Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-19

1 the interest OF our race? VIII IL ,exfenfl
the liberty and increase the happinesso6f
the human family2 VIII iG lay deeper and
broader the foundations of our, Govern
ment? I'M 1'F
Il 1.-THE woiinds Of war arc still uaSape. Tn
the North they are not yet healed. i In the
South they are fresh and bleeding. There
i the industrial system is destroyed, the So
i cial fabric Is shattered, the commercial
Yprosperity Is utterly gone, families are
broken up, ,neighborhoods are depopulated.
agriculture is torsaken. fields laid waste,
! and Ifamine- actual starvation-carrying
Il MANY to their graves. The track of the
1 wheels of the chario5s of war are worn SO
deep that a century will not efface them.
The Northi has, conquered their, armies;
| snail It not also now conquer their hearts?
| loud applattse.1 The highest duty of
patriotlsmsh the chiefest aim Of statesman
ship should beitoi calm the passions and
allay the evaporation, and, if it were DOS
sible, to, effacer the very memory Of the war.
This policy of reconstruction adds tfishonor
to defeat adds the sting of degradation to
the bitterness of Submission. A Radical
New England Senator refused to permit
1 the trophies of the war or the paintings of IF
victories TO be put up in the Smithsonian
Institute lest it might keep up unhappy
memories, and, nourishr bitter resentment,
but with refinement OF cruelty, he exhibits
! them in the laws, and perpetuates them in
the Institutions with which he would gov
ern the people. .n9ivI,ET Fl Tshul-s .l7sdt
.sr They tell US we need strong Govern
ment, that we need to clothe the nation
with power to execute its will. Strong
for what /? q Has not the Federal sys-
temo been strong enough? Has it not
executed its civil and criminal law !? Has
it not waged successful war both of offense
and defense? Has it not by force of arms
overcome a gigantic rebellion, and for
4 years sustained a most eXhausting civil
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serve order at home and maintain its posi-
ton in the world? Has it not been strong
enough to protect the rights, alas. strong
enough to ieopardize the liberties of its
citizens? History tells US that confedera-
tion is 1iberty-that consolidation is despot-
ism-that confederation is the strongest
Government for defense, and the weakest
| for oppression. a A Government which
| hold in its hand the power to preserve or
der, to enforce justice, to make and admin
lister all the local law applicable to thirty
millions of people, and thus to enter into
the details of their daily life, has that hand
mailed in iron, and may lay its weight up
on and crush out their liberties.
! ~ A government whose power is so con-
eentered is ruined, If tbs defeated in a sim
gle battle; or if the d, various chords OF
power are not all closely gathered in one
strong grasp. If power be dispersed
among many local governments, equal and
independent except they are bound in
confederation, it never passes beyond the
control of the people, so far as to oppress
them-and if disasters come, it presents
many organized fronts, and rallying points
around which armed forces can cluster,
and discipline and order be maintained.
The Austrian army was defeated at Aus
terlitZ, almost under the walls of the capi
| tai, and consolidated Austria lay at the
mercy of Napoleon. The Prussian army
was conquered at jena and Auerstadt, and
consolidated Prussia was almost oblitera
| ted from Europe. The Russian army was
struck at Eylau and overwhelmed at
Freidland, and Russia submitted to the
dictation OF peace. I'D,
The Gar and Napoleon divided the world
at Tilsit, and with seven hundred thousand
men at his command, the French Emperor
turned to the conquest of Spain. He in
vefgled the royal family to his camp and
kept them prisoners. He bought the no.
| bles. He seized the tortresses. He de-
clared Joseph king, and sent three hum
dred Thousand men to place him on his
throne. Men called Spain weak. 1t lack
| ed unity. Its parts were loosely confeder-
ated through the crown. Catalonia and
Andalusia and Aragon and old Castillo re-
| tanned their separate organizations and
manifested jealousy, even hostility to each
| other. Yet when Napoleon reached the
Capital and sent his forces to overrun the
country, these provinces called their troops
1
back those veterans who had never paused
in their victorious march from the Mincio
to the Vistula, and by the capture of Du-
pont, shattered that prestige of success
| which had made France ,invincible. .zal
| (, They tell US we Democrats will cling to
dead issues. The integrity of the Republi-
can Government. the preservation of liber-
| ty, the maintenance of our Constitution
and Government. the happiest of mankindl /
Are these dead issues? Our love tor them
1 / Il l:A-r l.
| worthinesS for them and our enjOy yment
may be dead, but the issues will live till
they are settled in their full fruition and
the principles which underlie them are as
durable as the eternal throne.
They tell us that like the Bourbons we
will forget nothing and learn nothing; we
| will not submit to accomplished facts. 1t
is mistake. Itwere wicked folly to resist
the inevitable. We would bow reverentIy
in its presence. But who shall open the
! book OF fate, and say of any course of
events or of any condition of things, it is
fixed forever. Who shall with prophetic
| power read the secrets of the Almighty,
and repeat in another connection the.words
| which once uttered throughout all the ages
reverberate along the course of eighteen
centuries 1T is finished" The human mind
has no power to discern the interchangeable.
| The DEGREES of destiny are hidden from its
view, that its aspirations may not be check
ed, its efforts may not be palsied. g..
When William Pitt came back to the
ministry, he formed with incredible energy
1 and eXertion the Continental Alliance. 1t
required the labor of two years. Napoleon
broke up his camp at Boulogne,narched his
heroic legions to the Danube, and in one
hundred days captured an army at Ulm,
and shattered the coalition on the bloody
field of Austerlitz. The great statesman
was bowed to the earth-his hope was gone
his courage brcken-his efforts at an end.
Broken-hearted he exclaimed, Roll up the
map of Europe for halfa century," and died,
believing that Napoleon had attained to
| universal domicion. r-.,, ....... .. -.......
Austria was despoiled of her fairest pos
} sessions Jena followed and Prussia was
humhled to tho dust -FFiAdlera- tel4eEreA,
, and the monarch of the North bowed his
naughty head before the imperial eagles.
Napoleon was mighty. His fiat vacated
} the throne OF Naples. He pronounced the
| sentence, IgThe House of Braganza has
ceased to reign" and that family went fu-
: gitives from Portugal to Brazil. Louis
was King of Holland, Joseph was King OF
Spain, Murat was King of Naples. The
, confederation of the Rhine guarded his
frontier. The Dukedom of Warsaw and
2 the Kingdom of Westphalia were the props
r of his throne. Here seemed to be an ac-
complished fact. But England refused to
| 'saccept the situation,'' and in less than
three years Austria WASH arms. Prussia
e was recuperated, Russia had become hos
t tile, and in less than six years the empire
: of Napoleon had passed away; the fabric
f of his power had been dissolved; Europe
} was re- e-established within its original linn
its, and he himself langulshed a prisoner in
the island of st. Helena.
In 1850 the compromise measures were
e passed. They consisted OF the admission
: of California, the amendment of the fugi.
r tive slave law, the establishment of gov
: ernment in thei Territories. They COM
! manded the support of the leading states
r men of both great political parties. They