Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1861-09-12

oui VHtfufen chiftfrer, fncredSed hum
died. nay. thousand fold.
But even now, in the ycSb hsbS of
these threatened disasters. even this night
s eo"d i' ia Ss'' 5JTt ps SSnn % vas
necks. our country and our flag in the dust
bsnq 1 de pet of remorseless traitors
Loud cries of Never" "Neverl" But
how can we do this. seeing that the graves
Of oar father are ret with us, and flat
Bunker Hill yet speaks tens With voices
which will not aud cannot be stilled?-
If we falter. we f fall and mot not only will
Washington. your Capital. he subjugated
and sacked, but your cities and yoiirSfiela s
viii be swept over by an army carrying in
its train desolations scarcely surpassed
since the Cloths stabbed their steeds in the
palaces Of the C;csars. The fiendish tone
of the Southern press, its exultant threat
enings. and the events which have steaiy
tsanspined, fully Justify Arne-in ms ttecfara-
ton. If, therefore. we think of our lands
and gold. of our merchandise and pleasant
homes. or even of the blood that courses
IA o1A ' Sii4S, III SOutast VIII tuotutSStty
of our Government, we are lost; we shall
perish suddenly. irretrievably. and igno-
miniously. But if true to ourselves, as /
verify believe we will be. If true to the
kindling memories OF the past. and to the
grandeur of our mission as a PEOPLE. your
armies will assnredly triumph. and that
lsiauph tine Unioms sentiment iofsthes South
will render complete and enduring APP
plause |. and thus. out Of all this national
turmoil. and battle, and bloodshed, and
wringing anguish, there will in the end
aElss <fnture orEourzconntry, briglN As
that rainbow which spans the mist that
mount above the tortured hell of Niaga-
ra's waters. For that futare, that bow of
promise and Of beauty may we'll be &C
cepted as the appropriate emblem. Zap
plause. - : - sl-.,--l
has been encountered in the successful
prosecution of this war is the disloyalts
found in the midst Of us. ICries of
That's so."l This is especially true in
relation to Washington and the Border
States : butrit is in great degree, true
everywhere. and to this is traceable much
of that Encouragement under which the
nation is now suffering.
The country is now rejoicing in those
bollsnd decided MEASURES shichthsPses-
;dent- taking to ~sii6due this fatal source
of weakness ard defeat. [Cheers. IL is
IN rain that the stairan arms and hearts
of this great nation toll at tie pxusps. so
long as men are kept on board nth augurs
IN their pockets. mho at erery stolen oppor-
tunity are boring hobs IN the bottom of the
noble snip on arhich IRE are embarked =
[ Applause.
Fellow citizens, the thought Of dismem-
bering this Union. which has been the
source of all our strength and all our
Joys as a nation, can be entertained by no
true man. Dismemberment would involve
the abasement of all which we, as A
mericans have so long and so Justly been
proud. and the complete ruin of the grand
inheritance which we have received from
our fathers. and which it is our duty to
transmit undiminished in its blessings to
our descendants 1t would conduct us
from palaces Of prosperity and power to
novels of wreteiedness an to graves Of
dishonor.
When the wise man of old, sitting in
judgment rupon the rival claims of two
mothers to the possession of the same
child, decrecd that it should be cut in
twain, and that one half should be given
TO the one claimant and the other half to
the. other. it was the false mother who ac-
cepted and exulted in the Judgment. while
the true mother turned away with horror,
preierring to commit the life of her off
spring to the keeping of even her own ene-
my, rather than it should thus perish
The filial and the maternal instincts are in
this regard the same. The man who is
willing that this prosperous and free CONN.,
try shall be severed by the sword of trca-
son now suspsn Tod o yer it, may have been
born upon American soil, but he has no
American heart in his bosom Cheers. and
cries of good. The true son of the
Republic. like the true mother, turns away
from The proposal with Indignation and
abhorrenee. Great cheering. 49,
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