The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-12-23

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Senate Of the United states always consulted always
sPeced in whatever belonged to the duty and the means
the father OF my friend recalls to my mind the name Of
and the Hawes trusted and beloved Of as6ingon con.
suited upon all occasions, CONNECTED With the
administration OF the finances the establishment of
Treasury department the imposition the first rates and
duties and every thing that belonged the commercial
setsAnd will take this occasion to say, gentlemen
that there truth developed and established in
constitution to the present time than that the mercantile
interest the great commercial OF the community,
e anS % ali e
reer and profession gives them sort Of nationality OF
chaacterthere is no class of men among who from
the beginning have stood stronger rmer for whatever
was intended whatever tended to preserve the Union
OF the States and the happy form OF government under
which we live. CHEEKY The constitution Of the Uni
ted States regard various municipal regulations and
local interests left the States. individual discon
law left them their own systems of municipal regula
ton but there great interest great concern.
which from the very nature Of the case ongero
be left under the management of thirteen sferward
twenty and now twenty six States but committed neces-
sarly committed the the protection the wisdom,
and the regulation of government that the go.
venment, has been declared, Of the ofthe
United States-Qiear, hear) There Is commerce Of
New York; there commerce OF Massachusetts Aaba-
ma orviginaal and singular in its aggregate-n all its
parts it is the Of the United States regulated
at home uniform system Of law under the author
the general government and protected abroad by this
nag Of the United States the = piuritIs umamp and
vernment, all over the world tremendous cheers)
There is therefore gentlemen nothing more binding no
thing that makes cohesive there nothing that
repels all the tendencies to disunon and dismem
berment, than this great common, and may say over
wheming interest Of commerce-one general
TEN OF trade and navigation connecting with
Their and connecting with all the nations upon the earth
is seen upon the Pacific seas, or in the Baltic
in the Indian Ocean, Tremendous cheersl Who knows
knows hears OF any thing Of the exports of the North
Of tho South or among the antipodes, in the wiids
Of the West, in the Eastern or the Western seas =
Whoever is there that hears knows any thing Of
American shpor any American enterprise OF CONNER
ca character that does bear the impress OF the Anne
rican Union with it Loud cheers) 1t would be pre-
sumption OF which cannot be guilty. gentlemen Tor nc
to imagine for moment that among the gifts which New
England has made to common country, am among
than ofthe most uncomfortable readily bring
na mot only the gea, men and nsS hs seee
their fathers distinguished in the
ed in the formation OF the Constitution and in it's early ad
disting shrink in just and
conscious humiliation before their established characters
and their established renown and al that venture TO
say and all that venture to hope may be true in the sen
men ofmy friends be that 80 far as mind and
so far as intent and design are concerned, may be
whole country Of which am member with proper,
comprehensive and patriotic regard for it, (Cheers)--
We all know that the objects nearest objects dearest
to Family affections neighborhOod affections social
reationsthey touch nearest; but whoever shall be-
to love his friends and his neghbOrs and hi. city he
ought fulfls the benediction OF the poet
debeat, ct quid amicisn Cheers) Gentlemen. It has
been my my fortune particularly to have acted in
life either for the ey OF my wSicS Win
in the limits Of its constitutional power exercises urs,
diction all the States and all the people Ny friend
at the end Of the table, upon my left ir Colden has
spoken pleasantly to tonight Of the repeated
OF Saints In sober sense, in sense OF deep convc-
ton | say that the emergencc OF this country from
British dominion and its union under the present form Oh
government, beneath the general constitution Of the
country constitutes will not say one Oh the most
fortunate, but the most admirable, the most feicous
occurrences that have fallen to the lot Of man Cheers)
A
which in other regions philosophy has dreamed o. and
theory has proposed and speculation has Dut
which man has never been able to accomplish mean
the government of great naton vastly extended
portion of the regions of the EARTH by mems of ocaln-
general a pnsss knows not in tse history Of the World
notw outstanding the great age Of
despite and contrast Of every thing modern history,
know nothing suitable on the whole to the great in
portion Of the earth as power Of local legislation Tor
local and municipal purposes, with not conederacy-
ment for general purposes, for the whole spplsuse)
We may derive eminent proof Of this truth from the
upon the other side Of the Atlantic speak of them Of
course without expressing any opinion whatever on any
Of them occurrence, which shows the great exps
rienced utily-lmay say the necessity Of local legisa
ton IL in country the other side Of the water
there be who desire severance of one portion
Of the empire from another under proposition OF repeal
a1d oers %no s No
more and no less than an approximation to that system
under which live--Which local municipal
shall have local legislation and for general purpo
ses general (Appanse.) This becomes
the more important when we recollect that the United
States spread many degrees OF latitudeare
subject to such variety of that necessarily
great diversity Of relations must subsst between its in
habtants Let ask whether the Legislature Of New
York could wisely pass laws for the Of Lou
siana, whether the government Of Louisiana could
wisely pass laws for Pennsylvania New York; Every
body will say mo" And yet the interests Of New York.
and Pennsy vania and Louisiana, in whatever concerns
their relations between themselves and their general
perfectly well provided for and perfectly congruously adj
used i'll may say So by committing to government
the result OF the general relations among
confess, gentlemen that having been in my humble ca
in public liienow closed altogetherwhen employ
ed in any portion Of public connected with the
general government have contemplated, as the great
Of the moment Or the exigency Of the occasion but the
preservation OF this system-for | do consider IT 10
so much the result of circumstances and much Of
due the fortunate as well as to the saga
city, of the great acting upon those occasions that
is experiment of such remarkable and renowned sue
that he Is fool and mailman who would wish totry
that experiment second time-(cheers) ! see to-day,
and all that the descendants of the Purans who
landed upon the Rock OF Py mouth-the followers Of Ra
leigh who settled Virginia and North Carolida he who
lives where the trunoheon Of empire SO to speak was
by Smith the inhaban Of Georgia. he Who settled
the auspices Of France upon the banks of the Mis-
sisspp the swedes of Delaware the Quakers OF Penn
sylyana-all 6nd in this day. their common interest
their protection, their glory under the
united government which leaves them all, nevertheless
the administration Of their own municipal and local
affairs te the Frenchmen swedes, Quakers GA what
they choose to loud cheers) And when one
considers that this stem OF government Will NOT say
has and and circumstances
have had an agency IN but Will say una. %h men
has rather encouraged the growth Of the people Of the
country from three millions upon the glorious Fourth o.
July l776 seventeen millions. Now, who Is there Ia
will say, upon this hemisphere nownay, who is or,
that will stand up in either hemisphere-who is Il er'
in any part Of the world, that will say that Ia;
great experiment of united Republic has failed
in America loud cheers) And yet, know,
g-ntlemen-I feel that this united system is
held together bys strong tendencies to union, at the
time that II is kept from too much tendency to con-
solidaon by a strong tendency to support their
power and onsideraton And for glorious half
fury it has kept have been kept and has made
us what we are. (Cheers But, gentlemen, must not
allow self pursue this topic II is sentiment
commonly repeated by upon all public occasions and
private occasions, and every where, though II is