Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-02-02

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Dennison. 81
At dark, the hotels and many stores and
dwellings were brilliantly illuminated.-
The dome of the State House was splen-
didly lighted up, and the city was ablaze
with pyrotechnic fires. Crowds of ladies
and gentlemen thronged the streets, and
there was universal hilarity abroad After
supper, the guests and their hosts assem-
bled in the Hail of the House at social
levee, and afterwards in Odeon Hall,
around the banquet table. Menter's Band
furnished superb music. Lieut.. Governor
Kirk presided, and the seats of honor were
appropriately distributed.
The following regular toasts were read :
l.. Kentucky-Mother of wise States
men and fair women; her younger sisters
delight TO do her honor.
Response by Governor Magof6n. s5i
Tennesssee-the iron of her mountains,
the corn of her valleys, and the cotton of
her plains, represent in their union of in
terests the union Of our people. Response
by Lieut.. Governor Newman of Tennes-
see.
8. Ohio-her Representatives in every
department gladly welcome to her capital
the Representatives of her sister States.-
Response by Governor Dennison.
4. The States of the Great Central
Valley--in war, their blood has been min
gled liz the common defence-in peace
their blood flows in kindred veins; in war
and peace, like the branches of their great
river, they will unite their interests and
sympathies in common current, whose
course shall endure forever. Response
by Senator Robert G. Paine, of Tennes-
see.
5. The Legislature of Kentucky-Re-
sponse BY The Lieut.. Governor Of Ken
lucky.
6. The Legislature of Tenuessee-Re-
sponse by Mr.. Speaker Whithorne.
:. Our Federal Union-.It must and
shall be preserved" Response by Govern
OR Chase, who said; a.lf
Mr.. President Mot far from the city
Of Nashville, on the southern shore of the
Cumberland, amid the pleasant scenes Of
the Hermitage, rises the modes: monument
which marks the final resting place Of An
drew Jackson; there, after noble service to
his country, in war and peace, the Patriot
Hero sleeps; but his lessons TO his eoun-
trymen, whether expressed in deeds or
words, still lives upon the printed page Of
their hearts. Among these lessons none
ever met a heartier response from the whole
American people, than the declaration
which has just been repeated. "Our Fed
eral Union, it must be preserved. Far
distant be the day when it shall meet re-
sponse 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 independence. The primal ne
cessity of the revolution was union. With
out it the revolution itself, though in name
a success, would have been in truth dis
astrous failure. 1t was first 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 who
inculcate its priceless worth and exhort his
eountrymen to its perpetual maintenance.
1t was fit that the first President from the
new States should emphatically re-affirm.
the judgement and purpose of the first
President from the old. 1t 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 there of common interests
of commerce, SO should the affections of
the dwellers upon these shores flow togeth-
er in one vast current of devotion to the
Union, laden with the precious freight of
all their destinies.
Rut, Mr.. President, I must not enter on
this large theme; the time does not permit,
nor is it needful. The number of those
who, either at the South or at the North,
really believe that the time for the dissolu-
ton of this Union has actually come, is
loo small TO excite alarm-and if there be
others who suppose that, in certain contin-
gencies, the destruction of the noblest
political fabric ever reared by man may be-
come desirable, we may safely trust the
ogic of events for the demonstration of
heir error. For Ohio, at least, may
speak. She has ever been and
will ever remain loyal to the Union and the
Constitution. While yet in my earliest
I put on record nv conviction
hat in all future, as in all past circum-
stances Ohio will cleave fast to the Nation
Il Union, and that her growing energies
will on no location be more willingly or
powerfully put forth, than in the support
md maintenance of both in unimpaired ,
igor and strength. That conviction re-
mains unchanged, nor do I doubt, Mr..
President, that the spirit and purpose of {
ohio is the spirit and purpose of all the
States, whose worthy and honored repre- ,
entatives are gathered here tonight. We
gil not surrender the proud title Of Amer
,an citizens; we will not renounce our por- c
ion in the glories of the Imperial Repub-
C; we will not madly fling the most bless q
d boon of free institutions ever vouch-
afed by Heaven to man; we will not pre- 1
are for our children, instead of the noble I
eritage of freedom, prosperity and peace h
'hich our fathers transmitted to us, de- d