The Illinois free trader. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1840-1841, 1840-06-12

In the luSuce OF the cause we advocate :,
nor do We apprehend that it is in any
way seriously endangered. We believe
that the scenes we have been the witness
ses of will react on its authors. and pro-
duce result essentially different from
that anticipated by them.
Fellow-citizens, we appeal alone TO
Your reason for the support OF your cause,
which we advocate. 1t is your cool and
deliberate judgments we invoke; and if,
on a candid denomination of the princi-
ples of the cause and the measures of its
action, we believe you approve, and they
find with you a free and frank response,
then animate yourselves with the convic-
tons which have flown from and are
embraced in the answers to the interroga-
tories you have put to your consciences,
that all is right; and in the true, just, and
lorcible phrase Of an honest, plain, and
noble heart, $50 AHEADr'
Not doubling that you readily concur
with us, we ask of every member OF the
Democratic Party to assemble at the
county seat of his county on the 4th day
of next July, at IL clock, M.--the great
and glorious anniversary of our national
birth, and then resolve, that he will adj
here to, and support those principles con-
tanned in the immortal Declaration of In
dependence, which were achieved by the
bravery, cxertions, and indomitable per-
severance of our forefathers, and cemented
by their blood.
That he will live and die freeman,
uncontamnated, and unstained by polili-
cal heresies, which would wither aud
blast the fair escutcheon of our national
character, and spurn, as freemen should
the corrupting influences of banking cor
porations and associated wealth.
Our opponents selected for the day and
hour of their celebration. the birthday of
George HI. him from whom our ances-
tors wrested our liberties from sacrilegious
destruction, and bore them aloft amid
scenes of blood and carnagc,-we select
the FOURTH OF JULY, not to desc
crate it with unhallowed shouts, not of
tumult and disorder, but in cool and calm
devotion to our country, to renew upon
the altar of its liberties, sacred oath of
fidelity TO its principles, and the preser-
vation of the Union of these States,
against the open or insidious attacks of
domestic or foreign assailants. and we
trust that on that day, in this State, no
one will be found wanting to join with us
IN cause so holy and patriotic.
Amid the scenes already described, of
revelry and dissipation, of rude and bois-
ferrous sounds issuing from the camps of
men who play such
Fantastic tricks before high heaven,
AS make the angels weep
we have met, unawed by clamor, unmov-
eddy oisc. and tumult, which rends the
very heavens. IT'S the cause of our
common country we have here assembled
10 support and like the small but Spartan
band which commenced the Revolution of
re, we ask each to pledge to the other,
his sacred honor, to stand together,
shoulder to shoulder, and breast to breast.
amid the storms and tempests which now
threatens to break over the land. Let us,
like men determined to uphold the liber-
ties of our country, meet the tempest
without fear or doubling, in a solid pnal-
anx--let us battle with the arms of our
political warfare in our hands. and IF
WE FALL, let it be on the LAST RU-
ms of the CITADEL OF AMERICAN
let us euua. -or sidcra-
bon ~ d8v ua )te, at
ow neigh
bon 1nd Sour co SIS ithout
aa pta Of arrlaca others
o oecloud your judgments and your rea-
,on,) some few hours to the service of
,our country. She has right to demand
t at your hands, and recreant would you
,rove to the trust contidcd to you by the {
ounders and fathers of the Revolution.