The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1860-10-25
Battle Summons for 1850.

tcrs OF q century summoned thu
faithful to do battle for nationa
faith and the rights of freedom
once more rings out its clarion pea
DER all this broad land! Over thu
land, the sea, the lakes, the noun
tains, the prairies, the broad rivers
and the broader plains, it swells on
ward, from the old shores of thu
p Atlantic, to the st. Lawrence, tC
the Cult, and to the golden shore.
of the Pacific! While from the
rice-felds of Georgia to Moose
head Lake, from the st. Johns tc
the Willamette, the veterans of al
hundred battles give back the an
swering shout! The sons of the
Puritan and Cavalier, the old State:
and the new, North and the South
the frecmcn of all countries and all
religions join their voices to swell
the thunder-toned response!
Democrats! Hark to the mil.
lion-voiced greeting by your com.
patriots, as it swells into an anthem
Of freedom. ......
Listen to it-Old veterans! 1t is
the war cry that has SO often sum.
moned you to victory, it is the old
battle slogan Of Democracy!
Listen to it-Old soldiers of the
war Of 1872! 1t is the voice that
ncrved your hearts on the bloody
field of Lundy's Lane, Tippccanoe.
and New Orleans-when your ell
emics plotted treason at the Hart
ford Convention. and burned "blue
lights" on the shores of New Eng
land
Listen to it-Soldicrs ofthe Mex
lean war! 1t is the same voice
that cheered you on to victory, on
the plains of Buena Vista, in the
gorges of Cerro Gordo, and before
the bristling ramparts of Chcrubus-
co-while your enemies at home
would have refused you supplies,
and encouraged our country's foes
to ".welcome you with bloody hands
to hospitable graves?"
Listen toit-Friends of the com
mon peoplep 1t is the cry that
struck terror into the hearts of the
aristoerat, and wrung the rights of
the masses and the sovereignty of
the States from the iron grasp of
Federalism!
Listen to it-Sons of labor and
of honest toll Through forty
years of conflict this same battle
cry nerved the hearts of the De-
mocracy, through victory and de-
feat, to do battle for your rights
against the concentrated power of
wealth and capital and bought your
battle grimed, and powder stained
banner untorn from the conflict!
Listen to it-Men of capital!-
When the tide shall turn, and the
masses whom you would hurl
against the ranks of the Democra-
cy shall have been pompered be-
yond your control-when Fourier
ism and Communionism, Red Re-
publicanism, and mad fanaticism
shall stare you in the face upon
American soil and at the American
ballot-box; when more than mort
al "fcar and trembling" shall come
upon you-thcn, perhaps and not
till then, will that battle cry of "the
rights of alp sound like music in
your ears and breathe hope into
your pockets!
Listen to it-Men of the Old
World! 1t was the cry, by which
the Old Dominion summoned the
Democracy of the land to trample
down the "alien and sedition laws"
and give you homes and equality
in the New World !! -....
Listen to it-Children of the
Faderland! 1t is the same war
note, that rallied the invincible De-
mocracy of the South to breast the
storm of "Know Nothingism," that
had swept over every State in the
North-had troden the rights of
the German in the dust, and stamp
cd him as a serf in the land of his
adoption! t~ q Il .a. .r..
Listen to it-Childrcn of the
Rhine! And let your arms be
palsied and your tongue blistered,
ere you raise your hand or voice to
tsrike the gallant South, now when
the same blow from which she
shielded you is being aimed, at her
heart!
Listen to it-Revolutionists of
184S! To that very battle cry of
Democracy, you owe the very right
you now enjoy to oppose it. 10
that vice you owe q liberty which
you could not win at home, and
which your misguided zeal and
closet theories would tumble into
ruins here! Listen !. and dare not,
upon your honor as men, prevent
the Freedom won by the. blood of
our sires, and shared by us with
you to the overthrow Of the consti-
tutional faith pledged by ourgener-
erous fathersG axYr6- aa.1oo, i
Tictan IA ~ Evi1ae of IT,; II