The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-12-24

should attempt TO separate Aud yet oush, not to have
taken ns 10y surprise whoever could have nag med 'h
machine so complicated, vast new, untriei As
this confederaed system Of republican states should he
exempt the lot Of State which have hsured
in the history OF the WORLD complex system :"
government never deSE"d-heNer conceived VI
among men How strange il - how unreasonable IS,
that should be surprised that pm may urop OUT :"
this machinery and that the wheel should drag
or that the pudrcon should be worn until the
wheel should cease to play with regular action.
How could We expect subsst for period of seventy
wears exempt from the necessity OF repairing our political
system of government Every state In this Union ts
inst like the federal Unona republic. has It's opnstl
tuition and us regular system Of action. No state
than seventy years old, and there is not in any
STATE of this Union a constitution which is than
twenty five years old; and So certain has ii become
that no state adopt constitution which will
last for than twenty five years without being
paired and renewed that the consttu.
tioa which adopted twenty years ago contains pro
that next year, without any appeal TO tn people
whatever convention shall together in the state
az New York and make new constitution Is strange
then that this complex system of government should
be found after lapse of seventy years, to work a
little rough, little unequal, and that should require
that the engineer should look The machinery to
where the gudseon is out and to that the main
wheel Ii kept in notion A child can withdraw pin
from the mshties machine and arrest all its notion
and the engineer when II Is being done but
the engine be rightly devised and strongly constructed
the engineer has only TO see where the pin has
fallen out and replace it, and the machine will Then go
on slr'hgeI ana more vigorous thah ever tapp,asel
We family OF thirty three States and next Monday
hope that we shall be family OF thirty -four (eheers)
Would not be strange family of thirtyiour mem
bers IL there should not, in the course of few
wears be one two, three, four, or I'VE ot the
members who would get Disconnected and want to with
draw awhile and how much better they could manage
Their aloneY think there is nothing strange in
this only wonder that nobody has withdrawn be-
fore how much better they could get along their
hook than they get along ia this plain old fashioned
way under the direction Of Uncle sam They say that
while was boy, Massachusetts, and some OF the New
England States got the idea of conumacy Tor the
common parent and want of affection for the whole
family and got up Hartford Convention. daughter
hope you do NOT think this personal. (No, no. Some
body in Nas-ac husetts-I do not know who-tried it.
All know about that for the first twenty years Of
my political LIE, although was democrat, Jeferso
man born and dyed in the faith of the republican IA
n whig was held responsible for the hartford Conven-
ton. GAughtcr) And ! have made this singular
discovery contrasting those times with the present,
that whereas when Massachusetts, any New England
state gets pet and proposes to go ont Of the tmon
the democratic party an nssl tat : hlgh treason ana
ought 70 be punished by coercion "bfh one 81 e save
states gets the fret and proposes TO out of
the Union, the democratic party think 1t exceedingly
excube and have doubts whether she ought not to be
helped out OF the Union. aud whether ought no, to
give her good dowry besides daughter Now,
gentlemen, my belief about all this Is that whether
il is Massachusetts, South Carolina, whether
II Is New York Florida, IL would turn out the
same wa, in each case There such thing in TIE book
no such hiag ia yeasm no sach thing in philosophy.
and such thing nature any No!s crtStnJ on the
ro,iip, Of No,7h Amerod outside Of the Tnd STATS of
tosrieu. do not believe word OF it. and do not be
Iiryc Il for good many reasons. Some have already
limited at and one Is because do not any good rea
given for IT, The best see given for is that
The people u q the Southern States hate us Of the
free tse> very badly and they say that hate them
and thnt all love is lost between Well do not be-
icve a word Il that. the other hand | do know
myself and for Won. that batting some little diife-
renccs of opinion about advantages and about proscrp
ton, aud about once, and about freedom, aud about
slavery, and all those which are family difficulties,
for which de- not take any outsiders in any part II
the world into COUNCILS on either side. there not
state the earth outside Of the American Union which
like bali We'll do the state or south Carolina
1eheers Neither England. nor ireland. scotland,
France nor Turkey-athough fr' Turkey they
sent me Arab horses. and from South Carolina
they send me nothing but curses stil | like south
Carolina better THAI like any of them.
and have the presumption and vanity 10 believe
that If there nobody to oyerhear The state Of South
Carolina when he Is talking she would confess that she
liked Us toleraby well am very sure that IL anybody
were TO make descent ON New York 10 morrow-whe-
Their louis Napoleon the Prince Of Wales hts mother
Caughta), or the Emperor OF Russia or the Emperor
Of Aunhaa, all the hills of South Carolina would
New s0r York Their rp p for and the
God knows how this may he do not pretend to know.
these Powers 10 make descent on south Carolina
know who would 60 10 their rescue. "a yoice'.we d
all GO We would all go-evepbody that's
o. and grea, spplause) 7aergore bey DO M
hupbag We nth har secession. (laughter) And
Ido nj @,pk they rtH hUu,6ua YOU; and 10 mot Be
,a.k L-,gy s,ootc' in huHs,ynG thsmfres Laughter }
Now fellow citizens this is the ultimate result OF all
oi,uvs shau TaIk n strtltng dorm . gar from hot
consolidation. a thing uhch srpno u dom. applause
do no, any less stars 10 day than did week ago
a1d expect TO more all the while. daughter The
question, then Is, what in these mes-whcn people are
lsborng under the deuson that they going out o.
the Union and going to set up for themelvesought
do order 10 hold them do not know any better
rule than the rule which every good father Of family
observes Il Is this II man wishes not 70 keep his
family together IL j. the easiest thing in the world
place them apart Tie will do at II he only gets
dseouteuied WITH his son quarrels with him, complains
~ him torments him threatens him, coerc's hun This
u the way get rid Of the family and to ct them all
Of doors, On the other hand, II yoa wish To keep
them IN, You have 60, ONLY one way TO do Il.
That u be patient kind, paternal, forbearing and wait
unth they come TO reflect Tor themselves The South t. to
What the wife Is TO her husband. do any
man the world Who get rid Of his wife IL he
tries. can put him IN n 10 10 Il at laugh.
tcr he only got two things 10 do one i 10 bc an
faithful to her The other BE- temper with her
! no not know earth who-cycn though his
wife was as troublesome IS the wife Of Scraescanno,
keep his wife II he wants 10 do all that h.
kecphis own virtue ana his temper. applause Now
IN all tins business propose that We shall Keep own
which ID politics consists "a remembering that may
differ that brethren may differ Il we keep entirely
cool. and entirely calm, and entirely kind d,tuie ,,u
wAich ,c h ttndiy in itslf ani ,c,Ii prov r~r,
son rtAcy hat ~ icrCGad shdu covcrts %
dcYp,esr, end cowe bt3 t'so frutc-rot rstd'isa
NH u.s. I do not wish e. anticipate any question
We baFe great mahy Statesmen who demand
et ia know what the North proposc o. do
what the government proposes 70 dovheiter propose
90 coercc car southern brethren back into their acg
Thcs ask Us 81 course they rghtluly Ask
what wi be the value If fraternity which compelled,
All have 70 say that subject Is, that long
the time 81 SIR Thema. More he discovered ana SGT down
the discovery IN his writing that there great
many scho,mastcrs, and that while there very
fcw who knew how to instruct chllrVn, there were
great many whn knew how 20 whip them daughter. }
irfopose a. have question that sub but 10 hear
Complaints 10 redress them they ought u D. redress
s~f aud IL we have tue power 20 redress them AMI
rect them b. withdrawn they unreasonable b..
know that the necessities which made this Unon
exist Tor thcee states stronger today
than they when the Iuun was made,
and that those necessities enduring while tn,
passions OF short lived ana cphemeral.
believe that scc,sion stronger ihe ght IL tho
9th OF November last when President and VIC, rre.i
dent Who Unacceptable 10 The slave stats
elected than II \ now. That u some ffty days
since, and believe 10 every day which since
that time has set mUlih passions and preiudices
and that Il YOU Mn only give Il time sixty days more
viii give yoN much brighter and more cheerful at
m@phere loud saa hpg continued applause
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