The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-09-12
McRRIssANIA, August 90, 1861.
Amolher Noble speech from the Kentucky
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Boston, August 30, 1861.
The citizens of Boston gave expression, OF
Tuesday evening, to the sentiments Of high re
spect which they entertained for the Hon. 30
seph Holt, individually, and as Z son 0f'the no
Die State ofKentucky, by a very enthusiastic
demonstration in front Of the fremont House
MI Holt descended the steps about % O'Clock
with the Committee of Arrangements, aud his
appearance was the signal for enthusiastic APP
piause. The Hon. Edward Everett then wei
coined Mr.. Holt to Boston.
At the conclusion of Mr. Everetts remarks
cheers were given for Mr.. Holt and the State
of Kentucky, with great enthusiasm. After the
band had performed patriotic air, Mr.. Holt
! stepped forward and was received with warm
| applause. II SAID
SPEECH OF MR.. HOLT.
Fellow CITIZENS: l came to Boston as
| do many American travellers, not merely to look
upon the city, beautiful in itself-upon its mon
uments aud upon these magnificent landscapes
| in which, as a jewel, it is set-bnt also to re-
vive if haply | might the glow of my patriot
ism amid the thrilling associations that cluster
around this cradle of the Revolution. (Cheers,
and cries of Good y Here are gardens of mem
DRY which can never lose their fragrance; here
are affairs whose fires, though kIndled in behalf
of human rights nearly century ago, have
waxed only Brighter for the years through
| which they have burned. No true son of the
Republic can press the soil of Bunker Hill with
| out having his venetation for your great ances-
tors deepened and exalted, and without feeling
/ his VOWS of devotion to his country strengthen
ed and renewed (Cheers.)
| am thankful for that most earnest, that most
eloquent, that most flatrering recognition which
i'll your name has been given, OF my fidelity TO
our common country, under circumstances OF
peril and OF trial. Most grateful, too am for
thai friendly. that kindly allusion to my native
State, Kentucky CHEERS for Kentucky whose
star, so long obscured by the baDeful influence
of unfaithful men, is now preparing TO shine
forth with the strength and ustre of other days,
! applause, and cries of Good, Good.
Kentucky has assumed her present position
under no prompting of passion, but calmly and
deliberately, aud after careful review of the
whole field of controversy, and in view of the
| gloom and pers that encompass the Union she
now avows she loves it still and will cling to it
amid its sorrows, as she chung to it in the days
of its strength and glory. Cheers That
which she has so nobly declared from the ballot
box, it is now her manifest duty to make good
upon the battle field, Immense Applause) and
that duty, already begun, will, | believe, be
faithfully performed upon the meeting OF the
Legislature, which takes place but few days
hence Full, full will be the measure of my Joy,
when behold the patriot soldiers of MaSsachu-
sets and the patriot soldiers of Kentucky meet
ing on the same fields Of danger, and with the
grasp of their fraternal hands, rebuking those
traitorous men who, through long years, have
strIven to make them enemies and aliens to each
other
Fellow citizens, am somewhat gratifed to
say that during the somewhat extended tour
that | have just made, | have no%here found
the public voice faint, he public purpose fall
] q prosecution
| Of the war, ulitl the Stars and Stripes shall
! feat on every flagstaff from which it has been
torn (ApplauseJ Nowhere have herad the
word COMPROMISING Cheers and Cries of
Good IA word which can now only be spoken
by dislnyat lips or by those speakingopenly and
directly IN iii the crest softhe Rebellion. Cheers
and a voice That's the kind OF talk so long
as the rebels have arms in their hands, there is
nothing TO compromise; [Cheers nothing but
the honor 0. the country aud the integrity OF the
Government and who, but he who is ready to
fiji n coward grave, is prepared for submission
to such humiliation as this
Fellow Citizens Il cannot be dsg Osed that
al this moment we stand confronted ~ great
national caiamities Eleven membera 81 our
| Union are III open and thus far, successful re.
volt and an army, il may be OF one hundred
| thousand men, breathing vengeance and siaugh-
| ter, is lowering upon our lines and menacng
|
peril, no valiant res Dives, 10 brilliant decama-
zion, no fervid propha -ylngs can possibly deliv-
! err us Nothing but the sword, welded by skill,
| ful and heroic hand-, can now save the
country from from the last catastrophe that
can beal a free people. The enemy has been
tested, aud we can no longer underrate either
his power his reckessness in battle.
Let no man cherish the belief that stree this
eoellIon is the cause Of crime that therefore it
l., Jors info nod haa
! recorded, for our instruction and our admiration
that Catalina aud his cC-conspiTators fell with
their faces to the enemy, and 50, probably
will fall the rebel leaders OF the South. The
more earnest, the more prompt, the more
united the efforts that are made, the brefer
will be the struggle. All delay, all seeming hes
itancy, all discussion, while strengthening the
rebellion itself, is fraught with incalculable
danger and mischief to ourselves.
IT. however, from any cause, this contest is
to be prolonged, We must not seek to conceal
from ourselves it's possible consequences but
even now in advance, we should braveiy and
calmly look the worst of them in the face Your
ships may have to furl their sails in many a
sea, and the grass may spring up III rnarts here
| tofore pressed by the busy feet Of commerce !;
widespread bankruptcy may possibly ensue,
and the wall of sorrow may go up, not only
| from stricken households and communities, but
also from Clues anu Otale5, over the brave anu
| true men VINO had laid down their lives upon
the altar of their country. But our institutions
are well worth all these sacrifices and all other
sacrifices which we may or can possibly make
for their preservation. All that we are and all
that we have are the fruits of these Institutions;
and all that we may generously devote to their
safety, in this hour of their extreme peril, if we
are successful, they will give back to us and
our children's children, increased hundred,
nay, thousand fold.
But even now, in the very shadow Of these
threatened disasters, even this night and this
hour we could have peace. We could have
peace by laying down our necks, our country
and our flag in the dust beneath the feet of re-
morseess traitors. Loud cries of Never, ''Nev-
er'1 But how can we do this, seeing that the
graves Of our fathers are yet with us, and that
Bunker Hill yet speaks to US with voices which
will not and cannot be stilled