Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-05-13
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Mr., COX'S SPEECH CONTINUED.

Cnelr rum, 10 DUry forever Unc llDerUy Vi
both white and black races. Is 1t Demo-
crat? Read your platforms for thirty years
and learn again the language of Jefferson
and Madison and the practical teachings of
Douglas in his great contest tor extending
popular sovereignty over domestic matters
from the States to the Territories. Is it a
Republican? refer him to the Chicago
platform, which resolves that "the mainte-
nance, inviolate of the rights of the States
and especially the rights Of each State to
order and control its own domestic institu
tions according TO its own judgment eXclu-
sively, is essential to that balance of power
on which the perfection and endurance of
our political fabric depends" Is it the
members of the last Congress? refer them
to the Crittenden resolution, as to the rights,
dignity, and equality of the States. Is it
you, Mr.. Speaker, the exponent of the will
of this body? | refer you to the resolution
you voted: 'That neither the Federal Gov
ernment nor the people, or the governments
Of non-slaveholding States, have purpose
or constitutional right to legislate. upon or
interfere with slavery in any of the States
of the Union" Is it the President himself?
Oh shameful II eachery! Shame to himself
aud treachery to the trusting! Shall re-
call his repeated sayings by proclamation,
calling on soldiers to peril their lives, or by
message, giving us his solemn convictions
of duty? Shall l refer to his message
wherein he repudiated the idea of disturb
ing the system of slavery, as foreign to his
inclination and his duty, or to his direction
to Mr.. Seward to inform foreign powers
that any effort to disturb that system 'on
his part would be unconstitutional ?" Is it
the philosophic thinker? refer him to the
exposition of NJ. De Tocqueville (Vol. l,
page 69),who, better than any one abroad.has
examined the complex nature Of our Gov
ernment, beginning with the township and
rising through many grades to the Federal
authority, and who found here, two gov
ernments, completely separate and almost
independent-the one fulfilling the ordinary
duties, and responding to the daily and in
cumscribed within certain limits, and only
exercising an exceptional authority over
the general interests of the country"
These expressions were made in view of
or in time of war. The independents spheres
of National and State Governments were
ever regarded, in words, if not in acts, by
the very party in power and now their test
of loyalty is an oath to forswear their own
Oaths. Now their touch-stone of patriotism
is-an oath to commit political turpitudc!
And this is called an amnesty! This oath
which is to be taken at once by loyal and
disloyal men, is to be the sweet Oblivious
balm over past crime by clement Execu-
tive! This battering down of the COnsti-
tuition is to be Aladdin witchery, which in
night is to reconstruct a perpetual cos
mos of beauty and power, ont of the chaos
of civil conflict Because we do not shout
hosannahs to this new cosmos, Democrats
are rcproached as favoring slavery. No, sir.
do NOT 10. Il gnx,
again as have said before, let it die, if die
it must, not by the rough usages of war,
not by the starvation, miscegenation or eX-
tirpation of the black race, not by the
strangulation of State and popular sover-
eighty; but by the voluntary and legal ac-
tion of the States, when they are in a con-
dition freely to express their choice. Why
use the sentiment against slavery to crush
out the fundamental principles of our Gov
ernment? Why, in striving to destroy slav-
cry drag down the pillars of the Constitu-
tion? When to kill slavery you destroy the
"balance of power on which the perfection
and endurance of our political fabric de-
pends," must and will denounce you-
How many expressions from the other side
of the chamber have l been called upon to
denounce, because they urge the abandon
ment of our old and rare political fabric
These expressions are all impearled by an
exquisite thinker of the radical school
Senator Gratz Brown, when he says:
"Who cares for the Union of the pasta Union
fraught with seeds Of Observation-Disclosures with
humilatiOns and Disappointment Who believes
in the grief Of these hired mourners, so lachrymo.e
before the world? They are not even self-decevel.
IL is likewise with recOnstructiOns--a free masonry
that magines IL has only blocks aud stones TO deal
with, or child's play that would build up as they
have tumbed down its card castles putting affably
ha aarHa m ton Ennltsh IRA m
seeing not that il is the life arteries and the thews
and the snews Of n nations being that are dealt
with, and that it must be regeneration or DEATH"
The Union thus dismissed with so much
scorn, is the same Union which Lord
Brougham called Political Philosophy part
Ill, page 1866 "the very greatest refinement
in social policy, to which any state of cir
cumstances had ever given rise or to which
any age has ever given birth, (which de-
served his eulogy, because, as he held there
was in 1t, the means for keeping its in
tegrity as Federacy, by the maintenance
of the rights and powers of the individual
States.
The Union as it should be-the Union of
the ''wise craftsmen" Of to-day and not of
the foolish fathers who made it's not the
Union have learned to admire and loved
to cherish; not the Union, which for the
past seven years. have plead here to main
tain without blood and perpetuate without
peril.
These plans of regeneration involve a
change in the structure of the Government.
They break down the spirit of municipal
in destroying which, as De
Tocqueville has shown, you destroy the
spirit of liberty. No matter what form is
left, the despotic tendency will inevitably
appear, when the local authority is usurped.
If you leave any form of Government, 1t is
the will OF the Executive, it is despotic
Russian, Asiatic. the rule of
Military Bashaws, or provincial Kinglets.
Whether appointed by Congress or the
President-they hold their power from
Washington, and they must remain at the
head of their troops, and at the call Of their
chief. Our Republic then, deserves not Its
name. 1t is no longer the "United States"
It is United State, geographical unit,
holding together subject provinces by the
brute force of petty tyrants. e rlt
Believing that the scope and aim of the
will not restore the Union,
nor propitiate any portion of the South,
except demagogues and hirelings, who sell
their birthright for the price of power, let
lis inquire what motive could have induced
the President to proclaim 1t, in moment
of success to our arms and depression to
the South. One suggestion will satisfy as
to the motive. Lam sorry TO believe 1t;
but the President desires renomination.--
He Is a man whose mind has every angle,