The daily union., 1856-11-01
SPEECH OF non. RUFUS CHoATE,
ON THE POLITICAL TOPICS NOW PROMINENT
BEFORE THE COUNTRY"
Delivered at LO,Os Aassachussts Tuesday Ersaing Octo
Der 20, 1856.

DstiVa5a al LO0s MassachassS Tuesday EreiHgi Ooto
Der 2S 1856.
[Reyised aud the Boston Courerl
have accepted your invitation 70 this hall with pleas
uTe, although 1t is pleasure not unattended by pain
To meet YOU ellowcitzens OF Lowell ana OF hdaleseA
between whom the larger number OF whom, ana myself
may hope from the terms OF the call under which you
assemble there is sympathy ofopnion and feeling
the apoteal topics now prominent before tne eommu-
on the condition OF country and the duties OF those
who aspire only 10 be good citizens and are inquiring
anxiousy what in that humble yet responsible character
they have to do-to meet thus and here; not politicians
not parsans not as tmeseryers not as otceseekers
followers OF multitude because II Is multitude
ectona but and daughters OF our united
and inherited America who love her hiay and terventy
for herself; ownthe beautiful, the endeared Sthe
bounteous, the imperial and general Parent-and whose
hearts desire and prayer God is only TO know how we
shall her besthis is pleasure and privilege for
which shall be very long and very deeply in your debt
And this pleasure there is here and nothing TO al
10y Differing have done some OF as through half
lives differing do and shall hereafter do,
means details, causes OF the evil, on men, on
sentialsnon essentials would say in so far
the demands of these rugged and eyenul times
concernedI think that the question: What s the true
issue before and the capital danger have TO meet
this and all the larger ideas in all the nober
tons which ought to swell the heart and guide the votes
Of true men today--through this sharp and dark
hour shall stand together, shoulder to shoulder,
though have done before, and may do
again.
infer this from tho language of your invitation The
welcome with which you have met allows to
pect much. The place meet in gives of It,
If there 10 spot of New England earth rather than
another whose that strange music of discords TO
which they raying the 6lesa little scattered and
little inchng thank God of their geographical party
must fall like fre-bel in the night it is here it is in
Mddlesex II is in LOWELL
If this attempt combining States against States for
the possession of the has danger in it for
anybody well and good Let then all sleep on and take
their III has danger for anybody for you fellow
as mueh-it has that danger Who needs the Union il
you do not Who should have brain and heart enough
TO comprehend and employ the OF keeping If
you Others may be Unionists by chance by fits and
starts on lips; Unonsts when nothing exciting,
snowy, or more profitable, casts up. You are
Unonsts by proession Unonists by necessity; Union
lists always Others may find Vermont Massachusetts
or New Hampshire, Rhode Island, large enough for
them. You need the whole united continent which
the flag to-day, and you need it governed within
The limits of the actual constitution, by supreme will.
To secure that and that indispensable marketa home
to com nand in the least degree steady, uniform
occasional protection against the redundant capital
tured skill pau labor and ebbDg and falling prices of
the Old World peace; TO enable the looms OF America
to cothe the teeming millions OF America you need reg
uIaton of fcommerceuniform ouehe work of united
mind which shall draw along our lmitaoie coast oi
and lake between the universal American race on one
side and all the of mankind on the other line not
of seclusion prohibition but line OF security and
Observation-Disclosures between the raw material
at least and the competing product line OF social ana
industrial boundary behind which infancy may grow
to manhood, weakness TO strength, our prentice
hand" to that skill which shall hang out the lamp OF
beauty the high places of wealth. and our power
Yes this you need and you know how and where you
can have it.
How perfectly springing and yet immature manu-
featuring and mechanical interests in 1888 discerned this
need and with what deep reasonable passionate enthu
siasm they celebrated the adoption of the constitution
which held the promise OF meeting 1t know very
well that all good men, all ar-seeing men, and all large
Drained and arge-hearted were glad that day.
recall that grand and exutan exclamation OF one o.
them "'Tis done have become nation" But
even then il seemed some than 10 Others, the
dawn of a day OF good things TO If you turn TO
that procession and that pageant Of industry In Pha
delphia the 4th of July, l7SBthat grand and affect
ing dramatic action through which, that magnificent
stage in theatre there represented the sublime
joy and the sublime hopes with which the bosom Of
Pennsylvania was thro6biug-then and thus, | think
you to see that while the constitution promised
glory and happiness to all America, it was TO The
labor of America the very breath of life We hear il
said that it for trade foreign and domestic, large
ly, that the aud perfect Union was formed
and that is true Very fit 1t that in that gorgeous day
of national emblems the silver Delaware should have
shcne forth prominently decorated and festive snnoune'
and welcome from all her mastheads the rising orb o
American commerce Yet there piece in the per
formance opening still wider glimpse Of its immense ut
ities and touching the heart with finer emotion Thai
large stage bo-ce the carriage Of the Manufacturing
Society thirty feet i ssngth on which earding machiee
and spinning machines an geayng machines were DIS
playing the various manufact;s ai cotton was viewed
says eyewitness with astonshmC.t ana delght Oy
every spectator" On that stage 2' eno'e
OF the future wealth and independence Of country
that precious form Of industry in which harvest
southern and the labor Of northern hands and brains
may meet 10 prOuuce aDriC Tor all nanOnB 10 put
On-the industry OF reason and Of the peoplein that
says he "is bond Of union powerful than any
clause Of the constituon In the carriage
"May the union government protect the manufactures
America read the hopes and the necessities Of this labor
Such still is your prayer, such your right with the
fathers with the children May that Pennsylva-
MIA which celebrated the adoption OF the constitution
peuate il to-day Wheresoever else the earth may shake
and the keepers and pillars Of the house may remble and
low themselves let the keystone the national arch
trusted hold 1t against the sky stand fast in s place Of
strength and beauty foreyerl
Pardon II have seemed TO find in the interests
OF Lowell reason why, If there danger you should
the rst 10 discern and first to meet it, turn from the
interests Of Lowell 10 the memories OF MiddoseI and
find ia them least that If there Is danger
your eye viii see Il and your catch II far aud
quick the old minutemen the midnight signals in
the belfrys and caught the low midnight drum beat
Surely surely, that immortal boast Of Webster win he
yours "Where American liberty raised its rst voice aud
where its youth nurtured and sustained there IL s
lives in the strength OF s manhood and full Of It's org
nal spirit If dscord and dsunion shall wound H. If par
ty strife and blind ambition shall hawk and tear IT, II
foily and madness, uneasness under sautary and
cessay restraint shall succeed in separating Il from the
Unonby which alone its existence is made sureit will
stand in the end by the side OF that cradle in which m in
fancy was rocked Il will stretch forth Its with what
ever Of vigor IL may still retain the friends who gather
around IL; and II win fall at last il fall 1t must amidst
tho proudest o. its glory, and the very
spot OF its origin Yes il here that the American
people began TO be- and the American nation was born 10
day There the 10th OF April there on the l7th Of
June; that narrow green beyond that little bridge
those heights of glory; hereeven the cloud of bat
tie parted and the blood Of your fathers was sinking into
the ground-tbe form and the faces Of the old thirteen
colones passed away, and the young Republic lifted his