The Nevada journal., 1861-08-30
FOURTH OF JULY GRAFTON OF YAM
CEY'S LAW PARTNER.

CEY'S LAW PARTNER.
We find in the Palladium, published at
Richmond, Ind, an Grafton delivered at that
place by Mr.. Thanin, formerly Yancey's law
partner, who was driven out of Alabama for
being Union man. The oration is worth
publishing:
FELLow-CITIzENs AND CITIZEN SOLDIERS:
The Fourth of July, 1860, was as bright
and beautiful day as this, its anniversary.
On that occasion, a large but not so nume-
rous an assemblage met beneath the trees
which grow upon the soil of Alabama. The
sun rose upon them as brilliantly as he has
risen upon US to-day, and his beams fell as
warmly upon that grove as they do to-day
upon this.
had the honor of addressing our fellow
citizens of Alabama on that anniversary of
their and your independence. The flag
which waves over this scene was displayed
in that Southern grove, its stars undimnej,
its stripes un.attered, and its supremacy
uncontested. The people, then uninitiated
into the Secession plot, knew and agitated
no rebellious themes, and the occasion pas
sed off as a National holiday.
But single year has interviewed between
that scene and the present one, and what
mighty events have transpired within that
period! The swords of our coumtrymen
even now glitter upon the mountains their
blood has not yet dried up from our plains.
Hostile armies threaten each other in Vir-
ginia, and piracy. robbery, and perjury,
lowering like a storm cloud above our hori-
zon, launch their thunders at the very arch
ives of our National existence. And why ?
Fellow citizens, if alienation has sprung
up between different sections of our Union,
it is because to-day a band of traitors stand
upon the sacred soil of cur country, and
claim it as exclusively their ownl
| But, here, beneath these sheltering trees.
| behold noble band of patriots, marshaled
under yonder old flag, to crush the treason
OUT whilst from my heart of hearts leaps
|
ed ! Yes, though with it the friends of my
youth bite the dust; though blood claiming
consanguinity with my own life-tide, ensar-
guine the pavements of my native Charles
ton, or the plains of my adopted State tho
the leaden rain and iron hail of desperate
strife plow up the very play grounds of my
childhood in the name of heaven, repete
LET the Rebellion be crushed
For advocating a reconstruction of our
Union, was expelled from the land of mobs
but feel IS though l have not been driven
from home; for in this large assemblage, |
behold my countrymen around me, and can
once more express, IN my feeble way, my
undying devotion to our common country.
Happy am to see such thorough prepara-
ton for putting an end to treason, and for
restoring the supremacy Of outraged laws
and, believe it or not, in the simultaneous
discharge ofyour muskets, just now, heard
the knell of tyranny The echo of that
patriotic discharge will yet ring amid the
hills of Alabama, from weapons aimed by
the Union men of that State, who only need
arms and the protection of the Government
to escape from the most odious despotism
ever inflicted upon deceived people. Yes,
my friends, l left behind me old men and
young, who would gladly gather around the
Star Spangled Banner, and who were only
waiting until my plans were matured to fol-
low me to the ballot-box, or to the battle
field, if necessary, for the vindicaton OF
their sacred and inalienable rights.
This is not properly a war against the
South. No. my friends, you are bearing arms
in defense of the South you are preparing
to march upon the enemies of the South
men who, not satisfied with the most benef
cent government ever bequeathed to man,
are deSirous ito have member of the Royal
Family of England to rule over them :" men
who know Their only chance for success in
such design is to demoralize and fracture
the Republic of which they have ever been
unwilling though favored components, and
who, by system of deceptions and crimes,
have managed to precipitate this country
into a civil war, which is at once their OBJ
ject and their ambition.
Contrary to their anticipations, however,
this band of Catalines-as much more de-
PRAYED and corrupt than their Roman pro-
totype as the United States Government is
more noble and free than was his-found a
unanimity and loyalty in the masses of the
North calculated to strike awe into their
blackened hearts, and to check then wild
intentions relative to the City of Washing
ton They are now learning the, to them,
terrible truth, that the spirit of America s
Heroic Age still glows in the 5osoms of her
loyal inhabitants, that the same Goddess of
Liberty who unsbeathed the sword of War
rem, has kept it sharp for the hand of Frc-
mont; that the same Goddess of Victory
who crowned the temples of our beloved
Washington, is preparing one of her choic-
est chaplets for the brow of that loyal old
virginian, Gen. Scott.
The Stars and Stripes must soon wave
over every State in the Cnion-cvery star
FlfV,ar., .,a1