The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-01-21
MIR. Pugh,s speech on the 18th Festival.


| Mr. Pugh's speech on the 9Th Festival.
| To the toast OF The National Confederation--ts
Union forever" George Il Pugh responded follows
/ 1t presents striking contrast between govern
men and all other governments which exist or have ex
sied that every American citizen alles TO two
political organizationsboth springlng IRON the Will OF
the people from great source exercising Diff
feent powers through different in5trumenalities but
harm onious, and dependent each other Each State
has separate constitution, and yet all the States have
one constitution in common-for the constitution OF the
United States is the constitution of every State. To-
gether, as parts composing an entire form OF govern
ment the constitution OF the United States and the con-
stiuon OF Ohio entitled 10 our undivided eaty and
support
The Of the revelation demonstrated that whilst
State governments separately were best calculated TO
secure the rights OF the people Individuals to protect
them in every domestic realon to prescribe the tenure
OF property and the modes of its alienation, they
equal by league compact, to the duty OF regu
lating commerce, securing uniformity IN matters which
pertain to The general interest," conducting foreign affairs,
declaring and settling terms oil peace Upon the
cessiiy OF amending this defect, and not as subordnang
the State governments the noble edihce of our Union
established In respect OF the purposes for which II
created and the powers prescribed 10 H. the Union
government and should be supreme. In other matters
than these, by written constitutions have delegated
the control and supremacy To our Slate governments.
This organzaon iede raj and State protects us from for
eign assault and domestic outrage; whilst there yet
other organization founded in the nature Of mankind, the
laws OF which are written upon every heart, and express
their obligation in The sympathy and brotherhood OF our
race
IL - organization oil society, lnsttu
ton with rights, duties, and principles, small portion Of
which only have been conhied, or can ever safely be
coDhded. 10 any form Of human government The code
OF social righ IL and duties older than all our poilica
relations il is of Divine origin and obligation It's duties
are more distinctly taught, ils rewards greater its
punshmenls terrible, than those Of human inven
ton In the sentence pronounced on The first murder
on him who, before men had enacted laws, sought The
life OF his brolher-we may read the indications of
ciey against all inraclons oil ITS order Thou shalt not
have The sympathy, the raterna interest, the ecogn-
ton even of thy fellows; hoI shalt neither be their
keeper be kept OF Them; man shall kill harm
thee; but 90 thy way, henceoith fugitive and vaga
bond in The earth.
Not as one apart from these organizations, but as an
Indispensable element in them, deriving his rights from
the order OF social lite, and executing his chief social OBJ
legations through government both federal and State in
It's character, the American citizen differs all respects
from The citizens OF other countries. He is living
power IN the social as IN The political organIzationat
once and subject OF aulhofiy-the keeper OF
himself and therefore, the keeper and the sovereign of
all his fellows
The happiest suggestions. Mr. President always come
by accdentif indeed, accident be not another for
Gods ever wa,ehiul providence. In the midst OF
advetsties with independence achieved but with
y vgor remaining protect il, secluded by seas almost
impossible from the lust The rage OF monarchs The
wise OF revolution led, by divine pra.
science, 10 adopt the Union now behold it, Sixty
lyhye years, almost has sood-yeafs OF infancy and
apparent heplessness years OF redundant and glowing
youth years OF foreign years OF trying because list
less peace, years OF bad administrations and Of good
years OF bitterness years oil grateful prosnerity-and still
stands Mr. President, equal ali the emergencies OF
mature ile susceptible OF and requiring amendments
10 particulars, bat perfect in lis original design, sound to
toe core, resting with immoyabe security on the atec
tons OF free people.
The growth Of our Union, sir, is something TOO won
defiul 10 be expressed IN speech That of waters
which projected infant feebeness from the assault of
European jealousy cupdly does not prevent us
from debating laws to Europe and TO the world On all
its waving helds, over the whole expanse of oceans
mighty MAN, now speed our messengers-some carrying
peaceful burdens wearing proud defiance in their
eyes, but above them all, foung the blue vault OF air
and reelected from the deeper blue Of the billows in bat
tie aad 10 breeze, there the emblem of Union and
oVe-lha iag toward which, in DEATH were where
armies rushed together or in the bowling Wilderness or
IN the PRISONS deeper solitude or in the midst Of sob.
bling friends the glazing eye would turn with 10y and the
falling heart would yean.
The Alleghanies we're said by wise man OF the rev.
oluon TO be the natural western boundary OF Union
But federal domain long STAGE ovefpassed thai bar
uer and across the slopes whose rivers fill The turbd
Mississippi has our government extended lis proteclion
establishing colonies which have npened into States,
equal IN right aud exceeding ~ and popuaion
most of the original thirteen. Beyond The Father OF
Waters--beyond those floods so wild and lone which |
knded De Sotos eyes with wonder, and in whose depths
be found gfavo-new States have been borne into
Union. a1d become heirs TO The freedom which Wash |
ngon secured Nav sir, beyond The eypanse OF prairie,
stretching like inland gathered into one, beyond the
regions where morning sses and evening revisiis The
peaks Of other mighty mountains The Pacihe's die.
n shore, has lately risen another orb in conslela
ton, lighting NJ the western sky with new and strange
PROMISES unuleed in speech but radiang the soul Of
chvaFy and Adventure beckonlng thousands from
tue easernmos verge OF the old coetnent Nor yet does
our Union give signs OF dtcrepilude exhaustion An
empire surprising that which Alexander conquered OF
that even which he sighed TO conquer-sufp the
world over which Roman mssnlfeeuce held sway I
il derives new yigor and life with each acquisition
and as il increases in grandeur, becomes elevated in
spirit, nober in purpose, and settled more firmly
in the hearts OF its subjects This empire is no, OF
the sword il is not governed by sarsps or pro.consnls
sent forth from central power; il is founded on the
social law Of mans brotherhood on the desire OF com
mon defence the wish for general welfare Each of the
States or old itels tia, BY federal constitution
and government, II i brought into such perfect unison
with and made essential part Of all the other States
that their fame is its fame their growth It's growth their
life its lie.
Foreign authors have qusried often what line disn.
guishes clearly The power of our federal from that of
Stale government. Let us seek TO learn that This
Union will best be maintained will be foeve err preserved
by the spirit Of concession and OF compromise in which il
originated. Whenever one State feels tina, s prosperity
Is mpeded ny ac Of the federal eovernmenttha lis
domestic peace IS in a1ywse endangered that its import
i 81 all dimmed-le all The other States without
nice questioning, without unkud debate, answer the
complaint and remove willingly, cheeHuly, promptly |
the OF such offence No man can truly call this
undue or improper Difference !, is not the response Of