Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-08-19
A Speech from Gov. Chase.

lhe Republican City Convention o
Boston, after choosing delegates to ths
State Convention or Monday night, ad
journed tc the Revere House, where Gov
Chase of Ohio is staying. He was brough
out on balcony, and was received witt
loud cheers. Upon being introduced tc
the gathering in the street, he spoke 4.
follows. We borrow the repor. of Tn
Boston Courier:
FELLOW CITIZENS: You take me entirel,
by surprise. 1t is impossible for me to ex
press the feelings which agitate my bosom
when received in SO kind manner as
have been to day by the citizens OF Boston
| came to your city few days ago upon q
visit to my own native "CommonwealtE" o
NewHampshrie, but you have made me feel
by your kindness,a if were not stranger
bat brother. My ancestors were among
those who shared the early trials of this
Commonwealth, and trust | carry with
me the faith of the fathers of New Eng
land in those great principles of civil and
religious liberty which hsve distinguishe {
your Commonwealth in its glorious pro-
gress. have become a citizen of a State
which was then Western State, but has
now, by the progress of population and the
wonderful expansion of our glorious RePub-
lie, become not Western State, hardly a
central State, but almost al Eastern State
twin sister of Massachusetts,, and still
the Empire State of the valley OF the Mis-
sissipPi. [Applause.l
Some years ago, many years ago, more
years ago than should like to tell if there
were any ladies present, Laughter, was
riding along the banks of the Ohio with
that iliustrious citizen of Massachusetts
whose remains now repose upon the shore
Of Marshfield, and he said to me, contrast
ing the appearance of one shore with the
other, the great pre- gress of Ohio with the
slow progress of Kentucky: "My young
friend, do you know what las made all this
difference! 1t is the Ordinance" That
has done 1.-THE Ordnance--which,i in his
own glorious language, impressed upon the
soil of Ohio an incapacity 10 bear up any
other than free men. 1t was that Ordi-
nance which did It. And whence came
that Ordinance! Why, fellow citizens, it
came from Massachusetts That Ordi
nance came from Beverly man; it was
the work of Nathan Dane. 1t was, there
fore, Massachusetts wisdom and Massachu-
setts patriotism, which, God be thanked,
reaching forward into the future, impress
ed upon the soil Of Ohio that glorious in
capacity.
And now fellow-citizens, what have we
to do! Our country expects Of US, the
world expects Of us, the, world expects Of
US, that we shall never prove fai,hless to
those glorious principles which came to us
in the Mayflo@er, which were reiterated
in the Ordinance, ard which are now scat
tering their manifold blessings over the
Great West, and have already brought Cal
fornia into the Union as the Queen State
of the Pacific. clothed all over in the glori-
Gus panoply of freedom In order to ad-
minister the Constitution as understood by
our fathers, and in order 20 obtain those
glorious results at which they aimed, we
must see to it that the principles of free
dom are made 10 animate every function Of
the Government and every officer concern
ed in its administration. And to do that,
what is our dutyl Why, simply that we
shall disregard hereafter those petty differ
erences which we have suffered to divide
US; not to inquire whether man was YES
terday or the day before Wing, American
or Democrat, but whether he is pene-
tratsd by the great Whig principles OF 10.
the great American principle which seeks
10 place the American nation in the front
rank OF nations in power and in actions, as
is animated by that glorious principle
Of Democracy which believes in the hu
manity of every man. and denies TO ali leg
islatures and to all associations OF individ-
uals the power to take from any man the
rights which God has given him-asking
only whether he is animated by these great
principles, TO rgetIing all tka; is past, and
pressing on 10 achieve the great re-
suits for which our fathers prepared the
way. Applause
And now, feiow-ciizens, having thus
briefly expressed to you some Of the views
which regard as of Importance, and thank
ng you over and over again from the bot
tom of my heart for the kindness you have
shown me, let me bid you good night, not
rs an Ohio man, not as a Massachusetts
nan, but as an American, embracing in my
'egard all the interests of our whole glori-
Jus country. Continued applause