The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-13
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.sNow, gentlemen, oil is changed. Wars of that
kind have ceased, and some have come to an end.
He who was once half soldier and half farmer has
now become altogether farmer, or else he has gone
10 the mechanic arts-to those various improve
ments which enrich and adorn society; and our
State of New Hampshire il as great participation
in these improvements as any part Of the country;
and need not say TO you, gentlemen need not
say to you that this new face of things-ths great
change that has come over Us, while it Is partly
owing to peace on the lrontiers which has released
in former times many of the people of New
Hampshire from border wars, that peace itself has
been promoted, and all the arts that sec flour
ishng around us, and the increase of wealth which
behold are the fruits first of all, of the enter
prsing character and next, OF the good Govern
ment under which il has pleased Almighty Proyi-
dence 10 permit to live.
"Friends and fellow citizens, we are at the head
of the western world. No man can appreciate what
ia due to himself as an American citizen, what
are the duties incumbent upon him such, who
does not feel that he ID of tho twenty five mil
hon of people who are setting great example OF
freedom and repubcanism TO the rest Of the world;
and If he be narrow, or local. or prejudiced-if he
be us blind a mole-if he cannot see an inch be-
fore hm--he cannot comprehend his destiny lie
docs not know the place he fills amidst the human
race. Therefore,, think that it ia incumbent on
us ALL on all these occasional public meetings, that
see, and know, and feel the progress of our own
prosperity, and remember that it is the result OF
those institutions which fathers founded for us,
and which it is our duty always, and at every
riice. TO maintain.
''Gentemen, the hour of the day, if nothing else
mt oT
subjects which more appropriately belong to
Their sphere.
"The eloquent gentleman who welcomed me at
the cars this morning kind enough to say that
in thisvast assembly there was political party
there was general attachment TO the Union.
believe it. / do not believe that the soil of New
Hampshire produce any of the opposite poison
GUS plant 1t is free from all noxious weeds Of
that description as any part of the country am
glad of itor mere barrenness in the naked tops of
the Gotfstown hills White mountains, is far to
be preferred to the richest soils which produce
thing but plants Of mschievous, poisonous growth
s'Gentlemen, delight to dwell upon theconsidera-
ton that am a New Hampshire man, and am now
among New Hampshire men. delight to feel that
/ stand on my native soil, in the neighborhood of
those whom have regarded from my infancy.
able to recoect that the tomb of the great hero
Der that many of my friends, and especially my
own father, was with him on that occasion, and to
know that on these hills in early life have his
comrades
"And now, gentlemen, If we turn back to our
New Hampshire peope-if we remember the men
who shed their blood and employed their councils
for the liberty of this countryf we think of Bart
lett, and Whipple, and Thornton, of the Gilmans,
the Langdons, and all those patriots of two three
generations ago, who founded our New Hampshire
government, who connected with the great
Government of the Union, who sought with all
their hea rts, and recommended with all their pow
crs, far proper to lead the people into its
adopton-and if we could to- day them all here,
Josiah Bartlett, William Whippe, John Taylor
Gilman, and the rest and ask them how should
deport ourselves on the present crisis of
try what would they say? If any should say, we
were for breaking off from this Union, were for
cutting loose the ties that binding together,
would they not say stark mad-departing
from every thing they had taught US?
"Gentemen, let me assure you that, in my con-
vction, the thunderbolt that rives the hardy oak
and splits it from its stock to the ground in ten
thousand pieces and scatters those pieces over the
earth--it may be more sudden mode of destruc
tion but it is not surer than spirit of disunion
will show. lift is let forth in it's angry zeal upon
this United Government under which wo live, its
fragments will cover the earth, and will feel
the smoke of its sulphur long live.
CHOW, gentlemen, let Us stand where our fathers
stood. Let say Americans, one and all;
that go for the general liberty, the general free
dom, the general security of the whole American
Republic-that we know where we are, and who we
are; that we know who is looking at us from every
part of the earth, anxious 10 whether we shall
falter and fail, and come TO nothing, and anxious
to see whether we will go on and adhere to our
fathers principles and our own principles, and build
up, to the end Of time, the most glorious Govern
ment the world has ever seen. My choice is made,
and know that it is your choice. You do not mean
that any stigma of departing from the good prin-
ciples of your fathers shall rest you-not one
"Gentlemen, again say that it would be pleas
ing for to pass days with you; but the hours of
this day rapidly passing away and must
take my leave of you. Carry my alIectonate re-
gard, every one of you, to your own families, and
yourown fresides, and say that to day you have
of New Hampshire, whom circumstances
had led away from bis native State for years. come
back full of New Hampshire sentiments, full of the
sentiments of his fathers and grandfathers, and
that he has left them in your charge, and prayed
you to give them in charge to your children for
rand. ever" [Checrs.1
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