American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1856-10-04

mated such q man as George Wash
ington, would you uot support him?-
Had they taken up Millard Fillmore,
should you not then support him? And
if the American party will stand by
us we will elect Millard Fillmore.
i Cheers. And if they will not, L give
them notice now that we Wings intend
to elect him any how. (Cheers.) IF
they do not like our man, let them get
a better one if they can. daughter.
We want Wing President and we will
have a Wing President. One thing is
certain, if we have Wing President
at all, he will be an American Presi-
dent and that is what we want.
Now about geographical discrimina-
tion. l want but one geographical
limit--lot us be bounded by the lakes
in the North, the Gulf of Mexico and
the Rio Grande at the South, the At
lantic on the East, and the Pacific on
the West, and within that let us all be
a glorious brotherhood of Americans.
(Cheers.) Talk about the North and
the South Whcrei is the North I? 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 id onne genus !?
Shall not bequeath to my children, as
my father bequeathed to me, that land
cemcnted by the blood of Warren p
Shall not look upon the battle-fields
of Lexington, Bunker Hill and Concord
as my country? 1 tell you / will, or
die in the attempt to look upon til en-
as such. (Checrs.) Shall not the land
OF Sumpter and Marion be my land ?
Aye, sir, as long as time shall last, shall
it be 80. If Wilson and Sumner do not
like me to have foothold in State
with them, then let them leave the sa-
cred land of Massachusetts, for will
not give itup.
If Greedy and Beecher seek to elbow
me from the State of New York, thew
will find hard clbowing, and they will
have to go out themselves. I never
will consent that one foot of the soil
of this glorious Union shall ever be
considered gthing else but ''My own
native land!'S Applause.1 He who
expects me to fight for the North a.
gainst 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. |
am for the whole country. Go to
Maine, and where is Massachusetts ?
AT the South. Go to Massachusetts,
and whore is the gallant state of Ma
ryland? ? At the South. Go to Ma
ryland, and where is North Carolina?
Aye, North!-thank God, NORTH Car
olina. Applause We have a North
under the blazing sun Of the South;
and yet they say they will have this
North.
Dissolve this Union Let the frey
hotspurs of the South design it when
they may; let the plotting traitors of
the North design it when they will !;
let the pulpits, dedicated to the worship
of the living God, send forth their
Sharpe's rifles and their powder and
bullets; but the people of the Union
will not let them disturb it, Applause
With your Constitution in one hand,
and your Bible in the other, and with
patriotism in your hearts, W will prove
victorious against all the traitors that
ever trod the earth. [Checrs and ap-
plausc.1
Dissolve this Union! Sir, it can
never be dissolved, until the blood of
the. heroes of '76 has been so polluted
and diluted that the last drop of it has
left us. While there is drop of the
blood of '76 in Americans veins, SO
long will this Union stand. Applause |
Dissolve this Union! Never! Mover
NEVER! Why, sir, you may invite
all the foes into our land; you may
robe our cities in flames make our
homes smoking ruins, and send our
wives and children screaming through
the streets, but when our country an
pears as if in the last gasp of expiring
agony, mighty voice, like the sound
of a trumpet, will speak forth proclaim
ing LIBERTY and UNION as the watch
word; and will save the Union. TAp.'I
plause.
Mr.. President, / was gratificd to
hear you say yesterday that you came
81 thousand miles, and would have come
three thousand, if necessary to meet
your brethren and friends in this Con
vention. was delighted, too, yester-
day, to hear the eloquent voice of nv
friend from Massachusetts,, who, eight
years stood side by side with me; it
showed that the North is not SO far
from us as some people imagine, but