The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1854-01-25
Mr. Pugh's Speech at the 9th of
January Festival.

which exist or have existed, that every
American citizen owes allegiance to two
political organizatons-both springing from
the will Of the people as from a great com.
mon source, exercising different powers,
through different instrumentaities, but har,
monIous and dependent on each other
Each State has seperate constitution in
common-for the constitution of the Uni
ted States is the constitution of every State
Together as parts composing an entire
form of government. the constitution o. the
United States, and the constitution of Ohio
are entitled to our undivided fealty and
support.
The war Of the Revolution demonstrated
that whilst our State governments, seper-
ately, were best calculated to secure the
rights Of the people as individuals, to pro-
tect them i'll every domestic relation, to
prescribe the tenure of prosperity and the
modes of its alienation, they were unequal,
by a league or mere compact To the duty
Of regulating commerce, securing unlformi-
ty in matters which pertain to the general
interest, conducting foteign affairs, Geclar-
ing war and settling terms Of peace. Upon
the necessity OF amending this defect, and
not subordinating the State governments.
was the noble editice of our Union establishs
ed. In respect Of the purpose for which i!
was created, and the powers prescribed to
it, the Union is our government and should
be supreme. In other matters than these,
By written constitution, we have delegated
the control and supremacy to our State gov
ernments. This organization, Federal and
State protects US from foreign assault and
domestic outrage; whilst there IS yet aloth-
er 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,
1t is the organization of American society.
an institution with rights, duties and prin-
ciples, small portion OF which only have
been confded, or can ever safely be conf
ded, to any form Of human government
The code Of social rights and duties is older
than all our political relations; it is Of divine
origin and obligation. Its duties are even
more distinctly taught, its rewards greater,
its punishment more terrible, than those oil
human invention. In the sentence prononu-
ced on the first murderer--on him who,
before men had enaced laws, sought the life
of his brother--we may read the vindica
tions Of society against all infractions OF its
order. Thon shalt not have the sympathy,
The fraternal interests, the recognition even,
of thy fellows; thou shalt neither be their
.keepsr nor he. sept q .Qt them: no man shall
kill OF harm thee; bit 30 thy ways, hence
forth q fugitive and v.gabond in the
earth. .... .. a
Not as one apart from these organizations,
but as an indispensable element in them, de-
rivips his rights from the order Of social
I life, aad exercising his chief social obliga.
tions through a government both Federal
and State IN its character, the American
citizen differs in all respects from the citl-
zens of OF other countries. He is q living
power in social, as in the political oryaniza-
ion--at once source and subject Ut au
thorty--the keeper Of himself and, there
fore, the keeper and the sovereign ofali his
fellows.
The happi0st suggestions, Mr.. President,
always comes by accident--lf, indeed, ac-
cident be.not another name for Gods ever
watchful providence. In the midst Of ad-
versities, with Independence achieved bit
with scarcely vigor remaining TO protect It,
secluded by seas almost impossible from
the lust or the rage OF monarchs, the wise
men of our Revolution were led, as by a
divine prescience, TO adopt the Union as
we now behold it. Sixty five years, almost,
it has stool--years Of infancy and appa-
rent bel plessness, years Of redundant and
glowing youth, years Of foreign war, years
OF trying because listless peace, years of
bad administrations and of good, years Of
bitterness, yeas OF grateful prosp 'rity--,nd
still it stands, Mr.. President, equal TO all
the emergencies Of mature life, susceptible
of and even requiring amendment in paric
ulars, but perfect in its original! design,
sound to the core, resting with immovable
security ON the affections Of free people.
The growth of our Union, sir, is some-
thing too wonderful 10 be expressed i'll
speech. That waste Of waters which protected
our infant feebeneSS from the assaults OF
European jealousy or cupGity, now does
not prevent us from debating laws to Europe
aud tothe woril Onall its waving fields,
over the whole expanse Of oceans mighty
main, now speed Our messengers some car
Trying peaceful burthens--some wearing
proud defiance in their eyes--but above
them all, floating the blue vault OF Air and
reflected from the deeper blue of the bIilows.
in battle and in breezes there is the emblem
Of our Union and our love that flag 10.
ward which, in death, were it where ar
mics rushed together. or in the howllng
wilderness, or in the prisons deeper sli-
tude, or in tbe midst OF sobbng friends, the
glazing eye would turn with joy and the
falling heart would yearn. a
The Alrghanies were salt, by wise
man Of the Revolution, To be the natural
western boundary o. our Union. But our
Federal domain long siuce over passed thai
! barrier; and across. tAe Slope whose rlycrt
ill the turbid Mississippihas our govern
menl extended its protrctlon- establishing
colonies WHICH have ripeMed into states
equal in high; and exceeding IN resources
and popalatiUl most OF the original thirteen
Beyond the Father Of Waters--beyond those
Hoods, SO Wild and alone, which AindEsd De
Soto's eyes with wonder, and III, who's
depths he found grave-new States have
been born into our Union aud become belrs
to the freedom which Washington secured.
Nay, Sir, beyond the expansc Of pralrle--
stretching like lnIands seas gathered INTO
one--beybnd the regions where morning
kisses and evening reylsls the peaks OF other