The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1864-06-01
na,red Between The North and south

one would suppose, 10 hear some copperheads
talk. that the bitterness growing Out CT the
present contest ia our country, would be be
queathed, In both parts OF the nation, from sire
to SOIL, and be carried down through future
ages. With hatred that should he ever intensi-
fying. aud forever prevent the descendants OF
the present combatants from living peaceably
toee her as one psIl. It is cay q put al
air Of great wisdom, and make broad general as
sertions OF this kind, which have the appearance
Of much plsusbity But history and expert
ence brings to Us no such lessons. They teach
that The sIl prevailing ard never csasing infuen-
ces Of Time will be at work, as soon as the war
is over, 10 every heart aud household where TIE
bitterness Of the siiife has entered, soi:ening
ard rendering more dim ard ind stinct tie mem
osies Of former sOrross and suferngs. Time
too. will 5000 remove all the actors in the war
like struggle. Esery day, some Of them, both
North aud South, will be carried to their lasI
resting places aud while the warriors are thus
being tbinued cut, their children, educated 10 all
the arts Of peace, will take their place. In 6u.
years, the country will be controlled and gov
erned by Set Of men who never saw batlls
Geld Of the Great Rebellion, except they vi.lted
it from curiosity, Or on account OF its haoNeC
memories
l. is agreeable to human nature that st,ifes
aud the bitterness which they eneender, ho"ev
sr great they may be. shall begia &c Cease WheR
egsr the Gauss shall be ren,ored We have re
ma, kable instance, In tie lifetime OF cur fathers
in the civil war in France, known rs the Yea
dean war, between che Roy 4ist- and the Repub
leans, at the beginning OF tile first French Rev
oisGion. IL was pursued for three years ca boil
sides, with al intensity aud earnestDess eyei
exceeding that IL our own county ana the bis
toriAns compute tina. lot less than three million
Of people persisted during the coe,est YET 81
ter royalty had been over,hr0~0 IA France an
the province thoroughly subdaed, there MAS Il
further occasion 10 haired Of Gghtug, and ID
province constituted thereafter oval aud integ
al part OF the empire Of Napoleon and hissuc
cessors to the present dme.
The Albany Essaing JgGraa. very justly re
marks on this subject:
WARS seldom if ever, breed permanent ha
trede. Even civil was leave 10 enduring socia
scars behind them. The English people wer
never more homogeneous than they we're fe'
years after the great Revolution. France la
been cOnvulsed time and again by civil and IL
gious wars; yet the French people are to da
the most thoroughly iraterBal IN their feeling U
any people in Europe. Ge many has been des
Oialrd ny dOu't kuVwn nOW many 0JmesL'
wars; yet the national feeliu-, is proverbiaily IT,
tense One thnd of Switzerland was insu get.
im 1876, and soundly whipped but Saitzei lau'
was never raO'e united, never more prosperou
and never more happy than she Is 70 day. Al,
20 il will be With u. We shall be all the bette
friends after our present disagreement. Til,
Southerners will learn that the NortherneTs or,
lot towards; the Northerneis will learn that IN,
SOutherneis are not braggarts. By kuowinI
each other better, We shail reepect each Othe
more. Aud we shall agree that Il sill never pay
IN the future, 10 ,hict blows upon each other
which might be much more probably dealt d
our common enem.ss'