The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-10-08

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d So much for that part of the arg,
: ment. I have, I think, demonstrate
It that the Free States were gamers,
e the question be viewed between two r
val sections, one pitted against the otl
4 er in contest for power. That, how
: ever, is not exactly the way in whic
s: 1 view the matter I am not habitua
? ted to look on the North andsSoath a
: rival sections Let me inform you o
another thing which perhaps it will b
thought little bold to lay down, lie
me, belonging to the stronger side, tel
you. who live in the Free States
in powerful free State,-I who belong
to one of the Free States which form
the l6 of the 81. That notwithstand
ing our superiority of power, the free
States, if they had ten of the larges,
slaveholdiDg States to help them, can
not hold the Union together by force.
I(Applause.) The Union was not form
ed By force, and cannot be kept togeth-
er by force. (Renewed Applsuse.) 1t
was marriage contract of great and in
dependent sovereignties, and like all
marriages founded upon affection, can
only be kept strong, Pure, holy and dis
pensing happiness by love and affection
Great eheering.) A sense of right and
mutuality of interests form the great
powers that hold this Union together
that sense of right which, whatever may
be said about the frailties of our nature,
is at least a powerful element in the
| American mind. A sense of right for
the love of right, and profound con-
viction of there being, between the diff
ferent parts of this confederacy, mu-
tuality of interest constitutes the bond,
the ligament, which holds the Uuion to-
gether, and by holding it together to ex-
hibit to the world the most powerful, as
the most splendid nation on its surface
How would you huld it together by
force I? ....
Suppose half dozen States, or three
or four, or even one, chose to 60 out of
the Union, how will you get them back?
Imagine that the State of Pennsylvania
the Keystone in the arch of the Union,
should, for any cause known to herself,
however insane, withdraw from the Re-
public; environed as she would be on
all hands, by her late sister members of
the confederation, how would you ges
her back You may say in the old
European style of the dragon and the
bayouet. Well, suppose a war should
be got up against Pennsylvania-thirty
against one State-aud they environed
her frontier with cannon, covered her
mountains with rifemen, and her plains
with cavalry, and slaughtered one half
her fathers, her sons, her mothers, Ler
daughters, and her lovely little children
What then? When all this had been
done in order to get her back iuto tie
Union, would the object have been ac-
counpiished? Suppose she were unable
to raise au arm, and was obliged to sub
NIT to the extension of the federal pow
er around her people, where should she
beP Would she be in the Union as an
equal and an Independent State No,
but she would be in it as conquered
province. 1 say, then, that this govern
meut in which civil war, however it
may end, whether the party representing
the Federal Government, or the oppo-
site party, prove victorious, dissolves
the confederation equally whether the
victory fall on the one side or the other.
If in the combat the seeding States, be
victorious, they lemain out as a matter
of course. If they be subdued, they are
brought back, not as free aud independ-
ent States, willing to be where they are
bat a. canquered-p Obliged to
be where they do not want to be. All
attempts to induce the people of the
North to believe they have nothing to
do but to bully the south, are, 1 trust,
doomed to disgraceful failure. Itis not
good business for anybody to under
take to bully Americans, either north
or south. No nation will find it very
profitable investment of its courage to
bully the people of the United States,
north or south; but of all the bullying
in the world, the bullying of one half
this nation by the other half, is the
most to be deplored, because it is the
most ridiculous.
declare to you, fellow citizens, as
am somewhat conversant with the active
affairs of life, that when at home and
daily employed in agricultural pursuits
with my friends and neighbors, 1 look
at the situation of the United States, as
it now is upon the earth's surface, and
cont rast it with the situation of all prece-
ding nations, and of all nations that now
exist upon our globe, and when I re-
member, that through 5000 years of
traditiouary struggle, out of the entire
human race in the middle of the nine
teenth century, after Lock wrote and
Newton thought, there are about TWEEN
ty.fve millions of freemen out of the
thousand millions who inhabit our globe,
when 1 behold these men, the descend
ants of revolutionary sires, acting as