Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-04-11

ther auHimft nnu spans their chaama or
penetrate their rookiest sides The electric
telegraph follows, and, stretching lie connect.
ing wires along the clouds, there mingles its
vocal liebtnings with the hTes Of heaven
Bot II disunionists in the East will force a
separation Of any Of these States. and a
boundary purely conventional, is at lpst 10 be
marked out, it must and il will be either from
4 Lake Erie upon the shortest line 10 the Ohio
river, or from Manhattan to the CanadAs.
And, now, sir, is there any difference of
race here, SO radical as TO forbid reunion
| do not refer 20 the negro race, styled now,
in unctuous official phrase by the President,
Americans OF African descent" Certainly,
sir, there are Two white races in the United
States, both from the same common stock, and
yet so dstnct-one Of them so peculiar-that
they develop different forms Of civilization,
and might belong, almost, TO different types
Of mankind But the boundary Of these two
races is not at all marked by the line which
divides the slaveholding from the non slave.
holding States. IL race is 10 be the geoRraph-
iea limit Of disunion, then Mason and Dix.
on's can never be the line
Next, sir, do not the causes which, in the
beginning, impelled TO Union still exist in
their utmost force and extent2 What we're
they2
First, the common descent-and therefore
consanguinty-of the great mass of the peo.
pie from the Anglo-Ss stock. Had the
Canadss been settled originally by the Eng
lish, they would doubtless have followed the
fortunes of the Thirteen Colonies. Next, a
common language, one of the strongest of the
igaments which bind people, Had we been
contiguous to Great Britain, either the
causes which led to a separation would
have never existed, or else been speedily re.
moved or afterwards, we would long since
have been reunited as equals, and with all the
rights OF Englishmen. And along with these
we're similar, at least not essentially dissimi.
lar manners habits, laws, religion, and in
stitutions OF all kinds, except one. The com
mon defense was another powerful incentive
and is named in the Constitution as ono
among the objects ofthe more perfect Union
| OF 1887. Stronger yet than all these, perhaps,
but made up of all of them, WAS a common
interest Variety of climate and SOIL and
therefore Of production, implying aso extent
OF country, is not an element Of separation
bot, added to contiguty, becomes part Of Il .
ligament OF interest, and is one of its toughest
strands. Variety of production is the parent
Of the earliest commerce ard trade; and
these in their full development. are as be
tween foreign nations, hostages for peace
and between States and people united, they
are the frmest bonds OF Union. But
after all, the strongest of the many
original impelling causes to the Union,
was the securing Of domestic tranquility. -
The statesmen Of 1881 we'll knew that be
tween thirteen independent but contiguous
States without a natural boundary, and with
nothing to separate them except the machin.
cry OF similar governments, there muRt be a
perpetual, in fact, an 'irrepressible conflict"
| OF jurisdiction and interest, which, there be-
ing no other common arbiter, could only be
terminated by the conflict of the sword And
the statesmen of 1862 ought to know that two
or more confederate governments made up of
similar States, having no natural boundary
either, and separated only by different gov.
ernments, cannot endure long together, unless
one or more of them be either too pusiani-
nous for rivalry or too insignificant to pro.
woke it, or too weak to resist aggression
These, sir, along with the establishment Of
justice, and the securing of the general vel
fare, and of the blessings of liberty to them
selves aud their posterity, made up the causes
and motives which impelled our fathers TO the
Union at first.
And now, sir, what one of them is want
ing What one diminished On the con.
trary, many OF them are stronger to day than
in the beginning Migration and intermar.
riage have strengthened the ties OF consan-
guinity. Commerce, trade, and production
have Immensely multiplied. Cotton, almost
unknown here in 1887, is now the chief pro.
duct and export OF the country. 1t has set
in motion three-iourths Of the spindles of New
England, and given employment, directly or
remotely, to full half the shipping, trade, and
aO nf ha taI NJ
that cotton has kept the peace between En-
land and America for thirty years, and had
the people of the North been as wise and
practical as the statesmen of Great Brit.
ain, it would have maintained Union and
peace here But we are being taught in our
first century and at our own cost, the lessons
which England learned through the long and
bloody experience of eight hundred years.
We shall be wiser next time. Let not cotton
be king, but peacemaker, and inherit the
blessing.
common interest, then, still remains to
MS. And union for the common defense, az
the end OF this war, taxed, indebted, impov.
ershed, exhausted, as both sections must be,
and with foreign fleets and armies around us,
will be fity-lold more essential than ever be.
fore. And finally, sir, without union, our do.
mestic tranquility must forever remain un.
settled If it can not be maintained within
the Unioni how then outside OF it, without an
exodus or colonization of the people of one
section or the other to a distant country Sir,
l repeat that two governments so interlinked
and bound together every way by physical
and social ligaments, can not exist in peaee
without a common arbiier. viii treaties bind
us2 What better treaty than the Constitutions
What more solemn, more durable2 Shall we
settle our disputes, then, by arbitration and
compromise2 Sir, let US arbitrate and com
promise now, inside of the Union. Certainly