Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-07-19
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Flag Presentation

At meeting in Berkshire, Saturday, June
29th, of the recently organized Company Of
Home Guards, commanded by Captain Jay
Dyer, the ladies of Berkshire presented the
Company with beautifal regulation flag, ac-
6ompanied with very appropriate address
by Miss NJ. Crawford, and responded to by
Captain Dyer After the addresses nine rous-
ing cheers were given for the Speakers, the
Flag and the tnioH, followed BY the singlag
Of eur National Hymn, the Star Spang gled
Banner.
ADDRESS OF MISS N. CRAWFORD:
Captain Dyer and Company
Bit few tears
have ruug their changes in the race of time
since was presented, in this place, to the Berk-
shire Military Company our Star Spangled
Banner" and as it was unfurled to the breeze,
waved proudly and confidently in It's native
beauty; the acknowledged flag Of the United
States, honored from ocean to ocean, and
from the lakes to the gulf
But, said the well-informed presentress at
that time, after congratuldtins tkeri upon our
prosperity and free institutions, "Still we see
a cloud in the herizon, the size Of man s
hand; which may become mighty tempest ~
The fhlhlmeht of her prophecy brings you this
day an organized band together.
Congerial elements have been added to that
cloud; broader, darker, fercer and more mena-
cling has it grown, until it has become a
mighty tempest, bursting eer the fair fields OF
The South, breaking the bonds of Union, defy
ing the National and Constitutional laws,
crimsoning the earth with the choice hearts
blood oil our Northern sens and Brothers,
trampling in the dust this. our sacred emblem,
the banner Of the free, whose first fair folds
were woven by the pure hands of our death
sleeping revolutionary mothers, patterned
from the stars Of Heaven, the hues Of earth
and sea first flung to the free air by the hands
Of Washington; then baptized in blood by the
martyrs to their country's freedom. And for
the Gark waves of adversely which the South.
ern tyrants are flooding round US, the North
rises with determination as one mighty heart,
feeling that
columbia will still continue glorious
While God watches over u.s.
Conscious that many battles shall not pre-
vsil against as.
Not alone do We consider you in this var
pator, though she go not upon the field, and
though blood and carnage causes the great
hammer Of fsorrow to fall upon her heart strings,
yet she silently, and without murmur, crush
es the binding teers back, forgets to be the
tRiniug vine, and gives courage to the dear
and loved ones, which she robes and sends
forth to battle. For is not your Country her
country, and your President her President?
In view then, Of the promptness with
which you have enrolled yourselves, ready to
meet, when necessary, your country's call, the
Indies and levers of their country, desire to
present You with our National Emblem as ar
acknowledgement Of their appreciation of -gour
patriotism, In their behalf, HoH present it,
Captain Dyer, TO your company; feeling that
we can safely entFrst it to yOui knoEirg that
within your he; Fts burns the same uraying
love of liberty and country that glowed and
burned in the hearts of those few venerable
fathers who gathered together on the 4th of
July, 1776. with pure hearts and strong faith
listened to the reading Of the Declaration OF
Independence, and firmly as stepped forward
j John Hancock, and enrolled his name in un-
mistasabe characters TO that precious birth
right Of ours; you would, each Of gou, rally
and strive to protect your flag from the usur-
pers. Take it then, and if the hour of conflict
come, with undying trust in God
| Bear bear it tfH the glorious birds aligit
On eArrse faiF rclus, die you y the ight;
Fear not that you will siunber shefc alonej - 49,
Arc they whose chaInesS souls have hoTTn?'