True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1856-10-22

U0tk1no Of an A0aresS delivered by
Rev. Franklin Moore, Before the
Young Men Of the Belmont Iron
Works, Saturday Evening, October
4th,. ,..IlS56.
The speaker opened with allusion to
the patriotic character of the occasion, it
being similar in spirit TO a rally on the
4th Of July, or 22nd of February, The
design Of the meeting was TO promote
brotherly kindness and devotion towards
the common country. Some remarks
were made on the duty Of mutual affec.
ton among men, as based on their COM
mon nature and destiny-linked together
BY the same precious redemption, The
existence Of such state of society is
commended in the orseles of God its
moral beauty illustrated by Hermon gilt.
tering in morning deWs. and by the pre-
cious ointment used in consecrating Aaron,
which ran down to the skirts Of his rich
and pure attire, and breathed living
fragrance on all the air. He then adver-
ted to the subject Of our National Union
and argued its necessity from several
considerations. First, the physical fea-
lures of the country, its oceans, noun.
tains, and rivers, indicate that what gGod
has thus joined together ought not to be
severed by man.
Unity Of language and blood, presen-
ting brilliant future to the nation, for
bid the thought of disunion. So
The same thing is pressed earnestly
upon all lovers Of their country by the
peculiar intefwining of domestic relations
the blood of each Stale of the confedera-
cy flowing in the veins Of some of the
citizens Of almost every other State.
The commercial interests Of di fferent
parts of the nation were adverted to as
banding all its parts in unity of Govern
ment. Here an extract from the fare
well address Of Washington, was read.
The speaker cOntended that liberty had
not originally been obtained without union
of the colonies that the present union Of
States was formed TO prevent failure OF
realizing The beneficial results Of the rev.
,olutionary struggle-to avoid tyranny. or
anarchy. He remarked that the Fathers
Of the Republic were men Of massive
mind, and in view of The actual perils of
the times in which they lived, were in a
better position to understand the value OF
the Union, than we Of this generation
can be-we, who are enjoying its benign
inhuence-Lhan those men are who :. un-
der the peaceful shadow of the Union,
traitorously struggle to rend its ligameuts
and would with fendish malice, or mis-
taken zeal, misguided piety-revcl in the
mighty crash Here the speaker narra-
ted an incident connected with the present
admirable English version of the Bible.
A certain critic met with one of the trans
lators, and assigned him three reasons
why given passage should have been
translated differently. The reply was,
that those very reasons were before the
translators, but there were thirteen reas
ons why the present translation was adop.
ted. So, il was left, fellow countrymen;
lie: the spirit Of liberty grave it in your
hearts forever, that for every three reas-
ons why this Union should be torn in
fragments, there were before our Fathers
and are now in existence, thirteen
reasons why it should retain its integri-
y!
,n A beautiful incident is narrated, said
the speaker next in Indian legend. A
band of Indians driven from The graves Of
their fathers, alter tedious tolls, arrived
on the banks of the Alabama, when the
chief, dashing bis hatchet into forest
trunk-the cry was Alabama-here we
rest So it was with our fathers. Al.
Ter travelling through all the trying scenes
of the revolution. from Lexington through
the tremblings of Long Island, Brandy
wine, Germantown, The gloomy overrun-
ming of Jersey, to the glorious capitula-
ton Of CORVALLIS at Yorktown. After
travelling through the doubts and fears
they deeply fell lest, for the want Of a
united, vigorous govervm ent, their treas
ure and blood had been expended in vain
at last, in the formation and adoption Of
the Constitution, under which we now
live, they rallied around the tree Of Amer-
can liberty shooting with tropical lux
uriance-its leaves bright with the dewy
influences Of their prayers, and its roots
nurlured In the blood Of the ..brave--then
striking the Ratchet of sectional conflict
deep in its trunk, the ely Of their long
restless hearts was-Al.bama, here we
rest So let it be with US, lei us'not be
recreant to their spirit--let us follow out
the advice Of Washington and bind the
land together, not only by the lies of pa.
triotic sensibilily, but by internal improve
ments-wi,h the ties Of commercial inter-
est.-The surfs of the Chesapeake and
the bright waves Of the Ohio, have alrea.
dy Men United with ligaments of iron.
Let us 90 on, to the surfs of the Gulf Of
the South with the brattling waves of
. Erie--link the Atlantic and Pacific, bind
and re-bind the gushing floods of the
Mississippi to the storm lashed surges of
the Atlantic, and when we have latIiced
the land through and through-and, all
over-with. iron work then let us rear
over all rStted roof whose myriad ribs
Of wire shall be all in lightning glow
retaining lis beauty and brilliancy, but
robbed Of its desoIating fury! Then let
us all, gathering around the liberty tree
afresb, and burying anew the Ratchet Of
sectional interest and partzan strife-let
the whole nation join inthe cry-like the
combined roar OF the booming foods Of
the sea Alabama-here we rest Lib.