Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-21

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$. s Cox, OF Ohio. The audience was of the
most intelligent and enthusiastic charaeter:--
Among those present were Judge Barbour,
Judge McCunn Hon. E. p. Norton, Hon.
James Brooks, and Gideon J. Tucker. The
hall OF the Association has been newly ar.
ranged, painted and decorated, and is well
lighted, warm and comfortable. Over the
speakers platform is gas Jet forming the
word Union, 1t is the intention Of the As
sociation to hold weekly or semi-monthly
meetings here, to be addressed by the most
prominent conservative orutors Of the conn
try. The course promises to be most inter
esling and effective
Hon. Luke f. Cozzens, the Presidentof The
Association, introduced Mr. Cox in few ap.
propriate words
Mr. Cox was received with great applause
He began by saying that we we're surround
ed by the Conctitution as bya mound. that
reptile had been boring that mound and the
deluging ocean of war had swept in to destroy.
Plritanism is that reptile. Cheer 1t must
be crushed, and the IiouDd rebuilt Bot it
will not be done by the present Admnistra
ton. Great applause. We must patiently
wait aud work for two years and for better
policy. Meanwhile new schemes OF division
may distract us Strife may come between
the people of the North fear it because the
reptile brood still hourshes Ii is not conGn-
ed to New England 1t has its Chambers in
Michigan and ITS Greeleys ia New York
Their policy has for the present made the
Union impossible That's so fear
new alliances among the States aud fresh con-,
fict among the people speak as Western
man, ever opposing all schemes of division
still opposing them; but | speak to warn The
erection of the Mississippi States into Il re.
public, standing on its resources, besoug ht by
south and east, choosing for itself It's own
cheapest, best outlets to the ocean and mar
kets OF the world, is no dream. IL is the talk
of every other Western man Western men
fall into the scheme with facility shocking to
the olden sense Of nationality | speak OF
these schemes ouly to disapproye and to warn
as IN 1861, IN my place in Congress, ! warned
OF similar schemes of division GCheers IL
Governor Seymour great cheers means
much and well when he says the Western and
Central States desire to stand in the Union
protected by all the muniments of the Consti-
tuition. They will in time restore that Union
let New England do as she please "a
voice, Let her slide They do not intend
to be controlled by the Constitution-breaking
negrooving pharisaism of New England =
Kisses. Unless that section reform itself
speedily, new alliances may unhappily be |
made without her
warn and entreat the Democratic young |
men of New York not to countenance any
scheme OF dsmemberment but give the best
proof of your loyalty by boldly declaring what |
will take place IN spite of us, if the Union. |
breaking spirit of New England continues. !
Democratic ana Republican organs in the
West give similar warning Jefferson Davis
unlaratopI5 tho alnrnanta Of ~. -.
ten cents, used for fre.wool in the West with |
no hope of relief, is but an item indicating
the unrest Of the West under its present disa- |
bility The West is aware that New England
is getting the benefit and itself the burdens of
the war. Fortunes are made in New Enr-
land, wages are high and contracts are plenty; /
while the West is charged with extortionate
rates ia transportation and in the price Of
their purchases. They are robbed by tariff
on what they buy robbed on what they sell
Mr.. Beecher boasts that the Yankee has an
Intelligence which turns to gold all it touches
This rapacity, mingled with Puritanism, is
making men study the census New York
asks why with larger population than New
England, she has but two Senators and New
England twelve Ohio has 435,29l more
souls than five New England States yet those
States have ten Senators to her two This !
State equality was made for wise reason. III
New England uses it to oppress ten millions
Of Western farmers, let her beware Why
are we in the West to pay fifty per cent more
for goods and lose fifty per cent. on wheat
and corn2 Are the laws of economy sus.
pended for class legislation 2 Is free trade
good when it takes off the duty on madder
and coloring matter for the benefit OF manu-
lacturers, but bad If it lets in free ootton1and
woOen fabrics Is it right to tax whisky
made out of Illinois corn, and let the tariff
remain high on Rhode Island screws2 Do
you understand that public meetings West are
resolving no longer to be tributary 10 New
England cupidity, and that men cry ont so
wildly; "New England fanatieism and De
culation have made disunion New England
stands in the way OF reunion. Perish New
England to let the Union live e. Great cheer
ing, and a voice, We've had enough of herr
There is legend of ST Lawrence lying on a
red-hot gridiron, and begging, that as be was
sufficiently done on one side. TO be turned
over on the other | fear the West will never
he canonized, if it requires such double sac
rifces.
But these abuses may be remeded by new
Congress. They would be borne, but unhap-
PLY they are associated with an element harder
TO master Puritanism Kisses. This iAI
bread in the bone 1t is the same now as it
was hundreds of years ago Like begets like.
Generation succeeds generation with the
same stamp of Puritanie character taking
snccess for justice, egotism Tor greatness,
cunning for wisdom, eupidity for enterprise,
sedtion for liberty, aud cant for pety Puri-
tanism would reform men morals by statute,
and make Paradise by politics II would |
practically unite Church and State 10 nrono