Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-08-23

Listen to it--Revolutionists Of 1848!
To that very battle-cry of Democracy,
you owe the very right you now enjoy to
oppose it. To that voice you owe lib
erty which you could not win at home,
and which your misguided zeal and clos.
ct theories would tumble into ruins here!
Listen! and dare not, upon your honor as
men, pervert the Freedom won by the
blood of our sires, and shared by us with
You to the overthrow of the constitutional
faith pledged by our generous fathers!
Listen to it-Exiles of Erin! 1t is
voice that inspirited you, when you have
so often rushed through the tide Of bat
tie to repay, with your gallant blood, the
debt ofgratitude you owed the land of
Washington! 1t is the summons to that
same noble conflict, which you have
maintained for three quarters of century
with undying fidelity. upon the battle
field and at the polls!
Listen to it-Sons of the Gaul 1t is
the Pibroch that summons Highland and
Lowland to the path of patriotism and
duty. 1t is the appeal for justice, to a
race too proud to do wrong and too
sternly brave to suffer one. 1t is the
same battle call of the weak against the
strong that has for thousand years sum-
moned your loyal clansmen to the char
vest of DEATH"
Listen to it-"Children of the Prom
ise!" 1t is the proclamation of the in
volatility of the National Covenant"
Listen to it-Men of all Religions! 1t
is the voice that Disseminated you-
dragged you from an nnholy alliance with
the powers of earth, planted you on "the
faith of mankind" "wheie none dare emo
lest you or make you afraidp'
Listen to it-Humanity! 1t is the
"liiemarch your vanguard, as they move
forward, with high hearts; upon the bat
tie field Of liberty and progress!
Listen to it-"Sons of the Sires of '76!
1t is the reverberaton of that ever deep
ening music, which for thousand years,
has heralded the advance of Saxon liber-
ty and Constitutional rights even to its
elimination in the blood-stained triumphs
of our revolutionary fathers! 1t is the
voice of the people-the grand anthem
of your fatherland!
Listen to E--"Spirit Of the mighty
deadl" 1t is the exultant shout of your
undegenerate children, as they deploy on
the last great battlefield of the Constitu
ton, equality and the Union 1t is the
prolonged equality and the three genera
tions your children to maintain inviolate
the nationality and brotherhood, won by
your toll and blood, and to transmit the
banner without stripe torn or stai
lost; 1t is the voice ofthe present re-echo-
ing the heroism of the past!
Listen to it--Ghosts of departed isms
And answer that south with the "wail OF
the lost" as you sink deeper into that
oblivion, TO which the patriotism and
good sense of the American people have
consigned you!
Listen to it--Thou last and most hid,
eous of isms! 1t is the wall of the "Ban-
shee," that already means through the
rafters of thy doomed wigwam!
Listen to it-Once again, Democrats!
1t is the remembrance of past triumphs
and past glories The summons to new
struggles, and harbinger of new hopes!--
1t calls to arms, in an 'hour that tries
mems souls'-an hour when the very
safety of the Republic quivers at every
blow that is struck! Woe! to the recre-
ant, who answers not at the roll-call of
the Grand Army" of Saxon liberty!
CHILDREN OF THE lNvINCIBLE DEMoC-
RACY, TO ARMS!