Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-07-04
A speech frueaa ToEas aGarshasa.

Among the rich things enjoyed by the
favored few during the late Railroad Jubi-
d lee, was a charact eristic speech from the
renowned Kentucky advocate and orator,
/ the Hon. Thomas +. Marshall. He fol-
lowed Gov Chase, at the Cinciuuati re-
ception, aid spoke from the steps Of the
Bunet House. We quote from the cor
respondent Of the Philadelphia Bulletin:
When he LGoy. Chase] sat down, amid
cordial applause, loud cries wcre heard for
g"Marshai," tom Marshall" who was
8"sround" iii the most grotesque looking
limit you ever saw. He was also slightly
S"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 he
LAID himself out for good speech. Ana
|eruly it was queer, odd mixture of gent
! us aud nonsense, and about little OF eve
rything. Something Ike this he said
! Tie began by the remark that Col. Benton
is going about saying The union IS i'll danger
and the statement that when 4 felloM'ls
broken politician he thinks the Union is
gone Loud laughter. off" said Marshal,
he had gone to Congress, the Union
would have been all right now. was
defeated, and didn't go to Congress, but
the Union is still safe. think the PEG
pie made d of mistake, but the
Union amt in danger. As for you, Oslo
people, have no right to speak, as come
from Kentucky, where they keep niggers.
Now Ohio is great State. On one side
is the lake and on the other the river, and
YOU fellows are so industrious that you are
uniting them by streams through the
country. You have, too, great many
railroads, and if these We're put together,
they would reach to the Pacific. | have
in the last five weeks, travelled extensively
in Ohio, and am free to confess | consider
it great State, great in physical and in
tellectual progress. You fellows are get
ting along in both. You have great rail
roads and plenty ofschools. Out of two
millions of our people, five hundred thou
SaId go to school ;and lately visited one
ofyour colleges, the finest | ever saw,where
three hundred men are taught every
branch of knowledge by the best professors,
and really Cincinnati Is great place. |
can remember land am not an old many
when it was village, and in the records
OF modern history, not century ago, 1t
was IA wilderness. Our orators talk about
the West! Lord, what place that is to
talk about! I am fond of; "a geographical
discussion and this triangle, bounded by
the Mississippi, the Ohio River and the
Lake, think Virginia coded to Congress.
Congress passed an ordinance Of 1888, to
see the result. have sometimes thought
that God Almighty tried his best when
making the Mississippi Valley, and when
Virginia ceded it, it was a Wilderness
Now look at the-the-the Ordinance Of
1888 A volce-'Tom, you're tight.
Marshal-lf you We're as tight as | am
& lhic) now, nobody would recognize YOU
Now listen and see if l am tight. That
gorgeous Mississippi, whose picluresqe me-
anderlngs are bordered by flowers aud I'M
duiating rank grass, and unrecognized save
by the zephyrs of love, was never to be
stained by the foot of slaye.n fAp-
4 plause.
4 After glancing at the fine and prosper
GUS States that had grown out Of the
Northwestern territory Mr. Marshal deyel-
oped in rather ineoherent manner but
with occasional happy flashes, the fact
anat varied productions beget exchange,
ana fasten commercial relations aud III
IONS lie held that Democracy was most
successful when it had ample expansion.
sna fidlc1ullng notification aud depreeiatine
ianateal dlsunion abolitionists; he recalled
S Sonle very vague ideas, wished about a
Sllle and cutting a rope that both South
Uarollaa aud Massachusetts, might drown
s %ueh they eayorted. He said some peo-
ple supposed that the spread of Democra-