The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-11-21
PROGRESS.

subjects in fifty thousand can read, and not
one in a hundred thousand can write, exclaim-
ing, when Sir Gore Ousely told him Of the
largereyenue from the British post Office, "I'n
have post Office Tomorrow (Applause) j
You might as we'll have jury trials in Timbuc-
too. Laughter.) 1t is worse than making
brick without straw: it is making brick without
clay. .ET6 E54 I5T Za SEr
EDUCATING THE PEOPLE.
The late canvass was worth dozen Lin
coins. The agitation was yeomanly service to
liberty. Que such canvass makes amends for
the cowardice Of our scholars, aud consoles US
under the inffctfon of Harvard College.
| - HOW THINGS ARE DONE,
By the side of the New England Primer,
Lyman Beecher and Benjamin Franklin, the
| New York Tribune and Herald, all our thir-
teen Presidents kick the beam. The pulpit
and the steamboat are of infinitely more mo-
ment than the Constitution. The South owes
the existence of slavery to-day to the cunning
of Connecticut Yankee, Eli " hitpey; and
Fulton did more to perpetuate the Union than
Senate Chamber of Websters- s@ -a1
HOW TIE EARTH WAS MADE, &c.
Still, though think little of political ma
| chinery, I value the success of the Republi-
can party; not no much as an instrument, bat
as milestone. It shows how far we have
got. Let me explain. Qaughter.) You
know geologists tell us that away back there,
before Moses, (laughter.) the earth hung a
lurld mass of granite, hot, floating in thick
carbonic acid gas for an atmosphere-poison
thick gas. Gradually the granite and choke
damp, miners call it, united and made lime
stone; then more choke damp was absorbed,
and sandstone came; more still, and coal ap-
peared. BY this time the air had parted with
all its poison; and was Iure enough to breath.
Then came man! just such has been our
progress. Our Government hung 4 lurid,
floating mass in the poisonous atmosphere of
New York Observers and Heraids, Tract So
cieties, Missionary Societies, pro-slavery ppl-
pits, Union meetings, Calhouns, Eyeretts,
clusters and Hallets, slave hunters, .Curtises.
The chemical process began. They we're par
tally absorbed. We had Whig parties, anti.
Texas meetings and Freesoil factions The
change went on, and finally We have party
that dares to say slavery is SHIN some
places! The air begins to grow almost pure
enough to breath. (Applause9 ',s Is. .f..-..
81 ELECTRICITY. s1aes1Hio'f
Scientific men think that electricity did
much to hasten the coming of limestone and
colI and the disappearance of poison gas. In
our case, ,, electricity-by which mean
the Garrison party Qoud laughter and applause)
flashing through and through, and all over the
lazy heavens, quickened our chlnge also. But
the growth will be great deal quicker in time
to come.
Mr.. Phillips spoke of the want of frankness
in aspirants to the Presidency. He said:
TRUTH TELLING.
The last ten years of John Quincy Adams
were the frankest of his life. In them he
poured out before the people the treason end
the Indignation which formerly he had only
written in his diary. And the venerable
Josiah Quincy has told us more truth SINCE he
was eighty than he ever did before. (Ap-
plause.) They tell US that until this year,
they have not been able to survey Mount
Washington; its iEon center warped the com
pass. Just so with our statesmen before they
reach seventy, their survey of State is ever
false That great central magnet at Washing
ington deranges all their instruments. J-a-- /
MR.. SEWARD o12 -=i-A -Tlil p.
Let me take the speeches of Mr. Seward as
him because he is live n an, and worthy
sample. (Applause) I agree with the doc
tors rule-n,edicansenta non ugnnt IN cac7uUer
I-("dead bodies are no tests to drugs. But
he is a fair test-a real live statesman; not
one of those petty politicians who. hang on
Agitation for what they can pick up, as have
seen birds, in summer, watch round horses
feet for the insects his tread disturbs No, he
is statesman. CT za 1a-a.
Phillips quoted largely from seFard, and
remarked; ---- '474.t.is 80
They exhibited at the Crystal Palace, in
1851, Damascus blade 80 flexible that it
could be placed in sheath, coiled like snake.
Something like it seems Nlr Seward's con-
science, o,ply the blade boasted it could bend
Seward, after coiling in and out, insists on our
beliesing be never bent whit! t5
OF p speech of Seward in Kansas, Phillips
says: z...-
That smaeks Of good, old fashioned John
Brown and Garrison abolition-not non-exten-
sion. I know Mr.. Everett will deem such
words very inaacreet. fLaughter.] 1 knew
an old lady to WHOM friend had given anice
silk umbrella, She had kept it standing in a
corner twenty years, when lane day her grand
son seized it to go out. '.You are not going
to take that out in the, wetp' she exclaimed
"Never, while livep' That is just like Mr.
Everett's free speech Laughter and ap
plause.
wAIT-sEwARD GROWS. 9r
And as Seward grows, so millions of others,
and thus the world moves. "T The sword"
says Victor Hugo, sis but hideous flash in
the rSRess-Right is an eternal ray" Wait!
BE patient! in 176O, what Boston rebel boys
felt, James Otis spoke, George Washin gton
achieved; and Everett praises to-day. The
same routine will go pp. What fanatics feel,
Garrison prints, some future Seward will
achieve, and at the safe distance Of half CEN
tury, some courtly Everett will ,embalm in
.Hatchless panegyrics. [Cheers. f
ssoMETH1Na SEWARD STOLE AND POISONED.
You see exactly what my hepes rest upon
Groaoth! The Republican party hdve nndsr-
taken preblens, the soluticn q ,ehieh ,oiU
force them TO our positiaga- Not Mr.. Se,Oard's
+" "Gntoa and Liberty" ,ohicA he stale and
poisoned from lWebster's /" Liberty. and Uniona,'
No; their motto soiN soon be-H Li5ertyt frst''
- long Pslsse-- s.en 4" Union, cJlerrayds."--
Applause and solitary hisssli 5si -
:.,i - PHHLRs' HOPE. stsz
You perceive my hope es freedom rests on
these rocks: 1st, mechanical progress First.
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