The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-02-25
PURITANIsM In POLITICS.
la 70 'Ho SPEECH OF, i9
Hon. IS. S, Cox, of Chic,
DEMOCRATIC UNION AS
SoCIATION. III ft-a-f
BEFORE THE


The rooms of the Democratic Union A $50
citation, at s32 Broadway, were crowded, on
the evening of the 18th of January, to their
fullest capacity. so that all the aisles and en-.
frances were filed to listen to an address from
Hon 8. s Cox, cf Ohio, nilaiefc4 was
of the most intelligent and enthusiastic char
ter. Among those present were Judge Bar
bour. Judge McCunn, Hon. E. p. Norton.
Hon. Jas Brooks and Hon. Gideon J Tuck
er.. The hill of the Association has been
newly ARA sgcd- painted and decorated, and is
well lighted, warm and comfortable. Over
the speakers, platform is gas jes forming the
word "Union" It is the intention of the
Association to hold weekly or semi-moAthly
meetings, to be addressed by the most promi-
nent Democratic orators of the country. The
course promises to be most interesting and ef-
fectivs The following report of Mr.. Co1's
speech, as rerised By hiimseJf. is the only cor
rect and full report yet published
Hon Luke Cozzens, the President of the
Association, introduced Mr.. Cox, in few ap-
propriate words ie
Mr. Cox was received with great applause
W hon the applause had subsided, he spoke as
follows :. fsrs f,4l Gsa-
GENTLEMEN OF THE YoUNG MEN's Dem.
ocRATIc ASSOCIATION OF NEw ToKK If
fhis hearty enthusiasm were bef3re an election
l c6ul more readily understand It'll seems,
h. wevei, shat you have begun 1.-the Campaign
of 1864 s(Ghcers.) Let us be pate mt and
persevering and If the great central States
will stand ty. the West till ten, as they did
last fall, we may rescue the government Mt from
the hands of the spoilers, and rein viguratc the
national life from tlatslountuin of all power,
the reorl l.8 (Great iehecrs:e onGenten N, a
New England orator, Tristram Burgess, once
said, that eve were surrounded, protected and
secured by our Constitution, from the power
and violence of the world, g as sone wealthy
regions are, by their own barriors, sheltered
from the ravaees of the ocean. But a small
insidious, persevering reptile may, unseen,
bore through the lottiest and broadest mound.
The water follows its path, silently and imper.
cepiibly at first, until at le 9Th a breach is
m*de; and the ocean rushing in, focks and
heards, and men are swept away by the del
uge."
Puritanism is the reptile, which has been
boring into the mound, which is the Const tn
tion, (cheers) and this civil war comes in like
the devouring sea- Its rushing tide of de-
vastation will not be stayed until the reptile
is crushed and the mound rebuilt This will
never be accomplished until an administration
obtains control, which, in the language of Gov
Seymour, can grasp the dimensiors and con-
troll the sweep of this sanguinary food. (Great
cheers.) TO obtain such an administration,
the people will, unhappily, have to wait for
some TWO years. Meanwhile what new schemes
of division may further distract us NV ap-
prehension is, that before the peonie can :nor
ougly reform themselves or tho co; duct of
their government, another and tenioid worse
civil STRIFE nay be raging; not the Sourh
against the North not slaves against free
States, but the North against itself / pray
God in his mercy to avert such dangers. The
hatred not of New England, but of its arro
giant, selfish, narrow and puritan policy, now
dominant in the Federal government, will,
fear. never be allayed until ood is shed in
our northern States. There is but one policy
which could have stopped it; the maintenance
by the Administration of the policy msrke ed
out in TIE summer of 1861, which declared
no war for the c0nquest-no anti-slavery cru
sade. This alone united the North This
might have pre- ervcd that unity But 1 see
no hopes of q return TO such a policy The
bigots of New England have their Chambers
in Michigan and their Greelcys in New York
and the anti slavery pressure continues. In
detd it is now questioned whether any policy
can DOW TtbtoIc Inc Union. ABOLITION has
made the Union for the present, impossible
(sThat's 90. An aroused people may strike
blindly and madiy, and the result may be the
formation of new alliances among the States
and fresh conflicts among the people. ~
As a nestern man, representing the capital
of the leading State of the north west during
these past six years, / have not been unobser-
vaDt,o the signs in that quarter. have per-
sisteptly opposed all schemes of secession aud
division q yet oppose them But am far
behind the impulse ard sentiment of the Z, est
The erection of the States, watered by the
mississippi and its tributaries into an inde-
pendent Republic; standing on its own re-
sources, mineral and aericulturai, with a soil
so fat that if You ttickle it with o hoe, it will
laugh with harvcst;" (cheers, IA connec-
tod with which, would be sought by tie South
and the East, yet choosing for itself its cheap
est and best outlet to the sea, banded togeth-
er ty river and homogeneity of interests
becoming something more than dream. It
is the talk of every other western man. All
fall into it, with facility which is shocking
to the other sense of nationality. l speak of
these schemes only to disapprove and to warn
j ust as in 1861, In my seat in Congress, I
warned of similar southern schemes, but in
vain. All warning fell on sodden hearts. In
vain the lamentcd Douglas urged in vain the
noD!e Crlttenoen plead. (Ch9ers for Critten-
den y New England fanaticism made compro.
mise impossible. Let US now be warned in
time As patriotic men, loving our whole
country, we must understand the source of this
new discomfort. The West protest now, as
New York and Pennsylvania and New Jersey
protested in the last elections, that they desire
to stand in the Union. protected by all the
mus ments Of the Constit utioR, Gov Seymour
great cheers1 me ans much and well, when he
says that these Central and western States will
a, last assure us of our old uion. [Cheers
They are willing to perform the voyage-de-
scrt the ship who may. They will keep all
the shipping articles break them who may
They do not intend TO be ruled. however, by
the Constitution breaking, law defying, nesro-
loving, Phariseeism of New ngland !! IA
voioc-"let her slide"--chcers1 No. We
will keep herin on her good behavior and cast