The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1860-02-09

l8DL OF reason ana the love OF nDerty. hen.
and not until then, when universal darkness
and despair prevail, can you perpetuate slave.
ry, and TepreSS all Sympdthies and all humane
and benevolent efforts among freemen in behalf
of the unhappy portion of our race who are
doomed to bondage. See Tenth annual Re.
port Of Col. Soc.
Here is work for you, Mr.. Douglas! Go at
it! The overthrow of the Republican party
will not be beginning and the twelve la5ors
Of Hercules will become frivolous compared
with those which Mr.. Clay has cut out for YOU.
TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY. AND OHIO
MEETING OF THREE LEGISLATURES
AT LUMBUS-REMARKS OF GOV.
ERN0R CHASE.
COLUMBUS ONO, Jan. %, 1860.
To tie Editor of Gle National Era:
The event of the week in this city has been
the visit of the Legislatures of Tennessee aud
Kentucky to the capital of Ohio, by invitation
of its Legislature. On Thursday morning, they
left CinciHnati, in company with the Committee
of the Ohio Legislature, for this city, where they
arrived, in the midst of snow storm, about
three o'clock. Five companies of military &C
companied the excursionists, viz: three from
Dayton, one from Springfield, and one from
Miamisburg. Their arrival at the depot was
heralded by the looming of cannon. Five mil
itary companies Of this city turned out to re-
ceive them, and escorted them to the State
House, where they were received by Governor
Dennison, who welcomed them in these words:
Friends of Kentucky and Tennessee: On
behalf of the people of Ohio, speaking through
their General Assembly, receive you at this.
their capital. greet you as Representatives Of
sovereign States; | salute you as brethren Of
the great valley of the Mississippi, the centre
and the citadel of the National COnfederacy-I
greet you as fellow citizens of the Union, so
dear to US all, the source Of whatever makes
US most proud of our country, and the preser-
walton of which, for the equal and common
benefit of all the States, is alike the highest
and most grateful duty of the American citizen
By all these honored titles, gentlemen, You are
heartily welcomed here to-day"
Gov. Magoffin of Kentucky, and Hon. A. ".
Newman, Speaker of the Tennessee Senate, re.
spOnded on behalf of their respective States:
after which, other gentlemen spoke. The
speeches all breathed a sentiment of devotion
to the Union.
At eight o'clock, the Hall of the House Of
Representatives was crowded, when speeches
we're made by Senators and Representatives
from Kentucky and Tennessee. A strong De.
sire was manifested on the part of the Southern
yisiters to hear Gov. Chase, and be was loudly
called for; but he was restrained by his desire
to hear their own speeches, and by the courtesy
of the occasion, which required that the first
place should be given to them, from INDUCING
his own wish to respond to the general call.
The dome of the Capitol was brilliantly ilu.
minated, as we're the hotels and dwellings sur.
rounding Capitol square. Fireworks also
blazed from the State House grounds.
AT half past nihe o'clock, a banquet was
given at the Odeon, al which Lieut.. Gov. Kirk
presided. A number of Soasts were read. Gov.
Magofin responded to thai given to Kentucky,
Speaker Newman to that to Tennessee. Gov.
Dennison to that to Ohio, asd Hon. r. G.
Paine, of Tennessee, to "The States of the
Great Central Valley" He SPOKE we'll and
was warmly cheered. When he sat DOWN, Ex.
Gov. Chase said to him, Why, Mr.. Pine. Won
have stolen my thunder Don't tell DIV peo.
pie that" said Mr. P, " it would ruin me:n
The President of the evening, Lieut.. Gov.
Kirk, having announced the following toa.t
q Our Federal Union - 1t must be preserved,
Gov. Chase was called upon to respond, and
spoke as follows:
Mr.. President and FellotC- Citizens: Not
far from the city of Nashville, on the southern
shore of the Cumberland, amid the pleasant
scenes of the Hermitage, rises the modest
monument which marks the final resting-place
of Andrew jackson.
There, after noble service to his country in
war and peace, the patriot hero sleeps; but
his lessons TO his countrymen, whether express
ed in deeds OF words, still live on the printed
page and in their hearts.
Among these lessons, none ever met
heartier response from the whole American
people than the simple declaration which has
Just been repeated Our Federal Union-I
must be preserved" Far distant be the day
when it shall meet response less decided or
less unanimous.
The sentiment ITSELF indeed. was but an
echo to the utterances of all patriotic hearts
from the very beginning of the struggle for In
dependence. The primal necessity Of the Rey0
luton was Union. Without it, the Revolution
itself, though, in name a success, would have
Ocfh9 III lIulD, III was Inst
and last among the aspirations of Washington
and his great compatriots; and the most i'm
pressive among the final admonitions of the
Father of his Country are those which inculoate
its priceless worth, and exhOrt his countrymen
to its perpetual maintenance.
1t was fit that the first President from the
new States should emphatieally reafirm the
judgment and purpose Of the first President
from the old.
alt is fit, also, when the Representatives Of
the three States first organized in this great
Central Valley are gathered together as now,
that this sentiment should be again affirmed
with emphasis and decision. As the rivers Of
these States flow into one, Ohio, bearing upon
its bosom their common interests Of commerce,
so should the affections of the jewellers upon
their shores flow together in one vast current
Of devotion TO the Union, laden with the pre-
cious freight of all their destiDies.
But, Mr.. President, must not enter on this
arge theme; the time does not permit, nor is it
needfnl. The number Of those who, either at
he South or at the North, really believe that
he time for the dissolution of this Union has
already come, is too small to excite alarm. And
4 there be others who suppose that, in some fu-
ure contingency, the destruction of the noblest
political fabric ever reared by man may become
we may safely trust the logic OF
events for the demonstration of their error.
For Ohio, at Least, may confidently speak,