The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-01-23
THE STATE OF ONO AND THE UNION

THE STATE OF OHIO AND THE UNION.
We are indebted 10 friend in Ohio ion
the following c"py OF Report. made TO
the Se9ate OF that Slate By one OF lis
Committees, upon a subject which is. we
trust. Of The greatest interest 10 every rea-
der Of ours. Naf. Intel
In Senate Of Ohio, February 3, lsl7.
Mr.. Goddard, from The Select Commit.
tee, made the following Report:
The Select Committee, 10 which was
referred The memorial &c certain inhabil-
ants OF the counties az Columbiana and
Mahoning, praying the General Assembly
Of the Stale Of Ohio 10 declare the Federal
Union dissolved. now report:
II did moi need fhe Instructions Of the
Senate 10 induce The committee To report
adversely To the prayer Of the petitioners.
The proposition Is trasorous and disloyal.
Il rs moi a thing 10 be entertained or rea-
soned upon. Ire perpeluity of The Union
should be assumed-regar.led as a fixed
fact. not TO be debated ~ questioned. Al
tachmeni 10 the Union should be feeling
Ia sentiment in every American breast Ii
should be instructive. The American
should imbbe il with his mothers milk.
Il should grow with his growth and
strengthen with his slrengih--be the con-
ffdenre Of his youth. the pride of his man.
hood, and the solace Of his old age. Mex,
TO The dnlies which an American owes 10
his God, are fhe duties he owes 10 his
country. The FIRST of these is, Preserve
the Unions The second, Preserve the I'm
ion; the third, Preserve the Union.
The value Of the Union cannot be cal.
cula,ed; il il could, Ohio could show how
vastly important that Union is 10 her.
Centrally situated, her rilizens sending
the products of their industry al one sea-
son through The artificial channels Of the
North. and al another BY The great river Of
the South, finding access 10 the ocean nj
points 1000 miles apart. what portion of
The Union could Ohio spare! Where
would she draw The dividing line! Shall
the beautiful river Nhich forms her south.
ern boundary. now ieeming with peaceful
commerce., free as the air we breathe, and
Witnessing no hosiilities but the generous
competition of enlerprisiug people. shall
that be the boundary line between inlepen-
dent and unconnecieG States? Then may
we expect 10 see arrayedupon The opposite
banks the hostile armies of The divided
nations. Bristling cannon shall supnlant
The waving whea, upon its hiIIs-ile
march Of armed men tread down the pro.
duets of us valleys. and The waters Of The
Ohio be dlscnlored with the blood of her
sons. Are our citizens prepared for This.
Gan The memorlalisis, many of whom be-
ong TO the geniler sex, averse 10 civil
,onHn0tion and bloodshed administering
angels TO man when pain and sickness
lisiracts him. tempering with their soft.
,ess the rough asperilies Of mans nature
can they willingly see such possible
with complacencys
When the first President Of The United |
states, the Father OF his Country, was /;
bout retiring from that high office to
which The Partially Of his grateful coun.
ymen had twice unanimously called /
i'm. he addressed 10 them an affeclonate b
liter. prompted only by the great love he s
ore 10 the people lie had saved, and con- )