Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-09-18
Stand by the Flag.

Amherst College was an eloquent tribute
to the Union, and pungent argument
IN favor of vigorous measures" against
the rebels. We make the following ex-
tracts:
"Can Union once discovered be re
constructed by the arrangement of all
parties concerned in its formation? No!
When it is destroyed it is destroyed for,
ever Let those who believe it can be,
first raise the dead, place the dimping
laugh of childhood upon the lips of age,
gatheru the petals of May flowers and
bind them upon their native stems in
1rimcval freshness amid the frosts of
December, bring back the wthered leaves
Of autumn and breathe into them their
early luxuriance, aud then bring together
again the scattered elements of dissev-
cred Union. when the generous spring
time Of our Republic has passed away,
aud selfsLness aud ambition have come
upon Us with their premature frosts and
winter Of discomfort"
Shall we then surrender to turbulence
snl faction ard rebellion, and give up
the Union with ali its elements of good,
all its holy memories, all It's halIowed as
sociations, and all its blood bought his
tory?
No! let the eagle change lis plume.
The leaf its hue, the flower its bloom,"
but do not give up the Union. Preserve
1t to flourish i'll immortal YOUTH until it
is dissolved amid the wreck and the crash
Of worlds. Let the patriot and states
man, stand by it to the last, whether as
sailed by foreign or domestic foes, and
it he perishes in tho conflict, let him fall
like Rienzi, the last of the Tribunes, up
on the same stand where he has preach
ed liberty and equality to his county
men.
Preserve it in the name of the Fathers
OF the acknowledgements it in the sa-
cred name of llberty-preserye 1t for Its
great element of good-preserye it for
The faithful and devoted lovers of the
constitution in the rebellious States
those who are prosecuted for its support,
and are dying in its defense. Rebellion
can lay down its arms TO Government
Government cannot surrender 10 rebel
Give up the Union! this fair and fer
tile plain to batten on that moor" Di-
vide the Atlantic, SO that its tide shall
beat in sections that some spurious Nep-
tune NAV rule an ocean of his own! Draw
line upon the suns disc, that it may
cast its beams upon the earth in divisions
Let the moon. like Bottom in the play,
show but half its face! Separate the con
stelation of the Pleiades and sunder the
bands of Orion, but retain the UNION.
Give up the Union with its glorious
flag, its stars and stripes, full of proud
and pleasing and honorable recolections,
for the spurious invention, with no ante
cedent but the history ofa violate Con
etitution and Of lawless ambition. No.
let us stand by the emblem of our faith
erS.
Flag Of the free hearts hspe and home
By angel hands TO valog given
Thy stars have 1T the w,lkin dome.
and al H.y hucs were bogn in heaven
Ask the Chris i'm to exchange the
cross with its cherished memories of Sa-
yiours love, for the crescent of the I'M
poster, or to address his PRAYERS to the
Juggcrnaut, instead Of the living God -
hut sustain the emblem your fathers low
cd and cherished.
Give up the Union? Never! The
Union shall endure, and its praises shall
lie heard, when It's friends and It's foes,
those who support and those who assail.
those who bare their bosoms in its de-
fence, and those who aim their dagrers
at its heart, shall all sleep in dust togeth-
er. Its name shall &c heard with veneer
alton amid tie roar of Pacifc's waves.
AWAY up the rivers Of the north and
est, where liberty is divided from mon
archy. and be waited in the gentle breezes
upon the Rio Grande. 1t shall rustic in
the harvest and wave in the standing
corn, on the extended prairie, of the west,
and be heard in the Heating folds and
lowing herds upon a thousand hills. 1t
shall be with those who delve in mines.
and shall hum ip the manufactures Of
New England and in the cotton gins of
the South. 1t shall be proclaimed by
the stars ard stripes in every sen Of earth,
rs the American Union, one and indivis-
bic upon the great thorough-fares
wherever steam drives and engines throb
and Shrek, IFS greatness und perpetuitv
shall lie hailed with gladness. 1t shall
he lisped in the earliest words, and ring
in the merry voices of childhood, and
swell 10 heaven upon the songs of maid
ems, if shall live in the stern resolve of
manhood, and rise to the mercy seat up-
on woman's gentle availing PRAYER. HOLY
men shall invoke its perpetuity at the al
ter of religion, and it shall be whispered
in the last accents of expiring age. Thus
shall survive and be perpetuated the
Amer can Union, and when it shall be
proclaimed that time shall be no more.
and tie curtain shall fall, and the good
shall be gathered to more perfect union,
still may the destiny of our dear land re-
alize the conception that
Perfumes as of Eden flowed sweetly along.
And voice as of angels enchantingly sung,
Columbia, Columbia, TO glory arise,
The Queen of world and the child of the skies.
re- Perish every party distinction,
watchword and organization, 5nt live
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