Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-08-21
Senator Pugh-An Eloquent Extract.

The Cincinnati Enquirer has brought out the
following extract Of speech of the Hon. Geo.
E. Pugh, made in that city, April 9th, 1854 Is
there an Ohioan, who loves his country, and de-
sires the perpetuity of this glorious Union, but
will respond an hearty amen to the patriotic and
eloquent sentiments of this extract. 1t is worthy
the reputation of our ablest statesman, and we
rejoice that it finds place in the hearts of our
young, rising politicians. Stark Co. (O.) Dem.
Said Mr.. Pugh:
1.-The continuance Of the Union is a matter OF
vital importance to the people Of Ohio. That
IS the term OF all our greatness and all our hopes
We came into being, as a State, under the aus
pices OF the Federal Government, and as il NAV
stand or fall, SO must our fate be. If any Ab,li.
| ZIONIST will calculate the value of the Union 10
US, or even to those who may I'LL our places here
after, lei him behold the prosperity and happi-
ness which have fallen to our choice. Let him
depart from Sandusky with Mondays train
first having renewed his patriotism al the sight
Of those islands near which the immortal victory
of Lake Erie was achieved, and let him Journey
hitherward until the sun declines What n
vision will greet his eyes The noble State Of
Ohio, but fifty years old, and yet containing two
millions of inhabitants, great, rich, ami enviable,
will have passed before him-a State which is
not merely indebted TO the Union for peace and
protection, for means Of access 10 the sea, but
even for it's political existence. Arrived al this
capital of western trade and power, this queen
Of cities, which glasses herself in a river proven
bal for beauty, let him contemplate here
| triumph Of industry and enterprise as superb in
design as il is magnificent in proportions, which,
but Tor the Unions continual care, would quickly
fade into despair and ashes. Let him 90 hence
by the agency Of that subtle minister which en-
livens 50 many wondrous forms Of mechanism,
until he has reached the States which lie upon
our southern border-those fertile and sunny
lands through whose alluvion the Mississippi
cleaves hundred outlets 10 the gulf That,
also, is his country. There, amid the fields OF
verdant cane, or in the groves Of citron and olive
or where the fig tree casts its clustering shade,
will be found men and women to whom Wash
ington Is likewise guiding star-whose hopes
are bound up with his own hopes-whose for.
| tunes depend on has fortunes-over whose homes,
as over his home, the Government which Wash
| ngton established-the Government which Wash
| ington besought US to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. forth
/ its protecting and victorious arm. Ifthere be
| an American who would discover those whom
\ kindred aspirations, common liberty, and tho
| Joint inheritance Of SO great a name conspire
\ thus closely 10 unite; if there be an American
\ who could even wish these things were other
wise, pity his heart-I pity his head pity the
4 father and mother who compelled to own
/ him pity the soil which his very footsteps con.
/ taminate-l pity even the day whose healthful
sunlight was dlmmed and eclipsed by such a birth
Of undyng shame"