The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-10-04

land 10 wealth or to honor The old descended viii
ingy 70 the tomb and closed hs eyes IN peace the be-
lief that be leaving this fair perpetual in
herance be enjoyed by his children and their descend
ants And upon what reposed this grand scheme OF hui
happiness Ii rested the faith felt By our people
that they would continue TO live under the constitution
and the equal laws which ID epjoined in the confidence
they reposed in the OF justice and mutual affection Of
each other.
But elow-czens the serpent has crept into that land
Of delight he understands the secret Of the charm and
well knows that scatter ruin he tdesroy the mutual
confidence upon which much happiness depends ae
cordingy he has been busy at his work
How long the mutual confidence OF our people with
stand such appeals know not But If those feelings
should be destroyed this great scheme of happiness this
fabric of human society, dissolve and perish
The skeleton outline may indeed remain but its harmoni
colorng viii fade away its beauty OF proportion Will
disappear and Its grace of motion and its charm Of life
will become extinct Whether there be any thing short OF
power divine which these dry bones TO live again.
with light and life the inanmae form, cannot
say But this say, that IL there be any human
regeneration for nations that have deeayed social
TENS that have become eee history has not as yet
cd them.
Feow-czens IL is in the power of this Empire State
preserve the constitution and the Union from the pers
which threaten it. She has but to will IL and she do
IL Will she strike the blow which may the
uy2 s IL not time that from of common danger,
the good of all parties had united for the Union
Or If no such union be formed, then let the
democracy of this great State do the work Be theirs
the glorious task. But TO do it they must close up
their squares and reform their squadrons Let
them move up and rally round the flag of their coun-
try not that mutilated banner which has been dsmem-
bered Of nearly half its but the flag Of their fathers
and the Union in which every State still finds its emblem
and in which every heart fix its love- But there must
be divided camp II will not do for army to look
from the hill while another is doing battle the plain.
whether Fabius shall 60 Minutius Mimi
titus return to FabIs but the Roman armies must unite
for the sake of Rome ITSELF to the sacred city from the
grasp Of the willy Carthagenian.
in the closing struggle Of the revolution at the siege Of
York, in my native State, 1t New Yorker who led
the American column OF attack upon the British redoub
All that there may be again put at stake in the
great civil in which engaged. She is
the Empire State-let her take the lead Ad-
she may, right behind her she win hear the
steady tramp of the great democratic host pressing to
aid her AT the battle of the Pyramids Napoleon babe his
troops remember that forty centuries Of the past looked
down from their heights upon their deeds in arms know
how many centuries which lie hid in the invisible
depths Of the future may look back happy result in
this civil contest with praise and gratitude There have
been welstrcken fields, stricken that they foated in
human blood and welfought battles fought until might
almost be said that whole armies had peshed whose
sequences not half important those which may
flow from the result of this civil struggle boodess though
it be. 1t is said 10 be timehonored custom in the
British army to allow each regiment to nscribe upon its
flag the and date of battle in which it was dis
ngushed May it be the glory of the democratic column
of this State to write upon theirs the 4h day of November
1885, in commemoration of the fact that it had emerged
from the smoke and storm Of battle bearing the sacred
ark Of the constitution and the Union in their arms to
place IL high above the assaults of its enemies that
hereafter the shafts which may be aimed against it will
fall harmless beneath Its base the that dis
charged in the face Of the sun.
Felow-citzens, will not permit myself to harbor the
fear of defeat place my trust in the great conservative
democratic party Of the countrythat party which
capable of eeyatng itself sufficient height to take in
the whole horizon of sectional qpestion-that party
which, in all times of trial and difficulty has interposed
and been able yet to the country That they
have been defeated times is true; they have sometimes
returned from the field with broken squares and banners
torn and themselves battle-tossed and worn But they
have been broken in spirits and broken in
ranks but that they could and did return the charge in
time to the country. The trial is yet beyond their
strength they it again. and they will do it. If
the ship Of State weahers this storm hereafter il will ride
easily upon the biow, ready to make its worldwide
voyage TO spread American influence in distant lands
and, by the moral power Of great example to give
new impulse TO the forward movement of the human
Shall We disappont this high destiny? Shall
we fail to fulfil mighty mission, and leave a
drous tale of human greatness still untold because we
choose rather TO waste strength in civil strife
Ephraine against Judah, and Judah warning against
Ephrane while the Assyran and the Mede despo both
In such contest this there be any doubt upon
where the Empire State will be found During the
of the revolution there was military object to which
Washington chung with much tenacity that of de-
Tending Highlands and the line of Hudson 1t was
the great strategical line OF the Union behind which its
communications were easy and sure. Accordingly, he
planted it thick with bayone and where he could do
crowned its heights with cannon If the British seized
upon post which threatened s integrity he Mad
Anthony" 70 storm it. IL they sought TO obtain another
through treacheTy he hung the spy who attempted it if
he found that those who manned the line were stacking in
their vigilance he despatched Putnam to catch them we'll
knowing that he would keep all wide awake who were
around him. If the enemy organized expedition in these
northern provinces take this line in the reserve he was
willing strip himself TO the last and the last gun
TO capture and destroy IT.
In the darkest hours Of the revolution and amidst its Sc
trial and difficulties he made good his possession Of
that line, Fellowcitizens is still great strategca
point and may again turn out to be that OF chief interest
What shall | say of IL in the Old Dominion when they
shall ask the from the Empire State That left
the democracy Of the State In possession Of the Highlands
and that they TO hold to the line Of the Union
II the democracy Of the Empire State win undertake
make good their possession Of this great point how many
patriots throughout the land viii hold up their hands, like
the prophets Of old for blessing upon their efforts
But feow-citizens, must draw TO close felt that
there much which ought to be said, and which
unable say that have been brought into idle rep
etton in the vain effort TO say those things Of which
many, after all, have been LEFT unsaid
From the Crawford (Pa) Democrat.
ANOTHER 0LD-LINE WING AGAINST FREMONT
The Buchanan Club addressed last Thursday eve