Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-08-28
mn. DAnDwMy EuLoaY on GENERAL TAILoR

MIR. DAnDwNv EuLoaY OF GENERAL TAILOR
Mr.. Baldwin's Oralion, on the occasion Of the OBJ
seouies in Richmond in honor of the late Presldenft
is published in the Richmond Republican Of Friday.
We cannot ress, the temptation of laying before our
readers the concluding extract in which MI b. Por-
trays the baeful effects of disunion win 'oucn'Dg
eoquence and fervid patriotism which VIII mees
with heartfelt response from every lover oi uie
Union :-Peters6arg Lntelligencer.
In conclusion, Acknowledgment me to remark
that if there was one passion that General Taylor iad
failed to conquer, it was his love of the .4nsrican
Union In the language of an Irish orator ne had
stood almost by the cradle of the CONSTITUTIONS ne
did not desire TO follow it TO It's grave. lie had seen
the cluster of thirteen faint stars when hrs'
ed above our horizon, increased TO lhlry magh'ncen;
planets, revolving in grandeur and harmony a,ounu
the central orb. He had served benealh 'ne nag "
the Union in every section, until he recognized one
and all as portions of his common country. de not
only loved The Union, but he understood as well as
any other man that love was its vital principle, and
that when il had departed it were as easy TO restore
life by the most powerful appliances OF science, as oy
force 10 compel the continuance oil union rom
which the spirit of mutual affection and confidence
had departed He himself emphatically declared that
when The Union could only be preserved by iorce,
it would not be worth preserving. de knew thas
Reason. Charity and Truth could preserve II, when
ffty thousand bayonets, led by Napoleon, would
ONLY crush it in common rum. Zachary iayior
was man of the South but he who Inks nose "oIos
South and Dsunon,-he who does not know Is
in the South that the purest, the most aolong, 'ne
most dsineres,ed love of the American Union Is 10
be found, does foul wrong TO great and generous
people. Zachary Taylor was son of Virginia, ana
IoIt t,ot IN That
menaced bv the torch of insane lanaticsm Virginia
will be the last to desert that citadel Of the rights aud
the homes of the human race. When the mother for-
gets her frsborn son, and learns TO oalhe the child
of her sorrows and her Joys, Virginia VIII iorges
and loathe that Union which was born from The leem-
ing patriotism of this giant mother oil States and s'aleS-
men. baptized with the best blood of the Republic,
and consecrated by The holy hands of The Revolu-
toparv APOSTLES 10 the cause of constitutional liberty
and human rights. MOI The glorles OF her own
youth may fade, the sceptre may pass from her own
grasp but in her expiring hour, as IN the meridah Oh
her renown, she will exclaim-Ihe Union oil tne
Sta.es-The Rights Of the States-May they toge'h-
er be preserved till the stars of our system shoot
from their spheres and the sun goes out IN eiernat
night
know, fellow-citizens that the hour is dark, that
sectional passions aroused, and thai the iuIure
not even vet permit ourselves to dream OF such an
event as the dissolution of the American unon.--
Fraternal love- fobearance, reason can save H. when
even wisdom and eloquence would be OF no avail
Let the eyes of each section be no longer Dllnd I'd
the virtues, and open 10 the faults OF others. ne
Frenchman may rise against his government; the
Hungarian may seek to throw off the thradom OF
Austria; the Polander may struggle 10 regain his ma
tonay, but if we permit this Union to perish until
every constitutional and fra;ernal remedy has been
exhausted, we shall present the first example IN the
worlds history OF people who were rebels agans.
themselves; who satated with the sweets Oh
liberty, sick of peace and weared with prosperity
Never have people been blessed with such bes-
sings as we have enjoyed under this Unions neves
have people been cursed with such curses as VIII
follow its dissolution. Surely it cannot be that oil
our endowmenis Of civil and religious liberty, oil peace
and plenty, are to be sacrificed by the madness OF
few men who make war alike upon the Bible and me
Constitutions and who would involve in the samo
ruin the shrine of religion and the ark OF liberty
Surely il cannot be that as Europe is slowly advane.
ing in rational freedom by the light OF our example,
we should with our own hands extiDgulsh tue bea-
con fire which guides world on its weary way
Did your footsteps ever wander in foreign land
Doubtless, many grand and impressive object you
there beheld hallowed by the moss OF ansquiy, anu
wreathed with thousand beautiful assoclatons.--
Beneath the solemn shades OF Westminster Aooey,
on the immortal field of Waterloo, at the loot oi d.
Peters massive pile, upon the plains of Marathon,
Won have bowed your head in veneration Of genius,
learning, piety and valor. You have beheld many
gorgeous spectacle of wealth end greatness, OF pow
er and pomp,-but, tell me, among them all, DID you
ever behold sight that stirred the deep fountains
of your heart, and sent the blood boiling with proud
emotion through every vein, as when, upon sons
lonely sea- YOU met one of your national vessels, inc
stars and stripes of your country flowing freely out
over the frownng battery and the mountain wavef
And shall the time ever arrive whenyo must travel
through the world and meet no more that flag; wnen
neither on sea nor shore shall its "meteor gores"
fall upon the wanderers eye; when the American
shall pass through the world, worse than an orphan,
man without country (? Must ever be condemned
TO feel that the national structure in which dwell
not the one which was built by the apostle OF Amer
ican Freedom and cemented by the blood of its mar
tyrs: not the one of which Washington laid the cor
ner stone, and of which Jefferson and Madison wefe
among the chef architects,-not the one wnich was
iIlumned by the wisdom ola Marshall ana echoeo
the tbunders of Henrys eloquence ;-nos the FIRST
TEMPLE which stood upon the Mount Zion oi our A
mercan Isrea its magnificent altar cleaning through
cIouds of patrotic incense, and the heavenenklnded
FIRE of freedom burning forever upon its shrne,no,
not this temple, bu. some humble edifce, without an
altar or priest, like that in which the dIsconsoiae
lew mourns over his lost Jerusalem, andhanglng ms
harp upon The willows, exclaims, SHOW can ! sing
the Lords song in strange land" And must nos
only give up my portion IN me nag ana history Of
NV country, but must yield my interest IN any OF
Ihe consecrated spots of this loved hePuolcs Must
N,and on Bunker's Hill and on Lexington and be
known as a loreigner3 Must the man OF the North
nress the sod of Mount Vernon and mournlulIy ex-
claim. @Thls is no longer my country~ Alust the
world renqush its only raIying ground offree Prin-
ciplesi A voice rises from the oppressed millions
of Europe,-Take not away from us our only reiuget
1,,. ,ha ,a,,lis mud from ha ashes of hnA