The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-01-30

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Gov. WILLARD, OF INDIANA, Gov. MAGoFRIN
OF OFkENrUcKY, AND Hon. j. A. GARFIELD, OF Ono
The grand banquet given by the citizens of Louis
VILE, ky, in honor of the visit of the Legislature
OF tennessee to old Kentucky, took place on las
| Tuesday evening in the Masonic Hall of that city
The Tennessee Legislature arrived in Louisville OF
/ Tuesday evening and were received at the depo
by the citizen soldiery, amid the firing of cannon
and the most enthusiastic demonstrations on the
| part OF the peOrie.
THE BANQUET.
Inc temple OF Masonry in which the banquet was
held was decorated so that it presented an appear
ahce Dentting the occasion of meeting of the
representatives OF the great States whose greetings
upon this occasion were to be given and received
Around the wall were suspended festoons of ever.
greens, from the ending points of which fell, sus
Penueu between the windows, shields with the
natlonal colors, bearing inscriptions brinpinp to
our memories the great men of the world of Iitera
ture Upon the platform, which was bordered by
| an edgeway OF plants in pots, were seated the
executive oihcers OF Tennessee Q4ieut. Gov New.
man. Indiana, Gov. Willard and Kentucky
! tGov. Magofhn,) who, supporting the President
mayor Crawford, were in return supported by the
members of the committee from Ohio, and other
| distinguished personages.
The tables were spread with all the daiicacies nj
| the season. served up in Kentucky STYLE
| When the time for the removal of the cloth came
! Judge Bullock addressed to the persons assembled
from TINS and the adjacent States, the following
| words of welcome:
Feuo'c -CtiScns Of Tennessee and Rentucku: On
pehalt OF the Mayor and Council, and of the citi-
zenS OF Louisville generally, tender YOU hearty
welcome to our city. 1t gives pleasure to see
the chosen representatives of Tennessee and Ken
lucky united in the bonds of a common brotberhood
| around this festive board
| At all times these noble States have been firmly
united by the ties of interest and blood and affec
ton, but they are now drawn still more closely TO-
| gether by the apprehension of a common DANGER
| 1t has been truly said that the American Union
IS the principle of the national life, and its dissou
ttny, L.
.lon Wouid DE national death. But may we not cher
lsh the hope that what is here exhibited in the close
and intimate alliance of Tennessee and Kentucky is
only typical OF our glorious National Union? NAV
we not indulge the inspiring hope that the Republic
Is safe; safe from the assaults of faction; safe from
the influence OF sectional animosity safe from the
nroads of bigotry, fanaticsm and crime; safe in
the love and confidence of a virtuous united and
enlightened people?
will detain you no longer. Permit me to read
the following sentiment:
Tennessee-In this national crisis she will cherish
In her heart of hearts the noble sentiment of her
patriot hero.-"The Union, II must be preserred''
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR NEwMAN;s SPEECH.
Lieut. Gov. Newman, ofTennessee, responded
tent emen: Tonight | stand before you to apollo
glZe tor the non attendance of the Governor of Ten
nessee lie, sirs, would have been with you but for
severe ndisposition, and it remains to me to per-
form form the pleasing task of thanking you for your
klnd welcome; to return to you, the Mavor
Common Council and Aldermen of the city of Louis,
vile, and to you, the people of Kentucky our
thanks for your hospitality.
me subject OF our thoughts is the Union; appro-
prlately Is this at a Union Festival "Tbe
Union must and shall be preserved, :" was the mot
to OF Tennessee's proudest hero and statesman and
tennessee, by her representatives here tonight
repeats the motto in double terms. 1t is WELL nv
countrymen, that we are here because we are all
together in brotherly bonds, but especially Ten
nessee and Kentucky should stand as one in this
confederation of States, bound together as tbey
are oy interests by affection, and by common
cause ana more than all, by the iron bands of
commerce. Tennessee and Kentucky have stood
shoulder to shoulder to fight for a common liberty
and SO 1t should be that Tennessee and Kentucky
IN these disastrous times, should meet together.
AGAIN, tennessee and Kentucky have ever been
united. They came into the Union about the same
time; they Knocked at the doors of Congress for
admission together; they were admitted together;
and to-day there is no division Kentucky is our
faEorlte sister OF the Union. In 1912, when the
army OF the Union called out in defence of
our common liberty and our common country
Kentucky and Tennessee soldiers stood shoulder
to shoulder in the common defence: thev fell on
the same battlefield, in charging they charged
together, and the same fiag the stars and strnes
that covered the one, hoated also over the other
Thanks be to God for this. SO might saw that
as they were wounded together, so thev were
buried together; tn dews of heaven this night
falling equally on the grave of the one and the
otheT, let us renew our pledge of Union and broth
erly love.
But we meet together on this festive occasion not
TO commemorate the memory Of those that have
gone before US, but to pledge our iealty to this
Union; and we repeat that this Union must and it
snail be preserved. Immense applause Do vou
lndorse that? Applause. | know You do We
Will remain one. Such is the sentiment of the peO-
pie that have the honor to represent. We are
people conservative and obedient, and saw to Won
that when occasion calls for it, we will be conserva-
tive IN action, and we pledge our honor and faith
and the arms of Tennessee to the Union, and the
constitution under the Union. Great cheering. |
nj 10 off,
hentuckys great statesman who knew no North
no South, no East, no West, nothing but his coun.
try, and his whole country
Iadi"na-0ur neighbor and sister-she permits
no heresies of 'higher law" or 'irrepressibe con-
fict' to control her sense of social and political
duty.
GOVERNOR wILLARD's RESPONSE
Gov. Willard responded: | return you sir nv
sincere thanks, not only in my own person but in
the person OF those who received your invitation to
come here and enjoy Kentucky and Tennessee hos
pitality A voice-"Louder." But what to say
upon an occasion like this scarce know.
| come here from the other side of the river from
great, proud and sovereign State; | come to re-
Jolce with you. Wherefore shall rejoice? Where
shall begin? Shall | rejoice that Kentucky has
been kind to Indiana in inviting us? | know she
had done that long before; in days and wears gone
by, Kentucky has helped Indiana and ever she has
had her open hand extended to welcome every son
OF Indiana who came upon her soil
Shall come to rejoice with you in this festival
Nashville? No! such things were done long ago.
All over this mighty country have your roads
been built; all the time you were one people as
your fathers made you. Then why should | come
to reIolce among you? Is it because you are one
people-union-loving people? A voice, ego it.
boots" and applause 1t is because you think
more OF the Constitution of the United States and
the Union made under it, than you do either of
Kentucky or Tennessee. IApplause
Can We live together2 There are a great MANY
people In tins country say we have to give up this
Union. For one, say Why shall we give it
up! We may just well talk plainly about this
matter hrst as last There is but one great ques .
tion before this country that imperils the country
and that is the relation that exists between the
white and the black man. In this country
there Is no other question that endangers this
tederacy. Now, the true and honest Northern man
the one who loves his country says to the Southern
man, you may have the negro your slave: and
every true honest man who loves the country saws
10 the Northern man. you need not make the negro
your slave. Applause. Kentucky has no ripht
to say to Indiana, you shall be slave State, and
Indiana has no right to turn upon the other side
and say that Kentucky shall be free State. ZAP
plauSe.
But this quarrel does not grow up between the
people of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and Indiana
all of them lying the border They ever have
been friends. They know full well that Kentucky
blood has been poured out free as water upon Ind-
ana soil We have been friends and all along the
rivers we are friends Who makes all the fuss,
then? Those men living away off in Maine where
they never saw four negroes in all their lives
Applause
You have little quarrel down South Some
great men-SOuthern men-are not satisfied with
the present condition of the government | for
one, and1 think | speak the voice of nv people
when say it, am satisfied where the laws now are
They were made by no mean statesmen; thev were
made by men who know more of this government
than | can learn if | should study for wears The
Constitution of my country has been 6led-every
gap has been closed, and we have said in obedience
to it, and if we did not see it our fathers saw il be-
fore us, that the African slave trade should not be
allowed. Applause. There we stand We saw
moreover there was a bond put in that Constitu-
ton. Was it in behalf of Kentucky? Why, Ken
tucky was not alive then. 1t was put there for
everybody who to occupy the position of a
State and live under the Constitutions that is that
it a criminal runs away from one State to another,
he should be given up; and if negro owing SER
vice run away from one State to another he shall
be given up. That bond is law, and say we have
done with legislation if we will but execute the
laws that now exist.
more true and loyal people will not be found on
earth, nor more peaceable people, if we will but
observe the laws of our land. Who are we? Are
not civilized people? Are we not statesmen?
Are not of one blood race, one sort of man?
Have the rains of heaven poured upon this earth
until they have washed out of it all the blood that
was shed at Bunkers Hill, at Brandywine, at York
town? Yes the blood is all gone, the bones of all
those who fell upon our battle fields have moulder-
ed in their graves, and been lost forever: but il
there nothing left? Yes, there is the fruit of the
labor Of those men. The great Constitution, and
the great Union that they have left u.s. TCheers I
Tell me that because some in the extreme
South a cotton plantation get angry with some
man in Maine, or that because some man that has
got no negro gets angry. with one that has, that
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