Weekly Trinity journal., 1857-08-01
A speech by Tom Marshall.


acterstic speech from the renowned Kentucky
advocate and orator, the Hon. Thomas f, Mar
shall. He followed Gov. Chase. at the Cincin-
natl reception, and spoke from the Burnett House.
We quote from the correspondent of the Phila-
dclphia Bulleim;
When he [Cov. Chascl sat down. amid cordial
applause, loud calls were heard for Marshall
"'rom Marshall" who was around y IN the
most grotesque looking hat you ever saw. lie
was also slightly corned,' but his popularity
seems to be tough enough to stand anything
Finally he got up, and swung to and FRO as the
applause went ON, and when IT ceased ne laid
himself out for good speech. And truly 1t was
u queer odd mixture of genius and nonsense,
and about u little of everything. Something
like this he said lie began by the remark that
Col. Benton is going about saying the Union Is
in danger, and the statement that when fellow
is broken down politician he thinks the Union
is gone. [Loud laughter.1 "lf,' said Marshall.
"he had gone to Congress, the Union would have
been all right now. | was defeated, and didn't
60 to Congress, but the Union is still safe
think the people made n ID of mistake, but
the Union amt in danger AS for you Ohio pco-
pie, have no right to speak, as come from
Kentucky, where they keep niggers Now, Ohio
is q great State. On one side is the lake and on
the other the river, aud you fellows are so indus
trous that you are uniting them by streams
through the country. You have too great
many railroads, and II these We're put together
they would reach to the Pacific | have, III the
last five weeks, travelled extensively in Ohio, and
am FREQ to confess | consider il II great state,
great in physical and intellectual progress. You
fellows are getting along in both on nave
great railroads and plenty of schools Out OF
two millions of your people, live hundred thou-
sand 90 to school and lately visited one OF
your colleges the finest | ever saw where three
hundred men Nre taught every branch OF know
ledge by the hest professors and really Cincin-
natl is n great place can remember (and am
not an old man, when IL was village, and in
the records of modern history not u century ago,
il was a wilderness. Our orators talk about the
Wostl Lord what place that is to talk about!
| am fond of a geographical discussion. ana thls
triangle bounded by the Mississippi, the ONO
river and the Lake, | think Virginia ceded to
Congress Congress passed the ordinance OF
1888. and see the result. | have sometimes
thought that God Almighty tried his best when
making the Mississippi Valley, and when virgin
in ccded it, il was a wilderness Now look Mt
the -thc-the Ordinance of 1888, Ia voice
Tom, you're tight1 Marshall -" II you were
as light as am [hic) now, nobody would recog-
nize YOU Now listen and see If am tight.
That gorgeous Mississippi whose picturesque
mcanderngs are bordered by fowers and undu-
lating rank grass, aud unrccognlzed save by tho
zephyrs Of love- was never to he stained by the
foot of slave" [Appausc.l
After gancing at the fine and prosperous
States that had grown out of the Northwestern
Territory Mr. Marshall developed in rather
inc0hercnt manner but with occasional happy
flashes, the fact that varied productions bcget
exchange aud iasten commercial relations and
Unions IIo held that Democracy was most sue
cessful when il had ample expansion. and rldlcul-
ing notification and deprccating iauatlcal dis
union aboliionsts he recalled some very vague
a.. Iyt,iIn nd gitiI ma
that both South Carolina and Massachusetts,
might drown when they cavorled. lie said some
people supposed that the spread Of Democracy
would play the devil, but it did but If con
fined it would bust anything on God Almighty
earth.
lie then datcd on the different shapes Of this
continent from Others Looking, said he, from
the North, where DR., Kane died trying to find
road that don't see would have been any use il
ho had found it, and besides, there aint no way
since God Almighty made II right fast and hitch
ed il on to the North Pole. Look on down at the
corn bearing region. | hear you can grow n
hundred bushels Of corn to the acre in the Miami
Valley, and the only difficulty is you dlslll too
much of il into whisky that ruins a great many
talented men Then away down South to the
sugar plantation sec how varied the productions.
/ How gorgeous this continent how numbcrless its
productions This variety makes trade aud binds
the Union.
Marshall here swNyed about a little and began
again
-. Who would trade potatoes for potatoes"
voice from the other side Of the street
" IIurral p"
Marshall" hope whom that comet comes, old
fellow, IL will switch you with its tail"
lie then went on to elucidatc the idea that the
trade Of Europe and Asia must center here-ihat
here their products must be exchanged. lie then
showed the folly of tho notion that the Union
could be dissolved. and pictured the condition Of
Kentucky in such an event obliged to pay i'm
mort duties TO seabOard States, and serve as the
outpost of slavery yet certain to find her negroes
moor stock. lie then traced the moral and phi.
Osophcal uses Of the mountains. rains and rivers
generally aud referred to the Mississippi Valley,
reclining with her head in the lakes. her feet in
the Gulf Of Mexico, and her arms grasping the
/ Allegheny and Rocky Mountains. A voice
Londern1 Marshall-"I am saying some
beautiful things, and you have not sense enough
to understand them" [Again the voice
/ " LOuder."1
! Mr. Marshall, evidently Disconnected" At the
day of Judgment, when the Ruler of the Universe
/ is irving all things, expect some ID fool will
below Louder at him" loud laughter
lie went on and made some very fine Temaks on
the topics he had broached and then concluded
by an eloauent aluson TO the provdental dis
covery of America at the proper time tho glory
Of religious liberation and the sublimity OF being
free from pricstly and arstocratic tyranny. lie
was loudly chcered when he retired.
EFFECT OF CoFFEE.--The sleeplessness produced
nv coffee is not one Of an unpleasant character.
II IL simply painless vigilance but il often