The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-02-01

nafuiy pass current with either, unless ~
has a good partisan indorser. We give
1t no currency, we refuse to hail il, be-
cause we foreswear all such political con-
nections, and il only passes current for
so much as IL is worth upon the face of
the paper bearing their own names.
(Applause,) The loyal men OF Mary
land, my friends, have no party TO sus-
tain, no parties 20 create, no parties TO
revive. (Applause They have no
Presidents 70 make, no Presidents 70 re-
commend, no Presidents TO suggest. (Ap-
plause) Were the Presidential election
to come of in 3 month, Maryland's loyal
men would not rest their hopes upon the
Republican party, or the Democratic
party, or the Old Line Wing party. They
would look for nothing but pure pro pa
t1is, anti-rebellion, honest man, and that
alone would fill up the measure Of their
candidate for the Presidency Zap
plause) They know full we'll that
however much any one party way
have had to do in tearing down
the pure fabric which was such pride
OF ours once, they do not look for
any one party ever to build it up again.
(Applause.) Ny gallan, friend here to !.
night belonged TO an old national conser-
vative party that am sure he, as we'll as
!, if we spoke our thoughts, would say
we believed compared most favorably
with any that ever preceded or survived
it. (Applause) But yet | am sure
speak his sentiments, as well as my own,
when l say that il we could, by single
word of ours, revive that old party to-
morrow, we would not do IL until we had
first blilt up the great mansion Of our
country, which is SO fearfully shaken by
conspirators and traitors (Applause.)
Such, my friends, would have our guests
aud others believe is the loyalty Of Mary
lands loyal men. (Applause) Such
believe il to be; such | know il should
be such l have confidence IL will be-
1t will repudiate all local, all sectional,
all subordinate, all selfish considerations
every consideration, in fact, that has
the power or possibility Of diverting it's
hand from the great work that occupies
its heart. (Applause) The loyal men
of Maryland have but one purpose and
one hope--but one ambition and one
theught-and that is the Union, its
restoration, its preservation, its perps-
tuity. (Applause0 We would save it,
if il be possible, with all the institu-
tions and with every interest that has
ever found shelter beneath it. Save il,
and save it we may, If from no other
object than that we would be thus savisg,
in the very shape in which the inheritors
received it from their own glorious an
cestors. (Applause) We would, there
fore, save the ark and all that il contains
every bird and every beast aud every
creeping thing that has ever found refuge
beneath its roof. (Applause.) But il
this be not possible, and some must be
thrown overheard, let them go--let them
go. (Great applause.) Let them go-
sacred, patriarchal, though some may be-
lieve-tO the depths Of the sea, so that
we can save the ark itself and its preci-
Gus freight Of popular government, public
liberty, republican institutions, the home
Of our children, the hope Of the universe
all, all to be annihilatSd whenever it
goes down. applause and three cheers }
Allow me, now. TO the discharge Of
more agreeable duty, preparatory to the
announcement of the toasts which the
committee has placed in my hands. Let
me ask you to gil your glasses, for know
have your unanimous and cordial res
ponse. Gentlemen, l propose, on behalf
of the committee, ..
Our gallant guest - Myor- Genera
Schenck, the representative OF the law
armed in a righteous cause Maryland
gives him the welcome of loyal heart"
SPEECH OF MAJOR GENERAL ScHENCK.
After the cheering and applause with
which the general was greeted had sub
sided, he said:
This cordial greeting, my friends, is
more than expected. knew the hos
pitality of Maryland. | was prepared,
from some former knowledge Of the peo-
pie Of Baltimore, TO expect what a de-
monstration would be, coming from the
great heart Of the people +; but | neither
looked for nor expected so decided a re.
ception-a reception so distinguished as
this not for so cordial and happy =
welcome as that for which / now, with
full heart, thank you. (Applause.)
To be thus welcomed 10 Baltimore, te
MarylAnd-and to Maryland by her
chief magistrates far more than full
compensation for any little service that,
in my humble eAdeavor, have ever been
able TO discharge toward our common
country (spplaue); and when | address
you as the people Of Maryland, thanking
you for this reception, thank God that
may say my Maryland (Applause.) J
My Maryland, our Mary land, the Mary
land Of the Union, one OF the sister states
of the Union. Applause My friends,
your Governor has been kind enough to
Sllude TO the fact that am not al
together stranger among you. 1t is
true that have visited, and had oppor-
tunities Of exchanging views with the
people Of this city before, la former
years-like my friend, will not say
how many years ago iaughter,l il was
my fortune TO meet many even Of the
familiar faces which | now sec here, and
TO address them as one that agreed with
them in the political faith which char
acieriEed one OF the great parties into
( which the people of this country were
then divided but come here ss DO party
mau now (applause,) neither as a Wing,
Democrat nor Republican. l know
nothing but our nation. | come 10 you
as citizen and a soldier, engaged in
the good cause Of sustaining that Union
upon the support Of which, believe, all
our future depends (Applause,) And
come, mOreyer, as an unconditional sup
porter Of the Unisn. (Applause) Never
was a sentiment more truthful, and at
the same time more sloquently and sls-
ganty expressed, than that contained
Ia the adnirable letter Of your Cover
nor Published here the other day. he
lold as, you will remember, that para