The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-09-07

states themselves, or IN their DO
mestic institutions there. We re-
cognized the fact that our power
could reach the system only in the
common territories belonging to
the nation, and that by preventing
the extension only could we prop
orly oppose it. We believed that,
lin the end, this girdling of the tree
would destroy its liie-that the pro-
gress ofopinion and the contrast in
prosperity between the free and
slave States would assist the result
We hoped for, by begetting in
Southern minds a desire to emu
late that purpose which the North
ern States were making.
WHY TIE REBELLION WAS BEGUN.
The propagandists of slavery at
the South, welded to their system,
and forcseeing its overthrow in the
Union, at last determined open re-
bellion against the Government and
the establishment of q coniederacy,
avowedly based upon the system
itself. The result was war-war
deliberately determined upon by
the leaders in the secession move
ment, aud urged forward in hot
haste lest, by some agreement, or
scme compromise, the opportunity
for that disruption of the Govern
;ment, which they sought would be
lost to them; and, whatever may
have been true Of the masses OF the
Southern people, we have abund-
ant evidence that their leaders full
Ily measured the great crime which
theywere committing, and went
into its commission with their eyes
Iopen to all the possible horrors and
disasters which it must bring upon
the country. They doubtless had
a lingering hope that the mere
show of force would overawe the
Government, and enable them to
make their secession an accomplish
ed fact, without great cost, either
Of life or of treasure to themselves.
But the contingencies which open
ed before them were not forgotten,
and, in their hatred oft'ree Govern
ment, they determined upon the
struggle, cost what it might. We
are now, in some measure, enabled
: to estimate that cost. Tho South
lern country; which they were ac-
lcustomed to speak ofas the garden
of the world, has been ravaged in
, every direction by hostile armies.
The scourge of war has visited it
with such terrible effect that years
must olapsc before the soil will be
} rid of the plainest traces OF the
conflict which has taken place
there. They have brought mourn
ing upon all their homes. They
} have almost totally destroyed the
youth and vigor of their popula'
t ton; and now, involved in almost
t hopeless bankruptcy, those of them
who survive have to look back up
on the work of their own hands,
We, too, have felt the cost and the
burden of the struggle. Our homes
! also have been visited by mourn
: ing, and our households also have
! many vacant places. But tho
!. armed power of the rebellion was
at last forced to succumb, and oul
' tolls and expenditures Of treasure
! are at last rewarded by complete
military possession ofthe States re
! Gently in rebellion.
: POLITICAL RESULTS OF THE WAR.
: The most marked political re
suits Of the war are two-trst, thu
complete extinction of the system
: of slavery; and, secondly, the es
!. tablishment of the paramount duty
I of allegiance to the national Gov
ernment as q duty above all cbliga
y tions to separate States, and as be
ing directly and Immediately du'
from the individual to the Fedora
n Government itself. The first wa
;, the necessary result of the war, be
u cause slavery having been, i'll itseli
Q the cause of the rebellion, its exist
= ence depended necessarily upon th
i success of the revolt. That whicl
II we were unable to do, and whicI
', ' wo had no purpose ofdoingso lon
y y as the Southern States maintaine
. their peaceful relations to the Gov
u ernment, we had the power to aC
. complish, and it became our dut
J to accomplish when once they ha
u taken up arms to separate them
Q selves from the Union. The secon
. is a necessary result ofthe war, be
8 cause it is the only means of estat
,o fishing principle which shall be
y itself, a guarantee against thos
~ mistaken and exaggerated notion
~ ~ of State Rights which were mad
~ the meaus of uniting in the rebe
=, ~ lion many who would nothave Ell
20 barked in il for the sake ofslaver
! in itself. Whenever these result
a "A shall have been fully accomplishe
~ ~ SO that there can be no danger
~ ~ evading them and no power to col
u, slider them. The work of recoI
50 struction of the Union will ope
q new problems for the discussion
w. But our present duty is limited
9, the completion of this work, an
90 90 the union of all loyal men for tn
% %e purpose is what we now insist u
~ ~ on as the necessity Of the hour.
- - We have advanced, therefore,
V tI,a face of an onnosition both