The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1864-07-28


done What ought to be done
next, q heal the breach4 Can the
arch be rebdilt, 80 as to be whatft
and as'it was? Ia1hink not
Can the Southern States be dea
HpriVed of their slaves first, and
then brought back into tie Union?
l believe that they never can.g ug
Sir, permit me 10 speak the
love" rand thus 70 say
mostamThatitdllS hSt your fuS
,pending the ITabeas Corpus Act,
sending forth procIamations' ard
drafting half "a million more men
int, the army; and causing men
and women to be arrested and inn
INJURED in places OF iconfgement
will never answerthe erd7you have
in view. IT is notorious that sUme
other and more rational aad Justttl'
able means must be used, to settle
the quarrel; and adjust the dificul
ties between the North and the
South. Some Of the ablest Re-
publican journals, including the
Boston "Telegraph," and many OF
the b6stlslatesmen on the Republic
can side of the House, are now
thoroughly convinced that the pre-
sent war ought TO cease. The peo'
ple are tired Of youl present method
of making history, sir, ami OF re-
storing the Tnion. If to involve
the United States in o debt which
can never be laid; If TO tax the
people TO ah extent which will
J prove fatal to the interests of gen
cations yet unborn ; if to sacrifice
on the battle. field, our beat men by
the hundreds of thousands if to
provoke God to anger; 1t to invite
, plague and pestilence, and to leave
q the earth worse than you found it
be the way to make history, then
will hundreds of millions admit,
that you are the most redundant
. and the most fruitful in material
E for history, that ever occupied {
monarchical throne, a magisteria
q seat, or q Presidential chair. But
sir. it is high time that You shoul,
If begin to reflect upon the tact, tina
n history wri:ttea In blood, desolatior
;. and wce, will be but a proof, tha
If a man once lived in America, VIII
p. smote tie earth with a curse, j
If his day, and then died. r 10
Sir, the beginning of a famir
il, now stares us in the iace,-tlle'
I'M are hundreds of thousands in tt
of United States, who must soc
%starve, steal, or perish. The Sou
id. is almost exhausted and RUNE
act and the North is blighted al
eat cursed by war. Both the Nor
nil and the South have fought
ig, b,aveIy and heloicaly as ever 50
Ius diers fought. Good generals 'ha
Ing wroughtmarves Oh our battlefe('
In. but still, the South has not be
in conquered no, and in my opinic
hh. it never will hesconqucred, so as
OF bring it back iuto any kindio of III
| in on with the North, blythe twore
. l There arc other, and lar mc
Of equitable, Christian and success
80. means, which night he employ
,urr with safety and oiorto !all part
nan to effect an adjustment Of tbe d
any ,ulties between the North and
20
ieir South, than the albi,rament of
Ia. sword. Enough Ct blood has b
M. shed, ard enough Of property
i've, been DIES troyed in the uotlhoy {
ave test, to satisfy any reasonable mi
nv tl.at the time las come wle
an confere nee ofhonorable menehc
held, to devise means, and
pirit agree upon a plan by Which
ions war should be stopped, and ,
they terms OF reunion, or of frie,
M. separation, should be .sybmitte
the the Amer can people, both M
mid, aud Sopth, TO- decide the q9es
real of separation or Union. atthe5
'tt s,JAOt y'a.iJ -HL sl3~ sg~h. y
nifty, lot bo%'gs- o'.~ LA ,y,ao se.a> +,
tree. Sir you have nc, risRt, Ell
lmed human or diviheJ0to irse thy
Into gyrroes Of the South BY war; .
y on have no doubt, that . PLAID G.
l the easily be adopted, satisfaction.
rests. l.u.lo,dor nv ,nnans, of "