Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-07-21
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The Republicans Of Michigan have made
their Congressional nominations, and have
brought out new men In all the districts, but
one, the third. The nominees are, in first
district Bradley +. Granger Of Washte-
nav second, Fernando @. Beaman, Of Lena
wee; third, Francis W. Kellogg, of Kent
fourth, Rowland E. Trowbridge, Of Oakland.
They are all able men, and viii be elected.
AIr. Kellogg, of the third district, was
nominated for recollection by acclamation, a
deserved compliment to the former Cuyahoga
citizen. We had the pleasure Of brief call
from Mr., X. yesterday, who has been visit
ing his parents in Brecksville He is a Lin
coin Wide-awake and no mistake, and can
stir up an audience now just as he used to by
song and speech in the Log Cabins of ls40.
He took an active part in Michigan in the
Fremont campaign, and the Republicans of
his district Of seventeen counties senthim to
Congress, where he has conferred honor on
himself and his constituents.
Mr. Kellogg made a capital speech in the
House, June 18th, which has the real Repub-
lican ring in it We clip the closing para
graphs;
We have been told the South will not suf-
fer us TO inaugurate a Republican President; (;
that they viii blow US out of the capital at
the cannon's mouth, secede from the North,
and all that Well, have sometimes, when
riding on a train of cars, seen a little dog
rush out of a farmhouse yelping flfiously
at the locomotive, as if be expected 70 drive
il off the track. But the iron horse ran the
fastest, and the worst of all was, that every
time the poor dog opened his mouth 70 bark,
he lost ground He could not bark and run
too. tits so with those who are denouncing
the Republican party, and preaching disun-
ion. Every time they open their mouths,
they lose ground.
Mr.. Chairman, think they viii conclude
70 let us inaugurate Lincoln; that Is my
opinion. But seriously, this talk about dis
union is all folly, and every sane man knows
it. So long as the President administers the
government in accordance with the law and
the Constitution, he will be obeyed; but
should be attempt to violate either, the peo-
pie everywhere would consign him to trail
tors doom. Disunion is impossible. We
bought the Southwest because we would not
permit a foreign power TO hold possession Of
the mouth of the Mississippi We paid for
it and we shall keep it-that you can depend
on. Mr., Chairman, we have been advised to
buy Cuba, at a cost of three hundred millions
Of dollars, and admit her into the Union
Wen, suppose we should. If secession be
Constitutional, the first time we refused to do
what her members in Congress demand, Cuba
would secede and leave us-minus the " Gem
of the Antilles and three hundred millions
of dollars. think our Democratic brothers
would object to that. Sir, disunion is i'm
possible, and no Northern armies will be
found necessary to prevent it. There are
hundreds Of thousands of Southern patriots
who will never see this Union surrender
never, ReUeT, NEVER Read the electric
words that came leaping from the heart
of that glorious old man-Robert J. Breck-
enridge, Of entucky-Tebuking these dis
union doctrines. He tells US |, that he
loves the South, and loves her insti-
tutions; but, said he, " am an AMERICAN
CITIZEN, and deny, Nth upIifted hand, the
right Of any C0ETt, any Congress- dny PTeSi-
dent, any State, or any combination of States
under heaper5 to abolish from among men THAT
HIGHEST OF ALL HUMAN TITLES" Paint these
words on your banners, and hundreds of
thousands Of Southern hearts would beat
like drum in battle at the sight of them.
They love this Union, and they will preserve
it and bequeath it to their posterity il all
is yRstness, stretching from the Atlantic to
the Pacific and from the Great Lakes to the
Gulf Of Mexico united, as of old, and more
glorious than ever. And when Death shall |
lind them under the more than Italian splen- |
dor Of their sunny skies, the Flag of their
Country will be floating in every sea and !
every cline; its starry beauty undimmed, !
and the great nation, Of whose power it is /
the symbol, still unifad--and faaznd- ODD han
1red throughout the world!