The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-09-05

and the southern army By northern gen.
eral; and Oh the battle field southern and
northern men fought shoulder by shoulder
in n common cause, poured out their
blood in common battle, in order that
they might transmit common inherit
ance TO their children. Why can we not
live together now as We did then, in the
bonds of peace and fraternity? These
questions como home to us in the North
west with more force than they do to you
even. Go into the plains Of Illinois, and
there you will find the Yankee boy with
a southern wife and the Yankee girl with
southern husband. When their chill
dren have grown up and have gone to
visit the graves of their fathers or their
mothers, or the graves of their ancestors,
they have had to go to Virginia ms well
as New Hampshire 10 see them both.
Each child has a southern ancestor ms well
as a northern one; and he don't like TO
have curses heaped on the head of the
parent or grand-parent Then, again,
when you come to talk to us about dis
solution of the Union, we tell you "No!
Neverp We trade southwark rs well as
northward. We furnish the water that
flows down the Mississippi as well Us tho
water that flows through The lakes and
the st. Lawrence. We intend to follow
that water wherever it flows until it min
giles into the broad ocean. Applause.
We have social and commercial relations
with the South and the East alike. We
have the tic Of country and Of blood that
binds them together. When you tell us
that this Union is TO be dissolved we say
"Neyerw for the reason that we mover
intend TO travel into foreign country,
and obtain passport and have it Vised
by a consul in order TO visit the tombs of
our fathers or the scenes of our childhood.
Hence there is not man on the frontier
that don't love this glorious Union; and
because wo do love the Union our motto
is never to do an act that would ALLEVIATE
one portion of the people from another.
You can only preserve the Union by
maintaining peace and harmony and con-
cord among the people of the different
sections. Remember that one tie after
another has already been severed. This
| fell spirit of sectional strife has invaded
the holy sanctuary and separated the
churches into churches North, churches
South. This fell spirit of sectional strife
has separated brethren at the communion
table. And when you find spirit of
strife so deadly that it can never sever
social tic, and religious tie, and political
tie, what is your constitution worth, when
you have made the people enemies who
live under il? You must bind the hearts
of this people together if you expect to
maintain the Union. You can only bind
those hearts together, and mould them in.
to one, by observing those great princi-
pies Of justice and equity upon which our
whole system rests. Cheers. Ny
friends, / feel that l have done injustice
to you rs well as TO myself. EGO on" |
No, | am not going on. / have done
moro talking to-day than l expected
to have done all summer l thought l
was going to pass quietly through, but
every road station was so crowded that
my friends were literally overwhelming
me with kindness, and it was not in my
heart TO refuse to respond to them. l
made no political speeches because l was
welcomed unanimously by all parties;
and it never was in my heart TO say an
unkind thing to those that were kind TO
mo. To-day / have only touched OH
these political topics because your chair
man, who introduced me, invited my es-
pecial attention to them. l do not intend
as general thing to enter into the polit-
ical discussions Of the year. 1t is the
first time in twenty-seven years that |
have looked on at political fight with
out taking a hand in it. | am now en-
joying holiday, visiting the watering
places for the first time, taking little
recreation, and, it seems, speaking little
just for exercise. Laughter and cheers.
But, gentlemen, l must again seriously,
and with profound gratitude, express TO
you my thanks for the manner in which
you have received me this day. 1t GER
tainly is magnificent and imposing dem
onstration-ono that feel | have right
TO be proud Of, and one that reflects cred
it and honor upon you who have got it
up. l do not accept il as personal trib-
ute TO myself ! believe and may rejoice
in the the belief, that il is intended as q
forcibe manner Of expressing your devo-
tion TO those great political principles with
which my public life is identified. Long
and prolonged applause.
EY- The city of Galena has fired tho
first gun in the campaign in Illinois,
Extraordinary efforts were made to carry
the city by the Republicans; but in spite
of every effort the gallant democracy of
Galena send forth their note Of triumph
} to their brethren of the State. Galena
is democratic to the core, and will double
her majority in November. There is no
division in this State that can endanger