Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1862-01-30
The Union without BiOOdshcd
tf possible, but the Union ut
Every Hazard.

Congress, by Hon. S. s. Cox, Of this
State:
In this spirit alone can our relations
towards Great Britain continue amicable.
We will readily yield her rightful de.
mands as in this case of the Perthshre. |
We yield nothng-YoTmSG, nothing to
her arrogance, passion, or pride, when
we Re clearly in the right. The letter OF
General Jackson to Livingston, the origi- /
nal Of which was read by the historian
Bancroft at New York meeting, and ap-
piled by him to dsunionists here, may
be as appropriately applied to their sym
patisers abroad: "The Union must be
preserved without blood, if this be posi-.
bic; but it must be preserved at all haz-
ards, and at every price" This Jackso-
sonian talk has ever been my rule Of action
here: "the Union, spithout bloodshed, If
possible, BUT THE UNION AT ALL HAZARD
AND AT ANY PRICE" So with our honor
among the nations. For it is thus, and
thus only, that in the gigantic conflict for
our national existence, we will avoid en-
tanglement and conflict with nations
whose interests, as they think, depend up
on our discontinue, and whose chronic
jealousy of our republican success has led
their rulers to hail our anticipated disrup-
ture with delight.
We are, sir, in this country too sensi-
tive of opinion. Mr.. Seward said well
when he told Mr., Dayton that it was no
business of our ambassadors to overhear
what the foreign press and foreign min
isters said about us. Our duty was to
maintain the Union in its integrity, and
our position as leading power among
mankind, regardless of the machinitions
of rebels at home, and the derision and
hostility of kings and aristocrats abroad.
l know that we naturally dislike to have
our institutions misrepresented, and our
destruction predicted. There is much in
the old Spanish motto. "De mi rel so 10
go''-no one shall speak Of our king ex
cept ourselves; no one shall speak of our
sovereignty but ourselves. l would that
we were more indifferent to the poisoned
shafts of foreign malice, barbed as they
are by aristocratic hate and pretension.
We have been very freely scorned by ma
tions whose moral standard is measured
by their commercial profit and loss, whose
national honor depends upon a cotton
pod, whose philanthropy has been an in
termedling Phariseeism, and whose COM
placent neutrality, SO promptly assumed,
seems to glory in the humiliation of a
kindred and christian nation, without re-
gret or sympathy, because Of its splendid
illustration of commercial grandeur, and
its defiant adherence to democratic gov
ernment.
Let us, sir, pursue our duty to the age
and the nation with unruff1ed composure
and determined will. Heaven does not
desert the undismayed Even though
there may be foreign troubles impending,
for us ty despair now is to die. l like,
Mr.. Speaker, the motto of the old Roman,
which have in this hour of our trial. Of
ten commended to my constituents, "nev-
er despair of the republic" They insert
bed it upon the Intel of their doors, and
emblazoned it upon their temples. 1t was
upon the lips of the people, it was in the
mouths of their orators, ''never to despair
of the republic;" and when Roman gen.
eral even in the agony of his defeat, gave
out the inspiring words, "never despair
of the Republic;" Roman Senate voted
him triumphal entry within the impe-
rial gates.
Let us fling aside the burden of our ma
tional woe, lament nothing of the irrevo-
cable past, dare all that is just and con-
stitutional, make no cruel and disastrous
diversions from the great object of rescu-
ing our nationality, crush as we would
nest of adders those who would impair its
proportions as well as those who would
turn us from that object to other and ig-
noble objects, involving fresh divisions,
broken armies, social revolutions, meal
culable taxation, compulsory drafting,
servile instructions, standing armies,
martial dictators, guerilla banditti, law
less plundering, perpetual penalties, and
eternal hates; and move, each and all,
heart, soul, body, men, means, munitions,
intelligence, and patriotism, to the grand
and only obiect-the restoration of our
dismantled Union. Let us stop this tam
periug with our oaths to the Constitution
under the DEVILS plea Of necessity and
believing that the Constitution is sufficient
for every emergency. in peace or war, at
home and abroad, rally for its defence
against all infractions of it, whether made
by the powers which are sworn to exc
cute it or the factions which are working
to overturn it.
Thus feeling and thus acting we may
emerge from this strife of stlugglingStates,
and, like the fabed demigod, receive ad-
ded strength from our very prostration.
If, sir, we observe the rules of right and
honor in regulating our conduct abroad,
if we pursue the object of the war that is
now upon us, as The President proclaimed
it to the people, as the soldiers of the Re-
public understand it, as the House resolved
it in the Cr;ttendea resolutions, and as
the Constitution and the Union demand,
we may be assured that our warlike re-
sources, the intelligence and valor of the
masses, the very physical geography of the
country, and God himself, will fight for
us against this rebellion. | believe that
Providence has marked upon the face Of
this written in lines never to
be crased--that this Union as it was shall
remain one AM indivisible. l b, lieve in
the idea suggested by Mr.. Everett, that
our physical geography binds us to-
gelher. He said, that before his Union
could be permenantly broken, the Alle-
ghanies must bow their heads to the ocean.
and the Mississippi and Missouri roll
back their current to the Rocky Noun
tains. If we would assure to pcsterity