Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-05


and, Of Illinois, pledged the Northwest
for Douglas.
An Eloquent speech.
The following is the speech Of the Hon,
John l.. Dawson, of pennsylvania, upon
casting the vote of the Pennsylvania del
egation, of which he was Chairman, for
Stephen A. Douglas, in the National
Democratic Convention on Saturday last
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the
Conventional is scarcely necessary for
me to say that no time during the sttings
of this body did Judge Douglas receive
the united vote of the delegation from
Pennsylvania, and Imay further add that
in the consideration Of a platform, ma
iority of us united with our Southern
friends, ready to give them all that we
believed them entitled to under the FEEDER
al Constitution. In our Judgment they
asked for nothing more, and we were not
willing to offer them less. Applause.
In our action then we have been over
ruled by decided majority of this body,
and for Pennsylvania | am free to say
that, attached as we are to the Democrat
ic party, its principles, its discipline, its
organization, standing there forever, in
the eloquent language of the President in
his opening speech at Charleston, stand
ing as perpetual sentinels upon the out
posts of the Constitution, we will, trust,
abide its decision and support its nomi-
nee. Cheers and applause.
Judge Douglas is man of acknowl-
edged talent, and every whore regarded
as an accomplished statesman, skilled in
art of ruling: Born under New Eng
land sun, yet by adoption citizent of the
West, honored in the Valley of the Ohio
and cherished on the slopes of the At
lantic, he now should be of the whole
country, Cheers. Unframed, to some
extent, in early life in the learning Of the
schools, the deficiency, if any exists, has
been largely compensated by the gener-
Gus measure in which nature has dealt
upon him her choicest gifts of intellect
and character. Applause. Like Hen
ry. of tho Revolution. Like Peel, of
England, these nobsYualilics have made
him the architect of his own fortune
| Cheers and applause That the Union
is confederacy endowed with special pow,
ers, the States composing it retaining all
the undelegated attributes of sovereignty,
is the fundamental truth of our political
system. In defence of this truth we are
about to engage in new contest, and in
the comprehension of its character we
have thoroughly to educate the public
mind. The popular heart is to be won
back to loyalty, by holding up to its con.
temptation the image of the Constitution
in its serene beauty Of lnement and pro
portion.
The crring conclusions of our fellow
citizens of all sections are to be corrected
by thorough and pcrSevcring exposition
of their fallacy, and in place OF these are
to be inculcated the paramount claims o
the Federal compact to the hearty allie
gance, in letter and spirit, of every Amer
lean who can comprehend and appreciate
the institutions of his country, and who
really cherishes Il desire for their perpetui
ty. Applause. If here, in this beauti
iul city, which looks out ON the Chessa
peakc, we have needed any excitement tC
broad patriotism in our deliberations
it should have been found in the associa
tons in the midst of which we are assem-
bled; for it was at Annapolis, at the clos,
Of the Revolution, that Washington re
signed his commission. 1t is also within
sight Of the spot at which we ARE convened
that imposing monuments rise to to thu
greatness of his memory and to the pa
triotism Of the sons Of Maryland
! Cheers.
Pennsylvania, the State in which In
dependence was first proclaimed, and tn
work of the Revolution received by TIN
construction of the Federal Compact; tn
State which holds within her bosom tn
ashes of Franklin, and boast the first bat
tlcIield of Washington, will be true Il
her noble memories, Applause, and il
the fulness of that enlightened conserva
tive sentiment, for which she has beel
distinguished, will rally, hope, in gian
strength cast the dust from her eyes an,
aid the friends of the Democratic part,
once more to elect their nominee Cheer
and prolonged applause,