The weekly Columbian. [volume] (Columbia, Tuolumne Co., Cal.) 1856-1???, 1856-11-15
A Patriotic Speech.

At the great National Mass Meeting held by
the Wings in Convention in Baltimore Gov.
Morehouse of North Carolina in the course of a
thrilling eloquent address endorsing Willard
Fillmore for the Presidency, said:
"Now about geographical discrimination. I
want but one geographical limit-let us be
bounded by the lakes in the North, the Gulf OF
Mexico and the Rio Grande at the South. the
Atlantic on the East, and the Pacific on the
West. and within that let us all be glorious
brotherhood of Americans (Cheers) Talk
about the North and the SOUTH Where is the
North Is there any North in this glorious Re-
public? Which is the Northern part of your
Constitution, and which the Southern? What
part in this great Republic was the land Of
Washington, Adams, Franklin and idomnuae ge-
mas 2 Shall not bequeath to my children, as
my father bequeathed to me. that land cement
ed by the blood of Warren ?-Shall I not look
upon the battlefelds of Lexington. Bunker
Hill and Concord az my country? l tell you
will, or die in the attempt to look upon them as
such. (Cheers.) Shall not the land of Sump-
ter and Marion be my land Aye sir as long
as time shall last shall it be so. IfWilson and
Sumner do not like me to have a foothold
in State with them, then let them leave the
sacred land of Massachusetts, for will not give
it up.
If Greedy and Beecher seek to elbow me from
the State of New York, they will find hard ell
bowling, and they will have to go out them
Ives. never will consent that one foot Of
the soil of this glorious Union shall ever be con-
sidered anything else but "My own native
land ~ [Applause.1 He who expects me to
fight for the North against the South, or for the
East against the West, will find it with me as
they will find it with our glorious leader; they
will be mistaken in their man. l am for the
whole country Go to Maine and where is Mas
sachusetts? At the South. Go to Maryland
and where is North Carolina? Aye, North =
thank God, North Carolina. [Applause.l We
have o North under the blazing sun Of the
South; and yet they say they will have this
| North.
Dissolve this Union! Let the fiery hotspurs
of the South design it when they may; let the
| plotting traitors of the North design it when
they will; let the pupits of the living God send
| forth their Sharpe's rifles and their powder and
bullets; but the people of the Union will not lei
them disturb it. [Applause.l With your Con
! stituton in one hand and your Bible in the 9th
er, and with patriotism in your hearts, you will
| prove victorious against all the traitors thai
| ever trod the earth. [Cheers and applause.]
| Dissolve this Union Sir, it can never be
dissolved until the blood of the heroes of '7t
udS Detu ~ pOiiuleu anu uiiuleu tIul Tue Ids
| drop Of it has left us. While there is a spark o
the blood of '76 in Americans veins, so long
will this Union stand. [Applause.l Dissolve
| this Union Never, never, never! Why, sir
you may invite all the foreign foes into oul
| land; you may robe our cities in flames, make
our homes smoking ruins and send our wive;
and children screaming through the streets, but
when our country appears as if in the last gasI
of expiring agony, q mighty voice, like the
sound of q trumpet. will speak forth proclaim
| ing liberty and union as the watchword, and
will save the Union.-[Applause.l
Mr. President, was gratiiied to hear you
say yesterday, that you came thousand miles
and would have come three thousand, If neces
sary to meet your brethren and friends in THU
Convention. | was delighted, too, yesterday
to hear the eloquent voice Of my friend from
| Massachusetts,, who. eight years ago, stood side
by side with me; it showeth that the North il
not so far from US as some people imagine, bu
that there is bond of brotherhood which con
meets this Union together, and will never per
NIT it to be rent assuuder. And permit mt
here Mr.. President. to advert to remark made
by yourself last night in private conversation
when you said that this country was knit ant
rivited together by the Great Mississippi, bind
ing degreee of latitude with degree of latitude
that will never allow this great Union to b.
severed. [Applause.l