The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-07-13


many present who approved the re-
marks OF Chamberlain as endorsed the
policy ofthe administration.
Oliver Wendall Holmes, beirg in
troduced, after L brief introductory
give an iInpromptu poem:
''THE SHIP OF STATE"
The Ship of State-aDove her skies are
blue,
Blu, still she rocks q little, ii is true,
And t-ere are passengers whose faces
white
Show they don't feel as happy as they
might.
Yet, on the whole, her crew are quite con-
tent,
Since its wild fury the typhOOn has spent,
And willing, ii her plot thinks il best,
To head little nearer south by west.
And this they feel, the ship came too near
wreck
In the long quarrel for the quarter deck.
Now, when she glidcs serenely ON her
way,
The shadows past, where dread explosives
lay,
The stiff obstructives churlish game to
try,
Let sleeping dogs and still torpedoes lie
And so l give you all ''the Ship of State, !"
Freedoms last venture in her priceless
freight
God speed her, keep her, bless her, while
she steers
Amid the breakers Of of uncounted years;
Lead her through dangers paths with even
keel
And guide the honest hand that holds her
wheel.
The doctor thea proceeded TO read a
poem specially prepared for the occa-
sion.
In the afternoon Senator Blaine was
introduced His speech treated some
what of the troubles upon our South
western border and intimated ID pur-
pose on the part Of the administration
TO acquire territory in that direction
Since repudiated by the adminiStra
tion which declares the more territory
We should have in that direction the
worse we would be off-ED On the
Southern question he maintained as
! follows:
/ "In my remarks l have been com
PEELED to -peak of the North and the
South as in "A certain sense antagCnis-
tic forces II our government. 1t is not
my speaking of this antagonism that
creates it, nor would the fact cease to
exist if every man in the North should
keep silent Nor will l. be removed
by effusiye oratory on Decoration
Day, nor by swelling periods on the 4th
of July. 1t has its deep seated origin
in different phases of civilization and
radically different views of the func-
tions, powers, and limits of the State
and national governments. ii is deep
ly to be regretted that it has grown up.
| hope it will some day die out. The
North and the South, as much as the
East aud the West, are fitted by ma
ture for harmonious co operation, and
mutual development and strength. l
would include all sections in the folds
of a common patriotism. inspired by a
single aim, warned by tire same tradi
tions, stimulated by like pride, look
ing forward to one destiny. But We
gain nothing-Day, We should lose a
great deal-by coUcealiDg from our
selves the palpable fact that the con
trolling political element in the South
holds views which are at war with the
prestige and prosperity of the Aineri
can Union. speak il here today in
sorrow, and not in anger, and yet |
could not be just 10 rly convictions if
| should fail to speak it plainly. The
remedy is in the hands of that vast
majority of cur countrymen who be-
iieve that their paramount allegiance
is due to the National Government and
who hold with Washington that .'the
Union of the States should ever be the
primary object of patriotic desire.
The consolidated strength of the six
teen States that We're lately slavehcld
ing is tremendous political force, en-
bodying almost one-half the Senate of
the United States, more than one third
OF the House of Representatives. and
about two-thirdsof the aggregate EIec
toral College. Tie entire element is
controlled by small minority of the
people of those States; it will be yield
ed In the future with the unity of des-
potlsm, and it aims at permanent domi-
nation II the government of the coun-
try. Let Us look the future squarply
in the lace, prepare for the danger in
season, and aver. it If possible. Itake
my position without hesitation, with
out distrust, without acrimony, and
without concealment. | believe that
Southern coDtro. in the government of
the Union is the worst possible result,
even for the South itself. | believe
that it is menacing and dangerous to
every interest in the land; | believe
that the men who in battle and in
council saved the Union should govern
il; believe that the men who for four
years sought the life of the nation
should not be intrusted with its
Supreme control; L believe that the
heresy of the citizens primary allegi
ance begin due to his State-a heresy
w:lic has already wrought SO much
misery and shed 30 IGcuh blood-should
be confined to the States that cherish
it ,aad hot be permitted to install itself
in the government OF the nation; and
finally, l believe that any policy which
contemplaJes, or by any possibility in
Il wolves the annexation of Mexican ter
ritory. or any other addition to the dis
turbed elements of the South, is at
war with the highest interetts of every
American citizen, OF the generation
that now is, and of those countless
generations which, in the providence
of God, shall succeed to our proud ii
tie and to its continually widening re-
sponsIbilities-
At the conclusion of Mr.. Blaine's
speech, he was loudly applauded and
voted the thanks of the assemblage.
Mr.. Blaine properly says it is not the
speaking of these things that makes
them exist nor the ignoring of them
that prevents their existsnce. They
do exist, aud that they exist is unfor
tunate, because it developes a section
al feeling which once brought woe and
sorrow, and will do 20 again unless oh
liberated. Repugnant as the Southern
policy Is to our sense of rig 1t and jus
tice-inimical as it is to our claim of
, the rightfulness of the tonure by which
we hold the power OF government,
we should even be disposed TO accept