The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1861-07-25
SPEECH OF HON. JOSEPH HOLT
AT. LOUISVILLE.
The Union without Conditions.

= Soulu puet hu eUlIV,a eIdHbeI w oui
history, row look down upon tie South
and sec there hundred OF hundred and
fifty thousand men marching in hostile ar
ray, threating the capture Of the Capital,
and the dismemberment Of the Territory
Of the Republic, and could he look again
and see that this army is marshalrd and
directed by officers recently occupying
distinguished places in the civil and mil
tary service Of the country. and further,
that the States from which this army has
been drawn appear TO be oue vast, seeth-
ing cauldron of ferocious passion, lie
would very naturally conclude that the
Government Of the United States had
committed some great crime against its
people. and that this uprising was in re-
sistance to wrongs and outrages which
bad been borne until their endurance was
no longer possible. And yet, no concln.
sion could be further from the truth than
this. The Government Of the U tied
States has been faithful to all its consti
tutional Obligation, For eighty years it ha,
maintained the national hoaor at home and
abroad ,and by its prowessils wisdom, ,and
its justice, has given to the title of ar
American citizen an elevation among the
nations of the earth which the citizen o
no r. public has enjoyed, since Rome was
mistress of the world. Under its admin
istration the national domain as stretch,
ed away to The Pacific, and the constella
tion which announced our birth as pro
pie has expanded from thirteen to thirty
four stars, all, until recently, moving uu
disturbed and undimmed in their obs o
light and grandeur. The rights of NJ
State have been invaded; no mans prop
erty has been desFoiled, no mans liberty
abridged, no mans lie oppressively jeop
ardized, by the action ofthis Government
Under its benign influences the rills o
public and private prosperity have swell
led into riyulets, and from rivuleis int
rivers ever brimming in their fulIness
and everywhere, and at all periods of it
history, lis min;strations have fallen a
gently on the people of the United State
as 90 the dews of summers night Of
the flowers and grass of The gardens an
fields.
Whence, then, this revolutionary out
break? Whence the secret spring Of thi
gigantic conspiracy, which, like som
huge boa, had completely coiled itself a
round the limbs and body of the Repub
lie, before single hand was lifted 10 re
sist it? Strange and indeed startling a
the announcement must appear when
falls upon the ears of the next ger
Grafton, the national tragedy in who's
shadow we stand tonight has come uPo
US because, in November last John {
Breckinridge was not elected President {
tie United States, and Abraham Lincol
was. This is the whole story. And
would pray now to know on what wa
John c. Breckinridge fed that he ha
grown so great, that republic founde
By Washington and cemented by the bel
blood that has ever coursed in huma
veins, is 10 be overthrow because forsoot
he cannot be its President? Had he bee
chosen, we well know Il at we should nj
e have heard Of this rebellion, for the lew
with which it is being moved would ha,
been wanting to the hands of the consp
rators. Even after his defeat could it hay
been guaranteed, beyond all peradven u
that Jefferson Davis or some other kin'
red spirit would be the successor Of M
It Lincoln, I presume we hazald. nothir
in assuming that this atrocious moveme
against the Government would rot ha'
been set on loot. So much for the pr'
cple involved in it. This great Grim
then with which we are graphing, spral
g from that "sin by which the angels fel
An unmsstered and prohigate ambitlt
X AN ambition that E"would rather rel
in he'll than serve in heaven"-that wou
: rather rule supremely over a shalter
81 fragment of the Republic than run t
chances Of sharing with others the hone
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