Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-08-17
Isattle Summons for Is6Ol

The following sturring appeal we copy from
the Chicago Times and Herald:
The war note has sounded The bugle
blast has for three-quarters of century sum
moned the faithful to do battle for national
faith and the rights for freedom, once more
rings out its clarion peal DER all this broad
land Over the land, the sea, che lakes, the
mountoins, the prairies, the broad rivers and
broader plains, it swels onward, from the old
shores of the Atlantic, to the ST. Lawrence to
the Gulf and to the golden shores of the Pa
cifc While from the rice fields of Georgia
to Moosehead Lake, from the St Johns TO the
Willamette, the veterans of an hundred bat
ties give back the answering shout The
sons of the Puritan and Cavalier, the old States
and the new, the North and the South, the
freemen of all countries and all religious Join
their voices to swell the thunder toned re
sponse
Democrats Hark to the million-voiced
greeting by our compatriots, as it swells into
an anthem of freedoml
Listen to it-0ld veteransl II is the war
cry that has so often summoned you to victory,
it is the old battle slogan of Democracy
Listen to it--0ld soldiers Oft war of lsl2l
1t is the voice that nerved your hearts on the
bloody fields of Lundy's Lane, Tippecanoe,
and New Orleans-when your enemies plot
ted 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 brist-
ling ramparts of Churubusco--while your en-
emes at home would have refused your sup
plies, and encouraged country's foes to "wel
come you with bloody hands to Hospitality
graves
Listen to it--Friends of the "common peo-
plep 1t is the cry that struck terror into the
heart of the aristocrat, and wrung the rights
of 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 neryed the hearts of the De
mocracy, through victory and defeat, to do
bsttle for your rights against the concentrated
power of wealth and capital and brought your
battle-grimed powder-stained banner untorn
from the conflict
Listen to it--Men of Capital When the
tide shall turn, and the masses whom yon would
hurl against the ranks of the Democracy shall
have been pampered beyond your control
publieanism and mad fanaticism shall stare
you in the face, upon American soil and at
the American ballot box when more than
mortal "fear and trembling" shall come upon
you--then, and perhaps not till then, will that
battle-cry Of ''the rights Of all" sound like
music in your ears, and breathe hope into
your pocketsl
Listen TO it--Men of the Old World Il
was the cry by which the sold Dominion
summoned the Democracy Of the land TO
trample down the fallen and sediton laws,
and give you homes and equality in the
New World
Listen to it--Children Of the Faderland |
II is the same war note that rallied the in
vineible Democracy of the South 10 breast
The storm OF nKnow Nothingsm,n that had
swept over every State in the North--had
trodden the rights Of the German in the dust.
and stamped him as a serf in the land Of his
adophoni
Listen--Children OF the Rhinei And let
your arms be palsied and your tongue blister
ed, ere You raise your hand or voice 10 strike
the gallant South now, when the same blow
from which she shielded you Is being at her
heartl
Listen to it-Revolutonists Of ls4sl To
that very hattle-cry Of Democracy, you owe
the very right you now enjoy to oppose X 70
that voice you owe liberty, which you could
not win at home, and which your misguided
zeal aud closet theories would tumble into ru-
ins herel Listenl and dare not, upon your
honor as men, peryert the Freedom Won by
the blood Of our sires and shared by us with
oou 10 the overthrow Of the constitutional
faith pledged by eur generous fathers
Listen to it--Exiies Of Erinl Il is the
voice that nspirited you, when yon have 50
often rushed through the tide Of battle 10 re-
pay, with your gallant blood the debt Of graf
itude you owed the land Of Washington II
is the summons TO that same noble conflict,
which you have maintained for three,quarters
Of a century with undying fidelity, upon the
battle field and at the polls
Listen 10 it--Sons Of the Gael lis the
Pibroch that summons Highland and Low
land TO the path Of patriotism and duty. Ills
the appeal for justice, to race too proud 70
do wrona and too alernly brave 10 suffer
one. II is the same Battle eail ol the weak
against the strong that has for d Thousand
years summoned your loyal nlansnen 10 the
'harvest Of death
Listen to Children Of the Pfomisele II
g the proclamation q the nyiolability ef the
National "Coyeaant