American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1855-12-22
AND FoREvER-oNE AND BIEp

slavery agitation, and opposition to
whatever tends towcaken the bonds of
our beloved Union. This is another
/ humbuggery which the people of Ten
nessee will put down unless the memo
Try of the great deeds of her early
Statesmen and warriors is already blot
ted out. Ell gao.
| But / would trespass too long, gem
tlemen, upon your time, to expose at
length the higher law devices by which
the leaders of the new school of Demo
Gratis in Tennessee have elected gov
ernor and maintained the alliance with
the miserable pretenders who are par
ceiling out the loaves and fishes at
Washington. We array ourselves as
naturally against these devices as our
forefathers did against the pretensions
] of the British crown; and encouraged
by the noble stand taken by your State,
we expect to wheel elinto line with YOU
before another twelve-month passes a.
Iiway. 'i@ Ia 5s}a
T. Kentucky has seen that modern De
Emocracy brings into power such men as
Wise OF Virginia, Seward of New York,
Wilson of Massachusetts, and Davis of
I Mississippi. She also sees these high,
er law men counting the influence of
the Pope of Rome and of the hordes of
! foreign paupers and criminals which
/ have been poured upon our soil from
the monarchies of the Old World.-
This was enough for your gallant State 2
Living on the land still light with the
patriotism, genius, and eloquence Of
Clay, you could only do as you have
done-that is 80 forlyour country your
I whole country, and nothing but your
country, when its true interests were
menacedby domesticfa and foreign
influence. 'iB r. III! ,f.sl.s gt.l,asg ~,
congratulate you, gentlemen, that
you are'citizens of the State of Ken
lucky. 1t will be for your honor in all
Il time to come that you have taken the
q front rank in the great reformation
!. which is now in progress to free us from
the calamities threatened by the aboli-
ZIONIST, and the nullifer and their for
eign allies. This reformation will be
I more memorable than that. Of, 1900.
when you followed the lead Of Virginia
IN maintaining constitutional rights by
constitutional means. Virginia must
now follow your lead. The daughter
Is now stronger than the mother, and
more able to watch over the family
household. And it is well that it is so,
for the work to be done is greater than
it was then. ~ "
In 1900 there was no Archbishop
Hughes commissioned to negotiate for
votes. There wereino seventy millions
IN International vaults to be lavished on
those who pander to Executive power.
There was no immigration from the cor
rupt monarchies of Europe amounting
to a half million annually, and invited
to occupy our lands and interfere in our
elections. We had then no aspirant
to the Presidency preaching that mod
ern Democracy IS the Jacobs ladder Of
the Sacred Scriptures. We had then
mo President so lost to shame as to glo-
Try in prescribing his fellow citizens for
exercising their American birth-right
OF voting freely at the ballot-box. Nor
had we then any men capable of des-
cendlng so low as to use the question of
slavery for the purpose Of forming &C.
ographical parties, and under the gnise
OF State rights arraying one section of
the Union against the other. Time
had not then weakened the revolution
airy impulse, and Virginia had then
her Jefferson and Madison, in whose
hands it was not difficult to correct the
errors which had crcptinto our system.
1t is far different now. Virginia has
given up the reins of government to
small men, and leaves to her more Wig
orous offspring in the West the noble
task of bringing the government back
to its original simplicity. aoH
i | conclude, gentlemen, by again
congratulating you that you are citi-
zcns of the gallant State Of Kentucky;
and that you have shown yourselves
worthy of the great mission assigned
you by the course of events. May
!. you go on as you have begun, defend
| ing the cause of civil and religiousfree-
dom, yielding nothing to the factionist
and fanatic, domestic or foreign, and
| upholding the Constitution and the
I Union as one and inseparable, now and
] forever. ga# sHe aea aU
| Tennessee will soon be with YOU,
lighted by the spirit of her JACKSON,
and fighting by your side, as she did at
4 New Orleans, against the common foe.