Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-01-11

8 Firs-nating Eloqusnos. aaD
A Charleston (Mo.) correspondent Of III,
!; !; Missouri Democrat, writing under date .
" Dec. 18th, says: eq dt
Ogilvie Byron Young, dubbed BY the New
York Herald, The chain lightning sensatior
orator Of the West, held forth here last nirlt
in six.hour philippe Of the highest frenzy
lie far transcends Wise, Kcitt, Rhett 4 CO. IN
blood and thunder eloquencc. The subioine;I
threat to the incoming administration. is :
part Of the peroration Of this sublimsttsI
madman's insane rawlings. Assuming highly
dramatic attitude, he said it
1t is well for him CLincoln) that there Il Z
popular movement il, the South opposed "a
his ascension to the chair Of State. Il viii
save his head. For rest assured, my country.
men, that Il the South shall prove herself 40
demoralizcd and degenerate, so lost to honor
and to shame, as not to resist to the rery death
this crowning outrage upon her honor and
her rights, more than one American Brutus
would emerge from the moral dcgcncracy al
the times ana the efieminacy Of the age, to
wipe out the foul stains Of his country's pol.
luton, and wrcst her proud escutcheon at
the dagger's point, from the yandal erssn ~
the servile despot. More than one Mufins
ScGvola would enter the dcsccrated tcmnIe
OF liberty and strike the vile miscrcant dend.
dead, dedd, in his tracks at the ycrv altar n
needs be- limo other arm could be found
to consecratc itself by the "high deed "-fAs
drna-ntrer raised against mortal man "snrA
IN se!f defence this arm--whte with ipro-
cence and unstained with the ".fra blusA"
oi CRIME, would leap to the high rssolrs. and
plunge the brdrs dagger to the innernost d,n,A,
Of TIE craren heart of the pcriurcd knaye =
Having done this, should feel that had
committed no crime. should deem that +
deserved well of my country and all mankind.
For shall have saved from dishonor that
glorious - Old Arm Chair" over which the
raven wing Of Black Republicanism has never
lowered, and in which guilty shame has never
sat-that chair, consecratcd by the virtues Of
Washington; immortalized by the intellect
OF jefferson, and illustrated BY the yalor
and heroism of jackson. Having saved
my country from this deep and dau ming dis.
grace, il perchancc might escape the halter
OF the bullet Of the lurking foe, l would live
on IN the calm serenity Of conscience coid
q cVence, assured that had acted well INV
part IN the great drama Of life. But If +
should iall.-if the scafFold or the dungeon
should betide me, | would die in the full as
surance that postcrity would vindicatc the
integrity Of my motives, and rescue INV name
through all time from oblivion. No INV.
countrymen, would never die.
lie dies not, who falls In great causc
The block may drink his gore; head NAV Sudden IN IN. ~,
Ills limbs be strung to city walls and castle Yates
But still his glorious spirit will walk abroad.
Long years may eapse and others sa, as DARK aoo
They bu. augment the all Increasing thought hus over
And conducts The tn 'ns woriS !. ,os, - ,..., sra
What were We had not Brutus lived. lie died In giving
| Vet t,.ft, 1
name which .iaii - honor aEd Ieuon.- asm1
Which shall multiply itself throughout ali time
lie and his high friend wers called s,ass turn: ~ .ery
wond be called the hrst Of Americans 4 2 --'".f4
Descended of Roman sires. - rsfss.
Caesar had his Brutus Charles the Scc.
ond his Cromwell" and Abraham Lincoln
will have his assassin whenever he attcmnfs
to stain with his foul touch the con secrnted
Chair Events will have eliminated. and the
Southern storm will have gathered such force
and violence before the 4th of March. that
Mr.. Lincoln and his friends will see the utter
madness OF attempting such an insane act as
an Inauguration in the city of Washington.
The entire South will be drawn off in deadly
array, and ne will be confronted on the banks
of the Susquehannah.
But the Union shrieker, and the hating
patriot, and the miserable submissionist are
l 'on"b Uiw"u ~ aH uMcaDIe adjustment
Of the existing difficulty. Vain hope De-
lusivc dream!
| You lean on . reed that soon win part
And send Its shivers TO your heart" S
The hour is at hand It is now proper "a
break the enamel, and throw Off all tlisonisc
tell you, citizens Of Charleston, what told
you Immediately after the nomination, that
no compromise wiU be accepted by tie South.
She has already been drenched, drvgged, sur
teited and poisoned with compromises. They
have ever been "frand and cheat !" upoi,
her honor and her purse. Besides this the
quarrel is rsfdt IL reaches far over society
Government and morals Compromises can.
not reach it. All the troubles that "lower
upon our House !" are the fruitful offsprinr
Of compromises. The South hates and she
will spurn them. - %
We haze not toiled and morlsd and laJor.d
up TO this golden moment, for tmeIre Iona vears.
amid the tannts and jeers and curses Of truck
ling su6missionists at home, ami 1ya0oart nb
0litionists abroad, to end 10 scitA co,apyo1eise.
We did not conaansncs the good rork for this
zee had other and letter ends IN visw. WE
HAVE BROUGHT THE EVENT TO ITS BETH. AND
1T MUST AND WILL BRING FORTH AsUXDANr
FRUIT; THE HARVEST Is NOW Ar HAND AND THE
REAPERs ARE READY. THE disease 10 incuya.
Oee, dWA TeYutfeS u Stef7cT TeDaR1N than 1A1f.
liatires. The sharp knife Of the surgeon nsust
BE- applied Nothing else miN 10. I'M
4 The oninaOsity Is irreeonciIa5le, and the
conflict irrspressiJle and dsspiss all your st.
forte to tie contrary. Tho shyiely and te.rs
Of Union Savers; the curses and prayers Of
halting patriots, and the struggles and death
throcs Of effetc and dying parties, must, and
will, eventuatein in the blood roar of revolution.
The Union is now dissolved--to.day South
Carolina went " full tilt" out Of debased
and dem0ralized Union. The sun OF the 18th
Of December, 1860, went down last-eve ON Q
cloven monarchy--it will rise, on to morrow,
upon the glttering peaks Of . glorious South.
crn confederacy, whose future stretches far
over Cuba, Mexico, and Central America
Yes, my countyymen, South Carolina--tlls
, young morning star Of American giory--hss,
to-day, bid farewell--a long far.weil, to On
ignominious Union, to seek elsewhere, by
her own strong arm and determined will, an
asylum from outrage violence, and wrongy--
She will not long DC alone in her glory. h.
fore another moon shall hang her crescent
! in the midnight heavens star after star viii