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The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], An independent speech. (search)
An independent speech. --Hon. Wm. B. Reed, former U. S. Minister to China, made a speech in Crawford county, Pa., on the 17th ult., which is quite a bold utterance, considering that habeas corpus has been suspended. In it he said: There is another word beside these — and a word just now of great significance — independence. In the view of those (and the school is not a small one,) who think us, in the sense of consolidation, one people, it has no meaning. To the minds of those who think as we do it has a deep significance. It means this: That so long as the Union lasts and the Constitution stands Pennsylvania, united with her sister States, has no wish to resume any power which, for the common good and for specified and limited purposes, she surrendered; no thought of separation, no dream of isolation, no wish of being other than she was before this terrible convulsion came upon us — the keystone of the great arch, whose ruin, beginning at both ends--North and South--is<