The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-09-13

outvote the fifteen southern StAtesG Does the South not
stand back 10 griefbut not In terrorat the spectacle
which Is eKhibedf In saying that the ony hope OF
cess 70 In themselves do they not seek 10 destroy far
possible all the am aud concord existing between the
two sectons2 The States have within themselves all the
machinery OF governments each competent TO manage i
own affairs.
Il is not in our country in France where the peo
pie have no system among themselves In conederacy
where you array one part against another that moment IT
falls 70 pieces Our government rests upon the affections
ot the people IL purely upon the love- and the 10y
atty and the affection Of the people for each other When
folly and ambition shall have put an end 10 this the life of
our government will have been destroyed though It's
forms may for little while remain feel that all who
not carried away by passions and preudees know this
be true Then not this Union greater than any subord
nate question
If have right would never forget to call your aen-
ton 10 the who founded this government though they
may be now called old fogas Remember the last
ng-the last nporation of Washington TO his country
was to frown Indignantly upon any attempt 10 sever the
ties that bind the cherished parts of country together
In the words utter he warned them TO rown upon
attempt to array part against part and in my humble
Judgment the republican party sat for the portrait and
Washington painted it in living coors
Fellowcitizens, have gone longer than intended
but let call your attention the teachings Of other
men. Clay, who loved his whole country with lofty
nature God conferred upon man. again and again
warmed his counrymen of the rising storm. He said the
purpose OF sectional party would be TO array portion
OF the country against another and deprecated IL the
greatest calamity that could bea this country He said
all harmony would be destroyed and the aholtionists
would start back in horror and dsmay the dire conf
sion they had made And Jackson who loved his country
less than any, living dead pointed the
which would probably lead TO dissolution of the Union
He depicted the dangers which would arise from civil
He said that the memory OF common interests and
gloes not sufficient to hold this Union together
strife and CONFUSION would follow military adven-
would arise and the people would at last surrender
their liberty for the sake OF repose Is this party justified
in anything that Webster has said They can find no
justification in the sayings OF any OF these men, Washing
ton Jefferson Madison Clay Webser-these patriots are
Inn IN Ihp Hy
calm light shall be guided bndly by the leaders Of
this party Look at those who have served their
country longest and best They have protested against
this calculated destroy the peace Of the
country The most iusrous, the most eminent are found
| arrayed against II.
When you appealed to to join In crusade against
the southern States tell them you for liberty in your
own State but as Clay said you for the liberty Of
race before other and your people
before any other people, Make excuses; don't dodge;
meet them upon the facts and tell them preserve
this Union only by adherng to the bond of union and
we intend to do it. Applause All else is as nothing
compared with the boundess disasters which would follow
| if this confederacy destroyed.
citizens Kentucky lies locked up in the heart of
the Union She could not go out if she would and would
not il she could. She borders Ohio Indiana, and l
nois She has lived with them in concord and peace and
abe wants to live in any other spirit. s.~ ~
That State settled by blood and toll and not like
Of the other States the petted child of fond mother
She had to conquer savage foe and has been called the
"dark and bloody ground" She does be the
dark and bloody ground of civil And yet if this
new party should succeed how could Kentucky longer
main in the Union What if the southern States formed
majority, and would consult your wishes in the adj
minstraton of the goyernment2 ask you if that would
oomport with the spirit of the bond of union ITO in
domestic tranquility 7" the purpose of this
tonal party; it is strife it is civil This is the mis-
sion ofi They will not live together in the of
your fathers ..... ....
Now feow-cizens, if you design that each community
shall manage its affairs in its way if you willing
that the States shal move along without collision and
without disorder then beseech you to stand by the
stuton and put this question in charge of those alone
whom it If gentlemen want to agitae the sub
ect let them become citizens there and help to fix the in
situations there in accordance with their views of
propriety The collision of has followed the collision
of opinion there and the object Of this party is to spread
this collision throughout the country My State 1T
tered political threat but in her life and that in
the time of John Adams and she then hurled his admin
straon from power and inauguated the principles Of
Jefferson. Kentucky is unit without distinction of party
10 the belief that this sectional organization insult
her and her southern sisters and it only be followed
by disaster and disgrace do not bclieve, my friends
that that disaster Is upon The sober second
thought has come again the evidence of people
aroused action and in defence of the constitution which
protects al alike This great State will lead
SADIE against the South but in the language Of of your
banners she will say "The Union forever Tremendous
aud continued applause '.u..