The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-03-24

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wide expanse shall be heaved from its low
est abyss into careering mountains the
unloosed winds sweep from every point of the
compass, driving all in wild conmotion over
the watery waste ever and anon, vivid flashes
OF electricity unveiling the horrors Of the whole
scene, and the &C deep toned thunder' reyer-
beraling throughout all its caverns. In the
midst of this strife Of tho elements, is seen our
gallant bark Of State freighted with all the
best hopes Of man now, like some great
bird, on strong and soaring wing, mounting
into the lurid clouds, then sinking into the ap-
parently rent and parting globe, still she bravely
energies from the yawning gulph, her staunch-
cons firm, not a joint other timbers sprung, and
all the stars aud stripes floating from her mast
head, undmmed and uniform. The soul Of
every enlightened patriot and phanthropist is
heaving with prayers for her safety but who
can dare say she will not founder! What
arm so strong, what soul SO steady, as to bring
her safe to harbor
| Mr.. Speaker, devotion to the union, is
among the strongest, the most deeply rooted
feelings of my soul. Look at the position Of
my state, Kentucky-and admit that the in
tensiy OF that sentiment is much increased
by my loyalty 10 heron the East and South
east she stretches into the spurs of Ale
ghany mountains on the whole Of her length
to the Northwest, she is washed by the beau
tiful, and now placid and peaceful Ohio,
whilst her foot is planted on the mighty father
of waters She is the line Of separation be-
tween slavery and anti. sas ery-between ia
na'iclsm and those rights of property on
which il is making its daring and lawless ag-
gresslons or II these erring people will have
II so, between benevoence and an enlarged
recognition of the unalienable rights of hui
mainly, and the unjust and cruel enslaving OF
man by his fellow. There would be no pro-
bable disruption of the union, from physical
or moral causes no boundaries Of new EN-.
pires and dynasties, prescribed by great
natural Objects or deep lnveterate differences
Of opinion and of interest, that would not
make her frontier State. She would then
become the principal battle field of the future
wars of the North American continent Her
name is an Indian phrase, which being trans
lated, is the dark and bloody ground" and
her right to bear it, would be dreadfully re-
vived. She would become the Belgium of
the new world and the past history of that
war-scourged country, where almost every
town has sustained siege, every plain has
been whitened with human bones, and every
stream has been crimsoned with the gore Of
slaughtered armies, would be her future an
nails No State has greater and more endu-
ring motives, than Kentucky, to cherish the
union and deep devotion TO it, is found on
all her hills, in all her valleys and pervades
every city, hamlet, and habitation within her
limits, Whenever it Is threatened from North
or South, in such mode as to make military
force the "ultima ratio" she will rush with
its good friends to The rescue: the sharp
crack of her rifle will be heard, and its aim
will be found deadly to our country's foes.
Gentlemen tell us that Harrison is support
ed by and leagued with abolilonists and tina,
his election will place in greater jeopardy
the property of the stakeholder Sir, we in
Kentucky, know the hero of Tippecanoe he
has declared to the nation his opinions con-
corning our rights, and this was necessary to
give confidence to those who knew him. All
his sentiments and principles, his whole life
and course of conduct, assure us, that he
would never countenance any association, the
tendency of which was to invade individual
property, and to disturb the peace and nsttu-
lions of the country. No, whenever its pur-
poses were overly demonstrated, and the ex-
ercise of legal force become necessary to
subjugate it, his veteran sword would be
among the first to leap from its scabbard to
be plunged into the vitaIs of the grisly mon
ster God grant that the rights Of the people
of this country, both political and of property,
may never be endangered but by the agrees
sion or acquicscence of Harrison: there
could be no more satisfactory guaranty that
their duration would be immortal
There is no living man in this broad con-
federacy who has given as numerous and sig
nal evidences of great combination of civil
and military capacity-none whose brow is
more richly adorned, both with the civic
wreath and the soldiers laurel. His election
would bring into the administration of the
Executive branch ofthe Government the great
properties of which the present incumbents
have none--patrioiism and honesty. Through
service of about forty years, alternately CT
vii and military, in the course of which he was
invested with nearly the powers of dictator,
defy all the malignant industry Of his ene-
mics to adduce single act in which self was
not forgotten, and the good and glory Of his
country only his directing principle. Millions
passed through his hands, and not sous stuck |
to defe their spotless whlteness and like the
father of his country, he left her service poorer
than when he entered it. With tythe of his
opportunities, many of the official myrmldons
of this administration would have plum
dercd their country's excheqner OF thou
sands, and have retired upon large estates /;
and many of them think con,emptibly OF HIM,
because his integrity was never seduccd by so
many temptations to pecuatlon, and he chose
to remain poor, rather than despoil his 60
vernment. His election would be followed
by the precedent of the first executive officer
da,;,;nn and ee,vipg hnt one term The