Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-05-15

republic is harp, Of which the federal COM
pact is the golden frame, and the sovereign
States are the chords of silver, Joined hal
monlously together, with no restraint bu,
the law. Relax one of these chords, or
subject it to unequal tension, and the others
will be untuned by the discordant sound of
one. Take away string, and you destroy
The harmony of the whole instrument
Much applause.) This young republic
again is like beautiful machine invented
by some of her ingenious sons. Her State
Charters are like so many wheels, one ident-
ing the other, and all turned by the large
wheel OF the Frederal Constitution. She
is IN good working order, is this machine :;
a patent has been taken out for her; her
wheels are well oiled, and she has got the
steam pretty fairly up. Who purposes now
to stop one of the wheels, or to take one
or more of them out? II such ar attempt
be made, perhaps the machine will get out
of order, and stop; but it is far more likely
that the imprudent adventurer who attempts
such thing, will be knocked on the head
by the crank, or scalded with hot water
from the boiler, Laughter and cheers. y
'Ehis young America of ours is mountain
Imaid, whose beauty is Of the healthy and
sun-burnt order. She was brought into the
society Of nations when she was thirteen,
but now she is thirty, each State counting
for year. She has laid out her portion to
good advantage, and she wants for herself
and her growing family all the property she
has. The West is her farm, the East her
market, the North her workshop, and the
South her garden. She wants for her fami-
I ly, New England to 60 to school in, Ohio
and Wisconsin to practice agriculture, Ken
lucky TO hunt in, the Carolinas 10 provide
sugar for herLable and cotton for her clothes,
California to get plenty of gold, and New
York to take care Of it, and pu. it out to
good purposes when she has got it. Loud
cheers.) ~
We owe our national honor and pros
perity to the Union. Joining together in
infancy, we were able to withstand the con-
querors of the world. The eyes of the Bri-
ton are now directed towards us. Let the
counsels of discord prevail, and this people
will cease to be to him an object Of alarm.
Those of the monarchs Of Europe who
have oppressed their subjects, would point
the finger Of scorn at the ruins of our re-
public, and to their people, who demanded
even just and proper concessions, would
say, "Go and see, where the United States
once were-a proof that no people is fl. to
b. governed with other laws than those of
of what you call despo!sm." During the
late revolution in Europe, have we not pre-
tended to act as the protectors of the weak
of those we considered oppressed: Wha.
will be said Of US, if, while protesting to
teach others the art of government, we prove
unable, without strife and civil contentious
to govern ourselves? Even among those
rulers of Europe who have not oppressed
their people, but treated them with paternal
kindness, perhaps there is only one whose
heart would grieve were we to give such q
scandal to the world as that of disunion.
speak Of the Pope, who has, happily, now
returned again to those asylums Of art and
pie,y which American generosity was in
strumental in saving from the hands of ruth
less disunionlsts. He, know, who so
openly, by word and letter, has expressed
his love for this country, were he to learn
that i. has incurred the afflclion from which
it has just been delivered-he, indeed,
would grieve who possesses loyal and
paterna heart like that of Plus The Ninth
(CheeIs.) How strange-how wildly strange
sounds the bare word Of disunion, to one
who cares at all for his country's veal -
Should such an incredible event as division
take psce-should the proverbial good
sense Of our people, even when excited, al
low SO mad policy to be followed-on
which side of the line would be the United
States Where would tower heavenward
up the castle height, upon which the proud
synosure Of the stars of our country's ban
ner would be described from aEar-whence
the brilliant stripes would radla,e upon the
ranks Of freemen, ranged in military array
beneath its folds To whom would belong
the tomb of Washington? Will we equally
divide our fields of historic fame, SO that
Virgnia's sons may no longer kindle at the
magic names of Lexington and Bunker Hill,
or Saratoga and Trenton, and the citizens
of Massachusetts listen with indifference 10
the mention of Y Yorktown and Fort Moul- |
,rie F? Will we agree to blot out from the
national calendar those brilliant military
festivals, which formed our joy from the
time we were apprentices or school-boys-
the anniversary of independence, and the
birth day Of him whose last words were,
"Preserve the Union ?" Will we, while
breath or life is left, permit the Union to be
dissolved: (No noD Forbid it, heaven!
(Cheers.) {
Rather than such dreful calamity {
should fall upon this hitherto happy land,
we will prepare ourselves for the fight! -
not, however, against our brelhern, but
what is more needed, against our passions
and pride, which alone can be the promp-
.ers OF such fatal mpie,y. No violence, no E!