Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-05-22
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| United States, every member Of either
branch of the local legislatures, every
judge upon the bench, either State OF
National, swears, when he enters upon
the duties of his Office, to support and
maintain the constitution of the Uni
ted States. 1t is not contrast between
States, but it is an organization Of the
people Of the United States, and hav-
ing accorded their allegiance to the
General Government and shared its
protection, they rightfullY owed ale
glance thereto; and though they saw
fit to overturn that organism called
South CsroIina, Alabama, or Georgia,
that did not destroy in them their ale
glance to the General Government
They could not deprive or denude
themselves Of their duty to the United
States. So that not only the eonstitu-
tion made 1t the duty of the Federal
Government to maintain the suprema-
cy of the constitution, but humanity
required il.
Now, my friends, let rs calmly ask
what would be our condition if the South
had succeedeif Do you read The foreign
news! Do you not see that all bond and
stocks are falling. and that everything IS -
in confusion IN the Old World? Do yOJ
not see that Prussia is srming 700 600
men? That France is preparing her great
army to put upon the frontierf OH what
story that tells youl the geRtle maiden
weeping, with the thought that be who
was to have become her husband may soon
become food for the worms in q soldiers
grave How many old men and women,
who had hoped to lean upon the strong
arm of the elder boy, are feeling the desc
lation which war begets, praying that God
may return their helper to theml Al
Europe is quivering with the apprehen-
sion of war. Suppose we had divided
this great continent Of ours into ene Con-
federacy called New England, and anoth-
er Of the Northwest, another of Cslsfor-
mia. and, lastly. one of the Cotton States.
II we had suffered defeat, instead of the
young men being at home ready to build
tup your now prostrste State, your Confed- -
eracy would have had 3 standing army
marshalled, and each other Confederacy
would rave had its standing army, and
instead of being cheerful nation Of inde- ffi-
pendent landowners, we would have been g D
a nation of oYer-taxed, army-supporting
people In every home II would be felt
as in every Prussisn. home. So that hu-
manitY required that We should inter- .
weave the destinies of this great and yaris s.
ed people, so that little standing army
to manage the Indians will be the only
tax upon our homes and our industry for
the support ofour military. We need not
keep another army Tor defense against
Europe. She will remember the seven = b.
days fight before Richmond, the battle Of
the Wilderness and Of Gettysburg, AMI
the three thousand miles of ocean between
u.s. She has no power to cope with the
most military nation Of the world; that
which rests upon the lows, affections and
esteem of her people. lGreat and pro-
longed applause.
Again, my fellow-citizens, it is a mat
ter of interest. The interest of your
own beautiful city requires it. Why,
| to-day, grand as our resources and di-
mensions are, we are nearly in our infan-
cy. In this great commercial depend
ency-the United States-When our
ships want an assorted cargo they go to
British port We have no great COM
mercial navy, because we export our
raw material and look to foreign na-
tions to do our manufacturing. Let Us
look little closer and see if that
ought 10 be as it is. What are our eli
mates In New England the rivers
are still covered with ice; in all proba-
bility snow Is upon the mountain side.
l came from the more genial cline Of
the Middle States-from Pennsy ylVania,
from its Southern part. Ny friends
who are with me viii bear me witness
Ludb % We CTO55C0 Tie
though bright and pleasant sun gild-z
ed the trees, there was no sign of the
swelling leaf, and the ground dark, not
having assumed its early spring dress;
hut as we came into your beautiful city
We found the erichest Verdure of spring
and the May flowers in bloom could
not catch the odor, but the beautiful
eolors were continually before me as I
rode around your luxurious suburbs.-
You are here living in the lap offspring.
To morrow 60 further south. but shall
say, when am fifteen hundred miles
from here, what 1 now say to you,
am still at home, for / am in my coun-
try. The same stars look down upon
me from this flag as are tonight look-
ing down upon my little ones and their
loved mother in their far distant and
colder home. Applause. While 1
am at New Orleans shall enhale the
fragrance of the orange bloom, and the
delicious flower of the tropical fruits;
will be in Pennsylvania midsummer
heat. We therefore have all climes;
the almost torrid, the temperate and
the almost frigid zone of the North
We have mountain ranges, fertile val
leys, broad prairIes, rich saVsnnas for
rice, sugar and cotton; we have iron
and coal, those muscles of modern civ
ilizatioD, whereby when iron is wrought
into machinery, the little girl viii do
in day more work in weaving than
her grandmother could do in a year;
whereby the skilled workman can
move the trip hammer with such force
as to mash the mass Of heated iron in
70 the thin plate, 50 delicately as TO
crack the robins egg without crushing
it.
Pennsylvania alone to-day contains
more coal, more varieties of and more
iron than England contained before
her mines had been touched, and we
can grow in Pennsylvania, wheat, rye.
corn, vegetables, and all the beautiful
flowers that can endure our winters
Tennessee has her coal and iron mines.
and she grows rice and cotton, and su-
gar in some of your low lands, but not
very successfully. In Florida, the sick
man finds the tropical plants; the
young girl, affected by our Northern
climate with pulmonary disease, may,
in the fair Sonth, amid its tropic beau
ties, be restored to perfect health, and
feel, as she looks at the stars ofour flag,
that sheis at home. though her parents
are at the shores of the distant lakes OF
the North, or near Mount Hood. with
in a few mics of the North Pacific
Ocean. Is it not something 10 contem-
plate such resources, and to feel that
are all ours, and that We hold them,
with millions of intelligent, brave and
energetic people, common heritageY
The day viii yet come, when he who
now makes the most earnest prayers
for the retrieving Of the ''lost cause,"
or sings with most emphasis the praises
Of Confederate heroes, will rejoice that
God oYerruled his purposes, and left
his children heirs to so good and grand
a heritage as this. Applause- And
we have rivers and mountains. Why,
look at the turbid river which rushes
past your beautiful city, and pours it