The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1847-02-19
REPORT
OF THE


SELECT COMMITTEE
IT. which had been referred Peiitio
praying a Dissolution ofthe Union.
In sHsAra-Feb. 2, ls47.
Mr.. GODDARD, from the Select Commi te e
4 made the following.
4 Report:
i The Select Committee to which was re
ferred the memorial of certain inhabi
tants Of thecounties of Columbiana ant
Maboning, praying the General Assem-
bly, of the state Of Ohio, t0.declare the
! Federal Union dissolved, now report--
II did not need the instruction of the
senate to induce the Committee to report
adversely to the eprayer of the petitioners.
The position is traitorous and disloyal
Ii is not a thing to be entertained, or
reasoned upon. The perpetuity of the
| Union should be assumed reg ard ed as a
fixed fact, not to be debated or questiu n
ed. Attachment TO the Union should be
feeIing--a sentiment IN every Ameri,
cab breast. II should be instructive. The
American should imbibe it with bis mo-
theirs milk. II should grow with his
growth and strengthen with his strength
be the confidence of his yonth, the pride
of his manhood, and the solace of his old
age. Next to the duties which an Amer.
lean owes to his God, are the duties lie
owes to his country. The first Of these is,
Preserve the Union: the second, Preserve
the Union; the third. Preserve the Union.
The valne of the Union cannot be cal.
culated; if il could, Ohio could show how
vastly important that Union is to her.
Centrally situated, her citizens sending
the products of their industry at one sea-
son, through the artificial channels of the
North, and at another, by the great river
of the South, finding access to the Ocean
at points 1000 miles apart, what portion
of the Union could OHIO spare! There
would she draw the dividing line! Shall
the beautiful river which forms her South.
ern boundary, now teeming with peaceful
commerce, free as the air we bre athe and
witnessing no llostilities bat the generous
competition of enterprising people, shall
that be the boandar, line between inde-
pendent and uncoBnected States? Then.
NAV we expect TO see arrayed upon the
opposite banks the hostile armies of the
livided nations. BristliDg cannon shall
'upplant the waving wheat upon its bills
he march Of armed men tread dowa the
products Of its vsilies, and the waters of
he Ohio be discolored with the blood OF
ier sons. Are our citizens prepard for
his! Can the memorialists, many of
Fhom belong TO the gentler sex, averse to
iyil commotion and Observation-Disclosures
ng angels 10 man when pain and sickness
istracts him, tempering with their softs
ess the rough asperities Of man II ature-
an they willingly see such possible con
eqnence with complacency!
When the first President of the United
'tates, the Father OF his Country, was
bout retiring from that high Office to
'hich the partiality of his grateful coun-
rymen had twice unanimously called him,
e addressed to them an aGectionate let
er. prompted only by the great love he '
ore to the people he had saved and con
aiming sentiments which should be per
etuaiiy cherished by the American peo-
lie. This paper, usually stilled Washing +,
'n's Farewell Address, and bearing date r
eptember II, 1896, should, next to the i,
ible, be the daily reading Of our pc opIe
|" warning voice must be forgo tten, his /;
contemned and disregarded. be,
IRE any one can be willing to raise :
arricidal hand against the union of these =
tates. +
The committee recommend the adopt.
IN of the following resolution: ,
CHAS. B. GODDARD. \
JOHN MARTIN, s