The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-05-27

From fhe Nao York Express.
The Presidents Tour.
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| AZ holhc again, we Uc5ul 10 supply the
omissions in the telegraphic reports and our
own correspondence. We begin at SYRACUSE,
where MIR. GRAHAM, to an immense crowd,
made one Of his best speeches.
SPEECH BY MR. GRAHAM.
FELLOW cIrIzsSs: | am exceedingly happy to
meet you and to tender you my cordial thanks for
the kind manner in which you have been pleased
| to receive the announcement Of my name.
| ! wish the circumstances more favorable
for cultvating a more familiar acquaintance with
| you. happened few years ago to pass through
the State Of New York; but fellow citizens, what
| see now saw not then. Ten or twelve years have
| made almost great n change in the face Of the
country and the condition OF its people
fury used to make before canals and railroads
built to intersect the face Of the whole country.
lrecollcct having read in my youth of a tabled
hero who sowed the teeth of dragon. and there
sprung up armed men, BY sowing this country
over with free governments and liberal institutions,
| we have had far better race spring up to dstr-
butte happiness, peace, and prosperity over the
| country.
One Of the first of American authors, and citi
zen OF your own State, has admirably contrasted
the condition of your country by tale Of Rip Van
| Wrinkle, by which he has rendered classical the
shores OF your noble Hudson.
lam sure, should he take up that tale again, and
| contrast the condition OF your country then with
Its present condition, he might give quite much
interest to it as he has in the work to which have
| alluded.
rejoice that am citizen Of that country that
claims fellowship and citizenship with those see
around me. and that wherever We go in this broad
land OF ours, we are everywhere at home. Such q
country, with such people, with such institutions,
| with such Government, has high destiny and a
high mission in the affairs of mankind. If this
pertinent of ours shall fail it is the last hope of self
| government by man upon this earth. 1t therefore
becomes Us to look through the whole country and
govern ourselves by no narrow local considera-
tons, but to look to the whole as the object of
love and affection, at home and abroad, wherever
| we may be.
| Fellow citizens, rejoice to find that the deep
seated affection for the union of the States is bound
ed by no limits North or South; and that wherever
we are, there is that loyalty and devotion to the
| Government which characterize our people in an
eminent degree.
| To such Union, extending over such a surface,
with varieties of institutions, differences of opinion
| may be expected TO spring up, and such difficult
ties as encounter all human Institutions 1t is upon
| such occasions these that patriotism is to be
| shown; that men are to be found capable OF meet
| ing the emergencies of the times, and capable Of
sacrificing personal feelings and personal attach
| ments, and gathering around the Constitution Of
the country. Through such crisis we have just
passed. The disposition of that large domain ac
CURED In the war with Mexico, with differences OF
institutions in northern and southern States, has
led to conflict of opinion which has shaken this
| Union to the centre. / am glad to find that good
men, OF all were able TO OrIng tneSc mat
tiers to an adjustment during the last Congress- in
| which hope all reasonable men will concur.
| For my part, an humble member as am of the
Administration OF the Government, ! am here to
bear my testimony to the part which the President
of the United States has borne in this emergency,
and to say that think, when this matter is fairly
considered and properly Judged Of in every part of
the country, the course pursued by Congress, and
approved of by the President, will meet with gen.
eral appreciation. loud applause for the Presi-
| dent]
| Why, my fellow citizens, should it not be 30 2
We are composed Of thirty one States, bound to-
| gethcr by acomnon government, a common Ian
| guage, common history, and the recollection Of
| a common glory, which should warm the heart of
| every American, wherever he may be. And in
| times of danger know North, no South, no
| East, no West Prolonged cheers.]
| Need refer you to the revolutionary period
| when southern men found shedding their
blood around the city of Boston, along the shores
| OF the Hudson river, in every field where danger
was to be met or glory won? | could also refer to
| fields in my own native State, little nearer to the
| son, where northern men requited the obligation
| In manner indicating their affection and graft
tude. Need also refer you to the fact that, when
it became necessary to vindicate the national honor
again on the borders of Canada, Scott and his
ciates from the South shed their blood and vindi
| Gated that honor? [Cheers
| Such are the recollcctions of the past, such the
| bonds OF the Union which exist among
But in these latter days would seem as if enemies
| had come to cndcavor to tares between US,
/
My fellow citizens, cast aside all local fanatical
| feelings. This Government Of is practical
thing, having different institutions in different por
tons of it. II was labor of difficulty Of long and
anxious trial. to form the Constitution under which
we live. 1t may not be the very best that could be
devised, but ii you destroy 1t you will never get as
| good one again. Hold fast to it, therefore, if
States.
| Attempts are made to consrue the Constitution
different from what it used to be construed. In
| gcnuity Is tortured and chicanery is set to work
to show that this that, the other article does not
mean what it used to mean, and what its language
purports.
Fellow citizens, you require every man who
bears office in this Union, from the humblest min
lseral office in the custom house to the President
himself to to support the Constitution OF the
United States to support it, not abstraction,
but as practical thing to be enforced by all the
power Of this nation lift becomes necessary, and
to support it not simply in part, but whole-to
| support those parts which you may not have APP
proved, well as those which you do approve.
The compact is not to be construed to the triil Of
the party, but according to its legitimate meaning
But am confident, my fellow citizens, that that
| Union which seems to have such place in the
hearts of the people, and which they have learned
to love and respect, will be enforced by them at all
| hazards [Cheers, cheers, cheers for the Union
! IL il be not supported, there is no law, order,
no security, no safety. Disregard one law, resist
il by violence, and where is the security that any
| law will be enforced in this country
My fellow citizens, these objects excite deep in
terest in every part Of the nation; and it should al
ways be borne in mind that it is not local prcju-
dice, it is not local feeling, it is not the disposition
which men entertain in regard to what would have
been BEST in which you most interested, but it
is in the stability OF that Government which gives
you security and protection, now and at all times
There men who entertain the opinion that il
they had been consulted at the creation they would
have made vastly better world than this now is.
For my part this is good enough world. So
say the Constitution of the United States is a
good enough Constitution for me-for all of US
[Cheers.l IL may not come up to the transcen'
dentalism of philosophy, but it is founded in the
principles of liberty and justice which character
lied our forefahers; and if we act as they acted,
and maintain that brotherly feeling and affection
between the North and the South, and the East and
the West, there ID no limit TO the future destiny OF
this nation.
Why, my fellow citizens, when look upon this
country about me now, and think of what IT was
as learn, twenty thirty years ago. when the
site of this beautiful city wac bat a morass, and
there was hardly house for human habtation