The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-09-26

ed and blasted as leprous and loath-
some thing. Loud applause. And
wherever, you meet these men--be it
upon Change ort,in social circle-and
they offer you their hand, look well to
them, for if you have the eyes which /
have, you will see that they are red
with the blood of freemen, your kind
red and friends it may be who have
perished, and are perishipg still upon
the battle field. IGreat sensation. |
Turn away from them with disgust and
indignation. Loud cheers. ~ '''''''
1 Fellow citizens, / know that there
are some men--few, it is true-who do
sincerely believe that this Republic (the
question of public honor ont of view)
could be severed, that a peace could be
fpatched up, and that the two Govern
] ments, thereafter, could live on, pros
perously and PEACEFUL as before, No
more false or fatal thought ever crept,
serpent-like, into the American bosom.
HCheers and cries Of "Good, good"
You might as well tell me that the boat
which has been turned adrift above the
cataracts of Niagara, viii! have tran
quill voyage. Laughter and cheers
If you will go stand, as many of US
have done, amid the ruins Of the crum-
bled empires of the Old world, and ask
themo they will all tell you thatit is a
delusion. If you, will go into the cem-
etaries of nations, and lay your ear to
the sepulchures of those young, gener-
Gus, and high spirited nations which
have perished amid the couvulsions of
civil strife, they will not fail to tell you,
in broken accents, that it is delusion.
But if you will not listen to the voice
of the past, then go into Mexico and
Central America, and ask the inhabi-
tants of those bright lands, who breathe
it's balmy air and cultivate its soil of ex-
haustless fertility, living amid rivers,
lakes and mountains of the utmost
grandeur, and they, lifting up their
bowed heads, amid decentralization,
poverty and dishonor, will tell you that
it is delusion. [Great applause.] Eel
low citizens, l rejoice to belieye-may
not say, to knoac-that the spirit of
loyalty, at this time,' dwells richly and
abundantly in the popular heart of the
North and West. But beseech you
who have deep stake in the present
and future of our country-you men of
culture, and fortune, and of moral pow
er-I deplore that you will, by all
means possible, add yet to the power
and to the fervor of that loyalty.
I[Cheers.l sti ...L.a 800 .a tsI 81.
! If that grows cold amid the calcula-
tions of averice, or craven under the
discouragement of defeat, our country
will be overcome. What we now
need is patriotism that will abide the
purged from all selfshness and from all
lfear-which is heroic and exhaustless
which VOWS with every throb of life
that if repulsed we will not be stricken
down but will rise again, and under no
circumstances of sorrow or defeat shall
the national flag be abandoned, or the
honor of the country compromised.
! Prolonged cheers.E What we need is
a patriotism which rises fully to the
comprehension of the actual and awful
peril in which our institutions are
placed, and which is eager to devote
every power of body and mind, and
4 fortune, to their deliverance-[ cheers
i "a patriotism which, obliterating, l
say, all party lines-[ Enthusiastic ap-
plause which obliterating, / say, all
party lines, and entombing all party
issues, says to, the President of the
i United States, Here are our lives,
here are our estates-use them freely,
use them boldly, but use them success
| fully-for, look upon the e'graves of our
Fathers and, npons the cradles of our
j Children. we have sworn to do all things
I-even to perish, but this country and
Government shall live" prolonged
and loud cheers. ? 1t is such patriot
ism as this, and such only,iithat will
conduct you to- victory . and j rejoice
to believe that that, spirit has been
everywhere quickened throughout the
loyal States" The capitalists of our
country have come nobly forward.
,lI Cries of 3" hear," i" hear,"i and ap-
J plause. Risking all, they haveexhib-
tied a grandeur of devotion to the eoun.
f try which, whileit astonishes the people
of Europe, has inspired the admiration
and gratitude of every true American
: heart. All honor to them They have
proved that if there is much. gold in
Wall street there is more patriotism
) there. Renewed applanse.1 Not q
2 summer patriotism, which lf1ourishes
amid the p@ans of vietory-but pat
lriotism which struggles, and sacrifices
Z and suffers, and is prepared to put al
(, things at hazard, even in the hour of ad
yersity and national defeat. Cheers.
: Unless the people can thus be united
the sun of our, national life,. which i.
!, tnow obscured, may yet go. down for
ever, amid storms and darkness. i
a TALL our great material interests are
: ylcrushed to the earth by the shadow
passing over the sun, what would b,
: our condition if that shadow should
a deepen into night of permanent de
9 feat? Is there nothing to live for bu
+ the gains Of commerce.? Nothing bu
: the increasing of our gains and the EN-
!, bellishment of our homes? Are cour
age, and manhood, and honor, ant
n loyalty, and national fame, and the re