Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-23

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look, Senator George 4. Pugh was called on
to respond. Mr. Pugh die not pay much at
tention to the deadlock sen timent. In fact
that was finished. The only IT, ing that could
be done after that was for the uHoker TO sit
down and rest, as we learn from ne Mosaic
co'moRony, is necessary after al great ere.
atoms.
Mr.. PuPh was emphatically convinced
| from the manner in which the Constitution
was formed, and from the matter of the Con.-
stitution Itself that divine wisdom was
| specially voucbsafed to our fathers who
toimtd it, and that the hand of God could
be clearly recognized in it. For this reason,
we suppose he thought we fought to 60 TO work
ara tompIomise it away; which shows that
| slthough Mr.. Pueh has a remarkable vision
| for detectiIg the hand of God in Constitu-
iion, he has very little respect for it, and
| thinks the hand of the poor old broken
| down Democratic Party Superior TO it.
This was probably as well as could be ex-
| pected from the first effort of one not much
used TO handling divine subjects. The next
/ proposition was a stumper. He took tho
| ground that the Union was formed on the
! principle of an equal number of free States
and OF slave States in the United States
Senate. This was his understanding of the
equality of the States. That this equality
was broken in upon by the admission of
Callo1na; and since that by the admission
OF other free States, until the equality of the
South in the Senate had been lost.
Now, said Mr.. Pugb, the question before
| you tonight is, will YOU restore TO the South
this equality in the Senator If YOU will
restore 1t, the Union will be reconstructed,
If you will not restore it, the Union will
never be reconstructed. ask you, will you
restore it2
A solitary individual responded 1--WE
| wiz" and he immediately looked as if he
bad call TO be somewhere else. The rest
could hardly believe their ears, and MUIR
! INJURED their dissent all round the hall
This, we suppose, is that reconstruction
that we have heard Of History does not
usually stand in the way of Democratic
| speeches. Out of Union, which Democratic
orators are fond of telling us, was formed
| when all but one were slave States, we now
have theory that it was formed on the ba-
| sis of an equal number of free States and
slave States in the Union, and that if the
| South falls behind in slave States the North
must make up the number to her, or the
| Union can not exist.
The North certainly has mighty duty
! to perform, to sustain this Union 1t has
! got to 60 into the propagation of slavery at
once, AID must throw itself into the breach
and stop the progress Of population, which
is running out slavery in the Border States:
| for If any of them should happen to become
| free, after the equilibrium had been restored,
that would destroy the Union again. In
short the North has got TO do what creative
power can hot do-stop the progress of free
population, so that it shall not preponderate
over slavery.
Ard yet Mr.. Pugh is very certain that the
whole slavery question is purely an ab-
straction, and matter of no sort of conee.
quence. And more singular still, he talks of
shallow politicians. Certainly, he has es-
tablished bis depth by this proposition.
After this, the company could hardly be sur
prised at any thing; else they might, at his
claiming that the Dred Scott decision had
| decided that slavery was established by the
Constitution in all the Territories and that
the Republicans had denied this decision.
and had, therefore, themselves first rebelIed
against The Constitution.
Mr.. Pugh had probably forgot that Mr..
Douglss always denied that the bred Scott
decision decided any such thing and that he,
| Mr.. Pugh, was one of the leaders of the
Northern Democracy when they split the
Charleston Convention by their refusal to
put the doctrine of the bred Scott decision
into their platform; that very doctrine
which Mr.. Pughnow says it was notification
and rebellion to deny.
The Constitution" was responded to by
Mr. Reemelin, who was saying some very
sensible things when the reporter left;
which, coming after the Others seemed an
oasis. Perhaps it was we'll the reporter left
| before he got through. In one thing he is
mistaken, however. Our Constitution makes
strong central Government But auy
Government must depend on men to exc
cute it. ANY can be broken down by imbe-
| cility in the Executive, and treachery in all
the Executive Departments, aided by trea-
son and rebellion in Congress and among a
| portion of the people.
! Some half dozen more sentiments and res
| ponses were to follow, but when it comes to
midnight reporters have to cut things short,
1t would have given us pleasure to notice
| the other speeches, if it had been possible.
We can only hope that they were better
than those which preceded them, always ex.
cepting the first part of that of Mr.. Reeme-
lin. The reporter is sure they could be no
worse. Justice requires that be should say
that the speeches, so far as he heard-par-
tally except as above-were opposed to the
spirit of the Farewell Address, although
they avoided attacking it by name. 1t was
easy, however, to see the aim.
CELEBRATION AT THE CATHOLIC INSTITUTE.
Union Hall, of the Catholic Institute
which Is probably the most capacious in the
city, except the theater-room of Pixies On
era house, was densely crowded, on the oc-
casion OF the benefit of the St. Aloysius Or
phah Asylum. The price of admission was
very properly reduced so as to enable even
the poorest TO spend pleasant evening, and
contribute their mite to benevolent object,
Below is the programme of the entertain
ment:
/. National Overture-Or Orchestra.
2. ~ am Freeman'-Male Choir of the
Catholic Institute.
3. Speech-By an orphan boy.
A. Sopg-By the orphans.
8. Holiday Speech (German)-By Mr.. O.
Strop, from Alton, Illinois
6. Holiday Song with music) BY the pu-
pills of the Polytechnic School of the Catho-
lie Institute.
Z. "The Star-spangled Banner" (Solo)-By
Miss Kate Mac Evoy, with the entire COM
pany of the Mixed Choir" of the Catholic
Institute.
8. English Address-By Hon. John F.
Fisk, of Covington, Ky.
9. Grand Finale-Orchestra
The speech of Mr.. Fisk was an able one,
and uncompromisingly Union. He claimed
that if Virginia had right, in ceding Ohio
to the General Government, to prescribe that
it should forever remain free State, Ohio
certainly had right to retort by compelling
Virginia to remain State of some kind,
The whole address was full of strong points.
and we regret we have not space to pub
lish it.
CELEBRATION AT TURNER'S HALL.
The Germans over the Rhine had a cell
ebration at the Turner'S Hall, consisting Of
music, tabeaux and an address by Mr.. Has
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