The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-01-16
LESSONS OF THE DAY. BY HoRArIo SEYMOUR.

LESSONS OF THE DAY, BY HoRATIo SEYMOUR.
Utica, January 4, 1879.
DEAR sIR-I am not able to accept your invita-.
tiOnIto attend the celebration Of the anniversary
OF the battle of New Orleans am glad that 1t is
to be held. 1t will not only recall to mems
minds an event which will tend to allay sectional
preiudices, but 1t will also recall many facts In
our past history which will teach us to be toler-
ant Of others. We are prone to feel that the state
Of fpublic opinion in different quarters will con.
tinue In the future that the spirit of disunion is
OF Southern origin, and will always grow rank
upon Its soil,
THE SEEDS OF TREASON AND CIVIL WAR.
When we look back to the Sth of January, 1876,
we are led TO study the early history of our coun-
try and we learn something which may abate the
sectional pride which gives birth to sectional
prejudice and hate. These are seeds from which
grow treason and civil war We shall find no
section Is free from lmputatlons Of disloyalty OF
Of ofinconsistency Of conduct. New Yor k for time
would not enter the Union. 1t distrusted the
power given to the general government. The
doctrine Of States rights had Its origin with us,
and not in Virginia, which at the outset was In
favor Of strong central government Yet in the
war of 1912 New York shifted Its position and up
held the exertion Of every power claimed by the
President Of the United States On the other
hand, In the Northeastern States, which had sup.
ported the centraliZing doctrines of John Adams,
when war harmed their free commerce upon the
ocean, official acts yerging upon rebellion mark
ed their policy. While foreign enemy was up
on our soil, while the walls of the Capitol of our
Union were blackened by the smoke Of fires kin.
died by the torches Of hostile invaders, open re.
sstance was threatened to drafts to fill the ranks
of our armies. These threats were not made by
an excited mob acting under sense OF wrong,
but were put forth as the calm conclusions OF
men who were then, and whose memories are
now hon0red in the communities in which they
lived. AS chosen representatives OF their States
they sOlemnly declared that, 'in this whole Sc.
riea Of devices and measures for raising men this
Convention discerns total disregard for the con.
siitution and disposition to violate Its provis.
ions demanding from the individual States
firm and decided opposition"
CHAPTER FROM HISTORY.
At an early day Alexander Hamilton, the great
leader Of his lparty, warned his followers that
they were going too far. So thoroughly con.
vinced was he at one time that there was plan
in progress for the separation Of the Union, that
on June IL, 1904, on the Saturday previous to his
death, he said to Colonel John Trumbull, with q
AOSA Vi uocp AuchhADbt Aou kOlDB W
You will see the principal men there. Tell them
from me as my request for Gods sake to cease
their conversations and lhreatenings about the
separation Of the Union. 1t must hang together
as long as 1t can be made to-" 1t was a dlstin
guished Northern Senator who, at the seat of gov
ernment in 1911, first suggested secession. he
said: ~ am compelled to declare 1t as my lelib.
crate opinion thatif this bill passes the bonds Of
this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States
which compose It are free from their moral obli-
Cations and that as 1t viii be the right Of all SO 1t
will be the duty Of some to prepare definitely for
a separation anioably if they can, violently if
they must II was a leading Northern State
which placed upon Its legislative records the dec.
larstion against the admission of Texas, which
taught that it dissolved the bonds Of the Union,
and asserted that no human authority could
make It submit to that act. Although II did sub.
NIT the spirit Of rebellion was there. Among the
earliest events in Pennsylvania was the formida-
Bile resistance 10 the lava Of Congress known Is
The Whisky Rebellion. This grew TO such pro
portions that George Warrington was forced 70