Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-08-06
MIIIERsBURG HOLMES COUNTY, AUGUST 1851
Gov, Chase i'm Baltimore.

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The grand banquet to the western visitors,
given by the city of Baltimore, on Satur-
day last, was attended by Gov. Chase, of
Ohio, who attracted more than usual atten-
ton in the Monumental City" His re-
marks is response to those of Mayor Swami,
of Baltimore, were eloquent and patriotic,
and did honor to the distinguished States
men of the West. The Baltimoreans, who
are liberal and hospitable people, treated
Gov. Chase with great respect and consid-
Grafton, and received his remarks with in
expressible satisfaction. In reply to Mayor
Swami, he said:
ave rejoice, sir with you in that remark
able career of civil prosperity which you
have so eloquently depicted, and We earn
estly hope that all you anticipate of wealth,
prosperity, and honorable distinction in the
future of the city of Baltimore may be
more than realized. We gratefully ac-
knowledge all our debts, ancient and mod
ern, to the State of Maryland. We remem'
Der with pride the days when Maryland, by
the hands of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton,
and his distinguished associates, subscribed
the Declaration of Independence, when, IN
the fierce struggle which followed, Mary
land, in the heroes of the gallant Maryland
Line, displayed her ardent courage and nc
bic constancy on the battle-fields of the
Revolution; and when after the war was
over, and the great victory secure, she as
sisted by her Chase, her Paca, and her
Martin in framing the glorious Constitu-
ton which still constitutes far dis
tant be the dark day when it shall not con-
stitute-our bond of Union.
Referring to the fulflment of the prophecy
of Oliver Evans as to the speed with which
communication was to be held between
city and city, Gov. Chase anticipated that
at an early day this Central Line would
reach the Pacific, and enable the passenger
to 90 from Baltimore to San Francisco in
five days. He hoped to have the pleasure
OF meeting the Mayor Of Baltimore at the
opening of the Atlantic and Pacific road,
to which, he trusted, the people of Califor-
Mia would invite them all.
One of the concluding paragraphs of
Gov. Chase's speech deserves to be record.
ed He said:
You lave spoken eloquently, sir, of rail-
roads as bonds of union, ard your observa-
tions were as just as they were eloquent
No man conversant with railroads can be a
disunionist. The social intercourse which
they foster, the ties of business which they
create, the mutual dependence which they
establish and exhibit, make disunion impos-
sible. There must, of course, be ditferen-
ces of opinion of some point. Real griev-
ances may from time to time demand re-
dress. But there is no evil of which dis
union is the proper cure. And the more
we see of each other the less likely shall we
be to commit the error of thinking other
wise. The fact is, that we who live along
the line of the American Central railway
don't mean to let this Union be broken up.
Maryland will not consent TO it, | think
| trust Virginia will not. Ohio, l am sure,
will not. Nor Indiana will not, or Illinois,
or Missouri. Who, then, will? No sir
We may differ henceforth, as we have done
heretofore. We will maintain our respec-
tive opinions and positions with candor,
courtesy, frmness, and resolution. And
we will refer whatever question may be be-
tween us to the great American tribunal
of popular discussion and popular jndg-
ment. But in time to come, as in the time
past, we cleve TO the Union as our ark of
refuge, and under God our surest guaran-
tee of prosperity and power and abiding
glory"