Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-05-25

have got it, Laughter and applause.l
The truth Is that things reminds mefofs story,
which | will tell you, though am not much Of Q
story teller But this chances to illustrate idea
and will tell it. II is the story of an old Dutch
man, a plain country farmer, who was exceedingly
fond Of milk He was every day complaining to
his wife that there was something black upon the
surface of the milk and sho always said 20 him
"you old fool, it is nothing but mote" Time pas
I sed on until harvest when he invited neghbor Of
his to help him.--Now hisneghbof loved something
stronger than milk, and came with his bottle Of
LIQUOR The old Dutchman had his can of milk,
and his neighbor his bottle, which they put in a
spring to keep cool. When midday came they re-
paired to the spring, the one to take his liquor and
the other TO take his milk. The old Dutchman
drank his milk-when lol and behold at the bot
tom lay-a great bufrog He was very mad about
it of course; turning to the ladies gallery rude
men always blame their wives for such things. Tap
lplause
He Immediately went to his old woman and made
terrible complaint says be-"Do you call that a
mote? found that in the milk, too ayes says
the old woman, "you always complaining about
something" The old Dutchman roared out-"a
mote; can a mote sit down upon his hind legs and
look you right in the eye2" Great laughter.] ]
have had this question before me for live years, and
/ have always found it as impudent and as uoquit-
Gus rs the old Dutchman's mote.
But we have got rid Of that for the present. and
am rejoced that for the people of the North herere
presented and the people Of the South represented
having had the courage and the manliness to stand
firm aud look around the glorious altar OF the Union
! [Applause1 had but one fear in coming here.
1t mattered not great deal who was chosen as
our standard bearer among the long list of those
presented to-day-all patriotic and able and fit men
for the ofice-sharing no local preludices but the
prejudces of friendship and acquaintance. have
exercised my trust with modesty and with respect
to the claims of Others The fear that had was
that might not meet from the north of Mason and
Dxons line the spirit of liberality towards all sec
tions that fattered myself prepared to exer-
else came here, so to speak, bearing in my hand as
platform, the Constitution of the country, and
ticket with the leaves of the Constitution fattering
at one end and the stars and stripes floating at the
other. / came here TO stand on Mason and Dxons
line, and to do what the gentleman from Pennsyl-
vana said the other day he was for doing, to wipe
out that line. Applause. You have met us half
way-you have surrendered whatever prejudices OF
location that have been engendered in your bosoms
s-aud we have surrendered ours with this ticket
with this glorious ensign
The motto which we derive from that great ora
tor and captain-general of this glorious host 1.-THE
unity of government which constitutes us one peo-
pe is also dear to you. This is Justly so, for 1t Is
the main pillar in the edifce Of your independence,
| of your prosperity at home, your tranquility and
peace, your safety and that liberty which you dearly
prize. And yet another motto belongs to this tick
ct "Lberty and Union, now and forever, one and
inseperable" [Applause.l And still another from
the lion of the tribe of Democracy-"The Federal
Union, it must and shall be preserved" Renewed
applause.1 With such notices adopted in such
spirit by such an assembly of intelligent men from
all quarters of the country mingling upon this oc-
cason their dearest hopes their most ardent prayers
and their earnest exertions, how can such a cause
as this fail2 Let us determine that the word fail
in this years work is not in our dictionaries. Let
US determine that we will triumph, that we will
conquer, or die; and with that spirit we can con-
quer [Applause.l Let us emulate the spirit Of
the ancient Spartan
"Nor life nor death, the doom of happiest state,
But thelife that's glorious or the death that's great
am one of those from the South who have
never been troubled in conscience or in my preju-
dces by hat have been called the sectional opin-
ions of the North and the South. / have lived up
on the hope that this hour would dawn WHEN the
conservative Union-loying people of both sectors
would meet together and harmonize and bury their
differences. have been in the habit Of believing,
and believe yet that the waters of the bays of
Charleston, and New York, and Boston, reflected
with equal brightness the stars and stripes as they
float at the masthead of your national vessels
| Applause. And although in the South we have
perpetual summer, and Nature smiles all the year
round, and in the North for long season your riv-
ers and lakes are covered with ice, is there any
foundation in nature for "irrepressible conflict"
between us2 [Cries of No, mol
We are children of the same ancestry, glorying
in the same monuments, and proud of the same
leaders and deeds of antiquity. And have we be-
come degenerate Have we been running after
false Gods2 As you were told to-day, in the pc
riod of the revolution there was no North, no
South. The columns of Massachusetts,, led on by
their own gallant Lincoln, defended the entrench-
ments of Charleston, swollen by their Marons, their
Sumpters, and others; and these same columns met
upon our fields North and South until at last they
mingled in that flood-tide of gallant gathering upon
the plains of Yorktown. Applause. Was there
any North or South then Who cared for the
North South in those days2 We had not yet
learned the points of the compass, | suppose, and
when they met to form the Constitution there was
but little said of the North and South then, and it
was adopted upon state of things as then existed
the rights Of all being guaranteed.
This country swan along,-this ship of State
hoated upon the sea of time, year after year, year
after year, through whole generation before we
witnessed even the first buildings of this Internal
strife. Why can we not rise TO the dignity of this
OCCASION and act with the same proud national spir
it2 am one Of the men who say here in the
presence of my brothers all from the North, and
before the world, that would not swap the Union
Of these States for all the niggers, and all the
uactories and all the railroads in this country, and
all the ships that swim the ocean. Applause. Il
For you could lose all this, vast rs the amount of
wealth would be-yes, you could see II float off into
the gulf Of oblivion; but you could look forward TO
see their places supplied from other sources Of
wealth. It is your Union that has made you rich
has made your public credit has given you a large
commercial marine, has given us our share Of prop
erty in the South, at least protected il.
need not go SO far however, as to say that this
Union is worth this or worth that its virtue can
not be estimated. You heard to-day in eloquent
and vivid language, the description Of what the
spectacle would be in the midst Of dissolution. II
could not be fully described. There is element
in the thought which beggars description, which
surpasses human language We met here yester !
day and to-day to inaugurate a new movement for
the purpose of arresting those tendencies 10 section
alism, North and South. Our adyersaries on the
one wing are broken, and we look forward with
some expectation to the other great enemy break
up in a row at Chicago. Applause.
Aud viii tell you now what have discovered
in eornno 10 This city. that have never seen the