Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-06-06

and soeep tears of imbecility oUer the breaking
up of an unnatural compact, but reason, justice
and humanity ,oiu gladly accept it as one of
those cheering evidences that Providence is
toorking good to the credtstres of earth through
the process Of eDents. - ~ - ss9
IA riged ANALYSIS of American patriotism
discovers but little gold. The enthusiasm
Of the masses for the Union is more or less
fictitious. The Union has been apotheosi-
zed by politicians for their own selfish ag
grandisement.Q 1t has been made their ral-
lying cry until the unthfnking had become
to invest 1t with a certain degree of saered-l
ness. But truth has reached the popular
heart and Intelligence the popular mind,
and the masses see that the natural giant
strength of physical America and the meas
ure of freedom enjoyed by our people under
the Constitution, properly directed, have
made us what we are IN spite Of the Union.
1t is free labor and free thought that have
made the American Union iifnssrious. and
not the Union which has developed those
features of Democracy. And now that this
restless, throbbing free thought are untrG1p-
nleled by the Union, the embarrassment will
be removed; The young giants refuse to
be manacled, -.i II - ,.'.i---s s,fi : -
7saThe Africanized people of the South have
precipitated work, which we believe ad-
vancing civilization and the teachings of
Christianity would have ere long, de-
manded at the hands of the free people OF
the North. The completely with the bar
barism of slavery which the latter have had
forced upon them by the Union has become
more burtheasome every year. and must
hdue been tirolen of volntdriiy before the lapse
of mdny years. / The Union has done nothing in
reality for freedom. Its legislation has all
been in favor of slavery, when required to
decide differences between these antipodes.
Then aciy should the free men deplore the loss
of the Union? Separate, peaceful existence
of hn faro a f0
which Is Unsatisfactory to one and which
retards the progress of the other. d
sI'he creators of the Union soaoed the seeds of
its inevitable death at the creation. They
thought to beget healthy body by an un-
natural cross between right and wrong
They thought to produce harmonious,
symmetrical whole by blending two con-
flicting systems of industry-two civiliza-
tions. How could they expect to be sue
cessful when all history is against them P
All nations that recognize the right of one
man to Oppress another sooner or later
crumble into dissolution, and in that ex-
tinction we are bound to recognize the de-
cree of Justice. And why should the Ameri-
can people alone hope to enjoy immunity
from this universal doom |"
No one, after reading the charge of false
hood made against us, and the proof we
have given to throw that charge back upon
the sheet that made it, can entertain the
least respect for paper so utterly menda-
cious. Whether to attribute it to folly or
to downright knavery, is a question that
our readers must decide. For our own
part, if called upon for an opinion, we
would ranksthe editor with the Athenian,
of whom his biographer said, although he
is small, yet there is nothing lost in him,
g. g, &c