Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-04-22

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ment in civilization of the other sections
Of the country. (Applanse)
Many reasons have been assigned by
the rebels in the South aud by their sym
pathizng friends abroad for that fagitiou,
act by which the integrity Of the Union
has been for time dissolved but Mr.
Spratt, of South Carolina, and Mr.. Ste
phens, Of Georgia, have told the truth
These gentlemen do not whimper about
the tyranny of the North, or talk Of tar
ifs and geographical boundaries. No;
Mr.. Spratt, the great expoundcr of the
philosophy of Secession, plainly tells the
world that the real and the only contest
between the North and the South is a
contest of t,0o torms of sleiety; the Que
composed Of enc race, the other composed
of t,oo races; the one having no slares
and the other wholly subsisting upon
slavery; the one embodying in its struc-
ture the principle that equality is the
right Of man, the other that it is the
right of equals only; the one expanding
upon the horizontal plane of pure democ-
racy, the other taking to itself the rouad
ed torm Of sociai aristocracy. Here
is the whole secret Of the bloody conflict
now raging between the North and the
South.
slavery" says Mr.. Spratt, "was with
in the grasp Of the North, and the slave
holding olisarchy, forced to the option Of
seeing it extingaished a0ithia the Union.
or preserving it by Independence oat OF
the Union, chose the latter alternative j;
hence. Secession was the effort of slave
society to emaneipatc itself from the in
aaence and control Of the Northern
States"
Here, gctlemen, is "the great issue Of
the time Here is explained the nature
Of the present contest between the North
anl the South. (AnpIause.l At the
very commencement Of your nationality
you bad amongst you an clement Of dis
cord, destru tive OF perfect harmony, and
tending to disunion and dissolution. 1t
vas not possible to secure perpetual
union hy the blending of two opposite
aad total Y irreconciiab.e social States. -
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