smite down the insulter, and this great country will continue united.

Trifling politicians in the South, or in the North, or in the West,
may continue to talk otherwise, but it will be of no avail. They are
like the mosquitoes around the ox: they annoy, but they cannot wound,
and never kill. There was a common interest which run through all the
diversified occupations and various products of these sovereign
States; there was a common sentiment of nationality which beat in
every American bosom; there were common memories sweet to us all, and,
though clouds had occasionally darkened our political sky, the good
sense and the good feeling of the people had thus far averted any
catastrophe destructive of our constitution and the Union. It was in
fraternity and an elevation of principle which rose superior to
sectional or individual aggrandizement that the foundations of our
Union were laid; and if we, the present generation, be worthy of our
ancestry, we shall not only protect those foundations from
destruction, but build higher and wider this temple of liberty, and
inscribe perpetuity upon its tablet.

In the course of his beautiful speech, senator Davis passed a noble
eulogium on our mother country; and dwelt on the many reasons why the
most cordial friendship should be maintained with her; and he
concluded by a tribute to the fair sex--the women--beautiful woman; to
the wondrous educational influence as the mother which she exercised
over the minds of men. It is ever, at all times, felt and
operative--upon the dreary waste of ocean, on the lonely prairie, in
the troublous contests at the national halls. And when the arm is
moved in the deadly conflicts of the battle-field, and the foe is
vanquished, then the gentle influences instilled by women do their
work, and the heart melts into tears of pity and prompts to deeds of