The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-05-22
Ike Shows his COlors.

There was glorous time at the school-
house on the occasion OF raising flag that
had been purchased with contributions by
the boys. II was on Saturday afternoon and
the teacher allowed them to have it all
their own way. The boys assembled in
the school house yard, and when the flag
was released they all commenced singing
Sour flag is iheren in a.manner that wax
ened patriotic echoes all around the neigh
borhooh. Sick people heard their cheerful
voices and smiled al the sound, old people
who remembered about 1912, heard them,
and blessed the patriotic hearts OF ine boys,
ard girlhood heard them and fel, proud of
these brave supporters OF the flag, and
many of them, We dare say, wished they
were boys that they might participate in.
rather than sympaihiZe with, the demon
slration. Such cheering time you never
heard, and there is nothing so rich and pure
as a boys voice. As soon as The cheering
/ had subsided, or was suppressed, for il was
very hard to hold the little fellows in now
ward 10 make a speech He mounted
! pile of lumber in the street and spoke as
] follows -
! BoYs-We are here 10 hoist our flag, aad
20 let people know on which side we are
/ We don't want any mistake about It for
though we are not big enough TO go 10 war,
we don't mean that any body shall call Us
rebels any how. II they do, we shall point
to our flag with lie stripes and STARS and
pitch in to sustain it. [Cheers and cries of
"That's so."1 We don't hoist this flag to
try 10 scare any body; we don't want TO
make men bow TO our flag il they don't
choose TO butif there are any secessionis,s
round here they had better look out for
their linchpins, and must keep their dogs
at home, or something might hurt 'em.-
[Cheers] Boys-lhere is Bunker Hill over
there where our grandfa,hers fiji, and this
isn't, but, though brag isn't thought much
of, let any traitors try 10 touch our flag, or
10 come up this hill with any hostile inten-
ton, aud we'll give 'em-Bunker Hill (We
will ~ "Let 'em come on ~ Boys-we
amt very big and can't do much against
the enemy abroad, 5nt we can worry 'em
dreadfully al home, if we find any. We
, can keep 'em awake nights, we can put
dead cats in their front yards, we can ring
i their door bells, we can throw mud on their
| windows, we can daub their paint, we can
send all the hand organs to play round their
] houses, we can tell folks they've got the
r small pox and make up faces at their bs-
] bies if they look out doors. CShouis and
1 cries of "Yes."l That glorious flag shall
( be our daily devotion. [Cheers Long
: may ii wave, and he who doesn't say amen
| TO this ought TO have his head bruised, as
= they are going 10 bruise the head OF the Iai-
S tlesnake down South, according to Scripture
D when the North puts Its foot down. ('Good. J
n "Flag of The free still bear Thy sway,
Udimmed through ages yet unborn,
And he who will not for thee pray
Had better have been done and gone.''
Like the old dragon in Revelations, the
snake is trying 10 swallow some of the stars
but they will 60 very hard against its s,om.
ach. The stars still shine, till all the rattle.
: snakes and pelicans arrayed againstit have
been killed and stuffed and nouldered away
thousands of years hence in some old muse
um. (Tumulluous cheers.) | have onl,
one word 10 say. (''Go on.") Stick TO the
flag like meu-show vour coors, never be
ashamed 10 sing Hail Columbia. and re
:, - member the saying of Or. Watts,
Give TO rebellion powder and ball,
United We stand, divided we fall"
He got down amid iumulluous applause
e but with great calmness he commenced
r eating his peanuts as though he hadn'
g said anything.
,t The Sentiment of the South.