Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-07-05


States over which ths 0Fdinaaes Of 81 wss
extended. and which sOusecrAied their sOil TO
freedom and the fruits Of unshsekled honest
industry forever. The heart Of the great West
is there in Ihe band Of States. There at no
Very distant day must be The seat Of Americas
Empire, and from thence must the destinies q
our Nation be controlled.
Now lhese STATE are already strong in these
principles Of freedom, aad truth, and justice
which are the elements Of the best known pO'
itieal and social States. They are free States
they have schools, colleges, churches, scienti
&c and literary associations. Ohio has school
Law as liberal as that Of Massachusetts. Men
and women, who never we're forty miles away
from Boston, sometimes speak Of the Western
people as outside barbarisDs. Why, sir, they
are q civilized people; highly civilized, and as
an evidence Of their Advancement in the high
er arts Of civilized life, it is enough 70 remind
you that they furnish such lecturers as Chaplin
and King some Of their most aPprecistiVe and
discriminating audiences.
There is my native Ohio. ! am proud oI
her. She is a Queen among the Empires q
round her. am proud Of her material power
and affluenee. But she has not only strength
but beauty. She exhibits not only the strength
Of a mighty giant-she is, though but half
century from her birth, already rich in the gra
ces Of cultivated intellect. What could l not
say in praise Of Western genius, had the
time.
Why, sir, who was It that won from an Eng
lish Review-high authority in critical circles.
and chary of its praise-the splendid cOmPh-
ment, that she was the most original among all
poets of America? Who bul Alice Carey-an
Ohio girl?-(AppIause.) And there is Hiram
Powers, whose cunning hand boldly took up
the gage thrown to the modens by the old
sculptors, and his beautiful Slave the Eve,
and the Fisher Boy have challenged cOmPar-
isOn with the Greek and Italian masterpieces.
Applause. He too. is Of Ohio growth. And
thereis Thomas Ewing. a man Of pOndsrous,
yet acute legal intelligence, acknowledged by
the Supreme Court Of the United States, the
only man ct to wear the robes Of Webster in
their presence. (Applause. -.r
And yet again. There is in Ohio one Of the
most fascinating, popular orators of modern
times-noW, alasl inglOriously silent, and sub
timely indifferent to the calls of fame. A man
as witty as Sheridan, as imaginative as Burke.
and il need be as logical as BrOugham, as sue
cinct and clear in the statement Of principles,
and frequently as classic in dictiOn as Wendell
Phillips, while often rivaling in impassiOEed
defamation the 'prodigal splendOrs' Oi ChOate,
a man who has wasted in the county courts
and in the trial of petty cases, elOquence
enough, if exhibited on larger field and in
great causes, to have given him reputation,
equal to Erskine's or v illiam Wirt's. refer,
sir, to Thomas COrWin. (ApPlause.
Allow me one word Of the West, as a great
power in the nation. said that there would
soon be the seat Of Empire. But there, I re.
spectfully submit. will be found something bet
ter than the seat Of the CapitOl-there will bt
the seat Of that conservative power necessary
to the permanence Of the Republic. The mel
Who are TO save the UniOn-if that should evel
really be in dangsr-will be, not the brokers
of Wall street, nor the merchant princes oi
State street. but the men OF the West-the
mighty thousand of voters who must hold the
balance of power--nsy, the power itself, at the
polls. The farmers, mechanics, traders-the
great multitude of workers who show that La
Dor is cursed without Liberty. and that liberty
is insecure without uniOn-these will be the u
nion savers. (ApPlause,
As that great man said, on the occasion that
picture above your head, sir, is designed to
commemorate, [Webster's reply to Hayne i
There is Boston and Concord, and Lexington
and Bunker Hill and there they will remain
forever $50 say Of that great North west
there il is, aud there It will remain forever
huu when ihCttOu 10 tuC~~WuOu VIC MCu1OhJ VI
Lexington, and Bunker Hill. and Yorktown,
shall fail to still the mad passions of the blind
North and the binder South. and armed bands
from the sections shall prepare to march--then
from the centre Of the land shall come power
to bind them both, or send them back with IN
stained hands to their homes Il is the Genius
of the Great West, who when they shall have
become really belligerant will take both Gar
risOn and Gen. Qaattlebum BY The throat, and
holding them apart with giant arms. let them
glare with inpotent rage upon each other. or.
what is better, like great Paci6caLOr, induce
them TO repeat 10 concert the magic words writ
ten in gold upon that wall,-Liberty and u
mon. one and inseparable! prolonged ap-
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