which will not consent Re-
cognidon now, and attempted permanent trea-
ties about boundary, traTsl, and trade, and
partition Of Territoties, would end in a war
iercer aud more disastrous thdnbefore Re.
cognition Is, absolute disunion and not be-
tween the slave and the free States but with
Delaware and Maryland as-paFtefthe5 5NeFtb,
aud Kentucky and Missouri part of the West.
But, wherever the actual line; every evil and
mischief of disunion 10 implied in it. And
Tor similar reasons, sir, would not, at this
time, press hastily Convention Of the States
The men who would noW hold sestsin sueh,a
Convention would, ,npon both sides, ifSbeth
agreed to attend, come together full Of the
hate and bitterness inseparable from civil war
No, sir; let passion, have time TO cool and
reason to resume It's sway. " Cost thirty
years of desperate and most wicked patience
and industry to destroy or impair the magni6-
cent temple OF this Union. Let US be con
tent if, within three years, We shall be able to
restore it.
practical recognition. And that is precisely
less defined, from the 6rst Flags of truce,
exchange of prisoners, and all your other
observances of the laws, forms and courtesies
of war, are acts of recognition. Sir, does
any man doubt to-day that there is Confed-
crate Government at Richmond, and that it
is "belhgerentP' Even the Secretaryof State
has discovered it at last, though he has writ
ten ponderous folios Of polished rhetoric to
prove that it is not Will continual war then,
without extended and substantial success
make the Confederate States any the less
government in fact2
But it confesses disuniong Yes, Just as
the surgeon, who sets your fractured limb in
splnts, in order that it may be healed, admits
that it is broken. But the Government viii
have failed to crush out the rebellion Sir,
| it has failed You went to war to prove that
we had a Government With what result2-
To the people of the loyal States it has, in
your hands, been the Government of King
Stork, butto the Confederate States, of King
Long. But the rebellion will have triumph
ed Better triumph to-day than ten years
hence But deny it The rebellion will at
last be crushed out in the only way In which
it was ever possible "Bnt no one willbe hang
at the end of the war; Neither will there
be, though the war should last half a century,
except by the mob or the hand of arbitrary
power. But really, sir, if there is to be no
hanging, let this Administration, and all who
have done its bidding everywhere, rejoice and
be exceeding glad
And now, sir, allow me word upon sub
ject of very great interest at this moment, and
most important it may be in its influence upon
the future-foreign mediation. l speak not
Of armed and hostile intervention, which /
would resist as long as but one man was left
to strike a blow at the invader But friendly
mediation, the kindly offer of an impartial
power to stand as q daysman between the
contendlng parties in this most bloody and
exhausting strife, ought to be met in a spirit
as cordial and ready as that in which it is
proffered. II would be churlish to refase.- -
Certainly, it is not consistent with the former
dignity of this Government to ask for media.
ton; neither, sir, would it beft its ancient
magnanimity to reject it. AS proposed by
the Emperor of France, would accept it at
once. Now is the auspicious moment. 1t is
the speedest, easiest, most graceful mode OF
suspending hostilities Let US hear no more
OF the mediation Of cannon and the sWord.--
The day for all that has gone by Let us be
statesmen at last. Sir, give thanks that
some, at least, among the Republican party
hight of this great argument and to deal with
it in the spirit OF the patriots and public men
of other countries, and of the better days OF
the United States s .. .a.....7 -.
| And now, sir, whatever may have been the
motives of England, France and the other
great powers of Europe, in Withholding re.
cognition so long from the Confederate States
the South and the North are both indebted to
them for great public service The South
has proved her abilityto maintain herself by
her own strength and resources, without
foreign aid, moral or material Aud the
North and the West--the whole country, in
deed--these great powers have served in.
Icalculably by holding back solemn proclama
ton to the world that the union of these States
was finally and formally dissolved TheJ
have left to us every motive aud every chance
for reunion; and il that has been the purpose
Of England especially-our rival 50 long, IN
terested more than any other in disuhion anC
the consequent weakening Of our great nava
and commercial power, and suffering, too, Al
she has suffered, so long and severely, because
OF this war--I do not hesitate to say that she
has performed an act Of unselGsh heroisn
without example in history. Was such indeed
her purpose2 Let her answer before the
impartial tribunal of posterity. In any event
after the great reaction in public sentimen
in the North and West to be followed atte
some time by like reaction in the South
foreignrscegpiton now Of the Confederate State
could avail little to delay or prevent FINAL re
union, if es firmly believe, reunion be no
only possible but inevitable
Sir, ! have not spoken of foreign arbitra
tion. That squite another question, thinl
it impractioable, and fear 1t as dangerous
The very powers-or any other power-whicl
! have hesitAted to aid disnnion directly or b,