Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-03-27

the lie" which mlsled the honest and the
4 simple.
But, far away from the scenes Of VIC.
lence and crime, and the monsters that
shall engender and nourish these agen-
cies of evil, far away from the home of
ancestral pride and hereditary honor
away from The classic hall, and tar from
foreign lands and courts, far away. ia a
humble rustic scene, we shall find him
who is appointed unto the mission of tho
age, TO achieve the "purpose" of his
s'nme."
There, IN that wild woodland, on that
rough road leading from the little one.
story farm house to the mill, through
| groves, and swamps and fields, there pa
ces an old horse, laden with bags of grain,
on which sits careless looking, bright
eyed boy, sunburned and barefooted, in
his coarse homespun dress, evidently an
exclusive patron of domestic manufac-
lures, and pledged to retrenchment.
That simple rustic scene Is one unas-
sociated with high achievement in histo-
tory. 1t is not one of the fields on which
our fathers taught the murderous savage
or the hauty Briton. Yet it has associ-
atoms which shall make it as dear to A
mericans, as rich in its peculiar glories.
as Bunker Hill, Yorktown and Tippeca-:
noe. II shall be to the republicans OF
every age and cline one of the places
holy to liberty, one OF
.'lhe Palestines,"
"The Meccas of the mind"
Il shall be the source of nations hopes
aud happiness. Patriots, poets, and phi
losophers and historians shall trace from
it the mighty stream of the events OF the
age, sand pilgrims come far TO salute
the blest spot" aud find in it a lesson to
the world.
The scene is athe Slashes Of Hano-
ver;" and that poor little orphan child is
'the Mill boy of the Slashes," an appel
lative whose rude provincial sound shall
not hinder it from becoming more than
classical for with all its harshness it
shall make the music eff ages and nations;
and it shall be the watch-word and raj
lying cry, of millions rushing on to blood
less battle. 1t shall be shouted in the as
repeated with the intouutior's VI cfftiiusf"
asm and rapture in the great copgrega-
ton of the just. The day shall come
when the utierance of that name shall
raise the awful voice Of mighty nation
in tones of thunder from the Lakes to the
Gulf from the Ocean to the mountains,
and from the mountains to the distant
sources Of the Father of Rivers; for it
shall associate with that nations most in
spring remembrances and exalted hopes.
Ii shall be their glory--their pride, their
boast to the world, heard through bout
Christendom, and welcomed everywhere
as the sign of republican faith indicated
and American honor retrieved Long
shall ring through the Continents and
over the Oceans that glorious name, as
sociated with that of Washington, from
Peru, La Plata and Oregon. to Sparta,
Athens and Thebes. These two names
shall be heard when nothing else that be-
longs to America is known,s shall be heard
as the exen plifcation of all that is good
and hopeful in the cause Of republican
principles, popular rights and human lib
erty. The name of 'the Mill boy of the
Slashes" should be a name "above all
Grecian and all Roman fame" above all
classic and romantic glory, rich in more
than the historic and poetic associations
of antiquity. II shall be cherished and
endea.ed in the remembrance of the
learned and unlearned alike, when the
story of the wolf-nursed, fratricidal foun-
der of Rome shall be discarded as mis-
cradle fable, and consigned TO oblivion or
contempt, with all the absurd vagaries OF
the heroic and the silly romances of the
chivalric ages. Romance shall cease its
inventions, wild adventure snail restrain
the u,terance of its wonders and histo-
nv shall pause and look back in vain over
all the recorded and unrecorded past for
parallel to the forty Yeas movement
which he shall begin and end.
He shall unite all hears in divided
and wide spred nation,-shall concen-
trate and harmonic all intrests, shall be
supreme and alone in the love and conf
dence Of all clsses and section. "Ihe
rich and the poor shall meet together" in
affection for MIN; and each shall Proedly
do his part-the rich pouring out his gold
in tens of tens of thousands at his feet,
and the poor laviseing breath, energy and
soul, in oratory and song for his advance
ment. His name shall be spell--a bond
of fellowship--a pledg of hospitality.
thatsh all open to the stranger alike the hut
in the forest and the palace in metropolis.
The aspirations the venerable and SAINT
Iy for his preservation and triumph, shall
rise over all the land with every NOR
rsug's prisons and in the incense of the
evening sacrifice. prayer shall be off
cred for him continually, and daily shall
he be praised"