The southern press., 1852-02-17
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flame of patriotism in his bosom II Weld 10
none in my devotion to this Union And all the
sentiments which have been expressed in favor
of its preservation by the great sages and patri-
OTIS to whom have referred, apply as truly to
my position. and in my judgment far more 80,
than to the position of those who sing their 10
Peans to a union of compromises, which, ifthey
do not certainly violate, at least leopard the
Constitution Sir, in the American Pantheon
which have read, there is no separate God to
the Union In the great temple Of American
liberty which have visited, in which American
freemen make their worship to the divinity of
their country, there is no separate statue to the
Union; but, in its midst and around it's great al
tar stand the several statues of the several, SOW
ereign, independent States, as they came one by
one, 10 build upt great compact Of the Union,
and in their midst stands the great statue OF the
Constitution, having inscribed upon its heart, in
letters more brilliant than gold. and radient with
the pure light of Heaven, the words The
UIos." Let no one, then, say the Union is in
danger, while the Constitution il safe, because
you cannot touch the one. until you have touched
the heart Of the other, upon which the life OF
both depends.
Mr.. President, we have government which
we all love, and Of which we are proud-a gov
more than sixty years, 10 degree heretofore
unknown in the history Of mankind. 20 Ths
government is founded on a Union Of the States
And that Union Is established, defined. and
sanctioned by the Constitution Of the United
States" NY hopes for its preservation are in a
strict construction Of that Constitution in all the
legislation of Congress combining the action
of the government in all its departments, strictly
within the Limitations of the instrument in which
the government itself finds the origin and limit
of its powers. My fears for its overthrow are,
in the usurpation Of power by the federal gov
eminent, not warranted by the Constitution,
which the Father of his Country, in his Farewell
Address, cautoning US against those usurpa
tions, says I" is The customary toedpOn by ichich
free governments are destroyed" Let us, then,
Mr.. President, conduct all the legislation Of the
government, in future, strictly within the lmta-
tions of the Constitution, and the quiet which
now so happily rests upon the country, after the
exciting contest through which we have passed,
will never again be disturbed.
The harp of national freedom may be tuned
TO harmony at the Capitol, and when the trial
note is struck upon it, its vibrations will find a
sympathetic chord in every State OF the Unicn,
and its echoes will come back to the mother ear
in tones sweeter than they went out, from every
contented and happy daughter of the republic.
The Bird of Jove, so beautifully imaged over
your head, Mr. President, the emblem of our ma
tional power and glory, will continue to whirl
aloft, with untiring wing, eternal in his fight
through the bright heavens of political freedom,
holding in its talons the arrows of war; quivered,
but undrawn, al! pointing in one direction. indi
eating that they are never to be sped unless
against common enemy, bearing in his beak
the streamer with no star missing from the con-
stellation, none dimmed in its lustre, and having
written upon it forever, in words that cannot be
erased the motto Of the dignity and equality OF
the States, Z" z Pluribus Unum," not many OF
one, but one out Of many.