Year: 1860

| fits to their fellow men. These arc the dis
interested, unnamed martyrs, who, with
out hope Of fame or gain, rave np tbei


lives in testimony to the all.pervadinr Low,
OF country, and left to our statesmen tn,
lesson to demand of others nothing bu


what is right and to submit to no wrong


I'VE have met the enemy" were Perry


words as he reported the result Of the bat
tie. And who was that enemy 2" A ma
tion speaking another tc ngue A people in
imtcal to human freedom No ! thcy were
the nation from whom most Of us sprunr Ms
ing The same copous language, ,chershng af
ter their fashion the love Of liberty, enjoying
internally the freeSt government that the
world has knows before our own. Bat the
external policy Of their government ha.
been less controlled by regard for right than
Their domestic administration and series
OF wanton aggresSioDs upon US, useless tC
England, condemned now by her own states
men and judges as violations Of the law OF
nature and the law Of nations, forced into
a conflict two peoples whose common sym.
pnthies should never have been disturbed
And is this aggressive system forever to be
advcnturcd by her rulers How long is the
overshadowing aristocratic element ia her
government to stand between the natural
allectiJuS of kindred nations ?


Even now a British minister whose past
career gave hope Of greater fairness, is re.
newing the old system ofexperiments on the
possible contingency Of the pusIlanimy. the
indifference, or the ignorance Of some future
American Administration, and DISPUTES onr
boundry in the Northwest, though the
words Of the treaty are too plain TO be per-


verled, aud though the United States claims
no more than the British Secretary of State
who offered the treaty explniued as its mean
ing before it was signed. British soldiers
are now encamped on part Of our territory
which bears the name Of Washington


With moderation that should have com.
manded respect, the United States waived
their better claim to Vancouver. and even
to any part Of it thinking it conducive to
peace to avoid two jurisdictions on different
part Of the same island aud in return for
this fOrbenrance, the British Ministcr, yield.
ing perhaps to some selfish clamor Of trad.
ing company, as much against British in
terest as against American rights, repro
duccs on an American island the inconveni-
ence Of divided occupation, which it was the
very purpose of the treary to avoid Iftho
hum of the American seaboard is in part
the echo of sentiments from abroad. here
the uumiXed voice of America may be heard,
as it prouounces that it is too late to wrest
territory from the United States By preyari-
cation, by meuace, or by force. From the
English dock yards it is long voyage to
San Juan the only good land route across
the continent lies South of Lake Superior 4;
in few years there will be three Ohios on
the shores of the Pacific 1t is EngIand's
interest 9s well as duty 10 give effect to the
treaty as it was interpreted by her own
minister to ours. Your voices on this memor-
able day give the instruction to our own
government to abide 10y the treaty faithfully,
on the condition that Britain will do the
same but the treaty must bind neither
party or both-must be executed in good
faith or cancelled. The men who honor the
memory of Perry will always know how to
defend the'dOmain in their country.


Has any European statesman been mis-
counting the strength Of this nation by sub
sttuting q remniscence of our old feeble
confederation for the present efficient and
almost perfect organism of the body polite ?
Has any foreign ruler been so foolish as to
listen with credulity to the tales of impend


ing disunion Every man of the people of
Ohio, this great central highway of nation
al travel, will, without one exception, tell
the caumniatOr or the unbelieyer that the
voices of discomfort among us are but the
evanescent vapors of mems breath that
our little domestic StrifeS are no more than
monetary Disturbances on the surface, easily
settled among ourselves that the love of
Uuion has wound its cords indissolu5ly round
the whole of the American people. ..f


SO then our last word shall be for THE
UNION. The Union will guard the fame of
its defenders, and evermoFe protect our en-
tire territory; twill keep alive for mankind
the beacon light of popular liberty aud
power it will dissuade nations in a state Of
unripencss from attempting to found repub-
lican governments before they spring up
naturally by an inyard law and its mighty
heart will throb with delight at every true
advancein any part of the world toward re.
publican happiness and freedom, .r