Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-09-27


upon his staff stalwart manhood, with
strong muscles in his arm-youih, ready to
bare his bosom in baitle-woman, with her
gentle and anxious face, pleading for her
country-maidens, trembling, fearing that
some great calamity awaits their happy
famiy-and little children, with their cum
ming, inquiring eyes, wishing to know why
this vast concourse, and why that old man
with white hairs talks SO earnestly on a sub
iect in which they intuitively feel danger,
but do not fully comprehend. All my
fair haired boy, IL is that this Government
may be saved to You that its blessings OF
liberty may not be wrested from you, but
that your little eyeballs may not be blasted.
nor scared, nor your hearts wrung with this
accursed destroyer, disunion that no evil
shall come to blast these fair aud fertile
fields. ! have the monster disunion. as the
infant Hercules had the serpent, by the
throat. Let it hiss on--let it struggle, with
its convoluted fodsl l have it, Let it
writhe in deathlike contortions, if it can.
from my grasp. grasp it in the name of
the people-in the name of liberty, and
hope, and LAWN the name of humanity !;
and will strangle it forever, before | re-
lease it. (Great cheering.) What are all
the miserable party ties of the day worth,
compared to such Government Parties
shoot up from the Government, Govern
ment does not shoot up from them. Party
platforms, party ties, and all that relates to
/ parties, are as the idle wind, unless you
have a government for them to stand upon.
And when your government stands fairly
and firmly, then it is that parties may take
their rise. and make their issues. And
they are useful--useful 10 watch each other
/ in free government-useful to purify the
| political atmosphere which they sometimes
pollute-useiul as part of the machinery
Of government founded on an independ-
ent Constitution. feel strong in the pride
of my position, not of myself. but as your
representative, and representative OF the
national sentiment. have stood 10 the
high places of the land, in senates and in
/ forums, with the great and honored of the
land-the Clays, the Websters, the Ben
tons, and the Calhouns,--and feel that
stand on higher ground to-day, as a free
! American citizen, vindicating the integrity
OF our government against traitors and their
rebellion, than ever before. tremendous
cheering, breaking forth into loud hurrahs.)
| Funky politicians and bastard Democrats
fear am going to my political funeral
/ WE'LL shall have, from present appearan-
ces, pretty handsome procession, and don't
want them for mourners. (Great laughter
and cheering, and cries of Good p) You
know perfectly well what have been my po-
| litical antecedents. 1t is not material for
the purposes of this question. | hold this
question to have nothing TO do with political
affairs one way or another. And know
o. no man-no abolitionist so ultra, nor
republican so hostile, no American SO big
oted, nor no democrat so detestably faith
less, but will go with him to perform this
great work, if he will go in good faith, as
would go TO perform any other work in-
volving the existence of my country. / lay
aside my politics ask you 10 lay aside
yours. | shall not go to you politically |
do not ask you to come to me, and any one
who will attempt to manufacture politics out
of this matter, or drag political parties into
it, is no patriots schemer, and little
better than those who assail the country
with arms. As to the administration, it
was not the administration of my choosing.
care nothing for that. Where it is right
| mean to sustain it; where it is strong, |
mean to aid it /; where it is not strong, |
| will help il to be stronger. And it is the
duty of every good citizen 10 stay up the
hands of the administration in order that il
may do its whole and its perfect work.
Suppose your village was on fire, your pub
/ lie edifices and your beautiful dwellings
were on fire or were threatened with flames,
and your fire department should come out
| endeavoring to arrest the confagration.
One says the engineer is not qualified; he
is unfit and inefficient, the department inca
pable, and he will let the village burn. Are
you madman Why, for Heavens sake,
| let us help them. Hand along the buckets /;
/ take hold there and work the engine raise
the ladder and mount TO the roof and try TO
arrest the destruction! But no; we hear
that Mr. Lincold and his administration are
not able to conduct the government success
| fully. For Heavens sake, then, let us take
right hold and help it-not attempt TO dis
courage it and put it down. And it is my
position that every friend of the admins
tration should help, and that every oppo-
/ nent OF tue duHllulstFdtlOH otiouiu utlp tucth
two fold-alI should take hold and perform
this great work, not as democrats, not as re-
publicans, not as Americans, not as abol-
tionists, nor anything else, except as Amer
| lean citizens, having destiny, country, a
/ heritage that concerns us all. But there is
an attempt to engraft political parties upon
this disturbance shame that it should be
so. Look around and see what govern
ment we have, see what these upturned fa-
ces display they tell that it is land of re-
finement, of industry, independence, and OF
religion. Look upon those happy homes,
those cultivated fields, upon those sunny
slopes look upon this silver lake, and
these streams that sleep along the valley
like molten silver. Whence came these
happy people; whence came these institu-
tions of learning, and of religion; whence
these spires that point up 10 heaven, telling
of the sentiments in which they were erect
ed? Why is it that every one is protected
4 in the rewards of his own industry? 1t is
because of good Government. And
when we look out upon it and see ii men,
aced shall we not exclaim:
ars this the land our fathers loved,
j The free-iam which they tohed T. win
Is this the soil on which they moved
4 Are these the graves they sluulhcr in
Are the whom are borne
/ The msntles which the dead have worn -
And if this is the land of our fsthers-if
we are wearing their mantles-in the name
of Heaven let us preserve what they have
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