The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-03-14

Vi luC IOt6TlfnGDb, and say that
lg-f IS compact, and that breach by one of tn
eat States or by Congress, of any one article al
re solves all the members from allegiance. auc
cry that the States may separate when they have
,ld or fancy they have. cause for war But oncs
me Try TO suovert it, and you will iud that it is {
"a GoVernment of the whole people--as individ.
ne Ha!s, as well as compact of States; that ev
n cry individual member of the body polite i,
ng conscious OF his interest and power in It, and
to Knows that he will be helpless powerless. hope.
ed less when it shall have gone down. Mankind
y nave natural right, q natural instinct, and q
natural capacity for self government; and when
es as here they are sufficiently ripened by culture,
= they will aud must have self government. and
iel no other The framers of our Oonstitn.ion.
as with wisdom that surpassed all previous un.
% derstandIng among men. adapted it to these
r inherent elements of human. nature He
strangely biindly misunderstands the anatomv
IT OF the great system, who thinks that its onlv
nonds or even its strongest ligaments, are the
written compact or even the multiplied and
: thoroughly ramiied roads aud thorouRhfsreg
l. OF trade, commerce, and social intercourse.
These are stro lg indeed, bat its chiefest in.
strnments of cohesion-those which render il
lnseparable and indivisihe-are the millions
OF hores of millions of coutented, happy hu.
man hearts, binding By their Affections their
ambitions and their best hopes, equally the
high and the low. the rich and the poor, the
wise and the uuwise. the learned and the IN.
tutored, even the good and the bad, to Gov.
ernment, the FIRST, ths last aud the onEv ssuch
one that has ever existed, which takes equal
heed always of their wants, their wishes, and
their opinions; and appeals to them all, iadi.
vidualiy, once year, or in two years, or at
least In four years, for their expressed consent
and renewal without which it must cease No:
go where you will, and to what class Won NAV
with commissions for your fatal service in one
hand, and your bounty counted by the hun.
dfed or the thousand pieces of silver in the
other, thousand resisters will rise up for eve
ry recruit you can engage On the obanks
equally of the St. Lawrence and of the Rio
Grande, on the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts,
on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico and in
the dells of the Rocky Mountains, among the
fishermen on the banks of Newfoundland, the
weaVers and the spinners of Massachusetts,,
the stevedores of New Y ork, the miners of
PENNSYLVANIA, Pixies Peak and California, the
wheat growers of Indiana, the cotton aud the
sugar planters on the Mississippi, among the
voluntary citizens from every other land not
less than the native born, the Christian and
the Jew, among the Indians on the prairiea
the contum acio1s Mormons in Deseret, the AZ
rlcans free, the Africans in bondage, the in.
mates of ho5pitals and almshouses, and even
tne criminals IN the penitentiaries, rehearse
the story of your wrongs aud their own never
20 eloq1ently an never so mournfallv. and
appe ii to them to rise. They will ask Won
is this all?' Are you more Just than Wash.
ngton. wiser than Hamilton, more humaue
nan en- 1rsonY : What new form of govern.
nent or OF union have you the power to es.
taoilsh, or even the cunning to devise, that
Will be more jdst more safe. more free mora
,entie more osnehcent, or more glorious than
hIsF AHd, bF these simple interrogasories
you will De sienced and confounded.
Mr.. President, We are perpetually forgetting
his subtitle and complex. yet obvious and nat
rai, mechanism of orr Constitution and
ecalse we do forget it. we are continually
rendering how it is that % Confederaey of
nIrty and more States, covering regions so
asst and regulating interests so various of 80
lany millions of men, constituted and coudi.
loned 30 diVersely, works right on. Welare
ontinually looking to see it stop, and stand
Ill, or fall suddenly into pieces Bat in truth
WIN not stop; it cannot stop it was made
OF to stop, but to keep in motion-in motion
ways, and without force. For nv own part
J this wonderful machins, when il had newly
,ms from the hands of its almost divine in
'ntors, was the lmiratiol of my earlier
lars although it was then but imperfectIy
.oWn abroad SO now, when it forms the
ntral figure in the economy of the worlds
vllIzadon, and the sympathies of mankind
Vor Its continuance, 1 expsct that it will
and AMI work right on until man shall fear
failure no more than we no apprehend that
9 sun VIII caass to bold his eternal place in
g heavens. l-4eis
NeVerthsess, do not expect to see this
rely popular, though majestic, system always
,rking on unattended by the presence and
aloition OF human tempsr and human bss-
ms. fdat wolld be to, expect to enjoy re-
lrds' benefits and blessings without labor,
re, ana "afchtulness-ln expectation con-
Iry to Divine appointm sut These are the
cipline of the Am srican citizen. and he
lst inure himself to it. When. as nov.
,at policy, fastened upon the country thro'
doubts and fears, confirmed by its habits,
q strengthened by interests and ambitions.
70 oe reiaxed aud changed, In order that the
tloa may have its just and natural aud free
7eiopments, then,, indeed, all the winds of
leroVersy are let loose upon us from all
nts OF the political compass-we see OBJ
Is and men only through hazss mists,1 and
lotful and lurid lights The earth seems to
heavlngo under our feet, aud the pillars of
noble fabric that protects us to be trem+
lg before our eyes. But the appointed end
all this agitation comes at last, and always
sonably; the tumults of the people subside:
country becomes calm once more; and
we hnd that only our senaes have been
uroed. and that they have betrayed. us.--
earth is firm as always before, and-the
lderful structure, for whose safety We have
ed SO anxiously, now more firmly fxed
ever, still stands unnoVed, enduring. and
Movable, Be 70 bssasj3 iss.yif sii 70 sors