Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-01-24
Photographic Report Of a Un.
len Speech.
NEWARK, Ohio, Jan. Ist, 1861.

NEWARK, Ohio, Jan. 1st, 1861.
EprroRs CoMMERcIAL:-I have no
doubt, although you did not send phon-
opraphi: reporter to the great Union meet
ing neld iu Spoonville, Illinois. that you
would like report of the speech made by
the Honorable Felix Garotte. I give it
to you ''ver batana"
Mister President-Folks in the bar
rooms, folks in the church, folks on the
streets, and folks in houses, folks in cities,
towns and villages, are all talkin' about
dissolvin this ere Union; but l tell ye it
can't be did. The great and rantankeyous
preponderosity of the Union can never be
dissolved. The might Aegis of American
uninimity can never be torn from her
frontespice. Divide the Union? II can't
be did! What? tear the ever lastin'-high
soarin' loud roarin' proud Eagle from her
perch on the cap of Liberty tell gre, it
can't be did. Her CLAUS in the Constitu-
tion are too firmly pressed. The Southern
Oriole bird may jerk out one or two in
fsathers-but the plumage of the NIGH
ties, the proudest Of birds will gracefully
fold again together, and others spring out
more beautiful. But to divide the UNION.
Ican't be did. What, tear to pieces the
glorious STARS and STRIPES. Mr.. Pres
dent, I'm Dustin at the idee; my blood
biles at the mention, and l would say with
Mr.. Hamlet, in the play of Desdamona,
where Richard rushes to the foot lights,
and hollers in Ned Forests ears
"NoD could drink hot blood,
And do Tome better 6iznessF'
What tear the stars and stripesi If it
must be-let them have the STRIPES and
give US the STARS; but hung be the heav-
ems in black. shrouded in midnight be the
heights of Bunker, when they forget the
4th of July, or aoe forget their Sumpters
and Marions.
And suppose you do divide, what are
you going to do! Give us the Constitu-
ton and you live on the bylaws? Are
you going to take all the pretty gals and
leave US all the old and ugly-No you
don't! Mr.. President you may dissolve
sugar in leetls water. put in some brandy
and stir with spoon-then we're in, but
Dissolve the Union, never! no never! The
Star Bangled Spanner arnt made of stuff
that runs or dipides. No sir, there's the
red for the blood of the traitor-there's
white for the purity of our purpose, and
there's the true blue for Col. Anderson
and those who stand by our National
Honor.
But to divide it-why you might as well
try to divide barrel OF apple sass with
skinner; dam up the Mississippi with
brass wire; sieve or drain Lake Erie
through gimlet hole! IteH you it can't
be did! No Stree. We want Carolina
and her sweet perpetrators, she keeps US
warm with her fiery sons-but she must
behave herself or be, placed in the staight
jacket, or else we must send her barrel
Of Spalding's Glue, so as to cement her
more strongly to the Union! But nary d.
vide, No sir. So long as the stars shine in
the heavens, so long they must remain on
our flag. So long as the name of Wash
ington is revered, SO long will our flag be
respected by every true American, and so
long as the 4th of July comes the day af-
ter the Sd, so long will it be celebrated
So long as Yankee Doodle comes to town
he will be seen and heard to. And in con-
clusion, Mr.. President allow me to say,
in the language of Horace Seward and
Grecly Douglass, in new play written by
James Buchanan, and respectfully dedica-
ted to Abraham Lincoln, ESQ.,, entitled
"United WE stand. Divided 1 fall" Allow
me to say and hope you will all jine in the
sentiment:
"oh the Star Spangled Banner. long may it
wave,
Ger the land of the free and the home of the
brave"
Respectfully,
ALE RuRNET Snecial Ran