Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-08-07
ELOQUENCE AGAINST FANATICISM.


ELOQUENCE AGAINST FANATICIsM.
The following is an extract from the Ad-
dress delivered by Gen. CALEB CUSHING,
at Newburyport, on the 4lh of July. 1t is
a powerful and fearless vindca,ion Of the
rights Of the South, and a, the same time
an open and manly rebuke of northern fana-
ticism. Appeals like this Of Mr.. CUsHING's
and those recently made by MIR. WEBSTER
and our own "NoRTHERN MAN WITH
SOUTHERN ClrIzENsHIP''-sonso of the old
Bay Slate-wil have the effect, we trust.
of arousing the patriotic and right-minded ID
people of the North, and cause them to
frown down, ere it be too late, that meddle-
some and mischieyous spirit Of fanaticism,
which threatens to destroy our Union
If such eloquence as is contained in this
Address fail to convince the people of the
the North Of their uni usti6ab!e attacks upon
southern institutions, then may arguments of
steel be expected TO follow.
What, then, is the Union? reply that
it is. in the first place, the letter of the writ
ten constitution, defining The rights to be
held, and s,pula,ing the duties to be per-
formed, by the federal government, by the
States, and by the federal government, by
the people Of the United States, and 10 which
every man owes lawful allegiance, and a.
gains, which public law, no man has any
more or other right to Sc, up his individual
conscience than he has against the munici-
pal laws enacted by any one of the States
for the protection Of property or life within
its borders. And reply, in the second
place, that the Union is above all the spirit
Of the cons,ituiion-lhat is, The sentiment
Of nationality, the love Of country engender-
ed by birth, by the lies of domestic life, by
community Of historical associations, and
by the sense Of benefits conferred and inter
es,s protected and promoted by the immor-
,ali,y Of the Union.
The letter Of the constitution is the mate
rial body, changeable, perishable, corrup,i-
bic the spirit of it is the immaterial soul,
which brea,hes into The inanimaie elements
The breath Of life, and makes Of it sublime
and beautiful creation Of immu,ability and
of heaven.
This-,he spiri. Of the constitution, the
sentiment Of the nationality, the feeling and
emotion Of Americanism- the true Union
the only Union worth having, the only
Union possible to keep.
When the American wanders into Other
regions of The earth, then i, is that he feels
and appreciates the true, vita spirit Of the
constitution. Whether, borne along by
wind and wave, he walks the deck of his
gallant ship, as her keel ceaves the pa,hes:
wastes of the illim,able ocean, or linger:
smd the palaces of religion, and art, ant
power, in refined and populous Europe, o.
explores those oriental solitudes whose hal
lowed associations are eloquent, as it were
with voices from on high, or inspec,s tht
antique civilization Of the lhronging million:
Of Asia, or par,akers of the daily march ane
the nightly bivouac OH the lofty plateau O
the New World, then il is that he feels hs
has country-a country to love, to b.
proud of, to defend, and to uphold agains
all enemies; and ,ha! country is the Union
] have tried it, and know il. Neithe
the pine of Massachusetts nor the palmetto
of Ca,o ,olina symbolzes to him all there il
of dear in the memories Of home, and o
glorious in the name Of country. No
the inspiration of hope, which no reverse
, can extnguish-lhe impulse of courage
which no dangers can daunt-,hese arr
identified in our breasts only with the star
and stripes of lhe Union.
How, thenN.s the Union, SO dear to every
patriotic he !, and ofsuch nesimable valu
to all of TO be preserved' reply It
this quea on, by stating how think it ma.
be desusyed or a. least how you, the peo
pie Of Massachusetts, if you labor diligen.
ly and zealously in that view, may do mucl
to promote and finally consumma,e the dis
solution of the Union.
Desiring and intending to dissolve tn
Union, you will, in the first place, as yo'
have already done, knowingly and Of malice
aforethought, infringe as State upon ex
press provisions Of the constitution, for th
avowed purpose of injury to the citizens o
other States.
You will, in the second place, as yo'
have already done, maintain such unconsti
tu,onal legislation on the ground of you
conscience no, permitting you 10 execus
the injunctions of the conslitu'ion-thu
demonstrating to the other States Of 'h