The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-11-30

will amply repay perusal,
T,oices From the TOmb-the Dagger
| .s and the Remedy.
When WAsHINGToN penned that great lega-
ey to his countrymen. his Farewell Address, the
raven cry of disunion had ne7er tortured the
public ear. The immediate gsre Grafton to whom
he ad lressed himself had IN ,de too much sac
rifce 10 perfect and establish the Union, t. ad-
init the idea that it could ever be imperiled by
internal forces. The FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY,
however, with that prescience which is vouch-
safed by the Creator to but few on this earth
discovered that there nigh arise generation
in future times, which, oblivious to the source
of their happiness and national power, might be
induced to calculate the value of the Union, y
and to s1ntem.o plate a group of discovered, be-
ligerent and feeble States, being consumed by
their own lawiess passions, AMI the subject of
the insrigues an ambition of the great trans
Atlantic powers. This possible point of future
danger impressing itself upon the mind of
WASHINGTON. he thus, in his Farewell Ad-
dress, warned his countrymen:
..The unity of government, which constitutes you
one p@ople, is also dear you 1t is justly
for il is main pillar in the edifce of your real indie
pendence-the support of your tranquility AT home
your peace abroad of your safefy OF your pro opery
of that very liberty which you mighty prize. But
il is easy foresee that, from different causes and
from different quarters, much Tains will be taken,
many ar:iices employed. to weaken in your minds
The conviction of this truth this is The point in
your political fortress against which The batteries OF
internal and external enemies will be most constant
ly and actively hough often cover'ly and insidious
ly directed lit is OF infinite oment that you should
properly estimate The immense value your national
union TO your collective and individual happ ness
that you should cherish a cordial. habi ua and i'm
movable attachment 10 ii; accu;toming yourselves to
think AMI speak OF it of tie palladium OF your po
litcal safely and prosperity watching eva
lion with jealous anxiety disconrennanctng wha\evsr
may suggi suspicion that it can in any event
he abondoned; and ind. manly II owEirg u On Il c
first dawning of every aItempt to sienateany ion
of our coun ry from The eneebc the ,acrcd
ties which now link togather the various PARTS"
With the exception of some locll disorders in
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, which, al
tn 1u,h charIcserizel By the terms rebellion"
AMI '-insurrection," gave NJ cause for serious
slarm, and contemplated no hing aglinst the in
tcgrity of the government, the word ''disHnjDn'
was the unpronounceable word Of our country
men.
1t was not until the resembling of that band
of traitors at Hartford, in 1914, in convcn-
ton which was instigated by British intrigues
an Briti.h jealausy of ouc growing power.
th 1t sehe ne of san I'm Der ,nt WIS ever
tertainel The chief reason urged in thlt
Convention in favor of separation, was tn,
existence of the institution IF 5ltverJ in the
Southern States OF the Union. In New In1
land African servitule hal beel abolished,
only because it hal been foI ii profitable
and in paroxysm of humanity tbs Hart
ford Convention resolved that the North could
have ono union with slave holders" The sus-
yestion was British, and was a blow aimed at
our National power. Abolitionism. therefore
and all the bitter strifes it has cnsenlere had
it's origin in British hltrel of our institutions
and power, and first assumed shape and form
i'm that conclave of traitors which assembled at
Hartford in 1914.
That band of traitors sat with closed doors.
Their schemes of disuuion were nipped in the
bud by the news of peace, AMI the brilliant
triumph at New Orleans. They had not yet
passed the legal boundaries. and been guilty of
the overt act, that would have consigned them
to the doom which is awaiting JoHN BRowN
and his confed derates-5ut the public sentiment
of the country affixed the mark of traitor mp
on their brows-a mark which they carried
with them to their graves.
But althoug:, the Hartford Convention pass
ed away, and, politically, the actors mserably
perished, the principles of sectionaiism which
they had planted, occasionally bore its upas ver-
dure.
Upon the retirement of Gen. JACKSON from
Office, although his Administration had been
public policy we'll calculated to overshadow
sectional strife, his sagacous mind foiesaw
that corrupt AMI tr.litorous dem lgog les, max
ing use of blind and morbid philanthropy
that existed IN the North upon the subject of
African Slavery, might organize geographical
party which would result in the untold horrors
of separation. He, too, published Farewell
Address on his retirement from public life, and
in it he thus uttered his solemn warning to his
.These cheering and grateful prospects, and these
multiplied favors we owe under Provi ience to the
adoption of the federal constitution. 1t is longer
a question whether this great country remain |
happily unit ed and flourish under our present form
of government. Exi erience the unering les of all
human undertakings. has shown the wisdom and
foresight of these who formed II :: and has proved.
that in the union of these there is forn
daton for the Brightest hopes of freedom, AMI for
the happiness OF the people At every hazard and
by every sacrifices this Union must be preserved
The necessity of wa ching with jealous anxiety
for the preservation of the Union. was earnestly |
pressed upon his fellow citizens by the father OF his
country. in his farewell address,. He has there Told
u.s. that while experience shall not have denonsira |
ted its imprsc liability there will always be rea on
10 dis the patriotism of those who in any quar-
ter. may endeayor TO weaken its bonds; and he has
ioned in the strongest terms against the form
one of the means which might s:urb Union.
and 10 which designing men would be likely to
sort. -
'fThe lessons contained in this invaluable legacy
of Washington Q his countrymen. should be cher