The Nevada journal., 1861-08-02
SPEECH OF GALUsHA A. GROW.

son, and delivered the following speech:
Gentlemen of the House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America =
Words of thanks for the honor conferred by
the vote Just announced would but feebly
express the hearts gratitude. While ap
preciating the distinguished mark of your
confidence, am not unmirdfnl of the Try
ing duties Incident to the position to which
Won have assigned me- Surrounded at all
times by grave responsibility, it is doubly
GO in this hopr of national disaster, when
every consideration of gratitude to the past
and obligation to the future gathers around
the present. Four score years ago, ffty-six
bold merchants, farmers, lawyers, and me-
thanics, the representatives Of a few feeble
colonies, scattered along the Atlantic sea-
board met in Convention TO found new
Empire based on the inalienable rights of
man. Seven years of bloody conflict ensued,
aud the Fourth of July, l776, is canonized
in the hearts of the great and good as the
jubilee Of oppressed nationalities, and in
the Gale ndar of heroic deeds it marks new
era in the history of the race.
Three-quarters of a century have passed
away, ard the few feeble colonists, hemmed
iu by the ocean in front, the wilderness and
the savage in the rear, have spanned whole
continent, with great empire Of Free States,
rearing throughout its vast wilderness the
temples of science and of civilization, on
the ruins of savage life. Happiness, seldom
If ever equaled has SURROUNDED the domes-
tic freside, and prosperity unsurpassed has
crowned the nationel energies, the liberties
IF the people been secured at heme and
abroad, while the national standard floated,
honorcj ard respected, in every commercial
mart of the wcri6 On the return of this
glorious Anniversary, afte. period but lit
tic exceeding the allotted lifetime of man,
the peo le's CONSERVATIVES are convened
IN The soGrcil cDamters of the Republic, to
De berate On fh3 means for preserving the
Gsseynmert arcer whose benign Influence
Ii ,se grand resp;ts Rave been achieved. A
Re sellion, the most causeless in the history
o the race, has developed a conspiracy of
-.anding to destroy the Constitution
.......aeu-oy- the wisdom of cur fathers, and
the Union cemented by their blood.
This conspiracy, nurtured for long years
in secret councils, first develops itself openly
Ia acts of spoliation and plunder of public
property, with the connlfance, or under the
,a,.;o, ,r ,roo-on aofI,roued in a II tba
high places of the Government, and at last
in armed rebellion for the overthrow of the
best Government ever devised by man.
Without an effort IN the mode prescribed in
the organic law for the redress of all griev-
ances, the malcontents appeal to the arbi-
rrament Of the sword insult the nation
honor, and trample upon its flag, inaugu-
rate revolution, which, if successful,
would end in establishing petty jarring
Confederacies, or anarchy upon the ruins
of the Republic, and the destruction of its
liberties.
The 18th of April; canonized in the first
6 ruggle for American nationality, has been
re-consecrated in martyr blood. Warren
has his counterpart in Ellsworth, and the
heroic deeds and patriotic sacrifices of the
struggle for the establishment of the Re
public are being reproduced upon the bat
tie field for it's maintenance. Every race
and tongue of men almost are represented
in the grand legion of the Union, their
standards proclaim in a language more i'm
pressiye than words that here indeed is the |
home of the emigrant and the asylum o
the exile, no matter where was his birth |
place or in what cline his infancy was cra-
died He devotes his life to the defense of
his adopted land, the Sindication of its |
honor and the protection of its flag, with |
the same zeal with which he would guard
his hearthstone and freside. All parties, |
sects and conditions of men, not corrupted |
nv the institutions of human bondage, for
getting bygone rancors or preiudices, blend
in one phalanx for the integrity of the
Union and the perpetuity of the Republic. |
Long years of peace in the pursuits of
sordid gain, instead of bunting the patri- |
otic devotion of loyal citizens, seems but to
have intensified its development when the
existence of the Government is assailed.-
The merchant the banker, and the trades
man, with an alacrity unparalleled, profer
their all at tie altar of their country, while
from the counter, the workshop and the
plow, brave hearts and stout arms, leaving |
their tasks unfinished, rush to the tented
field; the air vibrates with martial strains, |
and the earth shakes with armed men. In |
view of this grand demonstration for self |
preservation in the history of nationalities, |
desponiing patriotism may be assured that |
the foundations of our national greatness |
still stand strong, and the sentiment which |
beats to-day in every loyal heart will for
the future be realized. No flag alien to the !
sources of the Mississippi will ever float
permanently over its mouth till is waters
are crimsoned with human gore, and not
one foot of American soil can be wrenohed |
from the jurisdiction of the Constitution |
Of the United States, until it is baptized IN
fire and blood. IVociferous applause upon |
the floor and in the gallaries which lasted |