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

in the justice 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 wities-
SEES 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 candid denomination of the princi-
ples of the cause and the measures of its
action, we believe you approve, and they
find with you free and frank response,
then animate yourselves with the convic-
tons which have flown from and are
embraced in the answers 20 the interroga-
tories you have put to your consciences,
that all is right; and in the true, just, and
foreible phrase of an honest, plain, and
noble heart, "Go AHEAD"
Not doubling that you readily concur
with us, we ask of every member OF the
Il
county seat of his county on the Attn day
of next July, at IL o'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, oxertions, and indomitable per-
severance Of our lorefathers, and cemented
by their blood.
That he will live and die freeman,
uncontaminated, and unstained by politi-
cal heresies, which would wither aud
blast the fair escutcheon Of our national
character, and spur, 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 III. him from whom our ances-
tors wrested our liberties from sacrilegious
destruction, and bore them aloit amid
scenes of blood and carnage,-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-
Walton 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, noise. and tumult, which rends the
very heavens. ''Tis the cause of our
common country we have here assembled
TO support, and like the small but Spartan
band which commenced the Revolution of
70, we ask each to pledge to the other,
Ills SdClCu llObOl, w Sldllu 'oSCthCi,
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 phal-
anx--let us battle with the arms of our
political warfare in our hands, and IF
WE FALL, let it he on the LAST RU-
ms of the CITADEL OF AMERICAN
FREEDOM.
i,etus eutuat sldcra-
ion IF do'v ra )te, at
owe neigh
bHs end ri sour couaF ithout
,le p'a oi arr au irwin others
TO oecloud your judgments and your rea-
son. some few hours to the service of
vour country. She has a right to demand
it at your hands, and recreant would you