Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-18
Dolhital.
CELEBRATION OF THE Sth OF
JANUARY at COLUMBUS.

SE LIZ uthtAl w n II Stn VE
JANUARY at COLUMBUS.
Substance of the remarks of Il. B. Eshel-
man, IN Response 10 The Toast The
Union of the States" IL mast rest upon
the consent Of the ,Sorercign Parties, dc.
Perhaps this Toast, if tried by the stan
dard set up by the Administration journals,
trenches upon the domain of patriotism
but we are here tonight, attesting our ven
Grafton for Andrew Jackson by commcmo
rating his her6ism in the field and his
statesmanship-and in this grateful attrib-
ute we do not do our duty if we fail to lift
into prominence the fact, that he held the
preservation of the American Union para
mount to all other earthly considerations
He was no novice in craftsmanship: he was
! no wild theorist; he was not unlearned in
human nature; but, with mind larger,
bolder and more tenacious than that with
which most men are endowed, he grappled
all questions pertaining to the science of
government and placed them in their prop
er positions. To him, when he occupied
the Presidential chair, the administration
of the affairs of government was no sine
cure; hard problems presented themselves
his monetary measure arrayed against him,
| III CiuDfOtClCu hOo'hity, thC Cdpitdi VI tIC
nation; but the people sustained him. In
more important point than this was he
tried and not found wanting. South Caro-
lima fretted herself into am unhappy tenn
per over what was considered the unjust
discrimination of Tariff law, and while
in this temper, she raised the standard of
notification. Thus the authority of the
Federal Government was challenged. How
did Jackson, that grand, stern old man,
who then was the administrator of the Gov
ernment Of the United States, treat this
challenge? He went out to the people of
South Carolina in fatherly address, and
. in words tempered with Kindness he be-
sought them not to suffer themselves to be
precipitated against the Federal Govern
ment by seditious men made them under
t derstand that it was his sworn duty to see
, that the laws of the United States were ex-
ecuted; that in this matter he had no elec-
ton; but that he would lay before Congress
the grievances of which they complained
and urge upon that body the duty of SC
: amending the Tariff Law as to render it ac.
; ceptabe to those upon whom it operated
Q unjustly. He did so. He convened an
extra session Of Congress, laid before that
body the grievances Of South Carolina, and
with the aid of Clay and Webster and theil
:. patriotic compeers the law was amended
4 South Carolina was pacifed, not life was
! sacrificed, and yet the pride and character
!, of the American Union was not humiliated
9 or discredited. The spirit of Cancellation
and compromise was triumphant, and the
nation swept forward in a glorious career o
greatness and prosperity. And when thi
great aud good man bade permanent adiel
to public life, he took an affectionate leav,
, Of the people through a Farewell Address
7 .,D;,,t 20 ,>,,Jn
vanity that prompted this address; but i
was an earnest solicitude for the preserva
ton and perpctuation Of the American
Union. He saw that sectionalism was gath
|, ering force and strength under the abolition
u banner; he tho't if the public mind of tn
Free States should become SO debauched a
to put into power party pledged to thi
sectionalism, the worst of calamities woul
;, bcfal the Union, aud hence he earnestly be
sought the American people to crush it i
l. its incipient stages. Plainly did he te
y them that this government could not
maintained alone by the exercise of the CO
ercive power confded to it by the Consti
tuition. More than this is wanting. TIL
people of all parts of the Union must b
: made to feel that their interests are identi
T. fed with the perpetuation Of the Union
that in it they find security for their per
sons and their property; that the Govern
/, ment should be so administered as to bege
love from the governed-that, in fact tn
Government should be no more than an ad
ministrator to execute their will. Have th
= men who profane the name of Jackson b.
claiming that his life and teachings Civ
- sanction and justification to their intens
war clamor and malignant hate against tn
South, studied carefully his action in re
gard to South Carolina and the address h
gave to the American people as partin
/ legacy? jackson possessed a soul too large
IL mind too comprehensive, sense of jus
tice too exalted ever to have suffered hin
self to have been the passive instrument
the hands of an atrocious sectionalism. NJ
!, there would have been no civil war in th
re goodly land of ours, if jackson, instead {
r; Lincoln, had been inaugurated oil the At
Of of March, 1861. The thing would hav
been as impossible as for Deity himself
have committed wrong. Let us suppos
y that jackson had been elected President b
plurality in 1860, instead of Lincoln; an
nation had adopted a platform in whic
there was plank obnoxious to the plea.
ure of large portion of the free States
say it was an abstraction; say that while
encroached upon the spirit Of the Constitu
ton of the United States it did not infra,
re re the letter of that instrument; say that
It December following the discomfort in tt
free States had become formidable tn,
they began to begirt themselves with tn
steel clad armor Of war; that as thes
Y troubles doomed up, the conservative me
in the South, who had given to Jackso
their support, hastened to the Hermitae
9 and besought him to issue an address I
" the Northern people, assuring them thI
80 as President of the United States he woul
sanction no encroachment on their right
the apprehension of which, threatened
throw them into hostility to the just az
!. thority of the Federal Government; do yo
think jackson would have remained silen
And suppose that the Southern people ha
begun to petition Congress by thousand
imploring that body to pass some amen'
re ments to the Constitution of the Units
lin States whereby their Northern brethrt
,sn should feel secure against tresspass upon
ssh matter about which they were particular
IL, sensitive; suppose that Clay, the gre
- Commoner, should have got up in Il
United States Senate, on the lst day