Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1838-09-08


East against the West; as though the com
mon glory and the common interest Of thu
whole confederacy wasnot more than sufii
cient to outweigh a thousand times th'
small and minor matters in which we diff
fer.
But though politicians, actuatsd solely
by selfish and parricidal ambition, seek
to rend asunder what God has himselfjoin
ed in everlasting bonds, there isa hand thai
will arrest the impious design; hand they
despise, but hand they will find toe
strong for them: mean the hard hand o.
mechanical labor. Great cheering.)-
Yes, sir, that mighty hand, and long may
it be mighty in this free and equal land
that mighty hand will link these States
together with hooks Of steel. The labor
ing population of this country mean tc
live together as one people, and who shall
disannul that purpose! See how they arc
conquering both time and space!--See the
thousand steamboats, that traverse oul
lakes and rivers, aye, and that Leviathan
like, begin 10 make the ocean itself boil
like pot. Look at their rail road cars
glancing like fiery metcors from one end
ofthe land to the other; blazing Centaurs
with untirng nerves, with unwasting
strength, and who seem to 60 too, on the
grant temperance, teetotal temperance Prin,
ciple laboring all day on mater only
daughter and loud cheers.)
Think you the people will suffer their
cars to stop and their rail roads to be cut
in two, because politicians choose to draw
a dividing line between northern and
southern empire?--Never, sir, never
proceeding on those great national princi
pies of Union which have been so luminous.
ly expoundet and so nobly indicated by
your illustrious guest, CHEERS they will
teach these politicians who is MASTER
Let US but hang together fifty years longer,
and defy the world ever to separate US.
(Shouts and repeated cheers.) Let US but
get safely through the crisis, and our in
sttutions will stand on frmer basis than
ever. (Cheering,) True 1--WE are threaten
ed from without as well as within. When
| left my far distant home, left not far
distant from it thousands Of warlike lndi-
ans, congregated and armed by the policy
of this administration, consulting, plotting,
meditating vengeance. They number, It
is said, 10000 fighting men.
You have given them rifles; and nature
has given them in the vast prairies in their
rear, tens ofthousands of wild horses whom |
they we'll know how TO break in and to
ride. Their hearts burn with wounded
pride, and bot with meditated revenge;
and who knows how soon they may return
on us, Mazeppa like, topay us home for all
their injuries? | know, that in stating the
dangers ofthe far west, shall not be heard
with Indifference, though | speak in the
far east. No, we are one body, and where
one member suffers, all the rest suffer
with it; when one member prospers, all
The rest rejoice with it, and hold it q high
duty of those citizens who come from dis
tant parts Of This wide union, to assure
their fellow citizens Of the perfect sympa-
thy and unanimity Of feeling, which per-
Vades the entire people ofthis vast conied-
eracy. Ges--we are one people, for
veal or for woe.
When | cannot come from Mississippi
and call the men of Boston my fellow-citi-
zens, my kindred, my brethren, desire
no longer to be myself citizen of this re-
public. Cheers long and loud. No!
We are all embarked on one bottom: and
whether we sink or swim, we will sink or
We will swim together! (Here the hall
'ang with triumphant shouts, clapping of
lands and rounds Of cheering; handker-
'hlels waved and the trombones Of the
,and pealed note of union with the cries
If the assembly,
Mr.. Prentiss concluded by Offering the
blowing toast:
The Commonwealth Of Massachusetts:
First among the States in the establish
nent of this Republic-second to none in
he ability, integrity and patriotism which
he contributes to sustain it.
A new hank is to he established in Gin.