Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-27
peech of MI. Gushing. of Massachusetts.


On The Resolution Of Kentucky and Massachusetts
recommending the Distribution Of the Proceeds
of the Public Lands among The States. House
Of Representatives,, May %, 1885.
Our country, with all its sectional diversity
of views and feelings, is one. 1t is one in the
rich, manly, vigorous, expressive language
among which is becoming the vernacuar
tongue as it were of parliamentary elOquence,
the very dialect of constitutional freedom. 1t
is one in the fame of our fathers, and in the
historical "reminiscences which belong to us as
nation. 1t is one in the political principles
of republicanism which we feel and profess in
common, no matter iii what spot of earth our
portion be cast. 1t is one in the substantial
basis of our manners, in the warp at least Of
which the web is woven. 1t is one in the ties
OF friendship, affinity, and blood, binding us
together, throughout the whole extent OF the
land, in the association of trade, Of emigration
and Of marriage.
1t is one in the general balance of interests
and OF business, arising from our mutual wants
and the reciprocal inter hanges OF tie products
Of our industry. 1t is one OF our exterior re.
lati0ns, protected as these are by the honOred
flag OF the Union 1t is Que i'll that glorious
constitution, the best Inheritance transmitted
to us by our fathers, their monument OF their
wisdom and their virtue, under whose shelter
we live and flourish as people.
One are i'll fact, one should we be in sen.
neaco ur;nn ;s osSnd,,,, nninv i ,,',r,,,.
union is honor, union is every thing which a
Tree spirited and mighty nation should glory
to possess. 70 us ALL next to Independence
next to liberty, ueXt to honor be we persuad-
ed that cordial and abiding contedeacy of
the American people is the greatest Of all
earthly voudS We tha snv.raG stat,s Will,
comnIse if entered into il win ,.o,,;Ii,,inm IN
the people o. our sister states in our hearts
and conpromise of all secondary in,arnsts in
our acts. Thus let MS perseyrre. with the same
emotions fresh and hriyht ~ in IN +r.t ,.n,
cention and welIinv torfh in exbaustlnse .I,nn.
dance from our busnn,s. te.luo tb,t Gka tho
tabled fountains of Flori,la thpT arr. ranabI. IN
communicate matchless beauty al ryprlast
ing youth TO this our beloved republic.
That unlike other pOIitical societies This
will endure Interchangeable forever. | cannot
hope but pray to God, if in the DEGREES of
his Providence he have any mercy in store for
me not 10 suffer me to behold the hour of lis
dissolution its glory extinct; the banner of
his pride rent and Irampled in the dust its
nationality moral OF history its grandeur, a
lustrous vision OF the morning slumber. van
Ishetl: its liberty a disembuditd spirit brood.
inc like the genius OF the past. amid the pros.
tate monuments of its old magnificence,
And there is, in the burning chambers of
the dread hereafter, no infinite of wrath vast
enough for him, who, Eratustratus like. TO be
remembered only Tor iniamy shall aupIv the
torch OF destruction 10 this isir Enhesian fem.
pie OF our Union. That time. in some lnno
Iong future ave. and that person. NAV come
for the overthrow OF our country, Act.ursrd
be the traitor whensoever and wheresoever
shall be his advent among us, like the spirit
of evil. issuing from his realm of darkness to
trouAle the Dure bliss ot naradise m him
that shall compass or Mot the dissolution of
this Union would auuIv IanUuav. rnsnnhlin,,
what | remember 10 have sen nj an olI
anatheua Wherever fire burns mr. water
runs; wherever stip floats. or land is titled.
wherever the skies vault themselves or the
lark carols to the dawn or SIM shines or
earth greens in his raw wherever God il
worshipped in temples. or heard in tImndar.
wherever man is houored or woman loved =
there, from thenceforlh and forever shall
there be 10 him no mart or Iot in the hnuor of
man or the love of woman. Ixion's reyo wing
wheel the ovcrmantlmp cum at which rauraIus
may not Stake his unoutucbable thirst. the
insatI lble vulturp guawIu,y nj lie immortal
neart of Piometheus the rebel giants writhiuy
in the volcanic fires of Eina. are but faint
types OF his doom.
/ sneak plaiulv and STRONGLY as feel and
without mncinn NV words because believe
it to be the duty ot every man. anI especiallv
of us, who are among the aDuoiutpd srutinris
of the constitutio.., to look wen to thes,, the
issues OF lite and death to the nation. | do
not. | cannot. [ will NOT. believe that oninions
adverse hereto, exist anywhere within the
bounds of the republic; and | would torestall
their possible future upspringing | would
have our allegiance to the Union nushakeu
and unShakablp our ronstnl,tv in the nuhlir