Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-08-21

member only the constitution, the conn
try and the Union We unfurl the flag of
the Union and rally in solid phalanx un-
der the standard inscribed with the mot
toes, united we stand, divided we fall'-
'the Union it must be preserved"- "Lib-
erty and Union, now and forever, one and
Inseparable."
Tbs is no time, this no occasion, for
any allusion to topics Of merely party
character; our purpose is to welcome and
honor you, not as the chief of a party,
Wing President; but, as the chief Magis-
trate of the Nation, who has so signalized
his love and devotion to the Union, and
so successfully employed his little powers
in ITS defence and preservation, as to have
won tor himself the respect, good will and
gratitude Of the wise, the good and patri-
ic of all parties.
Perscvere in course SO auspiciously,
begun. Continue to walk in the paths of
duty and patriotism so successfully trod-
den by you during the brief period of
your past glorious and brilliant course
be just and fear not, seeking noble ends by
noble means; and then, If in the chapter Of
contingencies. to which all things human
are subject, you be destined to fall, you'll
fall noble martyr, more glorious in your
fall than the conqucring hero, the victor of
unnumbered battle fields, or time-serving
statesmen or willy politician who should
achieve success by unworthy means. "or
owe his greatness 10 his country's ruin:
More true joy Marcellns exiled feels
THAN Casar with the Senate at his heels"
1t is said of Augustus Caesar that it was his
proudest boast that he found Rome brick
and left it marble.
Should success crown your patriotic en-
beavers to leave us (whom you found at
your patriotic accession to power divi-
ded people, turn with civil discussions,
the fabric of our liberties. our federal I'm.
ion, threatened with dissolution and over
throw) a harmonious, united and happy
people, with our constitution inviolatc in its
pristine purity and integrity, and our union
renovated in affections, more closely CO.
mented and more deeply rooted in the A
merican heart, a far more imperishablc
glory awaits you--a glory "above all
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its immortal founders.
This great and glorious federal union
the first born and last hope of freedom,
liberty regulated by law-the cynosurc of
all cycs-thc wonder of an adfnir,n O. world
1T ~ ~ a a' thinning woriu
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man annals, but the beginning of wild an
archy and civil strife 10 terminate in regal
or imperial despotism-was the work, the
matchless handwork of revolutionary wis
dom and virtue, and revolutionary patriot
Ism guided by spirit of moderation and
forbcarance and mutual concession and
compromise. BY such instrumcntalitics
only could 1t ever have been achieved, and
by such alone, can it be preserved and
perpetuated. A union which once dis
severed and Its broken columns and shat
tered fragments scattered like the books Of
the Syhil, no second Washington will ever
be vouchsafed by an offended Heavcnto
an ungrateful people to gather up the dis
cordant materials of the melancholy ruin
and reconstruct another temple of human
hberty-a city of refuge to the oppressed
ofevery cline which once RACED 10 It's
foundations can never be rebuilt-a light
house to the tempest-tost mariner and fu-
sitive from despotism, whose beacon light
Of freedom once Distinguished
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