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

even some of the living men of tn
North, at the present day, are response
bic, because they brought the negro
from Africa, aud sold them Now, lie
US equalize the matter. At the adop
tlon of the Constitution, twelve of tn,
thirteen States were slaveholding, AL
of them except those on the Southern
sea board emarcipated their slaves, OF
rather sold them, and said that no NOR,
slaves should exist there. AS they nov
insist that the negroes descendant.
shall be free, let the South agree to it
and square the account between them
according to justice and humanity Let
the South say they will set the ne
groes free at half-price; suppose them
to be worth $500 apiece, let them be
willing to take $3.50. Then let the son
of the man who received 81 900 for
them, pay the purchase money, with in
terest up TO this day, into a common
fund to buy out the negroes and make
q joint operation of sending them to Lii
IBERIA. If our Northern friends would
only come up with their bags of dollars,
which they received by the original sale
of the negroes, with the interest to this
day, and plank them down in behalf of
human rights, and then say to the South.
" Now, plank up your negroes; +" then
we'd see something like equality and
morality in the proposition. (Applause.) J
I once knew an old gambler, who quit
the trade after having made money out
of it. He then went about lecturing
against gambling ,and every body said he
was right. Finally, he got to lecturing
about religion. This touched minis
ter in the neighborhood who did not like
to hear a gambler talk about religion
until he had given some evidence or
pledge of reformation. He said to him,
g My friend, L agree in all that you
have said about the gamblers; they
are an awful set, and ought to be pun
ished; but Aave you paid back all the
money you won ?" Uaughter and ap-
plause.) "Oh, no !" was the response,
Ga this matter I have -prejudies--
L am native of a slaveholding State.
live in a free State. My children are
in the free States, to partake of their
fate; but L am an Am erican. From
my infancy, when have glanced my
EYE over the ample map of my country,
and surveyed its wide extended plains,
as they now do from ocean to
ocean, aud from the Lake of the Woods
TO the Gulf of Mexico, I have felt proud
hat I was something more than the Cit
zen Of the single State of Ohio, Zap
2lause.) have felt proud that could
,ravel thousand miles from my home
1t any point of the compass, and still
stand on land, where I could fold my
arms, and say-here l am citizen.
'ejoice in the splendor and prosperity
If Philadelphia, my heart is gladened
1t the exhibition of her wealth, her in
,elligence, her power, the comfort of her
people, and the general happiness of
This great community, as much as if l
we're member of it. (Applause.)
When traversing the mountains of
Pennsy sylvania, 1 saw that your penetra-
ing intellect and tremendous energy
nad brought down the -Alleghenies
20 your feet; and where the rock was
100 stubborn you have penetrated it, and
passed steam through the bowels of the
earth. When l see all this. 1 feel as
proud of it as though it were scene
spread out in my own native State. Zap
olause.) l feel proud of it, because
san say to myself-this is one of the
parts of our great Republic of which
I'm a citizen, 81
My friends even the Oldest of you.
viii have mournful days to pass through,
# this Union be Dissolved. have told
you that like the marriage contract, it
cannot be kept together by force. 1t
,nn be maintained only by sense of
ustice and right, and mutuality of in
,erest. The sense of right is strong in |
he human mind; but here we have u
Of interest which is even
tronger than the sense of right, and it
binds North and South together as one
whole.
Look at the railroads which are hour
y connecting you with the Southern
border. If the Union should be dis
olved, what will become of the immense |
mass of property in railroads; what
will become of the ten thousand mechan-
c shops where now so many million dol
ars worth of goods are annually manu-
actured for sale to the people of the
south What will become of the large
.moant of money that is earned by the
North in the simple operation of trans
erriDg from the southern seaports to
England and ba.k the products of the
South What will become of the OK
,okes makers of Boston? Nearly all
he agricultural implements of my State
re made in Boston, and so it is in the
States south and southwest of me. In
he streets of Chilcothe, you will see the
8os: on stamp on the rough common ar
icles made of wood; beause in Boston,
hey have the machinery and instrument
alities for making them cheaper than |
We can. But in the event of q disso-
ution, where would all this profit be ?
/ desire to call attention to few 9th
,r points of the question. Get the map
md put your finger on the great naviga-
Die rivers that run from the vast interi-
IF, rise in the Lake of the Woods, and
Itretch between the Allegheny and the
Rocky Mountains look at the point at
which they enter the Gulf OF Mexico
IL 4Lo tl,n+;o Ooean Everv one of |