Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-08-20


While Gov. Chase wos staying at the
Revere House in Boston-on his way home
from Dartmouth Commeneemeut-The Re-
publican City Convenlion adjourned en- mas
Sc to the Revere and by repeated cheers
called him to the balcony. The Governor
made . short speech ii that style of manner
and matter which peculiarly Rraces the Cow
ernor and which enables him to so ably and
so elegantly SCOUT himself upon all occa-
slons. We cut the report from the Boston
Confier-wieh is not a Republican paper.
Gov. Chase said:
Fellow GTrrzExs You have taken nae
entirely by surprise. Il is impossible for
me to express the feelings which sgitale my
bosom at being received in so kind a manner
az have been to-day by the citizens of
Boston. 1 came to your city q few days
ago upon a sisil to my own native sCosn-
monweashs Of New Hampshire. but You
have made me feel. BY your kindness, as if
l were not a stranger, but a brother. My
ancestors were. smoag those who shared the
the early trials of this Commonwealth, and
trust | carry with me the faith of the faith
ers of New England in those great princi-
piles of civil and religious liberty which have
distinguished your Commonwealth in lis
glorious progress. I have become . citizen
OF a State which was then a Western State
but has now, by the progress of poduiation
and the wonderful exPaaslon Of our glori-
Gus Republic, become not Western Stale
hardly q central State, but almost an Eas-
tern Srate-twin sister Of Massachusetts.
and still the Empire State OF the valley of
the Mississippi. lApplause.
Some years ago, many years ago, more
years ago than I should like to, tell ii there
were any ladies. present lLaushterlI was
riding along the banks of The Ohio with
that ilhIstrious- citizen of NJ tssachusetts
whose remains now repose upon the shore Of
Marshfield, and he said 20 me contrasting
the appearance Of one shore with the other
the great progress of Ohio with the slow
prosress of Kentucky: my young friend.
do You know what has made all this differ
eence1 his the ordinance" That has done
1.-THE 0rdinance-shich in IFS WI glori-
Gus language impressed upon the soil of
Ohio an incapacity to bear up any other
than free men. It was that Ordnance
which did it. And whence came that Or
dinahce? Why, fellow citizensi it came from
Massachusetts. That Ordinance came from
a Beverly man; ii was the work of Nathan
Dane. Ii was therefore Massachusetts
wisdom and Massachusetts patriotism, which
God be thanked, reaching forward into tho
future, impressed upon the soil Of Ohio that
glorious ineapaeify.
And now, fellow citizens. what have we
to do! Our country expects of US the
world expects OF US. that we shall never
prove faiihless TO those glorious principles
which came to US in the Mayfowcr, which
were reiterated in the Ordinance. aud which
are now scattering their manifold blessings
over the great West, and have already
brought California into the Union as the
Queen State Of the Pacific, clothed all over
In the glorious panoPly Of freedom. In or
der TO administer the Constitution as UNDER
stood by our fathers, in order to obtain the
glorious results at which they aimed, we
must see to it that thu principles OF freedom
arc made to animate every function Of the
Government and every officer concerned in
its administration. And to do that, what ,is
our duty! Why. simply that hereafter WEI
shall disregard those petty differences which
we have suffered to di wide us; not s~0inquire
whether u man was yesterday Or the day
before a Wing, American or Democrat, but
whether be is penetrated BY the great prin-
ciples OF 'T6. the great American principle
which seeks tu place the American natisn
in the fFoa. rank Of power and in action, ~
abe already is for freedom. and whether he
is animated By that glorious principle of7De.
which helieYes in the hpinanily of
every saan, aud denies t. all legislatures aud
all associations of individuals the power 10
take from any Han the Eigtsa which: 6 I'd
hes given hiq4-askias only whether he is
tui- n tel by tlss. great principles, st4uI.
all that is past. aud pscasi hg ON 40
the greatresul,s for which our faith
ers prepared the way. APPLAUSE.
And now, fellow-citizens. having thus
briefly expressed to yoq some Of the views
which ] regard as of ipPDEtaHce, and thank.
you eyer and over again fForE the bot
tony of my hear, for the klRdasss you have
shown me, let me bid yoH goad night, no,
as an Ohio man, not az o Massachusetts,
nan, but as IN American. embracing in nay
all the interests Of nAr whols glori-
ops country. lContilued applause.