Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-03-21

1nSir SUCCESSORS nave aided
twenty moro. even We who are here have
shaped aud elevated three of hat twenty,
and all these are as firm and steadfast as
the first thirteen; and more will yet Ike
necessary when We shall have rested from
cur labors, Some among US prefer for
these columns a composite material; others
the pure white marble. Our fathers and
our predecessors differed in the same way,
and on the same point. What execration
should We not all unite in pronouncing on
any statesman who therefore, from mere
disappointment and disgust at being over
ruled in his choice of materials for any new
column then TO be quaniod, should have
laid violent hands on the imperfect struct-
ure and brought" it downto the earth. there
70 remain a wreck, instead Of a citadel of
a worlds best hopes, | remain now in the
opinion 7 have uniformly expressed here
and elsewhere, that these hasty threats of
disunion arc so unnatural that they will
find no hand to execute them. We arc of
one race, language. liberty, and faith; en-
gagged. indeed, in varied industry; but even
that industry. so diversified. brings us into
more intimate relations with each other
than any other people, h wcvcr homogcn-
Gus, and though living under a consolida-
ted Government, ever maintained. Welan-
guish throughout, if one joint of our Fed
cral frame is smitten; while it is certain
that a part discovered must perish. You
may refine as YOU please about the struet-
ure Of the Government, and say that it is
a compact, and that a breach, by one of
the States or by Con. res, of any one article,
absolves all the members from allegiance,
and that the States may separate when
they have, or fancy they have, cause for
war. But once try to subvert it. and you
will fnd hat it is a government of the
whole people-as individuals, as well as
4 compact of States; that every individual
member of the bOdy-politic is conscious of
his interest and power in it; and knows
that he will be helpless, powerless. hope
less. WHEN it shall have gone down. Man
kind have a natural right, a natural in
stinct, and a natural capacity for self gov
ernment; and when. as here, they arc suf-
fciently rpened by culture, they viii and
must have self government and no other.
The trainers Of our Constitution, with 4
wisdom that surpassed all previous under
standing among men, adapted it to these
inherent clements of human nature. He
strangely, biindly miSunderstands the anat-
omy Of the great system, who thinks that
its only bonds, or even the strongest hga-
mcnts, are the written compact or even the
multiplied and thoroughly ramiied roads
and thoroughfares of trade, commerce and
social intercourse.
These are strong indeed. but its chielest
instruments Of eohesion-those which rem
der it inseparable and indiYisable-are the
millions Of fbTes, of millions Of c~ontented,
happy human hearts, binding their affect
ions, their ambitious and their best hopes
equally the high and the low. the richand
the poor, the wise and unwise, the learned
and the untutored. even the good and the
bad, to a government, the first, the last and
the only such ono that has ever existed,
which takes equal heed always Of their
wants. their wishes and their opinions; and
appeals to them all individually, once in
a year, or in two years, or at least in four
years for their expressed consent and re-
newal, without which it must cease. MOI
Go where yon viii and to what class you
may, with commissions for your fatal ser
vice IN enc hand and your bounty counted
by the hundred or the thousand pieces Of
silver in the other, a thousand r~esisters
will rise up for every recruit you can en-
gage. On the banks equally Of the St Law
TeGec and the Rio Grandc, on the Atlantic
and on 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 spinners Of Massachusetts,, the steve
aorcs of Men York, the miR rs OF Pennsyl-
vania, Pixies Peak and California, the
wheat growers Of Indiana, the cotton and
sugar planters on the Mississippi, among
the voluntary citizens from every other
land not less than native-born, the Chris
tan and the Jew, among the Indians on
the p~rairies, the contumacioas Mormons in
Desert, the Africans free. the Africans in
bondage, the inmates of hospitals and aims
houses. and ever the criminals in the pen
itentiarics. rchearse the story @ fyour wrongs
and their ewn, never so eloquently and
never 50 m~ournfully, and appeal to them
to rise They will ask you rs this alp
Are you more just than Washington, wi
ser than Hamilton. more humane than JEFF
ferson% What new form of government
OF. Ct union have you the power to estab-
lisa or ever the cunning to devise, that
wiIl be more Just, more safe, more free,
more gentle. more benefcient or moro glo-
riezs that this?!' And by these simple in
terregatories you viii be silencel and con-
feeeaed.
ar. President. We arc perpetually forget
ting this subtle and complex, yet obvious
and natural mechanism of our CoEsti-
tutson; and because VIC do forget it We arc
continually wondering how it is that a Con-
federaey Of thirty and more States, cover
taS regions so vast and regulating interests
50 various Of go many millions of men, con-
stitutioned ard conditioned 50 adversely.
works right on. We are continually look
ing to see it stop and stand still; or fall
suddenly in pieces. But in trnth it viii
not stop; it cannot stop; it vas made not
% stop, but to keep in motiOn-in motion
always, and without force. For NY own
part, as this wonderful machine. when it
had newly come from the hands of its al
most divine inventors, was the admiration
Of my earlier years, although it was then
but imperfcctly known abroad, So now,
when It forms the central figure in theeoon-
omg Of the world $ civilization, and the best
syTnpathies of mankind favor its e%ontinu-
sgcc, l expect it will stand aad work right
ca. until men shall fear its failure no moro
than VIC now apprehend that the sun will
cease to hold its eternal place III the hea-
VEINS. Nevertheless. | do not expect to see
this purely popular, though majestic system,
slways working on unattended by the pres
ence and exhibition of human temper and
human passions; that Buald be to expect
to esiov rewards, benefits and blessings.
without labor, care and watchfulness-an
expectation contrary 10 divine appoint
mcnt- These are the discipline Of the
American cifizsp and he must inure HIM