Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1847-08-12

Ply could he be excused from answering To the call
which brought him before the audience. He CON-
plimented tho reverend gentleman who had preceded
him, and united with his tribute to the Purtans.
one OF whom he presumed the gentleman was him
self. laugh. As for himself, he thought it
must be evident to every one who saw him, from
a frtnd tdcte view, that he could not be descended
from the same stock. A laugh 1, almost seem
ed as II he was brought forward directly after the
reverend gentleman to produce n sort OF discord by
comparison. Yet, however much we may have
been indebted to the hardy and noble sons of New
England for much that elevates and onnobles the
West, he would venture to say that, if any one
would enter the interior of Illinois and Iowa, he
would find many of the strong armed sons Of Penn
sylvana, many from the good old State of Ken
lucky. and huge stcarms Cunning to Mr.. Allcn)
from Ohio.
Gentlemen had all heard of Ohio; he resided
there himself. IL they doubted the existence of
such place, and would put him upon the stand,
he would prove it to them; yet there are some in
our wide world who have not a very clear idea of
1t. lie once NETS Frenchman who complained
bitterly of our diplomats He inquired what was
the matter with them? Were they not diguifed
and gcntemanly in their department? Yes, but
they spoke no language at all. What, not their
own mother vernacuar. No, they spoke kind of
patos; he believed they called it Ohio. IA laugh
He spoke Of the involuntary impulse which had
gathered together from all parts of the Union men
of the highest responsibility and most exalted worth,
In this remark he meant by means To be ego,is-
tical. A laugh. They had hero united forming
great Congress ofMc .4mcrican People 1T is a
far nobler patriotism than conquerng distant nations
with your warclad armies thus to assemble To Sc
= cure the blessings of atrce Government There is
no people under the wide heaven who would have
exhibited, you have to-day, so keen and true an
estimate of this truth. This impulse had moved
men from every part of the land to this gathering
point.
Away from distant Massachusetts. from the city
of the merchant princes the old Bay State has sent
I her sons.
And from the old colony of William Penn come
representatives to this Congress Of American Peo,
pie, without any pardiem allowance or mileage, to
marry the good old drab city OF Philadelphia to the
young city of Chicago.
And from distant Savannah comes one. to learn
here whether glorious Republic is destined to be
composed Of widely disjoiued fragments. or wheth-
err is to become and remain united until the ''ast
syllable of recorded time"
Was not this noble Congress? He had been
for many years member of another Congress. but
could he transplant this TO the Ten Miles
Square, he would gladly strap the old one for it,
Congress has the power To regulate commerce
between the several States. If you send a cargo of
wheat from Chicago to Buffalo, distance of one
Thousand miles, crossing lake after lake stretching
away IN their magnificent length, would not one nat
urally think that this might be called commerce?
But no; that is a mistake. we are told What is
1t. then, my brother? Why that is trade. IA
laugh. But if you send the same cargo from New
York To New Orleans, what is it then Well.
then 1t is commerce! Why is it not in the first in
stance as well as the last? Oh it is not on salt
water. 4 laugh.
lie begged gentlemen would notice this nice dis
tnctloa between commerce and trade. we are
engaged In business upon salt water it is commerce.;
If upon fresh water, then it is trade. A laugh
Such is the beautiful construction of that clause
IN the constitutions given to it in various parts Of
the Union. If you DESTROYS of knowing the
construction Of that clause, recoect you are not TO
ask the opinion of some able acyer crudte states
man, but you must seek some distinguished chemist
and have the water carefully analysed to discover
whether it is salt or fresh. laugh.
IL would be interesting to inquire what influence
commerce has had in producing the success of your
own good city, and in bud ng up The abodes Of civ
Illzation where but yesterday, as it were the wild
savage ruled your prairie land. Without commerce
1t would never have existed, and we should not be
assembled here today. Commerce and Christian
tfy have marched hand I'm hand the pioneers Of the
West Ii is commerce that builds up and orarges
nation. Countries are prosperous, as an almost
universal rule, exactly in the relative proportion OF
the seaboard to the inland extent of territory. AZ
rica at this day is as dark and desoae as ever her
seaboard is only one square mile to nine hundred
inland. Even our New England, without com
merce, notwithstanding her stern and heroic sons,
would have sooner become baIbarous than what she
now s.,
He srckc of the future greatness of the country
between the East and Rocky Mountains it would
at no distant day become the arbiier of the desnieS
of the Republic; it would make our Presidents and
enact our laws. Cunning to Mr. Allen: y 1t is
we'll uir hiatt
future masters. laugh. Its right will be
maintained the baotbox will secure us the same
privileges accorded 10 our brethren. | have never
seen disease in the body polite that could not he
cured by the ballot-box. Shall treasure be poured
out for the ocean mariner, and shall not dollar be
given TO remove impediInents from our lakes and
rivers? No, we do not believe this. The same
indomtabe energy that brought our Pilgrim fore
fathers through the SHOWS of winter and the pers
Of the deep is fast bringing their descendants thith
erwards with their notions. A laugh.
lie need not argue more on this occasion. Every
man present had an opinion in accordance with his
own. In this Congress there would not be dis
sentlng voice.
Let us not, then, allow any discord to creep in
to our councils to mar the harmony of the present
leopard the vast interests of the future Let the
bugles of party have no sound in this Convention
Let there be here 10 Wing, no Democrat-noih-
ing but Americans. Let us here form new part
ty, and let it be the boast Off all in future years
that we aided tremendously in urging on this great
movement.
Turning to Mr.. Wentworth, the Representa-
tive in Congress from this district he continued 4
Gentlemen. when he and | can agree on any
subject their must be harmony. He had the pleas
ure 10 know that that gentleman was warmly en-
listed in favor ofthe objects Of this Convention.
He might say nc was tatitudinGus upon the sub
ject perhaps this was owing to his longitude
He goes the whole length. A laugh.
any of the empires earth injure or assail us,