Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-09-06
now A LOYAL FRESHMAN TALKs-A
nEmOnRATIC IlISHmAN.

mendous appause.1 My heart, my arm, my
life, is pledged to the national cause, and TO the
last il will be my highest pride, as conceive il
to be my holiest duty and obligation to share its
fortunes. Renewed cheering1 | care not to
what party the Chief Magistrate of the Repub-
lie has belonged. GHear hcar.1 care not up
on what plank or platform he may have been
elected The platform disappears before the
Constitution, under the injunction of the oath
he took on the steps of the Capitol, the day
of his Inauguration. [Hoar hear, and loud
cheers The party disappears in the presence
of the nation-[h hear, hearl and as the Chief
Magistrate, duly elected and duly sworn, is
bound to protect and administer the national
property for the benefit of the nation, 80 should
every citizen concur with him in loyal and pa
triotic action, describing the mean persuasiOns
and maxims of the local polticians-[h hear,
hear hear land substituting the national in
terests, the national efficiency the national hon
or, for the sclfshness, the huckstering or the
vengeance of party. Enthusiastic cheering.
To me, at all events, the potency of the Nation
al Government, the honor and glory of the Ma
tional Flag, arc of infinitely higher value than
the Regency at Albany, the Tammany Wigwam,
Mozart Hall or the Pewter Mug. Immense
cheering and roars of laughterl Nor shall out
cries on behalf of the liberty of the Press, or
the liberty or immunites of the citizen, restrain
me in the active allegiance | owe the nation and
its Executive now that the rights and authority
! OF DOth are leOpaIulSeu' near, near, neat,J-
] The integrity of the national domain, the po
tency of the National Government, the reputa-
tion of the national arms, the inviOlability of
| that tranquil system of election, without which
no popular Government can have legitimacy,
consistency and force-these considerations are
far dearer to me, and claim them to be of far
more vital consequence than the liberty to pro-
mulgate sedition or the liberty to conspre.--
! Immense applause.l Such liberties must sue
comb to the demands of the crisis, the public
safety, the discipline and efficacy of the Army,
and the attitude of the revolt THear, hear. !
! Within the range of the laws the courts the
proprieties and interests of the community let
them have full swing in the days of peace
Such days have their peculiar sanctties-more
than this, they have their recognized and fa-
vOred abuses of popular institutions and pre-
rogatives and the feryist or foulest sheet that
is scrbbled in the coal-hOle or the garret, as
well as the most faithless citizen among us, may
be permitted the one to scatter broadcast, and
the other to drop i'll crevices and corners, the
seeds of dsaffecton against the Government,
without the Commonwealth incurring any det-
riment Hear, hear hear. But in time of
war-above all in time of civil war-the SUI
premacy of the Government should be the sole
grand object loud cries of hear, hear,1 and to
this end martial law should be the higher law
tremendous cheers]-and the only one in un-
disputed force. Enthusiastic cries of "Here,
hear, hear" and cheering. Who speaks about
his right as passenger-abOut his bag of money,
his chest of books and clothes, the photographs
of his wife and children, his fine stock of bales
of merchandise when the steamship has met
with a collision, threatens to go down. must be
cleared of every embarrassment and dead weight
and all hands are summoned TO the rescue?-
, Hear, hear. You know it well. | assert il
without fear of contradiction from any quarter
and those who have had most latitude and i'm.
punity, were they frank and generous, would be
Al.
ment has suffered more from the patience, the
leniency, the magnanimity it has practised to-
wards its enemies, and those who are in SYM
pathy and league with them, than it has done
: from the courage, the science, the fierce energy
r of those who have taken the field againsti it, and
VIGOROUSLY shaken the banner of revolt and re.
pudiaton in its face. Cries of "hear," "hear,
and loud applause. The masked conspirator
of the North are infinitely more criminal anC
mischievous than the bold and armed recusant
of the South, Grenewed shouts of "hear" "hear," +"
and Democrat as l am enthusiastic cheers +
5 spurning the Republicanism of the Chicag
Convention as a spurious creed-Goutbursts O
applause having no sympathies whateve
, with the men in power other than those whcl
: : should subsist between the citizen and his gov
l ernment-[hear hear, hear, II would prompt,
t and cordially approve of the severest measure
, the President might adopt to paralize the treach
cry which, in this and other cities under vari
Q and is still at work, to undermine and over
: throw the Legitimate magstracy of the nation
Great applause Do | not speak in the nam
of the Irshmen of New YOrk-aud they ar
D counted by tens of thousands-when l speal
e these sentiments, and declare in favor of thes
= rigorous but imperative proceedings Enthus
astic shouts of "That you do" Were | me
with a negative, I should remind my country
! men that the English aristocracy-T Tterrifi
@ groans and yells which is the dominant clas
@ in England-to which the Navy, the Church
h the Army almost exclusively belong and whcl
= is in fact, the political opinion, the Parliamen
u the sceptre and the sword of England hea
= hear, II should remind my countrymen tina
s this aristocracy is arrayed against the Govern
: ment at Washington renewed cries Of hea
y hear and that as it was dead against tn
J. Revolution out of which arose the liberties an,
:. nationality of the United States so is it now i
j. hot favor of the revolution which sets at nOugh
v those liberties, and against that nationality di
rects .fratricidal blow. [Shouts and iminens
Il cheering A revolution that has the flatter
n and patronage of an aristocracy to which fo
@ generations Ireland has ascribed her socit
J. wretchedness and political disorders, and whic
has scoffed at and scandalized her before tn
J. world, can surely never have the heart and arr
l. ofany lrishman who has learned the history
l. the Stars and Stripes-(he hear, hear )-valr
, ed the blessings and protection they insure
" and who, in the Illustration of the schemes
. this incorrigible arstocracy, its chastisemel
l. and downfall, fOresees healththier and strong
D. life for England and the liberty of Ireland.-
&c Loud and reiterated cheering) Be it wit
= Irshmen, at all events, the lesson, the incentiN
le the anmating conviction the rallying battle-cl
Ot in this tempestuous time Every blow tn;
o. with the shout of "F6dc an boaidc"- ~ (enthusia
Q tic cheering )-clears the way for the Stars ar
Stripes, and plants that flag wherever it has
prescriptive right to float deals to this Englis
J. arstocracy deadly modification and dscou
Is agement depriving it of new allies and resou
- ces-(hear, and loud cheering )--and thus
s far avenges and liberates the island of which
Us has been the persecution, the crippng fetter Il
es recurring famine, the pervadng blight the s,
la cial cancer, and the rank source of the povert
: and ISLANDERS, in spite of which her childel
y. make their footing good and assert themselv
IS abroad. cloud and long continued cheering,
Which being so, let MS, who hail from Ireland
10 cloud cheers 1--WE, who have taken an oath
, loyalty, not to New York, not to Alabama, n
%, to Massachusetts, not to Florida, not to Kans
III not to any one insulated State, but to all t
ut States-( immense cheering THAT built up t
,i- powerful and resplendent Union which t
sword and counsels of Washington evoke
a., which the philosophy of jefferson approve
so which the headstrong honesty and herosim
al, Andrew Jockson preserved, which the great
he guments of Webster rendered still more sol
~ and which the loving patriotism of Henry Ola
u" whose precepts and examples still animate
cheering for Kentucky )-commend to the hei
of every true American-let us, at all ever
who hail from Ireland, stand to the last by
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