Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-05-20

of allegiance and love of country to the ma
tive born. | was born, thank God, in Nir-
/ gina. am native 10 her manor Of Ac'
comac county, and my home is on her Oman,
cock Creek. at the humble Plantation called
+ Only" after Il good man who once owned
! it, and because it is the only place which
Il certain poor man can call his own
! But though thus born, and having there an
..unly" home. vet all over the United States.
in every State and Territory, | have an es'
tate and possession and Inheritance more
precious than rubies, which enttle me to OK,
claim with all my might
This is my own, my native land
| Because | was born to title, an estate, an
Inheritance and glad and glorious posses
sion in the Union of these States Of my coun-
try. | love ONLY above all honest is a
sweeter, dearer spot than all the rest. love
my neighbors more than all other ne ghbors,
because they are my neighbors: | love my
country more than all other countries be-
sides; love my State most and best, because
she is the State of my homeland love my
country more than all countries on Gods
globe because it is the land of my State, the
State Of my country, the country OF my
neghborhood the eighborhood of my birth
place and my homeland covering all. above
all, guarding all, love the Union of all the
States of my whole Country, because itgiyes
me the strength. the power, the Nationality,
the wealth and population of the whole 10
guard and protect ME and my little all. All.
it makes me, poor man, rich; 1t makes me,
a weak man, strong; 1t makes my plantation
the State of Virginia; it makes Virginia the
United States Of America; and it guarantees
to each and all. peace and plenty. and the
power to live and to labor to be happy and
free.
What great and almighty things it has
made out of little. Ii is a creative power,
this generating power OF American Liberty.
Though possess so little and am but one,
it makes all in in the Union mine, and makes
me twenty-five millions of people strong. If
leave home and 60 to my Court House,
there | am a freebooter, and an equal
among sovereign men; if | leave my Court
House and come up to this Metropolis of my
State. here ! am free by election, to be her
Governor. and to labor with glowing heart
for her honor and interest and perpetual
prosperity; and if when weary with work for
my mother State, performed with passionate
L
ton, (where | have never yet set my foot,
even there | can, amongst perfect strangers
still say fellow citizens" and if no indiyid-
ual mun greets me, and asks me to his home,
have a right to 20 to one house, at least, in
Boston-to old faneuil Hall, and dance and
make music in my heart of hearts OF patriot
ism, in the Ball Room Of the Tea Party of
the Revolution faneull Hall is mine, and
Bunker Hill is mine, and Bennington is mine,
and all Providence Plantations are mine, as
we'll as any Yankees Of the six New Eng
land States. The fame Of their Hancocks
and tEer Adamses Of old, and Of their Oliver
IL. Perry, and of their Daniel Webster Of
late, is mine; and they belong to me as Wash
ington belongs TO Everett. And if | go to
New York, Saratoga and all the Highlands
are mine; if to New Jersey, Trenton and
Princeton are mine; if to Pennsylvania, Ger
mantown and Brandywine and Philadelphia
and Chad's Fort and Fort Pitt are mine, just
Us the old Raleigh and Point Pleasant, and
the Great Bridge and York Town belong by
inheritance and Union right to our guests
Templurs. And they may go further South
and they will lind, as | would, going North,
more and more possessions, all their own
There is Kings Mountain and Guilford and
Cowpens, and Fort Moultrie, and Camden
and Taladega, and New Orleans. And if
we 60 together to the North West, we will
find kaskaskia and Eincennes and Sandus-
ky and many other common inheritances;
and FIVE go 10 the very newest States and
Territories, where not sod beneath your
feet has ever been soldiers sepulchre, still
there, every inch of soil. every rod of land is
atrophy Of Il patriots toll and sacrifice, and
all, all, and everywhere is yours, by common
Inheritance, by union. right and law; and
there you may erect your cabin home, and
plant your vine, and sit in its shade, and
anywhere and everywhere. throughout the
jurisdiction of the United States, on deck Or
on terra tirma, on or land, you may sing
aloud. IN patriotic pride
"Thi- Is my own. my native land"
And what land, How beautiful how
various in beauty, Of luscious fruits and
bloom. Oh. who would mar this garden Of
the free, this brooding nest Of teeming, gen
Grating Liberty: If any would not love this
home, this State, this country-let him have
no home no State, no country to love. IL
any busy-bodes, doing mischief, would med
die with other homes than their own, TO try
to make all better by making them all like
their own, which they love best, let them
20 to Heaven - soon as possible, and get
under the wings of Providence, where they
belong, much filter than To Earth and the
United States, where municipal and individ-
ual freedom reigns for mans estate and not
for angels. And if any would array this
country's parts against each other in section
al division and strife, let them have no in
heritance, i'll the whole-the grand, great
whole but let them seltishiy have single
place for their sate-keeping-a home made
for treason, felony or mania--a prison or
mad-house. They cannot destroy the Union
without destroying States and Homes, and
by strengthening each part we fortify the
whole, and by fortifying the whole we pro-
tect each part. Each and all is ours; each
and all equally and alike; in the part and in
the whole all citizens are seized; and all,
North and South, East and West, white and
black native and naturalized, bond and free,
happy here as never men were happy else
where On earth, may say, for the whole Union
Of these States, as this toast says for the
Blessed Mother Of States
"B,eahss there with soul so dead.
Who never to himself hath said,
THIS ~ NJ OwE, MY NATIVE LASD'
Igive you:
The Union and the Constitution of the
United States as they are--The country, the
whole Country-"My own, my native land"
as il IL. With the highest respect, YOURS