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J 1 . . I . " UNION, THE C0N8T1T UTIO N AND Til E LAWStiip ' n it s ant .?. 11V n r t irp v , - 1 1 Vol XXXII. ' . till t rVs'.T '. ' "'., ,-'1 J -TLT' IJ'-TJlirV - ' ' " '' " -'""'i nil i in r .ii , , " May joar rich soil, " gttiWs-tt, attors'a better blessing psar O'stevsty l"4.".J - .... Cirifi JhnKi ipplW la Fill tot finler. Freq'wn' co nplaintt tie mad by thoe hd a c limited in their gardening opera li.m. whatever manure ihcjr di ap ply to their garden , burn tip tlirir rrnp when the lieat f eommer cornet on.' We hoe fell tliU inconvenience ton, and in looting around to fin J remedy, have romc to that whenever a garden req-iire nire tliinuUtinf manures, they should be applied i't the fall or winter; in this wav rank siable manure mar be applied, and spaded or ploughed under immediate ly. It will Iwe become hy spring the proper f'l of plant, and at all manuies leach npwar l the surface .oil will he in fine e Midu'uMi f.ir the growth of vegetables; w!ieres, if the manure i applied at plant ing time," especially the crude minurrt geurrdlv app'ird here, just a vegetable art most required, they are fired hy the ac tum of the eun on the manure, and the gar dener has the mnrtification to find hi labor and money thrown away. Whatever ma nures are applied in the spring, should he well ro ted or of rooting natiire. 'There are many families that annually wvte a barrel or two of leached ashes, when, hid it been applied to the garden pitch, they would have had early yorka" aa well aa their neighbor.'. The soapsuds from the wash t-ib is a manure that may he appli ed with safety and with profit in the spring, and yet how few ever oe them, except to enrich the earth around their kitchens, and make loathsome nv d holes. J when perfumed (lower, luscious fruit. ; ami onmmnth vegetables, might have been maile by them. We do not yet properly apprecia e the impoiiauce of a earden. The bearing that it has upon the happi-j ness and health of a ftmilr, it plainly per-, 1 rn 1111c wuricirr hi en i.iiiiuuf n u ruuciuue iiiii me miser nao neu auu cii'c uuiiiti uaic tiwuiDii ed garden; how highly important then: with hia gold to aome part, where, by lated on the name of Alfred, and the that we thould undcrotand the proper food living incognito, he would be free from two or three great names of others like of plants. lie would certainly he it mad t the demands of the government. Some him. if others such there be, worthy to physician wht would give hia fevered j time passed on ; the house in whieh he he remembered in comparison with patients stimulants to raise the fever high-, had lived wat sold, and workmen were Washington. ' er and hiher,unid vitality waa consumed, j busily employed in its repair. In the' The memory of Washington it in So' w ith the gaidenet. plants are frequent- progress of their work, they met with the deed an inestimable portion of the mo ly aiiinuhied to death, for the want of pro-uhmr of the secret cave, with the key in the ral treasure of the country; and I do per cooling food. Our garden soils ran loek.oittside. I hey threw back the door, not know, gentlemen, but that I might scarcely he too rich, Iml il must he a rich- and descended with 'a light. ' The first ob- almost say, but for the sacrifice of hu neat retentive of moiurc, and not, as jerl upon which the lamp wat reflected mn life that would be occasioned by would he the case if the stable manure, wat the ehxsily body of Foscue. the miser, that one would rather that half the was applied in the 'spring, he a richness and scattered around him were heavy bagt" continent should aink than that we which burned everything mi eontart widi of gold snd ponderu e bests of untold should lose the memory and the cha it. lie, then, for.your wagons and your treasure; a candlestick lay beside him on racter of Washington great applause wheelliHrrous, load them up. and cover the fl.wr." The worshipper of msmmon a character to be held opto thu imi ynnr garden quickly; plough them up. had gone into his cave to pay his devoirs tation of our children, to be pointed out turn the manure under, and when the ear- to hi eohh-n sod, and became a sacrifice to the admiration of the stranger, to be Iv teed time come, veil need not fear but a hearre! will follnw. Columbui Enq. I r . . .1.. , 1 , .... .. - 1 A Wife worth ha?ing. Not many aiAii!h. since. senilem:ni who reside at t'heisea, and ia ihe hook-keeper of a laige secrei mine! How hitter must have been most important services to his country,! ;n(0 whose hands it would first go manufacturing establmliinen'.had the mis- the last eirnggle of thai avaricious soul ! in his own time, and to benefit all fu-jthey knew that he would set up prece foriiwem severely injoiehisrghthatid. In llow terrible must hare been the appeal ture ages, if we are but just to his me-; fonts of administration that his succes- adiliion to the pain nt hi wound, he had the, disrowagii.g prospect of being for a long time incapacitated from attendinglo his or-' liuary business, and consequently de- prived of hi means of support. Hut his wife, with a spirit and resolution worthy of her sex. in addition 10 the eare of her household, (which it at all tune a pattern of neatnos.1 undertook and actually per- formed all the writing necessary to keep in perfeel order the booke of the company wiih which her htuhand was connected, She carefully devoted several hours of earh Ux to her self-imposed task, and the tiei.it and faithful manner in which (lie work wa performed, elided the war- most encomium from her husband's em- plover. Such a woman is equal to' any emergency, and it an honour to her tex. ry-f" , 1 Moral Effect! of Railrondl. The Rail R'tad Journal, speaking of the elevating effec t of these great thoroughfares, says of every railroad: Mi educaiet the peo ple. It develop a higher interest than poliiica. It generalize our views. It haggard poverty, of hate and loathing atMclies it1 eqti illy 10 every part of our for the miser, must, in one loud, discord country. It destiny clanship. It de- nl horus, have cried for venjeanee and iHches'us frm sectional and party cliques, retribution upon hi guilty soul ! li lensensihe iinpoitiince of political quesj tinns in our ryes. In fine, it takes away 1 Sir Edward Coke says, we, often hav our old and give lis new ideas and put- ing occasion to 20 into the country, did in suit, which are identical in every part of our great domain. Ths 1 ExtfaardlnarT" Snmbtr SfTM. On lhe7ihofthe7th month a holy observance UU wa 01 I lined to the children of Israel, who' proceeded and succeeded; but lie lhat takes feasit-d 7 dya and remained 7 days in ' upon him to write, doth captivate all the lent tin. 71, year wis directed to he ' fi-ollies and powers ol hit mind and bo siMviih f.,r all ihiii, and at the end of dy, and inus. be only at entive to lhat 7 time 7 vear ciiimeuced the grand j-1 which he coHecteth, without any expret bilee; -very 7 ye.urs the land hy fallow; ! sion of joy or cheerfulo" while he is st every 7 ye. is iliete as a grand n-lesse , his w-wk. . ; front all debt, and bondsmen were set free. From Ihi lie nif1,t fcatt orirt aa'ed the rvalwoa tf btoding yenng men to evenyesr ppreBtireahip, and punih tn ineorrijiide egeodera by tranvportauoa ff7, twice 7. w three timet 7 yeart. Ancient'y a child wn ot earned before 7 data. ot being kreoanied fully to have life befere that periodical day. 'hie teeth pnnf out ia the 7th month, and art tlicd ia the7ih year, when infancy ia rhanped into chiIJ'.o.Kj. At thriee 7 yea re the faetdiira are developed, manhood com nenrea. and man beeomtt Ugally com petent ti all ritii cu j at lour time 7 a man ia in full psefion of hie alreneth i at five time 7 he i fit for thebutineM of the wmU; at eu tioiea 7 lt berorae grave and wiae.or never t at 7 limee 7 he ia in hie apogee, and from that decay a at eight time 7 he ia at hia firat climacte ric; at sine timet 7. or 63. he ia in hia grand climacteric, r year of dangers and ten timet 7, or three aeore yeart and ten, waa by the royal prophet pronounced the period of human Ufv EXTRAORDINARY AVARICE. In the year 1762, an eiiraoidinary in stance ol avarice occurred in France, t k mi.er, of the name of Fotcue, who had amaMi-d ennroiotia weulili by the moat aordid parcimony and the moat iliaeredita hie eitottion, waa requeued by the go vernment to advance a turn of -money at a loan. The miter, to whom a fxir in leret wat nut inducement auflii iently strong to enaMe him to part with hia treasured gold, declared Ins incapacity to inert this demand; he pleaded severe Iowa and the utmost poverty. Fearing, iinwevrr, that ame or hit tieiglilnnn, a mong whom he wat very unnonuUr. - - "i"" "ncni.o wcaun 10 me, ffoveriimnu he antdird hia imrcooitv in' 1.:. : 1. . dis-ovrr some eflectiul way of hiding his , gold, should they attempt to institute a J acarcn 10 ascertain me truth or i!ehood , of hie plea. With great rare and eecre- Oientary on the character, principles, cy he dug a deep rave in hia cellar; to'fn' Pcj of Washington that we have this rrre Aacle for his treasure he descend, just heard, it seems as if. every thins ed by a ladder, and to the trap door he attached a spring-lock, to that, on shut- ting it w ould facten itself. Bv and by the miser ilitanne-rcd : inouiriea'were made: the house was searched ; woods were ex- nlored. and nonda were drsreed: but na Fntrue rouhl they find ; and gotsipt be- to hit devotion ? What mint have been the tensaiions of the miserable man what me norrors 01 ni siiuaunn, worn ne nerii the d..or close after him. snd the spring- lock euei.ally imprison him within his r conscience within that sordid sinner! How each hag must have disgorged iis treasure, and each piece of gold have danced, in imagination, j mil ml him as a demon ! llow hated, when the gnaw- ing pang of starvation cane slowly upon, him. inut have been that yellow vision ; ( his very heart most have grown tick at that which he once to dearly loved! Gold in bags ; gol.l in chests; gold piled in heap ; gold for a pillow ; gold strew- ed upon the ground lor him to lie upon! Whilst hit taper lasted, turn w her he would hi eye, nothing met them but hia gold. lint when the last flicker died away, and the miser wat left in darkness to dwell upon hi coming death, and upon hi many rin, how awful imisl have been the agonies of conscience ! , llow, surely. I amidst theslooni of that sepulchre of gold. mnl the poor whom he had opprested. imd die unfortunate whom he had ruined by hi aarice. have risen np to reproach him ; and. when the mind became fevered by its last deadly struggles, how the facet some tort envy ihe state of the honest ploughman and other nieehancs. For one, when he was at his work, would merrily aiiur, and the ploughman whistled some self pleasing tune, and vet their work both .- tpcrcrt or : . WOar. EBTMBD ETXRCTT, At the bte Kew Ymk L'o'm Aaoiveraarj FrsO , sl W fence U liw MeBMry VTLusiev The second regular toast havto beea read, ix: "The ConjtitiUoa f the Uited SUtea" . Edward Everett, of Ma- MchUMttt. reiDonded aa fallow i mr. Chairman and Gentlemen i I m - " ' I TUSLSZt eh?i,et- d m? "1,ed Frt Kete..itythe tery tame ue company on thia occasion. aennUej .......' the company on this occasion, ten till e aa 1 ant that there are gentlemen pr. sent ranch more capable of doing so ac ceptably tlan I am, and much more worthy of the honor conferred on me by inviting me to respond to the toast w men nas just oeen proposed. I thank yon, sir, notwithstanding, far allowing me the privilege of being present on this most interesting occasion; espe-i cially, air, do I thank yon for the ho nor done to me in calling on me to re spond to that great and noble toast. The Coastitutioa of : the United States." Applause. Sir, you have, done well to give aa early and promi nent place to a toast in honor of the constitution, on the birthday of Wish ington, for more than to any other in fluence, under Providence, the country owea the constitution to him. f Conti nued applatise. Did not the hoaora . r -V ----- , lumeera oi iianover county, -irime iif.!!.. i tt Wh hM-lBtt.rueted VJ Point, as a remarkable instance of pat Trli i -1?aVcH '?. ttorn,n riotisra, to that brave youth. Colonel (Gen. Fwte)-did he not tell us from Washington, who. I isn't help but history that the very first suggestion think, has been so wonderfully pre made towars the constitution-not the ,erfed by Providence to render some first official act. but the firat private btportnnt service to hia country." suggestion made towards the formation r-Grett appi1Uie .3 ask yoa genae. oftheconstitution-wasmadeat ilount men. where in uninspired history you Vernon, in the house of Washineten. L u.L j:r.J f:i. ami hf u luimtittiiH kn.B.ir3 n. , '--""'6' LnP plause.J And yet, gentlemen. 1 know how Pk to you on this great theme i for after the most instructive. "uu pprupriaie, ana eeasonaoie com "d uen that could be said. Still, ' know that it is a' field ia which an American audience can never tire. Washington is to us ia our recent his tory -within our own days, within the Experience of our fathers he is all and mor tn,B that history and tradition, commended to the fervent applause of sll mankind, and to be handed down!;wn 0f .ne'ir 60vereiirntT on the altar t. a pwnxerii. ucnuciucn, cr patriotism, and consent to the estab Washington was all this and more. Ujighraent 0f a strong Central Govern was his great mission to render the,,npn GentUnien. thrr wll knew mory and true to ourselves. And thi!8or9 would not lightly depart from. 1 year seems to be, out of many years, a' am almost tempted to quote the sub most fitting one to commemorate the j i;me words of M ilton memory and services of Washington.) In that ever-memorable address, given , to the people of the United States, I think, on the 17th of September, 1796, he alluds to "forty-five years dedica- ted to the service of the country." Now, gentlemen, fortv-five years from 1796 carries us back to 1751. iust a century from this time, as the com - menccment of the career of Washing - ton, according to his own statement, General Foote has given us so full a snetcn oi me more recent political ser-,i"c uiriiuuij mu vn9sitiiuujni, were preauropiuous onougn io anempi to vices of Washington, that he drives me with which we approach our re!igious( do it. io the parting counsels of Washing back to the beginning of his career. In duties (an act too little deemed of in. ion? I say again, if iheir influence ceases this year (1751) he received, young as these modern days) in Washington's to be felt, it is not because Washington he was, boy as he was, his first milita- jcase even this great civic act was but' it dead, but because we are dead snd cold rv appointment as adjutant general in n august ceremony. From the mo- buried in the grave of criminal indiffer one of the districts into which Virgin- ment the Federal Convention had tie- enre and apathv absorbed in the gilded ia was divided. Three years only had cided that there should be a President, cares of that prosperity whieh we enjoy elapsed from the treaty of Aix-la-Cha-!nd nine States had adopted the con-' under the Constitution which he did so pelle; but the movements which had I stitution although there were arrange-( much to procure for us; or, what is worse, commenced on the part of the Ohio .ments and contrivances intended to misled by prejudice, by false theories of Land Company, with a view to the set-!cause some uncertainty ia the designa-" government, by imaginary sectional inter- tlenient of the region west of the Alle - ghanies, had aroused the jealousy of the French and Indiana: and. in real- ity, these insignificant local interests votes were to be given for two persons ter his voire in accordance with the part were the original source of that great for President a ndf Vice President, not ing voice of Washington. I know ii is seven years' warm which the leading - . . .. . Pi States of Europe became which ended in the capture of Quebec, w. ma u. a us s involved, the expulsion of the French from this continent, and, remotely, to the inde- pendence of the. U. States. Cheers. Gentlemen, youn as he was, Washing - .trd thiniosr imnortan rpc- ... ... .- vices in this war. He was but nine . . ati teen years old in 1 70 1, when ne receiv ed his first military appointment justj allude to. Two 'Vrs ir as fm a! recollect, be went on a moat ruraan- tie tod daRgerona errand, to the Tetw deoce ofthe Freorh Governor is Ve.trj throe tjtt tevcreat trialil; Ia canto, and hi narrow escape from the j perils of the elements and the rifle1 of j the savage foe. Yon remember the campaign of the following year, I7J4. j when ea aa erer-me moratle dar the funrth of July Wathtnrtoa. aafor tunateljr for ererj thing bat hit fame, oia io capitulate at wnai waa wen day on which the articles I anion, pro posed by Franklin, alluded to by Gen. Foote.) were signed at Albany. We see him in the next year in the terrible campaign in which Braddock was slain. and in which two horses were shot ua-j der the youthful hero himself, and bis cloihin was pierced by four musket balls. The courage, the fortitude, the skill, and the perseverance with which, young as he was. he conducted the re treat of the wreck of the royal army from thoe inauspicious fields, and watched over the safety of the frontier fur the residue of the war, raised him at once to a position before the public, and to a hold on public confidence, which years of success, on many occa sions; are hardly enough to reach. Well was it said by President Davie s, in 1730 or 1737, in a sermon to loe vo this, or a youth of tw-enty-three.lulnl- 'tmA .. .1,:. v. - ... . ... reer of your Washington ? Thus was ne heralded into the service of his coun- try, In the great scene of that service, the revolutionary war. that mirhty dra ma in human affairs I need not re mind you how every thing seemed to cluster about him. There, were others who rendered invaluable services in the cabinet and in the field j but Washing ton was all in all to the cause. I would not on any account do injustice to any other honored name. 1 here were ma ny more than I can number who ren dered invaluable services to their coun trywho spoke kindling words of pa triotism in dark times who rendered most important services to the country tn most arduous and responsible dipto matic positions abroad who reaped honorable laurels on hard fought fields but it was on Washington alone that the heart of the country cast anchor in seasons of darkness, of calamity, and, but for him, of despair. ("Great ap plause.3 And, air, when the revidu tionary war was brought to a trium phant close, and the colonies seemed unable,' under the old Confederation, to recover from their exhaustion, what was it that induced those States, each proud, and justly so, of its hardly earn- ij ;ndnniiiirr. tnirxTifst lumio nor. m . " Far off hi coming, iboas.' They needed in his case none of the poor machinery of electioneering none of the nominating conventions in Phi- jladelphia or Baltimore applause 'it needed none of those to point out i Washington to the choice of the peo- j pie. In his case, that great civil act - by which a free people constitute their ruiers an aci wnicn 1 win we ongnc; always to discharge with something. of 1 tion lor omce although there were( (electoral colleges interposed between the people and the candidates, and naming which was intended tor either ..: . nr. A! . . . omce, yei in tvasmngton s ce inc j were all but forms; tor from the mo - ment when the constitution was auopi- . ed, he was aireatty chosen inxnenearw of the people. Enthusiastic cheering. 'All the stages of the election, all the I forms of suffrase, were but the outward - ' promulgation of this spontaneous moral t IL . S , - s 1 - Well, gentlemen, alter he was elect- en, now viws m a wauniirauiHi uw hi pertocal weight of character and hia iodividial infiaence carry the teas- that memorable instance, especially, when the minds of the people were em tittered en the one hand by the detea- tioa of the weaterff posts, and the in- terfercBce of the Bntuh cruisers with oar neitral trade, and when, on the other hand, we were drawn rerjrstrerig Ij towards France by the contagion of political reform, anj the grateful re membrance of valuable sen ices in the revsUtionarj war, the infiuence of Washington was able to subdue the sensibilities of the people to the mea sure of a iust bolicv.and reatrain them from ruining into those wars of the French revolution which wasted the strength and shook the stability of Eu rope for more than thirty years.? Now, gentlemen, what I would ear nestly ask is this t Must all this migh ty influence of the character, and prin ciples, and memory of Washington must they all be buried in his tomb ?. E Voices never, never. Is all that e was to ua, and to mankind all his political wisdom, his experience, his unsuspected disinterestedness all. in short, that made him to be Washington, in distinction from the multitude of meritorious citizens of earlier or later , days is all this to be consigned to wivion, in that dark and narrow house on the banks of the Potomac ? fCries . of "No, no," from all parts of the : room.1 Nor Heaven forbid ! It is the great prerogative of our rational nature ,tin of the spirit of disaffection and bitter that mind and its influences can never, " which, if not checked, sooner or la die ; and unless we are cold and dead. :er. or rather very soon, will cause the we 'shall listen to the voice which , speaks to as through his immortal ad-1 dress with deeper reverence even, if possible, than that with which we should listen to his living counsels. PL.. -.11 .1 II 1 oai aiiurvas was inc moti rarciuiiy pre - pared prmluct of a mind from whirh noth-; ing erudt or ill considered ever went forth the msturesl result of hit life long perienee. At the close, as he believed, of hit political and military career, hiving ronihl througfi two great wars, one of me contiuuiion anu ine laws mai which ended in establishing the indepen- constitution which wat framed by our deDeeifhi country, having in potuofhigh 'father, as gwid, ss wise, as pstrolie as responsibility suit ted in brinjing about !oureves, and under which the coontiy two organic changes of government hsv- has enjoyed a degree of prosperity nnex ing been twice unanimously called to the!mP'el the world if they will go on Chief MagUttacy, snd about lo withdraw ; indulging this fierce spirit of mutual hos from office lor the last time, and. as he ,'"7i will, at no distant day, result in a ihought, for ever, into that behind retire- separa ion of the Swtet. to be followed by menu a he railed it. which he so earnest- wsr, or rather a series of wars, which ly coveted he gave to the people of h United Sutee ihe last counsel, is he calls them, in language I can nevtr repeal with out emotion of an old and affectionate friend." You have read it thousand timet. Tou plate it in the hands or your children you appreciate, as you ought, those last wordt of wisdom "and love, which rushed from that nobis heart . but a few years before il erased lo beat w forever. And what is the leading advice of this ever memorable address! I it not adhe rence to the Union! I believe, il iis pagee were counted, a fall fourth part or it would would go on much st it did before. cir, be found devoted lo this theme. He telle 1 1 am very loth to enter into any specula us lo watch over its preservation with the j lions of this kind, on one side or the other; most jealous anxiety. A to love ol liber-, hut, in my humble judgment, ihere will ty, which you might suppoae would be not be two confederacies, nor any confe the principal topic in an undress from one i derscies, but ss many despotic govern w ho had devoted his life to promote it, ments ns, in the chances of conquest and there it hut a tinele aentence a rouDle reconquest, military chieftains may be able of lines; he just alludes lo il as an ind we!-, and willing in establish. Prolonged an ting sentiment of the American heart, ' plause.l Gentlemen, let Getmany teach which needs no recommendation from him. As for the preservation of State rights, which form so leading a topic in modern systems nf policy, I believe that Washington does not sw mnch as allude to them. I think he doe not name them -not that he undeivalued Slite rights, but he knew there was centrifugal tendencies enough in so large a body of States for their preservation. No, gentlemen, it is Union, Union, Union the first, the lat. the constant strain of this imiuorul ad dreas. And what could my poor voice add, eats, or, still worse, oiimieu oy pany, snu maddened by faction. I agree with Gen. Foote, thai il is lime for every man totit- j said, and by many excellent and patriotic. .... I I ...I dui, i uirauj inuiuncn nuiriu, I . . . "... . ) that the union it not seriously thitatcned; mat me alarm is laruiious; inai ine ian- . I,. . get is wnoi.y imaginary, or greauy over- rated. I wish I could ihmk so; bin I must say thai in the result or all the anxious in- qniry I have been able to make. I have come to the conclusion that the Union i ( S.s iuot m ti wrm I aaaw ewil ties, in amis iv.iu awt 1 .-"" by the 'l1".1. imr 01 vthih w " " w J'ltorder, and lawlessness ia any part of die country. These things rairy w ia ' thera their own corrective, lo a certain extent, ia the Nith and South. I know, how much has been don by excellent and , patriot ie ciuxsns of the Sohlh, to stay tLe -disaffection lo the Union in that quarter, applause. and I agree with the sentiment of Mr. Webster, in iIm admirable letter just read, that slaty -nine hundredths of my . sceiioa of the country are hf tie consiim, lion and ibe laws, Tremrodout sp plat.se 1 Fr that ressoo, I sar, 1 am ml so much led to the opinion I have expres sed by public acts and demonitraiions, aa I am most deeply grieved by symptoms I . have teen ia both extremes of tlie country of a deep feeling of bttterntst and ill will, a spirit of denunciation tf the mn uvee, character, and nol'y f 'he ppo site sections of the Union, and of all at home who are suspected of hiving- any , charily 01 sympathy w itls their fellow citizrns at a distance. . This, sir, is w hat grieve snd alarms me. Why. if the several pontons of the country bi longed 10 different nations if they were alien in language, in religion, and in race; if ihey were sworn, like Hannibal at the slur, to wage a war of destruction sgainil each other; they could not ate monger or mora hitter langutge then I have read within a, few weeks, by turn, both at the North snd theSoutV.whoentertainextremsopin- 'ion on the agitating subjects of the day. , I say it is this which gives me the gietf s est alarm for the continuance of lite Union. The outward facts are but the manifetta Union to crumble. , I am not an alarmist I nrver have been. If may alluded to a matter so unimportant. I would say that, in all my humble sddrettes to the public, I have ever lk. ll. SM M ttM P. ft. Wft l ,,'v njt he future of America. But if there is to 1 he no relaxation of those unkind feelings ex-ihetween the different sections of the coun , j try if men will not make op theii minds ! in good feeling and good fai.li on- 1 will change the aspect of thin country, injuriously affect the cause of consti tutional liberty lorever. ureal upplatise. j I do regard it as demonstrable that, in the event of a seoaration nf this Union, as . : curiam as me sun tt neaven in miu nay, hat the aun of the republic will go down from the meridian and set 4n blood. I know that tome persons of sanguine lem peramenl, dallying, as I think, nnwar- i.kaaasa S S . raniabiy with three itreamui luiuruics, have persuaded themselves that it would only be a change of two confederacies in- slead of one, and lhat in other respect all u. How did she come 011 01 me cnaos of the dark nges, after a thousand years of internecine war? Did she come out of it with two or three confederacies? Gen tlemen, the counted more than three hun dred independent principalities, as they called themselves, but sll lying at the mercy of the nearest despot and the strong est army. I presume not lo look into that dark abyss. I turn from it with the same hor ror, a thousand fold increased, that I felt when in my youth I was surprised on the ir.bl.irk and eaieined edge of ihe crater of Vesuvius, when the sides of the mountain were already quivering with the convul sive throes or sn approaching eruption. To attempt tn give lorm and outline to measure the force to calculate the direc . lion of the molten elements, boiling and bellowing in the fiery gnlph below, and just ready to be let loots by the hand of God on ihit pathway of destruction, would be as unavailing and presumptuous in the political as it is ia the natural woild. Ap plause. One thing, however, 1 think is certain. We talk of the separation of these States, assuming that they would still remain the Slates whieh they now are; but I think it is certain as demonstration, thai theii ancient sacred boundaries, found ed, in many cases, not at all on features of physical geography, running ss they do in open defiance of the mountains and rivers. drawn without the slightest regard to mili tary defence, as if it were the design of Providence that we should be bound togeth er, not by material barriers, but hy the eoids of love boundaries resting on char ter, on prescription and agreement, and tendered at laa sacred by the constitution and Union of the Uuited Slates I think it terrain that some of those boana'srie II i ?! 1 5 i a "I 1 i 4. , 'i ; J ; . . . ... , ' . . . . . .. . , . " . . .. . . . . . .. ... . . ... . ... , o o 1 .4 1
The Durham Recorder (Durham, N.C.)
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March 12, 1851, edition 1
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