The Oregon union. (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1863, 1863-02-28
CHE Q)re0ou Onion
NEW ENGLAND TO BE LEFT OUT
Z y t& IN THE COLD.
Speech of s. 8. Cox, of Ohio, at
New5XOrh.

The hall of the Democratic Association,
Broadway, was crowded with Democrats,
on Tuesday evening, January 18th, anxious
to listen to an address by S. S. Cox, Rep
resentative from Ohio. On the platform
were seated number Of prominent Dem
ocrats, among whom were P. w. Engs,
Eli p Norton, Udolpho Wolfe, Recorder
Hoffman, James Brooks, City Judge Nc
Gum, Gideon Fucker, Judge Barbour,
Professor Mason and others.
Mr.. Cox began by saying that we were
surrounded by the Constitution as by
mound, that reptile had been boring
that mound, and the deluging ocean of
war had swept in to destroy. Puritanism
is that reptile. [Cheers.l 1t must be
crushed aud the mound rebuilt. But it
will not be done by the present Admins
4ration [Great applause. We must pa
silently wait and work for two years and
for better policy. Meanwhile new
schemes of division may distress US
Strife may come between the people and
the North [ fear it because the reptile
blood still fourishes. It is not confined to
New England 1t has its Chambers in
Michigan, and its Greeleys in New York.
Their policy has for the present made the
Fit has its Nesmiths, Bushes, Boises,
Drews, Hardings, in Oregon.-ED. UNION
Union impossible. That's So fear
new alliances among the States and fresh
conflict among the people. speak as a
Western man opposing all schemes of di-
vision-still opposing them-but L speak
to warn. The erection of the Mississippi
States into republic standing on its re-
sources-besQught by South and East
choosing for itself its own cheapest best
outlets to the ocean and markets Of the
world is no dream 1t is the talk of every
other Western man. Western meh fall
into the scheme with fecility shocking
to the olden sense of nationality. Ispeak
of these schemes only to disapprove and
to warn; as in 1861 in my place in Con
cress, warned of similar schemes of di-
vision Cheers Governor Seymour
Tereat cheersl means much and we'll when
he SAYS the Western and Central States
desire to stand in the Union protected by
all the muniments of the Constitution
They will in time restore that Union-let
New England do as she please. a voice,
"Let her slide.''l They do not intend to
desert the ship-but they do not intend
to be controlled by the Constitution break
ing, nogro loving phariseeism Of New
England. [Hisses. 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 dismemberment-bu give the
best proof of your loyalty by boldly de-
claring what will take place in spite Of US,
if the Union breaking spirit of New Eng
land continues Democratic and Repub
lican organs IN the Nv est give similar warn
inc. Jefferson Davis understands the ell
ements at work Corn at ten cents used
for frewood in the West, with no hope
of relief, is but an item indicating the
unrest Of the West under the present dis
ability The West is aware that New
England is getting the benefit, and itself
the burden, of the war. Fortunes are
made in New England; wages are high,
and contracts plenty while the West is
charged with extortionate rates in trans,
portation and in the price of their pur-
chases. They are robbed by tariff on what
they buy robbed on what.they sell. Why
are we in the West to pay fifty per cent.
more for goods and lose fifty per cent. on
wheat and corn Are the laws Of COM
merce suspended for class legislation Is
free trade good when it takes off the duty
on madder and coloring matter for the
benefit of manufacturers, but bad if it lets
in free cotton and woolen fabrics? Is it
right to tax whisky made out of Illinois
corn, and let the, tariff remain high on
Rhode Island screws? Do you understand
that public meetings West are resolving
to be no longer tributary to New England
cupidity, and that men cry out so wildly,
ssNew England fanaticlsm and peculation
have made disunion. New England stands
in the way of reunion Perish New Eng
aand to let the Union live" Great
cheering, and voice, "We've had enough
of her !"1
But these abuses may be remedied by
new Congress. They would be borne, but
unhappily they are associated with an
element harder to Observation-Disclosures
IHisses.l This is bred in the bone. 1t
is the same now it was hundreds of years
ago. Like begets like. Generation sue
..ceeds generation with the same stamp of
Puritanic character, taking success for
Justice, egotism for greatness, cunning for
wisdom, cupidity for enterprise, sedition
for liberty, and cant for picty. Puritan
ism would refine mems mor1.c By statute
and make Paradise by politics. f-EQ IL
practically unite Church and State to
propagate its moral and religious dogmas.
New England.may be cunning in inven~
tion and energetic in industry; she may
boast of her libraries, schools, churches,
press she may subsidize the lever, pulley,
cylinder and wheel; she may study as the
worm does, how to draw a thread fine, and
like the spider, how to make the web she
may boast of jac guard in every factory;
but with it all she does not understand
the mechanism of the State. Her IDEAL
ogists have produced confusion where
others produced harmony. (Applause,
1t is not smart to be informed on one side
of question. It is not smart to array