The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1849-03-24
Eloquent Extract.

speech ever delivered 10 the English tongue. II
thrilled all hearts, and bdhca 10 tears many a
manly check.
Gentlemen, Representatives of Massa-
chuscus, what say you! Are you agreed
Your equals before the Revolution began
your equals when it did begin - confed-
Grated as your equals in MI united as
such in l7S7-co-operating with you as
such in the administration of our comm on
country from The declaration of indepen
dence 10 the present hour and so conleder-
ated, united, and cooperating with you
with all the local rights and institutions
which are objected TO US now-are you
agreed that what we were and are, and
ought to be aud must be, we shall always
continue to be, your equas---invOlably
your equals still Are YOU agreed to this !
L so, then, in the sight Of Heaven and Of
men, we shall renew this day compact,
not of peace onIy-no, no not only Of
peace, grateful as that alone would be-
but compact of immortality for our coun'
try.
As the powers of this Government, and,
therefore, to a great extent, The destines
of this country are intrusted officially TO
our hands, it is our duty to give all vigi-
lence Of ear and eye and thought-to eve
rything that can affect them. 1t is for us,
then, TO be warned by that voice that comes
from all the records of all the past, and
comes to admonIsh us, that lost republics
are lost forever; that though their spirit
never dies, but abides upon the earth to en-
Tighten, toimprove, and to bless it, yet that
it never reviyes to regenerate themselves.
Look at the reptile and the tiger, as they
have dwelt for ages in the habitations Of the
Holy City look at despolism, worse than
either, as it has nestled and brooded with
its raven wing upon the very bosom of bu-
ried republics, aud be warned of that mys-
terious doom, that evident ordination from
on high, which connects in eternal fellow
ship, the privileges with the punlshments Of
nations, and never allots the highest bless
ings but side by side with the heaviest
woes. Let us be warned by this fatcd
conjunction to put away all pas sion, and
prejudice, and parricide -unackuowledged
but latent parricide from amongst us, TO
gather around and press TO the side of our
country; to heal the chafngs and wounds
Of her spirit by the unity and lervor of our
own; TO be ready ourselves to sacrifice and
suffer, If need be, that she may never sor>
row or perish; and if there is a curse in
all our borders, let it abide for the over.
whelming of him who cOmeth not up in
the hour Of trouble to succor, 10 defend, and
to save yes, for the Overwhelming of
him and such as him; for where, under
Providence, buI upon the hearl--the con-
stant and devoted heart - where but upon
the patriotism and the virtue of her sous is
the country to rely in the moment of advcr
sity, or at any time to rel against the per-
version ofhcr own mighty elements Of good
into mighty engines of evil
Give us but a part Of that devotion which
glowed in the heart of the younger Piu,
and of our own elder Adams, who, in the
midst of their agOnies, forgot not the cOun-
tries lhey had lived for, but mincled with
the spasms of their diving hour last and
imDloring anpcal to the Parent Of all Mer,
cics that he wouId remember, in eternal
blessings, the land of their BIRTH give us
their deyoliou-giye us that Of the Young
enhusias, Of Paris. who, listening TO Nina,
beau in one Of his surprising yi4dications
Of human RIGHTS, and sceing him fall from
his stand, dyjng. as pbys1cian proclaim
ed. for the want Of blood, rushed TO the
snot and as bc bcnt over tLpr prvnir;nr man
barred his arm for rbe lancet and cried
,gain and ao,in. with imnossionatcd voice
-2"Ucre, ,9ke it-.take it-oh 7 fake il
from ,,o Iet mr. die so that Niraheau
and the liberties Of NV country NAV mot
nerish - Give rs some,binc onIv oCs such
a snirit rs tb;s-sometbino onIv Of such
1--we If country and we are s,Go forever
safe: lbe troubles which shadow over and
onnrrss MS now, will mass away as = sum-
mer cloud No measure Of TnaIlowabIe
wrong M measure or uncononcrobIp dis