Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-01-22

,ulat0n or contemplation about the results Of Q II
isseverance of this Union. Long mayjt be
ayerted-~that picture Of Ohio, aatho narrow isth'
mus between broken East and divided w est,
with hostile southern border! Long may it
be averted-that sad picture Of New York; a
great free emporium, trading to all the world,
and closed against the interchange Of her own
inland! We have gloom enough without these
new echemes of division. / Invoke the better
spirit of him who never spake 80 truly prophet.
ic as statesman, as when he combined in his
speaking the great truths OF comprehen-
siye political economy y-as when Washington
saidiys - "a s,srasy.-sssaa a
In contempIaing the causes which may disturbe our
Unon occurs matter OF serious concern that any
ground should have been furnished for characterizng
parties by geographical determinations, northern anu
southern Atlantic and western, whence designing men
may endeayor to incite belief that there 10 rea un
ence Of local interests .rd.vieEs fon oannosnsu
burnnes which spring from those Misrepresentation.
They tend to render alien to each other those WHO ought
| 10 be bound together by fraternal aitectation."
y In these days OF anticipated trouble, when f.
nancal disaster tracks the step OF political In
fidelity; when the violation OF compact Is fol
| lowed close by the intemperate zealotry OF
revolution; when even the property OF our
Union Is seized, and our flag is torn down under
its impulses; when, as If premonitory of some
great sacrifice, the vail of our political temple
seem, rent, and the earth about US quakes, and
the very graves give up their dead, who come
forth to warn, beseech, advise, and m0derate,--
| in this hour of our country o deepest gloom and
peril, let us heed with an all-embracing and all
compromising patriotism, the warning Of Wash.
| ington, whose voice, though he be dead, yet
speak keith from yonder tomb at Mount Vernon, and
| whose august presence would summon here
as the Preserver of that country whose great
est pride it is to hail him as its Father
In his sacred name, and on behalf Of people
who have ever needed his warning. and never
wayered in the Just defence Of the South as of
the North, appeal to southern men who con-
template step 80 fraught with hazard and strife
to pause. Clouds are about US, there is light
ming in their frowD! Cannot we direct 1t harm.
lessly to the earth2 The morning and evening
PRAYER of the people speak for in such weak
ness, rises in strength to that Supreme Ruler
who, In noticing the fallof sparrow, caunot
disregard the fall of a nation, that four States
NAV continue to be-as they have been,-one
one In the uureserve Of mingled national be-
ing; one ss the thought Of God is one.
Here Mr.. Cox's hour expired; but, by nnan
imous consent OF the House, he was allowed to
20 on and conclude his remarks. l
These emblems above US, in their canopy o.
beauty, each displaying tho symbol of State in
terest, State pride, aud State sovereignty, lei
not one of them be dimmed by the rude breatt
of passion, or eifaced by the ruder stroke Of en-
: nifty. They all shine, like stars differing II
glory, in their many hued splendors, by the igh
J of the same orb, even as our States receiv,
: their luster from the Union, which irradiate
+; and gorifes each and all. - -e-f- >
Our aspirations and hopes center in the prout
title of American citizen. Whether we hal
. from the land of granite or the everglade O
: flowers; from the teeming bosom Of the West
the sea-washed shore Of the East, or the gold
2 bearing sierras of the Pacific slope--all are i'm
bound by the same rigol of American patriot
:. ism Abroad, at home, in palace or 10 cabin, Il
y ship or on land, We rejoice in that proud dis
tinction of American citizen We look upo
our nationality as the actual Of that ideal de
scribed BY Edmund Burke in strain Of 6nishe
. J. eoquence and sublimest philosophy-as some
10 thing better than partnership in a trade
to be taken up for q temporary interest an
dissolved at the fancy of the parties. We loo
upon 1t with other reverence, because 1t Ia no
partnership 10 things subservient only
!. gross animal existence OF perishabe nature
y 1t is partnership in all science; partnershi
in all art; partnership in every virtue and in a
. perfection. As the ends of such partnershi
- cannot be obtained In many generations, it be
!, comes partnership not only between those wh
- are HVing; puT DetWeen tnose "no are living
~ those who are dead, and those who are to b
: born. Each contract Of each State is but
= clause In the great primeval contract of ETER
: NAL SOCIETY, linking the lower with the highe
y natures, connecting the visible with the invis
ible world, according to a fixed compact, SAM
toned by the inviolable oath which holds a
P physical, all moral natures each in their a.
,e pointed place. .-...
), Thus, regarding our NATIONALITY as more tina
st life, as the association of many lives in on
e as an immortality rather than life, the peop
r. Of this country will cling to il with tenacity
ii purpose and an energy of soul, as to the ver
{ cross of their temporal salvation; and revere
a a as the impersonation Of their sovereign upo
e earth, whose throne is this goodly land, al
whose mighty minsrelsy, ever playing be
fore IL, is the voice of an intelligent, happy, an
;: J: free people