The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-09-18

surer set and better than the bayonet
Mr.. Clerk, I am not, perhaps, so hopeo
fol of the final result as some other men;
but | was taught in my 5oyhood, that
noblest of all Roman maxims-never to
despair of the Republic was taught,
too, by pious lips, yet higher and ho.
lier doctrine still-a firm belief in a Su.
perintending Providence, which governs
in the affairs of men. l do believe that
God, in his infinite goodness, has fore-
ordained for this land brighter, might.
ier, nobler destiny than for any other
country since the world began. Times
uoblest 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 vision, one Union,
one Constitution, one Destiny, Ap.
plause.
But this grand and magnificent des.
tiny can not be fulfilled by us, except as
united people. Clouds and darkness,
indeed, rest now over US; we are in the
midst of perilsj rocks and quicksands
are before US; strife and discord are all
around us, How, then, sir--mighty
and momentous question, pregnant with
the fate of an empire--Shall we bring
peace to this divided and distracted
country? Sir in my delibarate and most
solemn judgment, there is but one way
of escape; and that the immediate, ab'
Solute, unconditional disbandonment of
of this sectional, anti-slaVery Republican
party of yours. Applause in the gal
lerieS. If not, then upon your heads
and upon the heads Of your children be
the blood of this Republic. You have
organized political party based upon
geographical determinations, and for
the purpose of administering this gov
ernment for the benefit Of o part. You
have neither strength nor organization,
nor existence even, in one half 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 upon the left side of this cham.
Der? Not one solitary representative
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 does
it all tend to? Sir, there died not many
years ago, in New England, man
whom you all once idolized as approach
ing little nearer in intellect to our
notions of divinity than most men in any
age. Died. did | say? No, he "still
lives;" lives in history, lives in the pub.
lie records, lives in his published works,
lives in his public service, lives upon
canvas, and in marble and in bronze.--
Seven years ago he wrote to q citizen of
his native State:
"There are IN NeaO Hampshire ma
ny persons aOho cali Themselves Wings
aUho are no Wings at all, and are no
better than diSunionlstS Any man
aOhO heSatates in granting and securing
every part of The country its SjuSt and
constitutional rights is an enemy to The
achole country,"
ValIandighanD, in 1861.
CRITTENDEN COMPROMISE.
Extract from his speech in the House
of Representatives, of the 7th of Feb.
ruary, 1861. He said:
Born, sir, upon the soil of the United
States; attached to my country from
earliest boyhood; loving and .revering
her, with some part, at least, with the
spirit of Greek and Roman patriotism,
between these two alternatives, with all
my strength of body, and of soul, living
or dying, at home or in exile, l am for
the Union which made it what it is; and
therefore l am for such terms of peace
and adjustment as will maintain that u
nion now and forever This, then, is the
question which to- day propose to dis
cuss:
How shall the Union of these States
be restored and preserved?
Devoted as am to the Union. / have
yet no eulogies to pronounce upon it to-
day 1t needs none. Its highest eulo.
gy is the history of this country for the
last seventy years. The triumphs of war
and the arts of peace, science and civil
ization, wealth, population, commerce,
trade, manufactures, literature, educa-
tion, justice, tranquility, security to life,
person, to property, material happiness,
common defense, national renown-all
that is implied in the blessings of liber-
ty-these, and more, have been its fruits
from the beginning to this hour. These
have enshrined it in the hearts of the
people-and, before God, l believe they
will restore and preserve it. And to-
day they demand of US, their embas'
sadors and representatives, to tell them
how this great work is to be accom-
plished.
l shall vote also for the Crittender
propositions-as an experiment, and on
ly as an experiment-because they pro-
ceed upon the same general idea which
marks the Adams amendment; and
whereas, for the sake Of peace and the
Union, the latter wonld give new Sc
curity to slavery in the States, the for
mer, for the self same great and para
mount object of Union and peace, pro
poses to give new security also to sla
very in the Territories south of the lati
tude 36 deg. 80 min. If the Union ii
worth the price which the gentleman
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