The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-05-01
For the Grand Haven News.
Our Country.
LAMONT, April 20, 1851.

can subscribe to all contained in your ed
itorial in the issue of the 18th, entitled
sour Country-Our dutyp Yet one
sentiment meets my hearty, unqualified
approval, in common with thousands of
others whose suffrages assisted TO raise to
the Presidential chair, Honest Abe Of
the West" That sentiment is expressed
by you. a a1 lutf|
abraham Lincoln is constitutionally
the President of the United States. He
has sworn to support the Constitution.
Now let every democrat uphold him in en-
forcing the Constitution and Laws. The
Union must be preserved. 1t is the pal
ladium of our political safety and pros
perity." ,...'l b.. hrq sf
Amen respond to the sentiment.A
The Union must be preserved. Thou
sands upon thousands of hearts, to-day,
irrespective of party platforms, inspired
with the noblest patriotism, respond, the
Union must be preserved. ''l ''l ."'
While it is matter Of sincere, heart
felt regret, that the Gulf States, bound
to our common government by the strong
est ties, should seek by the shedding Of
parental blood,to discover themselves from
The Union, the foundation of which was
laid and cemented by the blood Of the il
lustrious patriotic fathers of those even
now loudest in denunciation of the Con-
stitution, under whose benign and foster
ing influence they have attained wealth,
eminence and even greatness; yet that
Constitution must be preserved, and the
Union defended, even thoughit require
the sacrifice of thousands of patriotic
hearts, now beating with strong and rap
id pulsations for their country's welfare,
and who now stand to bare their necks to
the sword, if the common good demand
the sacrifice. ''. '.''N % -...
Oh, what can be moro cheering, moro
encouraging, more soul-inspiring, TO one
who loves his country with true patriotic
devotion, and who properly prizes her
welfare, her prosperity, and the perpetui-
ty Of government, the purest and best
under the blue vault of heaven, than to
see party strife, chickering's, animosities
and even party platforms, swept away,
and all, with united heart and voice, in
their country's peril, rush to the rescue,
even though the enemy be neighbor, or
a brother, bound to us by wide expanding
and majestic rivers; long continued chains
of railroads; by trade and commerce,
highly conducive TO the wealth and pros
perity of each; by the reciprocate inter-
ests of the producer and manufacturer;
by the graneries of the North and the
tropical fruits of the South; by common
safety against foreign foe; by the kin
dred blood of thousand patriots on the
hundred battle fields of the Revolution ;
| by our National glory and ,renown abroad !;
| by the perpetuity and advancement Of our
popular institutions Of learning and relig-
ion, that constitute our great national bull
wark and defence at homo; by the thou
sand bright hopes that the zenith glory
of our nation may far eclipse that of an
cient Greece and Rome. 10 $50.
That neighbour, that brother that raises
the standard of rebellion and disunion,
must, il need be, receive traitors re-
ward, rather than that these strong bonds
be broken, and the bright sun of our des.
tiny go down amid gloom and thick dark
ness, and the stars and stripes, now rev.
erenced by all nations ms the ensign of a
free, magnanimous and exalted people,
trampled in the dust by the feet of dclud.
ed traitors, snatched ruthlessly from the
lofty pinnacle of the temple of our Coun-
try's fame. $3.50. 2@'ai7D 3.
Yes, all thanks for the sentiment that
the Union must be preserved. Civiliza-
ton demands it; christianity demands it;
freedom demands it; the great and no
bic experiment by us instituted, of self
government and representative sovereign
ty demands it; the poor, down-trodden Of
earth who have sought an asylum from
the tyrant's oppression in our shores de-
mand it.; our children demand it; the
memories Of the great and good, who Ia
bored during long and eventful lives for
their country's welfare demand it. And
believe Heaven will bless the prayers