Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-27

tconsentrated ins nsthQselthree words of such
pregnant. me Gaming, E rPluribus Unu7.-
There is no SUCH thing as one separate
from the many ins Republican States.-
LCheers. III 81 ~ 32sgs ; -iFst.s5. fis5a5s
Aud now. fellow citizens, will sneak
one word eoEcerning the anomalous CON
| dition of our affairs, s,produced by this dis
position of some ofSthe A4nerih In States
to secede from the Union.E IFEas taken,
PAS it ought to have taken, the American
tpeople and the world by SURPRISE Why
has it taken them by surprise ?ztOnly be-
cause twas un%ise and is nnnaturnl-6 1t
is wise that all the Republican States on
this Continent should be confederated It
| isunwise that my of them should attempt
to separate Andiyet it ought not to have
taken us by surprise. WHO ever could
have tmagined that, a machine SO compli-
Gated, so vast, so new. SO untried, as the
coufederated systemOf confederated States
should be exempt from the common lot of
States which have figured ip;the history of
the world. Agppre, .cQmpIeyg system of
political e oyernMepts. was never. devised,
never conceived aI0ong men. Howstrauge
| it is. how unreasonable tits, thatwe should
be surprised that a pin may drop. out of
this machinery, and that the wheels shall
drag, or that a, ,gudgeonsshall be worn, un-
Il the wheels shall case to play, with their
regular action. Was ever human socie-
ty toramore than seventy years srexempt
from the experience of n necessity of re-
pairing their political system OF Govern
ment2 We have tried it in our States
Every State in the Union is just like the
Federal union. a republic has its consti-
tuition, and it has its regular system of ac-
ton. No State is more than seventy years
old and there is not in any State of this
Union II Constitution thatis more than tweu-
ty-6ve years old. Every State has repaired,
remodeled, and repaired its Constitution
once in twenty five years; and so certain
has il become that no State can adopt
Gopsl tuition which win last more than
twenty-five years, without being repaired,
renewed: and restored, that lin our own
State the Constitution, which was adopted
twenty-five years ago, contains q provision
that next year, without any appeal to the
people whatever Convention slInll come
together in the State Of New York to make
81 new Constitution. Is it strange, then,
that this complex system of our Govern
mcnt should be found to work, after the
lapse. of seventy years, q little roughly
little nnequally, aud that it should require
thatthe engineer should look into the en-
ginc, and see where the gudgeons are
worn out, and that the main wheel, the
main spring, is kept in motion. a Child
can withdraw IL pin from tue mighliest en-
gine, and arrest all its motion, and the en-
gineer cannot see'it when it is done. But
if the engine be rightly devised and
strongly constructed, he has only to see
where the pin has fallen, and to replace it,
and it will go on, stronger and more vig-
orous than ever. Cheers.
We are family of thirty three States !;
next Monday, hope to be family of
thirty-four. Loud checrs.] Would it
not he strange if, in family of thirty
four members, there should not, once in
the term of n few years, be one, or two,
or three, or four or five of the members
TINT should get discontented, unG want to
withdraw awhile, and see how much bet
ter they can manage their fortunes alone
I think nothing strange of that; I only
wonder that nobody has ever withdrawn
before to- see how it would do, how much
better they could get along on theirioYn
hook than they getIalogg in this, plain,
old tashiohcd way under the tlirectiUi of
UucleS Sam. Massachusetts and some of
the New England States, they say. when
was hoy, got some idea of coutumacv to
the common parent, a want of affection
tfor the whole Confpderacy; and they had
II Hartford Convention. | Rope you do
not thinkthatis personal [applause for
a New Yorker Well, they say that some
| body in Massachusetts, | don't know who,
tried it. All know about it is. that for
| the irst20 years of my political life, al
! th0ugh Iawus Democrat JeIIersonian
| Democrat, born in the faith of the Repub-
| lican fathers, Twas held responsible. for
the Hartford Convention And have
made this singular discovery in contrast
ling that time with the present; that
whereas, when Massachusetts or any 9th
| er New England State gets into pet, and
proposes to go out of the Union. the DEM
! ocratic party insists that it is high trea- :
! son. and ought to be,punished by coercion.
Tint when one of these Southern States,
land Slave States, gets into a pet, and pro
lposes to go out of the Union, the Demo-
scratic party thinks it is excusabIe, and it
IFS very probable that they onght to be
helped out of.the Union, and given good
dowcry besides. Applause. And they
say that we hate them, and that all love is
lost between US. | don't believe word
of it. On the other hand, I do know for
myself and for you, that, batting some lit
tie difference Of opinion about advantage,
and about prescription, and about office,
and about freedom, and about sINvcrv, and
all that, which are family difficulties, and
into which we do not take any outsiders
in any part of the world into our council
on either sid =; that there is not 81 State on
earth outside of the American Union tnat
l like half SO well as do the State OF
! Soutn Gnrolina-neither England, NOR. Ire
I land, nor Scotland, nor France. nor Tnr-
key, although from Turkey they sentsme
Arnbinn horses, and from South Carolina
they send lme nothing lbnt curses; still /
like South Carolina better than like any
of them, and | do not know but I have i.
presumption, a vanity about it, but be-
lieve that if there was anybody to over
hear the State of South Carolina when she
was talking she would confess that size
t.iiked US ,tolerably we'll, and I am very sure
that if anybody were to make descent