Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-07-30
MILLERSBURG, OHIO THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 3d. 1863


elsewhere, prctext for the formation o
sectional parties, which must endangc
tho pcrpetuity Of the Union"
During the contest for speaker of tn
House Of Representatives in 1859 an
1860 Mr.. Vallandigham made spcccl
from which the following extract is taken
on DIsUNIoNIsM NORTH AND SOUTH.
THEN SIR, I am dgainSt djSanion. / fine
no more pleasure in southern disunion
ist than in a northern or western disn
nionist. Do not tell me that you Of tho
South have an apology in the events and
developments Of the last few months.
know you have. But will you seccdc
nowg Will you break up the Union Of
these States? Willy you break down for.
ever, in one promiscuous ruin, the col.
umns and pillars of this magnificent tenn
pie of liberty. which our fathers reared
at so great a cost Of blood and treasure?
Wait little Let us try again the peace
full, the ordinary, the constitutional
means for the redress of grievances. Let
us resort once moro to the ballot box
Let us try yet again that weapon, suror
set ard better than the bayonet. Mr..
Clerk, am not, perhaps, so hopeful of
the final result as some other men; Gm /
acaS taugh IN my Joyhood, Mat noJlea Of
all Roman marins ne0er to despair Of Me
republic. / was taught, too, by pions
lips, yet higher and holior doctrine still
"A firm belief in a experimenting Prov.
dcnCe, which governs in tho affairs OF
men. | do believe that God, in his inf
mite goodness, has ioroordained for this
land higher, mightier, nobler destiny
than for any other country since the
world began. Times noblest empire is
the last. From the Arctic Ocean
to the Isthmus of Darien; from the
Atlantic to the Alleghenies; stretching
far and wide over the vast basin of the
Mississippi, scaling the Rocky Mountains,
and lost at last in the blue waters of the
Pacific, l behold in holy and patriotic vi
sion, one Union, one Constitution, one
destiny. Applause. But this grand
and magnificent destiny cannot be tulfHed
by as, except as a united people. Clouds
and darkness, indeed, rest now over us
we are in the midst of perils; rocks and
quicksands are before us; strife and dis
cord are all around us, How, then sir
mighty and momentous question, preg-
nant with the late of an empire-shall
we bring peace 20 this divided and dis
tracted country? Sir, in my deliberate
and most solemn judgment there is but
one way of escape, and Mat the immediate
absolute, unconditional disbandonnaem oJ
Ills sectional, anti S2a0cry Republican par
ty Of yours. Applause in the galleries.
If not, then upon your heads and upoI
the heads of your children, be the blooC
Of this republic. You have organized
political party based upon geographical
determinations, and for the purpose o
administering this Government for til,
benefit Of part. You have neither
strength, nor organization, nor exi. tencs
even, in onehaf nearly, of the States Of
this Union Look around you. Behold
upon this side of the House every section
represented Here are the United States
What do we see on the left side of this
chamber? Not one solitary representa-.
tive of your faith or party from fifteen
States of this Union. What does all
this mean? 1t never was SO before in the
history of the republic. What docs il
all tend to? Sir, there died not many
years ago in New England a man whom
You all once idolized as approaching &
little nearer in intellect to our notions Of
divinity than most men in any age
Dead, say dead? No, he "still lives;"
lives in history, lives in his public rec.
ords, lives in his published works. lives
in his public service, lives upon canvas
and in marble and in bronze. Sever
years ago he wrote to citizen of his ma
tive State:
"1Here are IN New Hampshire man,
persons a0ho cali themselves Whigs, aohc
arr, no Wigs at all, and no better than dis
unionists. Any man who heSitateS ia
granting and securing TO every part Of Mc
country as just and constitutional right.
IS an enemy to tile mhole country"
Extract from Mr.. Vallandigham'.
speech in the House of Representatives
on the 7th of February, 1861. lie said
DEVOTED TO THE UNION.
Born, sir. upon the soil of the United
States; attached to my country from
earliest boyhood; loving and revering he
in some part, at least, with the spirit O
Greek and Roman patriotism-betwee
these two alternatives, with all my hear,
with all my strength Of body, and of soul
living or dying at homo or in exile, I an
! for the Union aChich made IL what IL is
and therefore / am for such terms of peac
and adjustment as will maintain tn,
Union now and forever. This, then, i
the question which to-day 1 propose t.
discuss
How shall tho Union of these State
be restored and preserved?
Devoted as / am to the Union | hav
no eulogies to pronounce upon it to day
1t needs none. Its highest eulogy is tn
history of this country for the last seven
ty years. The triumphs of war and art
of peace, science, civilization, wealth
population, commerce, trade, manufac
lures, literature, education, justice, tran
guilty, security to life. to person, t
property, material happiness, commo
defense, national lenown-all that is i'm
piled in the blessings of liberty-these
and more, have been its fruits from tn
beginning to this hour. These have en-