Des Arc citizen., 1860-09-05
From the Chicago Herald.]
 Battle Summons for 1880.

The war note has sounded. The buge blast that has for three-quarters of a cen tury summoned the faithful to do battle for national faith and the rights of free- men, once more rings out it's clarion peal OCT all the broad land Over the land, the sea, the lakes, the mountains, the pralres, the broad rivers and broader plains 1t swells onward, from the old shores of the Atlantic to the St. Lawrence, to the Gulf, and to the golden shores of the Pa ciic! While from the rice fields of Geor- gia to Moosehead Lake, from the St. Johns to the Willamette, the veterans of a hundred battles give back the answering shout. The sons of the Puritan and Cav alier, the old States, the freemen of all countries and all religions join their voices to swell the thunder toned response!
 Democrats! hark to the million-voiced greeting of your compatriots, as 1t swells into an anthem of freedom!
 Listen to it-Old veterans It is the war cry that has so often summoned you to victory-it is the old battle slogan of Democracy!
 Listen to it-Old soldiers of the war of '12 It is the voice that nerved your hearts on the bloody fields of Lundy's Lane, Tppecanoe. and New Orleans when your enemies plotted treason at the Hart ford Convention, and burned "bue lights on the shores of New England!
 Listen to it-Sodiers of the Mexican war! It 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 Cherubus- co-while your enemies at home would have refused you supplies, and encour- aged your country's foes to "welcome you with "bloody hands to hospitable graves
 Listen to it-Friends of the common people" It is the cry that struck terror into the heart of the aris,ocrat, and wrung the rights of the masses and the sover- eighty of the States from the iron grasp of Federalism
 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 con centrated power of wealth and capital, and brought your battle-grmed and powder-stained flag untorn from the con- flct
 Listen to it-Men of capital! When the tide shall turn; and the masses whom you would hurl against the ranks of the Democracy shall have been pampered beyond your control-when Fourerism, Communism, Red Republicanism and mad fanaticism shall stare you iii the faee,upon American soil and at the American ballot box-when more than mortal fear and trembling shall come upon you-then, and not till then, wll that battle-cry of the "rehls of ALL" count like music in your ear, and breathe hope into-your pockets!
 Listen to it-Men of the Old World It was the cry by which the " Old Domln- ion" summoned the Democracy of the land to trampe down the "alien and sedi- ton aws," and give you homes and equal ity m the New World
 Listen to it-Children of the Fader- land IL is the same war note that rallied the invincible Democracy of the South to breast the storm of "Know Nottingham that had swept over every State in the North-had trodden the rights of the Ger man in the dust, and had stamped him as a serf in the land of his adoption
 Listen to it-Children of the Rhine And let your arms be palsied and your tongue blistered, ere you raise hand or voice to strike that gallant South now, when the same blow from which she shielded you is being aimed at her heart
 Listen to it-Revolutionists of lS4S' To that very baule-cry of Democracy you