Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-09-14
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country. Accused be the traitor. who.

country. Accused be the traitor, who
soever and wheresoever shall be his adj
vent among us, like the spirit of evil, !:
issuing from his realms Of darkness to
trouble the pure bliss Of paradise. To !
him that shall compass or plot the dis !
solution of this union, would apply
language resembling what remember
to have seen of an old anathcma. Wher-
ever fire burns, or water runs: wherev-
er ship floats, or land is titled; wherev-
er the skies vault themselves, or the
lark carols to the dawn, or sun shines,
or earth greens in his rays; wherever
God is worshipred in temples or heard
Iihthunder; wherever man is honored
or woman loved-thel. from thence
forth and forever, shall the.e be to him
no part or lot in the honor OF man o.
the love of woman. Ixion's revolv;ng
wheel, the overmantling cup at whicS
Tantalus may not Stake his unquencha-
BILE thirst, the Unsuitable vulture gnaw-
ing at the immortal heart of Promethi-
us, the rebel giants writhing in the vol
canic fire of Etna, are but faint types
of his doom.
l speak plainly and strongly, as I
feel, and without mincing my words;
because l believe it to be the duty Of
every man, and especially Of US who
are among the appointed sentinels of
the constitution, to look well to these
the issues of life and death to this ma
ton. l do not, / cannot, | will not
believe that opinions, adverse hereto,
exist any where within the bounds Of
the republic, and would forcstall their
possible future upspringing. / would
have our allegiance to the union unsha-
ken, unshakeable; our constancy in the
public cause fixed as the north star in
the armament; our dedication to itsin-
terests, vestal fire, burning on with
unextinguishable flame forever. Here,
in the eyes of our countrymen. and Of
the . ".c:!a, win the muse Of history
before US to record our deeds and our
words, let us, like Hannibal at the al
tar of his gods, swear eternal faithful
i nea 40 our country, eternal hatred to
Y III 81. Show we that we are welded
to the union for veal and for wo, as the
fondest lover wouldhug to his heart the
bride bound to him in the first bright
ardor of young possession. We have
not purposed to embark in this venture
: only to sail over the smooth surface of
summer sea, with hope and pleasure
to watt us joyously along; but with re-
solved spirits, ready to meet, like true
inner, :sT;!hsaattcc':ee...of danger and vicissi-
tude may descend upon our voyage,
and to stand up calamity for the trea-
: sure ofhonor and faith intrusted to our
charge. Rally we, then, to the stripes
and stars, as the symbol of glory to us,
and the harbinger of liberty to all the
nations of the world.-So long as shred
, of that sacred standard remains to us,
let US, let us cling to it with such un-
dying devotion as the Christian pill
grims of the middle age cherished the
, least fragment Of the cross: and let us
fly to it's rescue, when periled, wheth-
er by foreign or domestic assault, as
they did to snatch the holy sepulchre
, from the destruction of the infdel.
! OLD NEwspApERs.-Many people
!, take newspapers, but few them:
! yet the most interesting reading ina.
! ginable is a file Of old newspapers Il
, brings up the very age, with all its bus
; tie and every day affairs, and marks it,
genius and its spirit more than the mos
; labored description Of the historian
. Who can take paper dated half cen
! fury ago, without the thought that al
!, most every name there printed is nov
!. cut upon tombstone? The doctor
(quack or regular) that there advertis
! ed his medicines and their cures, ha
). followed the sable train Of his patients
! the merchant, his ships-could get nj
security on his life; and the actor, VIII
!. could make others laugh or weep, Cal
;. now only furnish askull for his success
ors in Hamlet. It is easy to preserv
e newspapers, and they will repay tn
: trouble; for their value increases wit
their years, and old files have some
e times Been sold at prices too startling t
! mention. w.
ri BEAUTIFUL EMBLEM.--The Greek
!. sculptured the butterfly upon thai
d tombstones: the poeticaland philosophl
e cal genius of the people seeing in i
# transformation type Of that futurlt
which they believedlbut did not under
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