Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-04-14

governments by tho silent force of great
example While the common law and all
the privileges and advantages of civilization
have been transferred to this continent,
nothing but the stable continuance of our
admirable system of government is needed to
attract within it the people of every cline.
This war will be prosecuted, and its great
purpose should be peace upon the basis of
the Constitution If we fail to accomplish
this, through the obstinate and misdiroctcd
policy of the administration, we shall have
no permanent government left in the North
under the present Constitution. The cohe-
sive power which constitutes the national
bond would be gone, and with it would
speedily perish the national debt In the
competition forc0mmcrce resulting in alinc Of
| free ports from the capcs of the Chesapeake
| to the Rio Grande our foreign commerce,
too, would dwindle, aud the revenue der
lived thercfrom would perish. 1t would be
impossible in congressional legislation to re-
concile the commercial interests of New
York and the agricultural interests of the
northwest with the manufacturing industry
4 OF New England and Pennsylvania free
trade and protection alike would be obstna-
| tely demanded. An unccasing border war
would be the inheritance of the States
bound by the line of separation. 1t is still
graver consideration that in the event of
such a calamity no man of reflection can
wink 50 fast as not to see that such por-
ton of the States must become reunited by
the instincts OF empire, us well as by every
consideration of interest, of trade, com
mcrcc, and security. Cast your eye over
the map of the States, and you see that all
the rivers, from the Hudson to the Rio
Grande, have their outlet to the ocean
through the Southern States. The trade
OF the lakes, which is alone greater than all
our foreign commerce, reaches tidewatcr
west of New England, while that of the Mis-
7 SlSSlpl, with IL, tiibutoricr. comprising If
ty thousand miles of boatable navigation,
can find its way chGaply by the current alone
to the Gulf of Mexico. The products OF
this mighty valley and the cotton of the
. South constitute the basis Of the commerce
of New York. 1t is idle to suppose that
she can exist without union with these
grand divisions. Pennsylvania must have
market for her iron and coal, and the pro-
ducts Of her varied industry; while the
northwest is sure to follow her destiny
n marked by the watcr-courses, as every pro-
ducingand trading people that had the pow
er have always done from the days of the
Phernicians down to the present time.
While the South has all the resources
and geographical advantages which have
n described, in all probability it cannot exist
alone, even if successful, for any great
, length Of time as an independent power
: A union with the northwestern and middle
States would become a necessity For the
present, perhaps for a generation, the vast
stake which European governments have in
, the dlysionof n government based upon the
popular will and in the article of cotton,
, would secure protection to the Southern
Conlcdcracy. The keen eye of commercial
and manufacturing capital, with the prciu-
dice against slavery, would however render
its life short one. The world at large is
too much Interested in the growth and sup
, ply of cotton to trust as heretofore, almost
exclusively to the South for that supply in
the future. European capital and enter
{. prise, stimulated blythe lesson Of experience,
will, within the next quarter Of II century,
open up commercial communications plant
settlements, and make the cotton grow in
the interior Of Africa Australia, the East
Indies, as well as Mexico, Central America
and the adjacent isles Of the sea. When
the supply is thus secured equal to the de-
mand, independently Of the South, then will
the truce be at an end. An alliance, holy or
march, and the 'uaacoHda" would then
which governs the war and is carving out
the dissolution of the Union, if adhered to,
Is but laying foundation for Il Union in the
valley OF the Mississippi AZ an inevitable con
sequence and result
The question of slavery in the territories
o led to the disturbance Of "a harmony which
i might otherwise have been perpetual. The
. Chicago platform inauguratcd revolution -
r The States being soyereigntics, and the pub
q lie domain having been acquired by deeds
. Of ccssion, by purchase, and by conquest
= in the absence of II judicial dicision rccog
o nizing the equal rights Of the South in tn,
@ territories, upon what principle of equity o
l. justice could that equality be denied? A lc
II gal, constitutional right, however rccog
nizcd, it was well known could not have re
suited in the spread Of slavery; and yet a de
, NAL Of it is the sad pretcXt of our troubles.
Washington, impressed with IA full knowl-
edge Of the antagOnlsms of society and the
violence OF party struggles for supremacy,
at the close Of his administration, still
doubtful of the pcrmanoncy Of the expert
mcnt, warned his countrymen to constant
vigilance for its preservation. jefferson,
with that unerriug sagacity which charac-
tcrized his knowledge of human nature, ad-
monishcd the people Of the whole country
that the array of parties upon geographical
line would result in the destruction Of the
Government.
! This war cannot last forever Sooner or
later contending parties must become ox-
haustcd, the armies dwindlcd, credit de
stroyed, the land filed with graves and
clothed in mourning, and adjustment upon
some terms will hc the only cure for the
evil, The uncompromising obstinacy Of
Charles !. lost him his head that of James
i'll. his colonies, Shall these States again
be lost by initiating the example ?
Mr.. Speaker, there is everywhere an anx-
ious and earnest looking forward to the ter
minatlon OF this contest, believe there is
no object SO potent against aretum to peace
as that spirit which has given a new policy
and new object to the war To refuse, be
cause Of the institution of slavery in the
Southern States to adhere to the Union of
our fathers is all one as if we should refuse
to treat with the Ottoman Porte or the Bar
barry powers because the one is sovereign
n of "A nation recognizing polygamy, and the
other the slavery oi'rhe whites as well as the
backs. The man possessed with IA single
idea is of all the most untitled for states
man. That high character implies n condi-
tion of mind which contemplatcs things as
they are and which iorbears the removal
RI Of less mischief when this would be pro-
duetive of greater. He must aim in his
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