Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-04-19
A Submission Gun Spiked.

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Mr. Chase-Piqua { OHIO Register.
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A Submission Gun Spiked.
Extremes meet has been the theme of the
submission press as applied to the so called ultras
of the South, and the followers of Seward d Co.
at the North. They voted together in Congress
once or twice, ergo they both striving to ob-
tain the same end-to-wit disunion-has been
the logic of those party hacks and their supple fol-
lowers, until many honest men, no doubt, have
been brought to believe it, though they who used
the argument knew that it was false when they en-
ployed it. The Washington Union of the 9th
ult contains the refutation and reputation of the
whole charge from the great head and front OF the
Northern free soiIers-Wm. H. Seward himself.
At recent Publication in New 1ork of the mem
bers of the State Legislature and Common Coun-
ell, lust after the election of Fish to the United
States Senate, Mr.. Seward, guest on the oc-
casion, made the following emphatic disclaimer OF
being in any, the slightest way, tinctured with dis
union--he hooted at the idea as ridiculous. Here
are some of his remarks
"And this thought suggests, gentlemen, yet
another; the intimate relation the necessity of its
ndissoluble connexion between the State and the
United States. 1t is not New York alone that
supports and sustains this great city and this great
State it is the entire nation, stretching from the
river st. Lawrence along the Atlantic coast and
the Mexican gulf, and then across the mountains
and along the Pacific coast away up to Nootka
sound. Our star is indeed brilliant and distin-
guishable in the constellation but let it shoot from
its sphere, and it would pale its fires and be lost
in the Heavens. Cheers.
! Gentlemen, man in New York can be disu-
nionist. Cheers know none, indeed. Cheers. |
| will say only thing further the subject OF
the Union [ am believer in the Christian reli-
gion When it happens in my way to fall in with
a skeptic, | endeavor to remove his doubts, and |
persevere confdingly; but when he avows himself
an atheist, think that he is to be turned over to
lev friend, DIR. Benedict, of the insane hospital at
Utica So, IL I should hear New York man
ay5w himself a disu2ionist I should think the
Bloomingdae Asylum the fttest place-f for his cor
rection. Cheers Sir, what is lust and wise
must be defended and maintained, but he who
cannot defend and maintain them IN the Union,
and under this Constitution, is capable of doInS no
good, and in my poor Judgment incapable of do
ing more harm. Cheers. May Heaven take
care of the New York man, if there be one, who
seeks disunion, and Heaven save the wits of him
who sincerely suspects others of being so. But,
gentlemen, | must not forget that am only casu-
al and unexpected guest; | will not abuse, by
much speaking the hospitality which has indulg-
ed me with the privilege of being listener at this
happy meeting of town and country. Cries OF
go on, go on. No, gentlemen. Cries of 90 on,
go on. Gentlemen of the rural districts, please
to be in order. Excuse, me, Mr.. Lieutenant Gov
ernor and Mr.. Speaker, for thus usurping youl
authority. | give you, gentlemen, The City Of
New York and the State of New York-harmony
and affection between them, and indissolubIe e.
Mon between them and the sister States"
But the Union has not acted in good faith il
should have gone further and given us other
speeches of free-so democrats, that were made or
that occasion, equally Union loving as Mr.. Sew
ard. They were both reported in the New Y ORR
Tribune, from which the Union probably made
his extract. We WILL however, supply the def
cheney The Hon. Henry B. Stanton, State
Senator of the democratic barn-burner stripe thus
chimes in with Union sentiments of the great free
soiler, Seward:
Frequent reference has been made this even
Z ing to the relations which the city of New York
sustains to the State and which the State of New
York bears to the city. l will allude to relations
which both State and city sustain to the other por
; tons of the American confederacy. The distn
guished gentleman my left Gov. Seward) has
spoken of dissolution of the Union. In my
Judgment, such an event would be one of the
greatest caamities which could affict the nations
of the earth. But, sir, while [ thus believe, | ap
prehend no such disaster to the cause of popular
institutions. This Union must not, can not viii
not be dissolved Loud applause 1t is no
based simply on compacts of human invention
springs from the geographical, commercial, politi
cal and social necessities of the American people
lit is entwined around by the most hallowed as
sociations of twenty-five millions of freemen-it.
foundations were laid by our canonized fathers il
their great struggle for independence-it is en-
shrlned In the most sacred memories; it is wor
shipped IN the hearts of the grateful sons of patr
otto slres, dwelling in every city, and cultivatine
every plain from the Aroostock to the Sacramento
For every hand stretched forth to PROSTATE its p
, lars ten thousand hands, with hearts in them
will be uplifted to strike down that hand and beal
up those pillars.
Civilization, science, the arts trade, education
religion requlre-nay demand-that the Unior
be perpetual. Every railway which is construct
ed, every canal that is excavated every telegram
wire that is stretched, every school house that i
quilt every newspaper that is printed, every ser
mon that is preached-whether north or south O
Mason and Dixons line-are each guarantee fo
the existence of the Union. Sir, should a con
yentlon be assembled in any State for the pur
pose OF dissolving the Union, let the choir of thu
Bind ASYLUM sing in its presence that glorious
National Hymn, The Star Spancled Banner !,
as they sang it in hearing on this dav. ane
that convention far from being able TO dissolve
this Union, would itself be dissolved by that cbo
and that hymn. Those sightless eyeballs. turn
ed lmplorlngy towards Heaven, while THRILLING
; voices chanted
The star spangled banner long may it wave.
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