Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-02-08

Gov CHASE on THE UN1oN-Governor
Chase of Ohio is one of the men whose cleo
t on to the Presidency is pronounced to be suf-
fcient cause for disunon. AS this distinguish
ed gentleman has been elected to represent the
state Of Ohio in the Senate of the United
States, for SIX years from the 4th of March,
1861, his views ore of national importance and
we are therefore glad of an opportunity pub.
lish his speech at the banquet recently given
in Cincinnati to the Legislatures of Kentucky
and Tennessee Governor Chase spoke as fol-
lows -
berland, amid the pleasant scenes of { Her.
mitage, rises the modest monument which
marks the final resting place of Andrew Jack
son here, after noble service to his country,
in war and peace, the patriot hero sleeps but
his lessons to his cOuntrymen, whether ex-
pressed in deeds or words, still live on the
printed page of their hearts. Among these
lessons none ever met a hearter response from
the whole American people, than the simple
declaration which has just been repeated
: ''Our federal Union, it must be preserved"
Far distant be the day when it shall meet a
response less decided or less unanimous. The
sentiment ITSELF indeed, was but echo to the
utterance of all patriotic hearts, from the very
beginning of the struggle for independence.
The primal necessity of the revolution was
union. Without ii the revolution itself, though
in name Il success, would have been in truth
disastrous failure. Ii was first and last among
the aspirations OF Washington and his great
compatriots, and the most impressive among
the final admonitions of the Father of his
Country, are those which inculcate its price
less worth, and oxhorr his countrymcn to its
perpetual maintenance. 1t was fit that the
fbfl ctnta
phatically reatllrm the judgment and purpose
OF the first President from the old. 1t is fit,
also when the Representatives of the three
states tlrst organized in this great central val.
icy are gathered together as now that this
sen.iment should be again affirmed with en-
p,l'.siS and decision. AS the rivers of these
s son, . now INTO one Ohio, bearing upon its bo
sIn,,,I common Interests of commerce, so
thosn si .ne auctions of the dwellers upon
of doyat;a now together in one vast cnrrent
OF devotion To the Union. Laden will tLe nro.
cio1s neighi OF all their destinies.
But, MI PRESIDENT, | must mot onter on tl,;s
=" ~ 1ne' n rne uhe does not permit. nor is
1t needful. The number of thosa ,.ha' n III
AZ the south ora the north, really believe tbot
the tnle ior the dissolution of this Union has
~ Do'ie, 70 'oo I'te 10 excite alarm-and
II there be Others who suppose that in cor,";,,
contingencies, the destruction of thn u ,ill
political fabric ever reared by man NAV 10
come desirable, and we may safely trust the the
logic of events for the demonstration of tbe;r
error. For Ohio, at least, may confidently
speak. She has ever been and will ever re-
main loyal to the Union and TIE Constitution.
While yet in my earliest manhood, / put on
record my conviction that in all future, as in
all past circumstances, Ohio will cleaye fast to
the National Constitution and the National
Union, and that her growing energies will on
10 occasion be more willingly or powerfully