The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-04-20
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Ire following description Of SAN. wLo
is at this time creating such ''commouon Tie
country through" Is by the eloquent RAssEE
Of North Carolina:
There is certain parsonage abroad in he
land. at the sound of whose voice the sha K
les of party drop from the hands of our peo-
ole. like those of Paul and Silas at the ap-
proach of the angel Although the echo of
his foots,ep is not heard. We, to the demagogue
and party back, he is terrible as army with
banners He is no magician, and yet touch
Of his wand. like that of the spear of lthurial,
causes the mask to drop from the face Of hy
pocricy, and exposes selfshness and party
bigotry in all their deformity He comes
with his fan in his hand, and purges the
floor Is he goes They call him Sam But
it is not II ncle Sam Uncle Sam II venera-
bic in years, with sound head and honest
heart. But he is growing old. bent IN form.
bowed down with the heavy burdens which
the lazv and avaricious, the cunning and sell
fish. have heaped upon his shoulders and com
PEELED him to wear This person to whom |
allude is the first born and du,iful son He
has come to his fathers relief With all the
wisdom and honesty Of his sire, he possesses
the buoy ancy, the vi igor and strength of youth.
His muscles are elastic and his sinews tough.
His mission is TO visit every city. town and
hamlet in the land He is equally al home in
in the mansions of the grea; and the cottage
of lowly. He takes his seat at the council
board of the wise and ministers al the couch of
the afflicted He whispers the word of hope.
which nerves the arm of the mechanic in his
workship and walks beside the farmer he
turns up the furrowS ef his field. His march
is ever onward. He passes rivers al bound.
scales mountains At leap. and through swamp
and forest he never lose, his way. lie never
stops excep. 10 drop q tear upon the grave OF
some revolutionary hero. for his heart Is as
tender as his nerves strong. tie watches
around our dwellings when are asleep and
slumb never We. CHS heavy on his eyeilds.
He carries in his hand the flag of our country
which has so often withstood the battle and
the breeze The halo of freedom beams upon
his countenance, and the enemies of the I'm
ion fly Al his coming. like kites and crows at
at the eayl les swoop. He never strikes with
out warning, but when he does. the edge of
his claymore sewers Joints and marrow. and a
hecatomb falls at every blow. The creed of
his faith is the constitution of his country, and
Luther and Washington are the two great ex
emplars of hisrehgious and civil freedom. Bars
and bolts cannot screen the chicanery of mid
night caucuses from his ken, and convent
walls cannot be built too high for him to scale.
Chatterng demagogues grow dumb al his ap-
proach and bishops mitre and Jesuit's rob
bers at the head of pampered ,nsolence and
knavery fall at his touch. He cheers all
the honest, patriotic and good, with the smile
of hero at their eountry's deliverance--and
to the wicked, the hypocritical, the seit'sh he
speaks their day of doom. After having
gone his destined round, he Will finish his la
bors by lashsng, with the thongs of popular
indignation, from the temple of legislation at
Washington, those who have been desecra
ting freedoms altars by offering victims TO
political idols After such Herculean labor.
he will spend four years in the "White
House" On retiring to private life, he will
leave his warning almontion with his coun-
tryman to preserve our institutions from evil
and corrupting tendencies of foreign and Ro-
man Catholic influence; and to maintain and
defend the Union. to cherish cordial. habit
ual and immoveable attachment TO it: accus-
toming themselves to think and speak of il as
the palladium of their political safety and
prosperity; and watching for its preservation
with Jealous anxiety