The Washington union., 1857-04-29

failed and because il was incompatible with the ooA
great pre- Ordained event You yielded az length a1d
conceded TO Others that religious liberty which you ba5
previously claimed for yourself alone You pursued ths
thought of independence to the day of the revolution
imbodying that idea in the framework Of confederation
of republics.
You clearly perceived and frankly earnestly powerful
ly contributed with Virginia to develop the great terrific
rial capacities of the Northwest But were YOU eona
sighted in regard to the not less important South
west Did you in will support Virginia there Did Won
not struggle to prevent the acquisition OF Louisiana the
acquisition Of Florida the acquisition of Texas the acQu
sition of California? Was not the Union, our father
conceived it, thus completed in spite of YOU And vet
who proftcd first who proited next who profted con-
santy by each of these great stages OF the great EVENT.
Was it not you, the Of Massachusetts, with your
ships your manufactures your mechanic arts and you
intcigencei Nay did you not unconscously and as 4
were in despite of yourselves potentially contribute with
might and with WILL Massachusetts, does whenever so
acts the consummaton of the great event by pouring
your capital your industry, your inventive genius and
your men, into each of the successive territorial a
cessions the Unioni You did you could help do
ing it you strong and sewed but the great event
stronger and wilfu than you, and ii snached
you up of the depths of unreasonable opposition n
absorbed you into its vortex and when there as with
your virtues and your lights you deserve to be- YOU be-
came the most ecacous element Of its further progress
Why is il SOL Why is it that for many years Mas
persstenty endeavored to prevent whatever to bei
look around in my native State and seeing IT, asst l.
crammed full with intelligence and accomplishment Of
the highest order in all the possibilities of life ask myself
if she be not and if she he not why she is not the head
the brains the thought the soul of the American Union
1t is that the of Massachusetts, with admitted
high intelligence lack courage Quite often az other
wise they have this in excess, plunging into the strife @
if they could master IL,
s'And with strong hand hold in the rearing world
and occasionally manifsting somewhat of that hardhoo
of which plants the buttng bull in front Of the
locomotive machines full career.
Nor is it because of interested views the part Of
Massachusetts She is sngularly disntcrestcd govern.
ed by ideas rather than by mere interests She manifs
this in her political alterations. She opposes all
policies of the federal government sometimes merely be-
they such. Thus, at period, with Daniel
Webster in the State Department, Edward Everett minis
ter England, Isaac Bates and Rufus Choate in the
Senate and delegation composed of such John
Quincy Adams Lcverett Satonstall, Nathan Appleton
Robert G, Winthrop and George N Briggs in the Houe
Massachusetts, had, might have had, her way in
all things reasonable and yet she pulled the building
down about her head out of imaginary devotion to the
United States Bank Why need she trouble herself as to
that What's Hecuha to her. or she to Hecuba
Could it advantage Boston to have all the banking
capital of the country revolvc around Philadelphia Or
it important to Boston whether any little surplus Of
public treasure on hand not used banking
capital Yet on such an issue opposition Massachusetts
would have--oppositon to her own mcn-nay, to her
of men just as in the same train OF incidents
the question whether daily postage should be paid in
silver in bank paper there another transient ago
ny, at least in Boston
Why is it, again let me ask, that Massachusetts has
not instead of opposing always, rather assumed he post
in conscious right of intelligence and courage, proudly
in the of the march of the Union? Why nger in
the always to pull back to criticize to complain Of
the federal government!
cannot say phy it isl see how it is She permits
herself to be peoccupcd with some secondary incident Of
md hnrc into on TINT
til she has lost all thought and of the great event
ITSELF and of the part which in it she might and should
play At the present time when human wit is at the
maximum of creative and productive action when the
steamship, the railway, and the electric telegraph
wells though they be, but faint signs of the progress
around us when earth and sky, air and sea, and all
which in them s animate nannnate, partakes Of the
great movement and are instinct with its sprt-at such
time the public mind of Massachusetts, stands still and
grows passionate minor question
And we forget that, while sit by the way side,
grily discussing these nugo, not dcies of hours of idle
ness the world is rushing silently by, leaving us in the
lurch
Must it be SO forever? Will Massachusetts, choose al
ways to be the drag brake the Wheels and the
motive power itsefl VIII she constantly struggle to
clog the march of the great event? If she reflect she
will be satisfied that she cannot stop itnay, she will see
that it is her event. ii is her very self that she is
vanly striving to stop repeat that from jamestown,
the hand, and Plymouth, the other issued the
first two parallel streams of emigration and Of political
other to the northwest which streams in their westward
progress, the history the life the SOUL the pred&-
tined great event of America You guide, at
rate go with the fatal movement But you cannot stop
itnay whether you will not, you in it and Of it.
and must move with its notion either leading led
for if not leading you viii be led in the councils Of the
Union
Men of Massachusetts, exhort you to " leave all mean.
things to or ambition and raise yourselves into your
appropriate sphere cntlcat, mplore you to abandon
all thought Of holding in those viewess of the
winds, which, with stretched muscles and snorng nostr
are hurying to greatness to discard the vain wish
to check the course of the gallant ship Of destiny
which, with all sails set from deck to truck and with
voring breezes to fill them, is waited the subject
main laden with the last and best hopes Of mankind
from the impous endeavor to stop the fiery wheels
of that chariot of the which along the starry
field of the Union from the dawnng Orient up and over
the emprean heights of national power to the Ut
most regions Of the 0ccidcnt.
Mr. President / have to cnreat your pardon, and the
indulgence Of my felIow-citzcns, and of gentlemen here
that have vcntured to occupy their attention with other
than expressions of my heartfelt gratitude for tbs
scene. can but renew them from the bottom OF my
heart, as / do.
CHARLESTON
correspondent of the Philadelphia North Amer
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