The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1855-08-15

thought and .tsh that this ought to be
perfectly manifest eUeal to the minds of the
foreigners. Undoubtedly they pressed for
soard early and vigorously to the polls, Il,
order to be the first possible aud IN this
they acre right. They had a perfect right
to go if they chose to the polls at IL
o'clock on Sunday night and remain there
till the following morning They had q
right to go at what time they pleased and
in what numbers they could They had
a right even to toss their friends over the
heads of the crowd to the polls, as we are
told they did in some few instances, though
this no doubt would be violation of
courtesy"
This is the vanished statement of a
Know w-Nothing leader 1t means in plain
English, that all who do not belong to
the dark lantern set, should stand back
until the Know Nothings themselves shall
have voted, and if they do not stand back
the X. Ms have perfect right to make
them do so. Doubtless the whole affair
was arranged in the secret councils.
Extract from Speech of Geo. 3. Pugh.
The following extract, published in the Gin
cinnati Enquirer is from speech delivered in
that city, April 9th, 1854 by Senator Pugh. 1t
gives a fair specimen of his rhetoric, but his
eloquence must be seen and heard to be appre-
ciated:
"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 State, under the auspices
of the Federal Government, and as it may
stand or fall, so must our fate be. IF any
Abolitlonist will calculate the value of the
Union to US, or even to those who may
fill our places hereafter, let him behold the
prosperity and happiness which have fallen
to our choice. Let him depart from SAM
dusky with Mondays train-irst having
renewed his patriotism at the sight of
those islands near which the immortal
victory of Lake Erie was achieyed-and
let him journey hitherward until the sun
declines. What vision viii greet his
eyes! The noble State of Ohio, but fifty
: years old, and yet containing two millions
OF inhabitants, great, rich, and enviable,
will have passed before him State which
is not merely indebted to the Union for
peace and protection, for means Of access
e to the sea, but even for its political exist
e ence. Arrived at this capital of western
n trade and power, this queen of cities, which
h glasses herself in river proyerbial for
IS beauty, let him contemplate here q triumph
II Of industry and enterprise as superb in de-
n sign as it is magnificent in proportions,
y which, but for the Unions aid, but for the
le Unions continual care, would quickly fade
is into despair and ashes Let him go hence
by the agency Of that subtitle minister
he which enlivens so many wondrous forms
r of mechanism, until he has reached the
States which lie upon our southern border
a. those fertile and sunny lands through
whose alluvion the. Mississippi cleaves I
s. hundred outlets to the gulf. That al *
e. is has country! There, amid the field. Is q
e, verdant cane, or in the groves of t:itro
m and olive, or where the fig tree casts il
lis clustering shade, will be fousad rneb al,
o. women to whom Washington is likewise
guiding star-whose hopes are boand u
de with his own hopes-whose fortunes a,
1t, pend on has fortunes over whose home
'e, as over his home, the Government wilfc
It, Washington established the Governmel
re which Washington Administered I'll
be Government which Washing gton besoucl
,ly us to maintain-stretch hes forth its Or
d. tecting and victorious arm. M there
lr- an American who would ilisseyer tho,
whom kindred aspirations, a common Iii
erty, and the joint Inheritance Of SO gre
a name conspire thus closely to unite:
he there be an American who could eyt
We wish these things were otherwise, / pi,
ad his heart-I pity his head pity ii
of father and the mother who are compelIe
he to own him--I pity the soil which b
he very footsteps contaminate-I pity eve
the day whose healthful sunlight v,
by dimmed and eclipsed by such birth !
me undying shame" Es