The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-10-15

becausesthey are treated with justice
and mercy, they will Immediately
rush into another destructive war?
L for myself think that the only
danger of another revolt lies in the
continuance of the present party in
power, and of their lawless policy
made up of mingled insult and op-
preston such as men ofordinary spir-
it, who have once been freemen, would |
zdis-seones satiaansendnre. Men who |
have been free will not submit to per-
manent degradation and political ser
vitude or even inferiority. When this
is known, to be the fixed, stern and re-
lentlesso policy, /. they. will resist by
force of arms and in that event their
resistance will be justified on the uni
Yersally acknowledged principle of
the right of revolt against intolerable
oppression. Had the same cause ex-
listed in. 1861 which now exists, no
Northern army would have crossed
the Ohio river to put down the revolt.
You express fears that the North will
countenance secession if Seymour and
Blair are elected. In the present state
of things, and the present party per-
manently in power, that were possi-
bic; for, the fierce passions of conflict
have subsidized, the mass of mankind
sympathize with the, conquered, espe-
cially if insulted and oppressed; but
elect an Observation-Disclosures to re-
store them as they were before the re-
volt, and see no rational probability
that the 100000 majority in Ohio
which recorded their votes against Sc
cession, and in favor of subduing it
at any cost will at once change sides,
without the shadow of a reason, and
sustain it. .,,.r ,...' ....... -..,.. ---..
I have looked the condition Of
things full in the face and write down
my deep. convictions. There is dan
ger of another civil war. I deplore
the threatened mischief, and have
done all, Lean to. avert it, and still
hope the bitter cup will pass from us.
But the party in power are resolute
in exciting to the utmest, and keeping
up TO their highest intensity, the fierce
and angry passions of men, and it
were vain for them to expect ferocity
on one side, and calm endurance on
the other, Their policy continued
will force on collision, which let them
in prudence avoid. The moral and
] physical power of the nation is against
| them !; they can prescribe voters and
manipulate elections, but their power
will fail against men, embodied and
under arms, where each man counts,
whether cheated of his vote or not !;
and in this arbitrament they would be
but as one to three. The war, if they
really force it on, will not be strictly
section against section-the South will
be united, the North divided it will be
like the war between the Guelphs and
Ghibilines, which, for more than two
hundred years, desolated Italy, and in
which Cesare Borgia practiced the
lessons in political morality which
Morton has been taught to adopt and
practice, by our five years :. of war.
If he had revised his reading of Ma
chiavelli,s Prince, it would. have de-
priyed his LESSONS of the charm
of novelty, as he would have
found it in full practice many
hundred years ago, and by looking a
little. further he would have found
that it peopled Dante's hell even to its
ninth circle, with more than half its
tenants. It were. better for the coun-
try, better for the party, that Congress
should not, re-assemble on the 18th.
If they meet, they cannot possibly alb
stain from y interfering in the Southern
elections, unless, indeed. they be over
awed by a strong Northern vote i it is
the sole business for. which they are to
be called again together, and they will
feel bound to act. - -.-,'r---
| There are some things in your let
ter not quite worthy of You OF of the
subject we discuss. You say my sug-
gestions as to the power of the SEN
ate to prevent legislation is the, same
as contained in Seymour's .begging
letter. 3 an insinuation that / borrowed
the opinion from him, whereas you
well know. that mentally never deal
In borrowed capital. The truth is, I
had written down the passage refer
red to, just as it now reads, weeks be-
fore I saw Mr.. Seymour's letter, and
[ the thought does. not suffer (do you
think it does.?) by occurring to two
independent minds at the same time,
+ You call seymour's a Begging letter.
Y ou must be at loss for something
to object to lit struck me as in deci-
ded1y good taste-unexceptionable in
matter and expression. 1 know little
Of him, personally, but, if in all else
I he is equal to this, he will do. You
certainly have no warrant for the
opinion that he viii fall under the in
{ fuence' Of. Toombs and Hampton. He
certainly never yet acted under theil
Influence General Grant did un--
der that Of Stanton and Wade, when
he gave Stanton file of United States
troops to enable him to 'stick" and
bayonet the President if he should at
etteInpt to enter the department. There
is no more reason to suspect Seymour
of subseryieney to disloyal councils
than han any other, the best man in the
nation. On the whole, / would rath-
er have your opinion two years hence
% The he present political condition, than
=, ID rs s ,ffEssmain,,. very truly. yours,
.'1o Hon. Il c; Jones' Jones, Delaware, ware 8:
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