The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-10-17
BATTLE SUMMONS FOR 1860.

The war note has sounded! The bu-
gle blast that has for three quarters of a
century summoned the faithful to do bat
tie for national faith, and the rights of free
dom, once more rings out its clarion peal
DER all this broad land! Over the land,
the sea, the lakes, the mountains, the prai-
ries, the broad rivers and broader plains,
il swells onward, from the old shores of
the Atlantic to the st. Lawrence, TO the
Gulf and to the golden shores of the Pa
cifcl While from the rico fields of
Georgia to Moosehead Lake, from the st.
Johns to the Williamet, the veterans Of an
hundred battles give back the answering
shout! The sons of the Puritan and the
cavalier, the old States and the new, the
North and the South, the freemen of all
countries and all religions join their voices
TO swell the thunder toned response!
Democratsl Hark TO the million voiced
greeting by your compatriots, as it swells
into an anthem of freedom n
Listen to it-old veterans! 1t is the
war cry that has so often summoned you
to victory, it is the old slogan of democ-
racy!a - C9 G
Listen TO it-old soldiers Of the war Of
1872! 1t is the voice that nerved your
hearts on the bloody fields of Lundy's
Lane, New Orleans and Tippecanoe-
when your enemies plotted treason at The
Hartford convention, and burned blue
lights on the shores of New England!
Listen to it-soldiers of the Mexican
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 Cheru-
busco-whie your enemies at home wo'd
have refused your supplies and encouraged
your country's foes TO "welcome you with
bloody hands to hospitable graves!"
Listen TO it-friends of the common
people! 1t is the cry that struck terror in-
to the heart of the aristocrat, and wrung
the rights of masses and the sovereignty
of the States from the grasp of Federal
isml
Listen to it--sons Of labor and honest
toll! Through forty years of conflict this
same battle cry nerved the hearts of the
Democracy, through victory and defeat,
to do battle for your rights against the
concentrated power of wealth and capital
and brought your battle grimmed and
powder stained banner untorn from the
conflict!
Listen to it-men Of capital! When
the tide shall turn, aud the masses whom
you would hurl against the ranks of the
Democracy shall have been pampered be
yond your control--when Fourierism
Communism, Red Republicanism, anC
mad fanaticism, shall stare you in the face
and upon American soil and at the Amer
lean ballot box; when more than morta
"fear and trembling" shall come upon yol
then and not till then, will that battl,
cry of the rights of all" sound like mu
sic in your ears, and breathe hope into
your pocketsl
Listen to it-men of the Old World
1t was the cry, by which the Old Domin
ion summoned the Democracy of the lanc
to trample down the alien and seditiol
laws" and give you homes and equalit,
in the New World.
Listen to it-children of the Fader
land 1t is the same war note that raj
lied the invincible Democracy of the SoutI
TO breast the storm of Know Nothing
ism, that had swept over every State i
the North-had trodden the rights of tn
German i'll the dust, and stamped hir
as n serf in the land of his adoption!
Listen-children of the Rhine An
let your arms be palsied and your tongue
blistered, ere you raise your hand or vOic
to strike the gallant South now, whe
the same blow by which she shielded yo
is being thrust at her heart.
Listen to it-revolutionists of 1888
. To that very battle cry of Demos
,, racy you owe the very right you now Ell
, JOY 10 oppose it. To that voice you ow
a liberty, which you could not win ,
| home, and which your misguided zeal an
: closet theories would tumble into ruin
d Listen! and dare not upon your honor {
men, pervert the freedom won by u