Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1860-08-17

diers and heroes of our land, and proved
victorious on many battle field and the
high seas.
There hangs around it halo of glory which
enchants the eye and fills the heart of every
American with the deepest emotions of pride
and pleasure. When we think Of the gal
liant deeds of daring ami heroism of Wash
ington, and host Of revolutionary patriots;
Of Boston, Montreal, Trenton, Princeton,
Saratoga, Stony Point, Eutaw, Guilfo1d,
and Yorktown; when we think of the great
deeds Of jackson and his compatriots in the
war of 1872 !; of Scott, of Taylor, and the
brave soficers and men Of the sMexican
war; the brilliant achievements upon the
high seas and lakes by Decatur, Melon
ough, Perry, Stewart, and others, we again
turn aud look with admiration and awe up
on the stars and stripes, which aoated proud
ly and defantly in those terrible conflicts.
We take the flag Of our country into our
hands, as custodians. IN part of the ma
| tional honor and fame, oppressed with a
sense Of the responsibility. We will bear
it aoft with firm grasp and steady hand,
never allowing it to trail in the dust. Ii,
unfortunately, troublesome times shall come
upon our country, it shall prove shelter
to the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters
Of our land. It shall be unfurled in no
cause but that Of our country, the Consti-
sutton and the laws.
It is not only the flag Of our country, out
Of our Union. Every trace upon it is re-
plete with meaning. There is the Ameri-
can eagle soaring aloft, fit emblem of en-
/ lighted American sentiment and feeling ;
there are the stars and stripes, expressive
representations of our glorious confederacy
Of State Sovereignties and there is in terms
that which has already been fully repre-
scented -'sE pluribus unatne." On the other
side is the emblem of State sovereignty, with
"Sic senaper tyranmis." BY this, Virginia
means that Constitutional liberty shall be
maintained. She was the first State to re-
comnend the Union. and, trust, she will
be the last to desert it. Her great Wash
ington presided over the Convention which
| framed the Constitution, and her profound
Madison, with others, secured it's adoption
| by the States.
I This Flag, this Union, this Constitution,
this mighty Republic, the very consumma-
ton of human greatness which oyershadows
all that has gone before it in ancient or mod
F ern times, is the result of the labors of the
purest, the wisest and greatest patriots and
statesmen, who have ever adorned, or bless
ed our race Shall we not preserve this nigh
| ty fabric from dislntegration and decay a.
round which cluster so many hallowed asso-
Citations, SO many sacred memories OF the
past?
The great Jackson said, ''.lhis Union
must and shall be preserved" And SO we
now, and here, coming together in close
communion, and in the presence of our ma
tional flag, with hearty concurrence say,
Amen Tit must and shall be preserved up
on the basis Of TIE Constitution as it was es-
t:blished by our fathers" Perish the hand
that would strike one ofthose stars from that
bright constellation. Palsied the arm that
would tear..down that glorious flag to run up
crimson one in its stead, calling to inter
necine war with all its horrors and the de-
struction of the fairest political hopes Of man.
Let no man presume to lay violent hands
upon the flag of his country to destroy the
constitution and set our whole political sys-
TEN into confusion worse COMPOUNDED than
that which prevails in unfortunate Mexico.
The constitution, like a proud ship, has
borne us safely along for seventy-onc years
receiving But slight scars which only show
its strength and power Of endurance. Will
we, if the gathering storm shall come, base
ly desert the gallant ship and betake US to
some miserable, rickcty yawl and be plung,,
ed in mid-ocean by the first dash of the wave?
Or, will we stand by her, mailing our colors
to TIE mast and brave the storm like gallant
tars ?
ssshell walk the waters like thing of life,
And seem to dare the elements to strite.'
esour country tits glorious land
With broad arms stretch from shore to shore,
The proud Pacific chafes her strand,
She hears the dark Atlantic roar;
And nurtur'd on her ample breast,
How many goody prospect lies
In natures widest grandeur dress'd,
Enammeied with the loveliest dyes.'
sGreat God we thank thee for this home
This bounteous birthland of the fee
Where wanderers from afar may come
A breathe the air of liberty!
Still may her flowers unttampled spring,
Fer harvests wave, her cities rise;
And yet, till time shall fold his wing,
Remain Earth's loveliest Para6ise!''
THE Two SHzhs-There is nearly always
something of NATURES own gentility in all
young women Except, indeed, when they
get together and fall giggling.) distances
US men to see how much sooner they are
polished into conventional shape than our
rough masculine angels. A vulgar boy re-
quires Heaven knows what assiduity to move
three steps, I do not say like gentlemen,
but like a boy with a soul in him; but give
the least advantage of society or tuition to
pleasant girl, and hundred to one but she
will glide into refinement before the boy can
make bow without upsetting the table. -
There is sentiment in all women; and that
gives delicacy to thought. and taste to man
ner; with men it is generally acquired an
offspring of the intellectual quality-not as
with the other sex, Of the moral. Buz,cer]
Luton.
The New York correspondent of the Ma
tional Intelligencer says:
s'The levy upon the office-holders in this
city has commenced. Every person em-
ployed in the Custom house has been asses
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