Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-12-27
A Voice for the Union In Texas.

Speech Of Charles anderson. Esq, For
neriy Of Cincinnati, at Alamo, 7eras.
on the PAN cf November.
The following eloquent extract from a
late speech Of Charles Anderson, Esq, Of
Cincinnati, now of Texas, will be read
with interest:
"We have truly fallen upon evil times.
A meeting Of American citizens is here !
solemnly convened, seriously to discuss
and decide the further existence Of our
blessed Union! And has it indeed come
to this? Has the madness Of faction, the |
virulence Of fanaticism, at last reached
this point? Have sectional partisans fin
ally dared to make or devise an assault
upon this beloved and most glorious I'm
ion, which our fathers, of the South and
the North, shed their united blood to ce
ment and establish; which our mothers
blessed in the earliest prayers of their in
fancy; which nurtured and protected our
best years, and which, under Gods prov
idence, is, trust, destined to be our chill
dren's children, to the latest generations
OF mankind, the very greatest boon and
blessing which human minds and hands
ever planned and executed, or the Divine
Will has permitted9 Oh! may i, stand,
my friends, as deep in the earth and high
in the heavens as the grandest mountains,
as wide and glorious as "old ocean," aud
as all inclosing and vitalizing to its gen
erations as the circnmambient air! While
ever these fair, blue and bended skies,
with their kindling lights of day and
night, shall surround our earth, oh! may
this dear Union of our native land--the
next most wise and pure and grand Of all
the creations-alike continue to encom-
pass US and ours forever.
But now, alas we are calmly and de-
liberately" assured, from the pulpit Of
the Law and Gospel-by no frothy, shall
low demagogue of poitcs--accursed pol
itics!-by the lips and tongue Of man
, really wise, pious and honest-that this
vast fabric has crumbled; "that the
Union is already dissolved" We are in
formed-as fixed and certain fact of his
to,y-that our National destiny is ful-
filed that, like dead leaves on the wind,
. our institutions have driited away into
. the past forever and that we are not here
q assembled to consider their further exist
: ence or perpetuity, but to divide their
spoils and take administration of their
effects. While we were so ent' rtained-
with the vast and various thoughts and
feelings and images of horror that troop
. ed thronging through my brain and heart
!. thrilling me with chilliness from scalp to
70 soles, there was always mingled one sad
and dreadful picture-the children of one
!, loving mother, hale and well, though not
y, happy, with the bloom yet in her fail
y cheek. the love-light in her calm eyes, q
n gray hair only here and there silvering
- with single thread her radiant locks
;. God bless the mother that bore us!-the
% daughters born of such mother, cir
cling in conclave, over plan Of mat
n ricide, and 'the parting of her raiment
among them" And yet in all this min
!. gled tide of sudden and new emotions,
Is while he so calml y spoke, there came to
n me no flush ofanger: NJ choking or burst.
" ing indignation; no throb for instant ven.
> geance. A deep and bitter grief-a most
; meltingpity and sadness filled me-until
4 | thought | could weep, weep tears o.
>. blood to see such treason in such men.
- By the way see several blue cockades
) on hats and lappets around me. Are
!. they emblems of the present Lone Sta
xperiment-present while that high ant
bright banner of stars and stripes, gail,
rpples out to the admiring eyes of mel
in and angels, or defantly flaps its broat
stripes in the face of every one. "Ou
ut flag is still there!" pointing to the broac
ke banner over the Menger Hotel, amiC
greatest cheering and enthusiasm. Blu
a your Lone Star-where is it? We wei
:" know it's place in history. 1t was ono
OH an emblem of truth, courage, fidelity
nv honor, not treason. But in nature ther
are no lone stars; the cluster and constel
ed late The ignis .fasuus (the jack-o'-lon
mt tern only floats over fens and fats, pale
let sickly, feeble, Pickering, delusive shar
of real stars. The historic Lone Star c
of Texas paused not in her dark solitude, br
H. yielding to the life.like, divine impuls
within her. toward the Great Centrs
w. Luminary-our Constitution-she darte
we upward with the speed of a comet an
r. the power and brightness of the imperil
to Jupiter, to unite with that-our conste
. lation--no more lone star, but one {
a the celestial flock, smoothly and sublime
lie ly wheeling and rolling her bright orb i
lis her proper sphere of use and Of glory; an
there she floats in yonder sky! Let il
,s- descend, however, from these heavenl
nd flights to borrow some earthly lessor
MS from her Independent career. will NJ
tie describe it at length. To be brief
was very full of "honor" but dreadful
re- poor. Utter insolvency was the pri
ice she paid for solitary grandeur; and if 81
ess had been left a lone A voice in the crow
his "She would have died from starvation.
Starvation. my dear fellow-her carca
IN, would have been so poor and thin tn
,re these Mexican buzzards would ha
tie scorned the pickings! Let us hear !
ore more, then, of these lone stars and BIT
his cockadcs; and as to blue cockades-a
in they of this age any better or less treaso
in able than were the black cockades of {
ap- Yankee treason in the last generation?
he pause far reply.
if The "extremes" in sectional passio
ire, and preudices in the one section see, het
len publish and remember only the disagree
able, unkind and criminal conduct
their correspondent party in the otf
0r eaot;on Time do tho Aholitionists