The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-13
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America. (Applaus.) You have never heard Of tho
Individual Who is addressing you h. hs. had name
which differed with him In politics, he FOR thirty long
years raised bis voice against the majority there in
hand Wss to him Who ens rsosseS
the voice Of greater portion of the American people
cane to administer the Treasury Department Of the
United States came TO give IL an honest and faithful
administration Tor the hopor and credit Of the
IT. and trust for the benefit and honor my c0un
try, (Applause) Fellow citizens of Baltimore your
sasssS your enterprise y yoq5 have
regions of wealth In the West TO contribute to
your future growth and your future prosperity You
have always been true to the your there
has been field where honor has been won on which
Baltimore has not given her heroes to the fight heers
1t has been well and truly said that to the enemies Of
your country Jou have given graves and to heroes
you have erected monuments; and, what is endear
ing TO e heart Of democracy you have adhered the
rights ana to justice to all (Applause,) So may it be
in al time to come. And may prosperity aud wealth
fend their liberties at all times and against all hazards
and against all enemies abroad and at home (Cheers
myself stranger to you. can but say to the demo
cracy of Maryland, give them my heart and my conf
oelce. and wish them well now and in times 10
thar you, gentlemen.
SPEECH OF GENERAL CUSHING.
After loud cries for " Cushing, "Cushna" the At
torDey General Of the United States, the Hon. CAIn
CUSHING forward and addressed the assemblage as
follows
Gentenen-I obey your call that should ., essnt my
sef before you because it ia due you on this
when with such enthusiastic patriotism you have mani
Tested your respect will not say for the President Of
the Upited States-but for the constitution Of your
country for it is only the government of this country
tseH which il this day peraonifed in her chief magis
trate-ppause)-tha country of which he is this day
the prime minister before you say in the vew Of this
great asemblsge convened here to give him fitting
cepiop would be not ely discourteous in me- but
unjust 10 you to him. and to myself not at least for
moment to address you ard it must be only for a
menr Gentlemen, those Of who here accompany the
President have dore in the execution of our public
duty We do nocome here for the purpose Of discuss
ing political questions for the purpose of presenting to
persohs as connecIed with party Cheers and cries Of
.'good, good.'D But we come simply and merely to
city Of New York. These being our relations to this oc
casion, am pzecluded from addressing you any re-
marks on those questions Of the however
ing under our thoughts yet here forbidden topic
And can therefore but congratulate you that such
dents almost peculiar to country and which Illustrate
and honor its institutions (Applaue) We meet here
the ss here ,sss at lssss
there remains the face of the globe untouched by
the1e remain democratic institutions upheld nv the
unaIimous enthusiastic and patriotic emotions of the
o. the uson eod G States sSs You gentle
regnty Of the country and he who for the time being
administers power administers it your represents
for interests oischargng his duty. 1t has been
well and truly said that though it the province Of the
that government yet he leads them emily 10 long As he
ynpathises with the will Of the people. Chsers Aud
i !. as the embodiment as ths type the
united viii Of the peoples 1t h thus and thus only that
he is poserful You, then he repreentsyour power he
exers and he to exert that do believe to the
greatest and general good of these United States zap
plsuse) For, gentlemen, what is the relation Of
not That the governments Of our country sees itself nov
absorbed in petty financial questions There is
treasure Of the United States shall be kep. in the
custody of called cashier. or in the Gus.
to6y Of nan called treasurer. Thanks be to God
We have emerged once and trust for ever. from the
murky atmosphere of that narrow petty interested nan
cisl question: which for such length of time occupied
the United States. say we have emerged at leroth
from those terrestrial questions, mounted to that
country IS Sy It's vss gesons % o. M
the world. That is the point TO which We have no
attained There was time-and can look around me
on some few gray heads in this crowd who may
Der it-there time when these United States con-
sisted Oa riband it we're, Of territory extend
ing along the shores of the Atlantic sea. When the
thirteen United Statee-strong in their of right
strcng in their sanguine anticpatons Of the fu-
when hese hen Upsd q sae ana s s0Ss the
power of Britain We were then comparatively
humble people, occupying merely narrow clip Of the
To those day Of feebleness followed that period in which
the vast valley Of the Msissppthe greatest body of
cutvatable earth that exists one the face of
the ea1thI say the time when that vast valley of
the Mi isspp opened to the enter prise and the in
dustry Of Americans And then it was that the symbolic
eagle OF our arms took its fight the Aea
and spread its wings that great and rich
valley Of the Mississippi Then, then it was that
the future unto Id destiny Of magnificent greatness
and glory for those original thirteen StatesI say
en first begsn to feel that it must and should be 90
And it hss become so for that valley of the Mississippi
region almost unknown to geographical inquiry, as II
the savage what it nowY Is It not now the glorious
the unparalleled centre of these United Sates For that
power which, in its apparent walk, beginning the At
kntic, struggled as 1t were, into existence giant but
an infant giant stands like colossus, with foot
on the Alsshanes and another the rocky mountains
fyiug ell enemies and with the other hand stretched
forth the Pacific inviting the yet untold millions
This Is now tie United statesthas colossus Il
that colossus of colossus Of the spirit of
tons, which invites all men from the four the
globe hther, to come here to find refuge from opPres
son-bere to find ineyhaustibe for the deve
oIsu ent Of industry and encrprischsre to add each
an atom fom bis Intelligence his virtue, his strength
TO add the atoEl Of his own Individual capacity to the
vast total OF the untiripg enterprise ard industry
ths is the point at which we now stand and repeat
that 1t is to no trivial question of the past it il to
exhausted passions Of the past that we, Of this day
coufnedour flight Ia into other elements Our duty
other objects; it Is, gentlemen, in the confidence Of
strength force is ofitec the rrepressibc instinct
veins the blood OF maturity and ygor leeds action
must have action it Is the very condition and necessity
Of existence. say then, strong in territorial
extent, strong in the vast natural Of our
country strong in the vigorous and in the fair
menwLo inhab IT, strong in those glorious institutions
which fathers of the revolution transmitted to
but above all, strong, stronger, strongest in that
irrepressible instinct Of patriotic devotion to
try, which burns unextingushably, Ike the vests
fire On It's altar, in the heart Of every Anne.
rican. Great apIsuse) | say, gentlemen, that
is the point in the history Of country to
" have nd / will say in
concluslon what knov may say with truth, that he the
President Of these United States, whom by unparal
lolod unanity of suffrage you have entrusted for
time being with yosr power whom for the time being you
have called upon and commanded to exert that power is
animated with the full of that great mission TO
which lie has been called that it only be- il will only
be- to that great God who has watched the infancy
Of our country, who has blessed it in its progress TO
maturity and Who has ceased to smile upon til say
can only be that that great God shall have whdra
his Messing from us II the emotions the motives, and
the lcpes which actuate the eut chief Of the gov