Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-06-01

amincd the vote for Senators. They
found no choice in Districts No. | and
No 10. Five Republicans and five
Democrats were found to be elected
and were informed accordingly. The
Legislature of that State will meet at
Concord next Wednesday and decide
the long mooted question, "Who is
elected Governor
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Mt Grccicy's speech, M New Orleans,
The Hon, Horace Greeley, on his way
to Texas, stopped in the city of New
Orleans, where reception was given
him by the American Union Club, Il
private club composed Of cX-Union sol
diers, at which he made speech that
contains so many good points, although
somewhat lengthy, we cannot refrain
from giving it to our rapidly increasing
readers and patrons, Mr.. Greeley said;
This city and the presence of this
audience here was an evidence Of the
indivislbility Of the Unon-a proof that
a part could never be greater than the
whole, Notwithstanding the political
hcresy that the Union was the creature
Of the States. The city of New Orleans
and the State of Louisiana told differ
ent truth they told that this great sea
bound city, the metropolis Of the south.
and the territory surrounding, was
wrested from European dominion by
the blood and sweat Of the American
people; that it was acquired originally
by the money and diplomacy Of the Un-
ion, and was designed as Il refuge for
the genius and for the development of
the resources Of the American people.
Where, he asked, were the Union a
creature of the States, would New Or
leans or Louisiana have been to-day
IT was Il monstrous mistake to suppose
the Union u creature of these States,
and the belief identified as properly
Southern, he considered hcresy. That
they belonged to the general whole he
did not deny; that they have rights, he
had always claimed. [Applause His
political creed had been founded ON the
sentiments Of the great men the South
gave to the Union.
He knew Of no one who was more to
be believed in than George Washing
ton-a Southern man. Never in the
history Of the country had its admins
traton been distinguished by greater
dignity, integrity, purity, or capacity.
We had made no real progress in gov
eminent since the days Of Washington.
Chief Justice Marshall, in the thirty
three years of his official career, did
more to organize the Government and
put its theory into practice than any
living man. He achieved more with
his pen than all the swords ever used,
with the exception Of two or three.
Washingtons farewell address was es
pccialIy designed to do away with all
narrow ideas of ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and no
document Of ancient or modern times
did more than that farewell.
If these were Southern ideas the
speaker was a Southern man: if they
were not, he was not. 1t was never
contemplated that any State, however
large, should be empowered TO nullify
the tie. During his trip south he had a
conversation with u Missssippan who
claimed - have been Wing, and op-
posed disuuion. However, when his
State went out, he considered that his
paramount allegiance should remain
with his State. The doctrine, the speak.
or de,l,red, was never learned from the
Wing party,
When there was a war of giants 10
the Senate, and llaynie Of South Caro-
lima talked of notification and State
rights, Daniel Webster answered it with
a crushing dcnunciation that resounded
throughout the whole country, and re
joiccd the hearts of Southern men as
Northern men. When at q later day
South Carolina attempted to carry out
that doctrine, Andrew jackson, another
Southern man, answered in mastery
proclamation, taking even stronger
grounds than did Webster. Edward
Livingston, his Secretary of State, and
a native If Louisiana, very probably
wrOt1 that proclamation.
If that was not Southern doctrine,
then George Washington, John Mar
shall, Andrew jackson, and Edward
Livingston were not Southern men. AS
for him, though born in New Hampshire
aud a resident of New 70 k for over
forty years, he belied in the whole coun-
try. APP l'usc. Had the attempt to
divide it succeeded, it would have been
another Poland, di acted by feuds, and
eventually a prey to foreign arms; or
another Germany, with smaller states at
almost constant war for years. Ger
many delivered herself from that afillc.
ton, and to that he attributed her sue
cess in the recent war.
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