The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-05-23

which numbered hundred members in the House and
twenty-odd members in the Senate, came exclusively
from section of the Union aud had existence at
all south of the river which iaves the western shore OF
Washington. Then when the citizens of Washington
oppose the democratic party when they vote against the
democratic candidate, they aiding and abctting the
backrepubiican partythey suffering themselves TO
be the cats paws TO pull the chesnuts out Of the re
laughter
What then ought those who favor the principles Of the
American party to do In this contestf Their first duty
TO the Union because he had already suggested
without the Union Washington city would be literally
boted out Abolish the Union let the Southern States
establish their seat of government at Atlanta in Georgia.
or Montgomery IN Alabama and let the Northern States
establish their seat of government ut New York and
what would Washington bel Why, in ten years, Bla
densburg would be glorious city compared to it
[Great laughter These stately mansions in city
would only be many monuments erected to the mem
DRY of folly and mbecy, the greatest which the world
has Now if they should vote in opposition to
the democratic party, they would be giving aid and com
fort to the black republican party, sectional party
which seeking by all the devices which the ingenuity
of man could suggest, to gain triumph the South
Did they suppose that the glorious South would
sent to sink down into state of dependency and
take what the North might think proper to grant Did
they think that old Virginia. God bless her cheers +
that South Carolina, the home of the Marons the
Haynes, the Cahouns and the Prestons be
degraded into the miserable position of taking what the
slave takes from his masterhis daily bread [Appause.
Did they imagine that his gallant and glorious Mis-
sisspp which had nobly sustained the honor of the
country in the war of 1912 and the late Mexican conflict
would ever sink into degradation like that II they did
they greatly mistaken, Though it should drcncl
every square inch of her soil in the purest blood her
citizens, he felt confident that Mississippi would never
submit to such degradation that. But that the
point to which the republican party trying to drive
the South and would the Americans oppose the democ-
racy and assist in that sectional movements There
could be question about this matter; who did
not know that the republicans desired that the South
should be subordinate and they should be masters
of ane in
one of the southern States and yet they that
they to have the government OF the country and
must either submit go out of the Union Though his
tongue should ceaye to the roof OF his mouth, and his
heart should to pulsae he would for himself
and sixty thousand Msssppians, better go out of
the Union with honor than remain in it with dshonor
[Chcers They loved the Union, and had deep venera-
ton for the fathers who formed it, Why did Washing
ton strike the blow and why did his srious compeers
follow himY 1t was for the simple reason that King
George and his subsidies in Parliament undertook to
treat the Americans mere menials When the North
undertakes to treat the South in that way the same
suits will follow-peaceably if we have things we
please but forcbly if it be And where is there
man with the spirit of Hancock or Adams, Jay, or
Jefferson, Madison Monroe, any of the
connected with the revolution, who does not respond
hearty amen to such sentiment Applause.
But he would not take up more time in discussing
these questions He wanted them to remember that all
of them who voted against James G. Berret the nation
al democratic candidate and in favor of anybody ese
matter who he might be, were playing directly into the
hands of the black republicans Those who should so
vote would be regarded in other parts of the country
black republicans in disguise Their southern friends
would repudate them and place them among the Black
sheep and they would be taken into the tender embraces
of the northern black-repubcans If they wanted to be
Rugged by Garrison, Greeley, Wendell Phillips, Beecher
and Fred Douglass the free negro then vote against
Berret Great laughter
Mr.. b. remarked that he did not know Mr. Purdy and
not that he had him. He did know
Mr. Wallach, and thought he very clever gentle
man. but he in the wrong pewhe had got into the
wrong crowd and very much in the condition of the
fellows little sheep, of whom he would tell the story
father died and left his flock of sheep to his two sons
of whom rather foolish The smarter of the two
boys divided the flock and put all the goodlooEng sheep
in pen, and all the bad-looking in another but
there little favore that they called Billy and he put
that in among the badooking sheep Then he said
to his foolish brother IT have divided the sheep in two
lots, and now you take your choice T. The foolish
boy looked into the pen and the bad looking sheep,
and Billy in there among them, and then he went and
looked at the other crowd where the neookng sheep
were and pretty he went back again and said to
Billy Itdoes pain my heart to part with yon but you
in such scabby crowd that will have to give you up!
IGreat laughter. So Mr. b. would say with regard to
Mr.. Wallach m he surrounds himself with plug uges,
much as l like Dick. l shall have to give him up"
[Great applause and laughter.
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