Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-08-23
Mlstellantous,
rom the Chicago Herald.
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
freedom, once more rings out its clarion
peal Ger all this broad land! Over the
land, the sea, the lakes, the mountains,
tho prairies, the broad rivers and the
broader plains, it swels onward, from the
old shores of the Atlantic, to the St. Law
renee, to the Cult, and to the golden
shores of the Pacific! While from the
ricefelds Of Georgia to Moosehead Lake,
from the st. Johns to the Willamette,
the veterans OF an hundred battles give
back the answering shout The sons of
the Puritan and Cavalier, the old States
and the new, the North and the South,
the treemen Of all countries and all relig-
ions JON their voices to swell the thun-
der-toned response!
Democra Hark to the million
voiced greeting by your compatliots, as
it swells into an anthem OF freedom.
Listen to it-Old veterans 1t 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
1872! 1t is the voice that nerved your
hearts on the bloody field of Lundy's
Lane, Tippecanoe, and New Orleans
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 be-
fore the bristling ramparts Of Cherubusco
while your enemies at home would
refused your supplies and encouraged our
country's foes to "welcome you with
bloody hands to hospitable graves!'
Listen to it-Friends of the common
peoples" 1t is the cry that struck terror
into the heart of the aristocrat, and
wrung the rights ofthe masses and the SOW
ereignty OF the States from the iron grasp
of Federalism!
Listen to it--Sons of labor and of hon
est toll! Through forty years of conflict
this same battle-cry nerved the hearts of
the Democracy, through victory and de-
feat, to do battle for your rights against
the concentrated power of wealth and cap
ital and brought your battle-grimed and
powder stained banner untorn from the
conflict!
Listen to it--Mon of Capital! When
the tide shall turn, and the masses whom
you would hurl against the ranks of the
Democracy shall have been pompered be-
yond your control--when Foulierism,
Communism, Red Republicanism. and
mad tanaticism 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, perhaps and not till then
will that battle-cry of "the rights OF all''
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 Do
minion" summoned the Democracy o
the land to trample down the "alien ant
sedition laws" and give you homes anC
equality 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 tn,
South to breast the storm of "Knov
NothingiSm," that had swept over every
State in the North-had trodden tn,
rights of the German in the dust, anC
stamped him as serf in the land of hi
adoption!
Listen to it--Children of the Rhine
And let your arms be palsied and you
tongue blistered, ere you raise your han(
or voice to strike the gallant South now
when the same blow from which sh'
shielded you is being aimed at her heart