The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-05-23
SENATOR wIGFALL-.GEMs WORTH
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The Republican papers are clipping disjoint-
ed sentences from the speeches Of Senator Wig
fall of Texas-some of which, thus discon-.
nected, make him appear as a rather queer
genius. We haye been tempted, by these noe
tiees, to read his speech, and find many gems
in it which glitter ike diamonds on beauty's
brow. Here are two paragraphs, which, for
truth and force, are seldom equalled 80
The Senator complains that if the Lords
prayer was introduced here it would be object
ed to by somebody. I have no doubt about
it; and have no doubt the objection would
come from the other side of the Chamber, and
with degree of good sound sense and discres
ton that does not usually characterize them -
"Forgive us or trespasses as we forgive those
who trespass against us, y is prayer they cam
not pray. They do not only not forgive those
who have trespassed against them, but they
are unrelenting against those who have never
injured them. They or their ancestors and
they are all the time talking about "the fath-
ers, brought to us, for the love of gold, tho
very negroes that they are now stealing from
US for the love of God. He says that if the
ten commandments were introduced there
would be objection. I have no doubt there
would be, because one of the commandments
is that you shall not covet your neighbor's
wife, nor his OK, nor his slave, nor anything
that is his; and to that they would object.
When this Government was organized no
questions were sectional. They are all sec2
tional now At that time the people of one
section had not made war upon the people of
another section. There was then no party in
this country determined on destroying the
Government or civil liberty. Now there is.---
The parties differed not upon sectional ques.
tions, but upon the mode of administering the
Government. One party-the old National,
then Federal, then .Whig party, and in tbak
name it died out-that party was full of patrf.
otism, if not wisdom. 1t had genius, and
heart, and love of country; it had sail, if it
had not ballast it loved its country, and il
wanted to see our eagles spread their wings; il
wanted to see great powerful nation made out
of these States that have confederated togeth-
er. It wanted foreign power and dominion.-
It wanted to gild the pages of our history
It wanted the American name as one, the
name of one people, to go down to posterity
emblazoned upon the pages of history. That
was the patriotic, though I have always
thought, misguided feeling of that old Wing
party, f} es n
There was another party; the Democratic
first it was called the Federal, then the Re-
publican, then the Democratic, and still the
Democratic party; That was for a homaspun
OOVernmenG. LII DelleEeu Cnab II you aLbcmpt-
ed to do too much, you might fail In doing any
thing; that by establishing great national
reputation, and becoming great Power, we
might pay the price of liberty. That party
and Mr.. Jefferson, its great teacher, believed
that the best of all Governments was one that
secured to the citizen the right to live in peace
and prosperity, under his own vine and under
his own fig tree, that whatever he might secure
by his labor should be his own, excepting only
so much as was required to defray the neces~
sary expenses of the Government. s5.f
These were the views of the. two parties,
there being no war of classes, of races, or sec
tions; they differed from each other as one
man happened to have more imagination, and
the other more sense. The old Wings had
the imagination and the heart, and the Demo-
Gratis had the brains. That was the difference.
What has been the result? said the Demo-
Gratis had the brains. The result is, that the
Democratic party stands intact in every State
of this Union. There that old guard stands
fighting for the Constitution, organized, and
now ready for the conflict again; and the Wing
party has died out, and is gone-where p
First, into Know Nothingism, and now into
Republicanism. Why is this? To my mind,
there is no difficulty about it, A party that
starts out with the theory of Government that
the Whig party had, that the Constitution
meant nothing, and the preamble meant all;
that whatever was for the common defense and
general welfare, could be done by this Govern
ment-a party starting out on that theory, adj
vocating a tariff for protection, bank to regu-
late the currency; internal improvements, and
such measures, could very naturally fall into
the error of discussing the question of whether
slavery was an evil or not, and if it were an
evil, then to go for striking at it directly or in
directly.
But the democratic party, denying that the
Government could do anything unless that
thing was found enumerated, or was both me-
cessary and proper for carrying out the enuIner--
ated powers denying, therefore, that Congress-
could pass tariff law for any other purpose
than for the purpose Of raising revenue for de-
fraying the expenses of the Government; de-
nying that Congress could interfere with the.
currency in any manner, except to declare the
value of the coin-denying these propositions,
and others of the same sort, very naturally,
came to the conclusion that, as to the slavery
question, 1t was matter that tkey had no con-
Germ with. Hence, the Democratic party has
never been induced to inquire into the ques-
ton as to whether slavery was good, bad or
Indifferent; whether it was tsfish, flesh, or good
red herring" They had nothing more to do
with it than they had to do with the slave
trade or slavery in Constantinople hence it is.
that one party has been absorbed by Others,
and that the other party stands intact, as it
did in the better days of the Republic.
- THE SPANISH GAMRLER-The following.
is published in several Of the journals as from
a letter from Hamburg: GA Spanish gentle
man, one of the boldest players ever SEEM,
keeps the bankers at the gaming tables in the.
utmost alarm. He plays the maximum stake
nearly every time, and has SO far wen 150O,-
OOOf. One of the directors of the bank has
just returned from Paris, bringing a sum Of
two millions to increase the resources of the
bank Immediately after his arrival notice
was posted up at the Cursaal stating that tho
bank at rouge-etS Snoir would, for the future,
consist of 300, ,000f., instead of 2O0, ,0Q0f, and
that the maximum stake for each player would
be 12,000f, instead of S,Q0Of. People go in
crowds from Frankfort to witness the dariRS
and coolness of this intrepid gamester, vhe