Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-06-18
Ex-mIEIsrER DALLAS.


public reception was given TO this dlstin-
guished Pennsylvania statesman, at his residence
In Philadelphia, on the 18th inst. Mr.. DALLAS,
1t will be remembered, has just returned from a
five years residence at the Court of St. James
as American Minister. In neat little address
which he delivered on the occasion of the
reception" we find the following patriotic al
lnsion made to the condition Of the couutry;-
The noble aud beautiful symbol of our insti.
iuti0ns-the symbol cOnsecrated BY all thu blood
OF the Revolution, by all the heroism of 1912
and, better still, by the blessings Of all the free
and enlightened OF the world-the flag of The
Union hoated glistening in the sunshine, well
come presence IN every harbor and on every sea-
lApplause Let me remind you that the pre-
sent iilful effort to substitute another. compara.
lively unknown and local, for this worldwide
famous banner, is not the first that has been
made The reserved right TO nuify your law.
anu OF discretion to break up your Government
as a cobweb continuance of mere State partner
snip, perhaps meditated at Hartford in 1914.
was certainly and formally claimed by South
carolina in 1882. At that epoch there were
swuts IN deoate ) and no giant more formidable
" dangerous than the author Of this pubyersiye
doctrine. But, gentlemen, it was oyorruled as
perVerse and untenable. The calm Senators
from this good old Commonwealth who were
william wilkins, Of Pitisburg, and myself stead.
ny insisted upon hosting the Stars and
stripes" high above the " Palmetto" and |
presume would do 80 still, and the renowned
| citizen OF Tennessee, who had routed the iuya-
ders at New Orleans, dispelled, by the mere show
OF n " Force BHi' the delusiye Quxotism which
was brave and blind then as il is now. IAN
pause Nor am aware that this decision of
Congress has ever undergone revision aud reyer-
SAL IL stands on the records of the nation as n
great judgment upon u question utterly incapa.
bile Of farther calculation by the wit Of man :;
1t Is against notification, which you must be-
aware is but fragmcntary, subd.yided, or bit by
bit secession, both built upon the same false
keel; and it points. with an emphasis too
peremptory to be disrcgarjel, to the course of
duty which the official guardians of your Cunsu-
tuition, laws, and liberties, ara bound to pursue.
Let ~, then, be firmly linked, rs band OF
hroihera,' around this unchanged standard
For my humble self, born beneath it, having
imblbed from yenerated fathers inculcations
devoted attachment to its comprehensive i'm
port; lApplause having dearly loved to the
last brother who CALAMITY gave his life to its
support, and, dying in distant field of duty.
found 1t his noblest shroud; having spent nv
me contented aud happy, though poor and
inglorious, under its protection having been
honored fur beyond my deserts by my fellow.
citizens, aud especially by those to sustain whose
equality and rights l shrank from no personal
sacrifice, come back to you, gentlemen, filled.
u is true, with grief at the national calamity,
but unaltered In my determination to stand,
come veal or woe, poweress confess, but un-
altera6ly, by this flag of the American Union.
tue whole Union, and the Union forever.