Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-09-05
NUMBER 1889.

SENATOR PUGH.-As ELOQUENT ExTRAcr-The
Cincinnati Enquirer has brought out the following
extract OF speech of the Hon. George E. Pugh
made IN that city April 9th, 1854. Is there an Ame
rcan who loves his country, and desires the perpe
tuIty OF this glorious Union but will respond hear.
ty dmen to the patriotic and eloquent sentiments
OF this extract? 1t is worthy the reputation of our
abest and Oldest statesman and we rejoice that il
inds place in the hearts of young rising poll
ticians.
Said Mr.. Pugh:
"The continuance of the Union is a matter of vi.
tai importance to the people of Ohio. That is the
term OF all our greatness and all our hopes We
came into being, State, under the auspices of
the federal government, and it may stand or fall,
SO must our fate be- If any abolitionst will calcu-
late 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 Sandusky with
Monday train-first having renewed his patriotism
at the sight OF those islands which the immor-
tai victory of Lake Erie was achieyed-and let him
journey hitherward until the sun declines. What
vision will greet his eyes! The noble State of
Ohio, but fifty years old, and vet containing two
millions of inhabitants, great rch and enviable will
have passed before him-a State which is not mere
y indebted to the Union for peace and protection
Tor means OF access to the sea- but even for its poll.
teal existence Arrived at this capital of western
trade and power this queen of cities which glasses
herselfn river provcrbia for beauty let him con-
template here triumph OF industry and enterprise
as superb in design it is magnificent in proper.
tions, which, but for the Unions aid, but for the
Unions continual care, would quickly fade into des-
pair and ashes Let him go hence by the agency
of that subtle minister which envens SO many
wondrous forms Of mechanism, until he has reached
the States which lie upon our southern border
those fertile and sunny lands through whose allu-
won the Mississippi cleares hundred outlets to
the gulf That, Also is his country, There amid
the fields of verdant cane or i'm the groves of ctron
and olive, or where the fgree casts its clustering
shade, will be found and women to whom
Washington is likewise guiding star-whose hopes
are bound up with his hopes-xhose fortunes
depend on his fortunes-over whose homes as over
ms home, the government which Washington cs-
tablished-.he government which Washington ad-
mIriStered-the government which Washington be-
sought US to manain-strctches forth its protecting
and victorious arm. If there be an American who
would dissever those whom kindred aspirations,
common liberty, and the joint inheritance of so
great name conspire thus closely TO unite; ifherc
he an American who could even wish these things
were otherwise, pity his heart-I pity his head
pity the father and the mother who are compelled
to own him-I pity the soil which his very foot
steps contaminate-I pity even the day whose
heaithful sunlight was dnmed and eclipsed by such
birth of undying shame"