Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-05-06

have, scatter ed all over this vast nation
companies, legions, armies of brave
patriotic, devoted, self-sacrifcing men
who will stand ready to defend our. sa
cred rights, preserve our happy homes
protect and cherish our mothers, wives
daughters, and sisters, and hand down
to future generations the rich inheri.
lance bequeathed to us at the provi.
dence Of Ged through the sacrifices
sufferings and labors Of the boldest and
bravest men this world has ever known.
Pure, glowing patriotism has induced
the Oflcers and Members of the Keno
sha Rifle Company to associate them
selves together, to devote time, talents,
money to subject themselves to disci-
pine, and bear arms in order that they
may serve their country, should she
need their aid, against internal disafee-
ton, or foreign dictation, invasion or
wrong: To this laudable purpose, they
now appropriate this Hall in order to
facilitate thoroughIdiscipline, the dissen-
ination and inculcationsof heartfelt love
of liberty, and the inspiration of every
sentiment which may tend to make them
faithful to their country, and useful to
their race.
For this great and happy country /
confess l have no dark forebodings.
| know that there are deep seated, pom
derous, willy influences to be met and
subdued. But if in the days of her in
fancy, while she was yet humanity speak
ing, weak, scattered, and helpless, she
exerted power, skill and perseverance
which humbled and vanguished her
proud foe-broke the rod of oppression,
proclaiming liberty throughout the
length and breadth of the land, and
and maintaining that freedom in spite
OF arrogance, aud wealth, and the war
fare OF well trained armies, what need
she fear now, while the God of provi-
dence smiles, and she can count upon
her hundreds of thousands-not of war
like men-but men of the true spirit of
defensive warfare-the spirit of Wash
ington and his coadiutors. Her resour-
ces are now unexhaustable. On the ex-
pansive prairie, in the crowded city, on
every mountain and in every vale-in
the princely mansion, and in the peas
ants cot we find hearts true to liberty
and right, impressed with the convic-
lions that this is, and must be, "The
land of the brave, and the home of the
free"
Talk not of doubts and fear, and dark
forebodings when the battle is for Lib
erty. You have opened your doors, and
spread out your illimitable country
and invitedhither the oppressed millions
of other lands, and they have come at
your bidding. Come to drink your crys-
tai streams, come to partake of your
golden fruits come to divide with you
the tolls and hardships incident to a
new, though fertile land. Some ofthem
may seem to be indifferent, or even to
be arrayed against you, but no; when
crises comes, they will be found true
to freedom, and foremost at the post of
danger-for while yours is a duty, theirs
is debt cheerfully and promptly paid.
The Officers & Members of this Com
pany are worthy of our warm congratu-
lations for their high, moral, and social
the ranks, and devotions to duty, may
distinguish them henccforth, as II has
down to the present time.
| may be INDUCED in stating that l
have given utterance to the few disjoin-
ted remarks which you have now heard
under peculiar endorsements. One of
which arises from that this is, to me, a
new atmosphere. am unused to prom
inence on occasions like the present
but the relation which sustain to this
Company, as Chaplain, induced me to
yield, against my own convictions TO at
tempt to interest you for a few moments.
| thank you, on behalf ofthe Company,
for your attendance here on this occa-
sion-and now bid you all hearty well
come to the more substantial entertain
ments under which our tables groan, in
the room below.