Year: 1861

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with brother shall find n namelcss sepul-
chre. CCRTIus.


THE ATHENIEU1I MEETING.


Remarks of Mr.. John r.. Hubbard at


the Opening of the Meeting.


Nr. Chairman and Feiiotv Citizens The
heart of every American Patriot is in
tenscly agitatei by the difficulties that
surround us. Yesterday was the day of
prayer for the nation. God grant that


those prayers were heard, that, through
the instrumentality oE Divine Providence,
we may be restored TO peace and quiet
To-day is the day of action, and the
Workingmen of the city of Wheeling have
come up here this evening, to assist as far
as may be in their power, to restore har-
mOny in our unhappy country. God grant
that their efforts may be crowned with sue
cess. 1t would be useless for me to enter
. into any argument to prove wherein the
wrong lieth Personally, bold the North
responsible to the greatest extent, for our
present difficulties, in refusing to pass the


Missouri restriction through the territory
acquired from Mexico, to the Pacific Ocean


which was rendered in Congress by South


crn statesmen. as the means of settling our


territorial difficulties, previous To Mr.
Douglas bringing in his bills for the Terri


tories OF Kansas and Nebraska, and the


removal of the Missouri Compromise,


which, in my opinion, if they tthe '.North-


ern statcsmen') had accepted the main


difficulty would have been settled. Other
men, of equally as COOL Judgment as /,


hold tue South responsible to the greatest


extent, in the r. ulOval of the Missouri
Compromises, With the assistance of Mr..
Douglas, the process of making II slave
State out Ut Kansas, against the will of the
majority of the people, assisted and backed


up by the present Administration, by such
a process as tue English bill Thus men
honestly disagree as to who is tu blame for
our present evils. But the question the
workngmen of this city came up here this
evening to assist in solving, is this: What
means can be Iunde use of to assist in re-
storing harmony to our common country 2
What compromise can be made? Every man
ought to ask himself this question: What
sacrifice am / willing to make to sustain
the Union as it was created by the patri-
OTIS of the revolution? Holding him ID be
best who is willing to make the greatest.


would that could gather up the heart
and soul of every American, and take
down the history of the Revolution from
Buuker'S Hill to Yorktown, and mcthinks
wher we would get amid the SHOWS of
Valley Forge, and see bloody footprints,
we would forget our present animosities,
and one universal shout would be: Run up
the Star Spangled Banner, and inscribe
on its ample folds this inscription by Web
ster-"Thc Union now and forever, one and
inscparahlc." There is this feature in the
character of every man of honorable ma
ture, that whenever he has disagreed with
another, and he finds they are willing to
conccde some OF the points in controversy,
he is also willing to make concessions;
and nations are but men in greater num-
bcrs, and the same principles will apply
Therefore, let us look to some such com
promise as offered by Mr.. Cr.ttcudnn in his
late resolutions in Congress, as the means
of harmonizing all our troubles, and if
they cannot agree upon them, let the peo-
pie declare in favor of general Conven-
ton of all the States, and abide by their
decision. The course os South Carolina
has been such as | cannot support; nor
neither am in favor of Convention in


Virginia. But present appearances iudi-
cate there will sbe one, and in the event
there should be one, it should be based on
the white population of the State, and the
ouly question that should he brought be-
fore it should be, by what process can we
save the Union of the States; not coming


mp and saying we demand all we think
our rights, let tue consequences he what
they may-but let us be willing to yield as


much as any, that peace may prevail
Therefore We would urge the people from
hill top and valley all over this broad
land, to speak out and let it be loud and
long, that their Representatives at Wash
ington may hear aud net in accordauce


with their will 1t is the working man
that peculiarly feels these ills, many Of
them out of employment, on which they
were dependant for the neccssaries of life,
it is with them question of vital impor-
tauce that these difficulties should be


settled Immediately. understood that
there had been a letter received in this
city, from our Congressman, saying the
slavery question would be settled in fifty
days on n more permanent basis than it
ever was. Late dispatches from Messrs


Douglas and Crittenden, say there is good
ground for hope that tho difficulties can


be settled in the Union, and they say don t
Igive up the ship. These items give us
good basis for hope, even while the


telegraph brings us the news that the


South CaroliniHns havo invested Fort
Sumpter, and that vessels of war are
ordered to Charleston. Then let MS not
despair of the Republic, cease to crimina:e
and 7recriminate, F'but sustain every man
that marches under the Star Spangled
Banner and keeps steps to the music of
the Uniou." Some of the newspapers in
the Eastern portion of the State say the
Union of these States is already dissolved
and that the united voice of this State is for
secession, calling on Virginia aud Mary
land to seize the capitol and archives OF