Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-07-13
Mr.. WINrHRoP's ADDREss.-The limits

Mr.. WINTHRoP's ADDREss.-The limits
of our sheet will not permit us TO give the
entire address of Mr.. WINTHROP on the re-
cent occasion Of laying the corner stone of
the Monument to Washington. The fol-
lowing extract from it is all we can make
room for at present. This is SO appropriate
to the present condition OF the county, that
we feel constrained to publish it.
In that Incompatible address In which he
babe farewell to his countrymen at the close
of his presidential service, he touched upon
many other topics with the earnes,ness of
sincere conviction. He called upon them, in
solemn terms, to ''cherish public credit :"
to "observe good faith and justice towards
all nations y avoiding both ''inveterale an
lipahies and passionate attachments" to-
wards any; to mitigate and assuage the I'M
quenchable fire of party spirit. ''lest, instead
of warming, it should consume - to abstain
from "characterising parties by geographical
distinctions - ''to promote institutions for
the general diffusion of knowIedge;" to
respect and uphold "religion and morality;
those grea, pillars ofhuman happiness, those
firmest props Of the duties of men and Of
Citizens"
But'wha can exceed, what can equal the
accumulated intensity Of thought and Of ex-
preston with which he calls upon them to
cling to the union of,he States. at is ofin-
finite Moment" says he in language we
L.. no IF f
repeating. "hat you should properly es,i-
mate the immense value of your National
Union to your collective and individual hap
piness; that you should cherish cordial,
habitual, immovable attachment to it, accus-
tomng yourselves to think and speak of i,
as of The palladium of your political safety
and prosperity watching for its preserva-
ton with jealous anxiety; discountenancing
whatever may suggest even suspicion that
i, can, in any event, be abandoned; and in
dignan,Iy (rowning upon the frs, dawing OF
every attempt to ALLEVIATE any portion of our
country from the rest or TO enfeeble the sa-
cred ties which now link together the va
rious parts"
The Union, the Union in any event, was
thus the sentiment Of Washington. The u
Mon, the Union in any event, let it be our
sentiment this day
Yes, to-day, fellow citizens, at the very
moment when the extension of our bounda-
ries, and the multiplication of our territories
are producing, directly, and indirectly, a.
mong the different members of our political
system, so many marked and mourned CEN
lrlugal tendencies, let us seize this occasion
10 renew to each other our vows of allegi-
ance and devotion 10 the American Union,
and let us recognize in our common title to
the name and the fame Of Washington, and
10 our common veneration for his example
and his advice, the alI-sufficient cen.rpelal
power, which shall hold the thick clustering
stars Of our confederacy in one glorious
constellation forever! Let the column
which we are about to construct be at once
pledge and an emblem of perpetual union:
Let the foundations be laid, let the super
structure be built up and cemenled, let each
stone be raised and riveted, in spirit of ma
lional brotherhood And may the earliest
ray Of The rising sun-,ill tina, sun shall set
to rise no more-draw forth from it daily,
as from the tabled statue of antiquity, strain
Of national harmony, which shall strike a
responsive chord in every heart throughout
The Republic!