Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-03-02


material; Others. the pure white marble Our
r.I - o,r PREDECESSORS differed in the
! n.ax and on the same point What eXecrations
shoud We not all unite in pronounclng on any states
y1on Who heretofore from mere disappointment and
disgnst at being overrued in his choice of materials
| for any new column then to be quarried, should
laid violent hands on the imperfect structure
and brought it down to the earth, there TO remain
wreck instead of citadel of a worlds best hopesi
l remain now in the opinion l have uniformly ex
pressed here and elsewhere, that these nasty
threats of disunion unnatural that they will
find no hand to execute them. We are of one
race, language, liberty, and faith; engaged, in
deed, in varied industry; but even that industry, so
diversified, brings us into more intimate relations
with each other than any other people, however no.
mogeneous and though living under consolidated
government, maintained. We languish
throughout if joint of federal frame is smt-
ten while it is certain that part discovered must
perish You may refine as You please about the
structure OF the government and say is compact,
and that breech, by one OF the states or by Con-
gress, of any article, abSolves all the members
from allegiance, and that the states may separate
when they have fancy they have cause Tor war but
once try to subvert it, and you will hnd that
government of the whole people-as individuals, as
well as compact of states; that every lndlVidual
member OF the bodypotic is conscious OF bis inter
est and power in it, and knows that he VIII be hep
less, powerless hopeless, when II snail nave gone
down. Mankind have a natural right, natural III
stinct, and natural capacity for sellgoVerhmenti
and when, here they are sufficiently rlpeneu Dy
culture, they will and must have self-government,
and other The trainers of our Constitution,
with wisdom that surpassed all previous under
standing among men, adapted it to these inherent
elements of human nature. He strangely, Dnhdly
misunderstands the anatomy of the great system
who thinks that its only bonds, or even its strong
est ligaments are the written compact or even the
multiplied and thoroughly ramified roads and thor
oughfares of trade, commerce, and social inter-
course These are strong indeed but Its chletest
instruments of coheson-those which render 1t IN
separable and indvisble-are the millions of hbres
of millions of contented, happy human hearts, blnd-
ing by their affections, their ambitions, and their
best hopes equally the high and the low, the 1ch
lp lhnn fha XNica md learned
and the untutored, even the good and the bad, TO
government, the first the last, and the only such
one that has existed, which takes equal heed
always of their wants. their wishes, and their opln-
IONS and appeals to them ALL individually, once IN
year, or in twoyears at least in four years. Tor
their expressed consent and renewal, without when
1t must cease No. go where you Will, and TO what
class you may, with commissions Tor your fatal SER
vice in one hand, and your bounty counted by the
| hundred or the thousand pieces OF silver IN the
other thousand resisters will rise up for every re-
crult you can engage. On the banks equally oil the
ST. Lawrence and of the Rio Grande, on the Allan,
tic and the Pacific coasts, the shores OF the Gulf
OF Mexico and in the dells of the Rocky Noun
| tains, among the fishermen the Banks of New
foundland, the weayers and spinners of Massachu-
sets, the stevedores of New York, The miners OF
pennsylvania, Pixies Peak and California, the wheat
| growers of Indiana, the cotton and sugar planters
| on the Mississippi among the voluntary citizens from
almost every other land not less than the ma
tive born, the Christian and the jew, among the IN
dams on the praries the contumacious Mormohs III
Deseret, the Africans free the Africans IN bondage
| the inmates of hospitals and almshouses, ana even
the criminals in the penitentiaries, rehearse the
| story of your wrongs and their never so elo-
| quently and never mournfully and appeal TO
| them to rise, They will ask you, us TINS an!
| care you more just than Washington, wiser than
Hamilton, more humane than Jefferson ~ NV nat
form of government or of union have you the
power to establish, the cunning to DEVISE
that will be more just, more safe, more free more
beneficent, or more glorious than this!n And by
these simple heterogeneous you will be silenced and
confounded.
Mr. President we are perpetually forgetting this
subtle and COmDeX. vet obvious and natural, mech
anism of our Constitution; and because we do for
get it, we continually wondering how 1t is that
a Contederacy of thirty and more States, covering
regions vast and regulating interests SO various Of
so many millions of men, constituted and condl-
toned SO adversely, works right on. We are con,
uuually looking to see it stop and stand still, or a
suddenly into pieces. But i'll truth, it will not stop
it cannot stops it made not to stop but to keep
in motion-in motion always, and without force.
For my part, as this wonderful machine, when
it had newly from the hands of its almost dl-
vine inventors, the admiration OF my earlier
years, although it was then but imperfectly known
abroad SO now, when it forms the central figure in
the economy of the worlds civilization, and the best
sympathies of mankind favor its continuance, eX-
pect that 1t will stand and work right on until men
shall fear its failure more than now appre-
bend that the will to hold his eternal place
| in the heavens.
Nevertheless, do not expect to see this purely
popular, though majestic. system always working on
unattended by the presence and exhibition OF hu-
man temper and human passions. That would be TO
expect to enjoy rewards, Dement'S ana blessings
without labor, care and watchtulness an expectation
contrary to Divine appointment These are the dis
cpline of the American citizen, and he must inure
himself to it. When. now, great policy fas-
tened upon the country through its doubts and fears
confirmed by its habits, and strengthened by person
al interests and ambitions, is to be relaxed and
changed in order that the nation may have its just
and natural and free developments, then, indeed, all
the winds Of controversy are let loose upon us from
all points of the political compass, we see objects
and men only through hazes, mists, and doubtful
and lurid lights. The earth seems to be heaying
under feet, and the pillars of the noble fabric
that protects us TO be trembling before our eyes.
But the appointed end of all this agitation comes at
last and always seasonably; the tumults of the peo
pie subside; the country becomes calm once more;
and then we find that only our senses have been dis
turbed, and that they have betrayed The earth
is firm always before, and the wonderful structure
for whose safety we have feared SO anxiousy, now
more firmly fixed than ever still stands unmoyed,