The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1861-09-17

try will be overcome. What We now need is
patriotism that will abide the ordeal of Are :,
a patriotism that is purged OF III ssh.hne..,
and from all fear, which is heroic and exhaust.
ness which VOWS with every tLrob of life,
with every pulse, that it will raly-if strick
en- down it will raise again, and that under
the pressure Of no circumstances Of defeat, Of
sorrow, or of suffering shall the national flag
be abandoned, or the honor OF the country
compromised. Enthusiastic applause. WHAT
We ,ed is patriotism which rises fully TO
the comprehension Of the actual and the aw-
full perils in which our institutions are placed,
and which is willing to devote every power Of
body and mind and fortune to their deliver.
ance. [Checrs. A patriotism which, obltera.
ting all party lines cheers, long continued,
and repeated again and again, breaking forth
in loud hurrah and patriotism which,
obitcraring all party lines and entombing all
party issues, says to the President Of the Uni.
ted States: Here are our lives and our estates |;
use them freely, use them boldly, but use
them successfully. For, looking upon the
graves of our fathers and upon the cradles of
our childrcr, wc have sworn that though all
thirgs else should perish, this country and
this Union shall live. Great cheering, the
assembly rising to their feet and waving hats
and haukerchiefs. Ii is such patriotism as
this, and such only, that will conduct you to
victory. And rejoice to believe that this
spirit has been everywhere awakened through
out the loyal States The capitalists have
come nobly forward IchcersI and, riskng all :,
they have exhibited grandeur Of devotion to
the country which, while it will astonisl the
people Europe, has inspired the gratitude and
the admiration Of every true American heart.
[Checrs All honor to them! They have
proved that if there is much gold in Wall
st.n"'. 'h""" - ,'orn no,,i ,ie.r ,h".- IH.~s'"l
Not a Summer patriotism which flOurshcs
amid the pnans of victory, but a patriotism
which struggles. and sacrifices and suffers,
and is prepared to put all things To hazard,
even in the Winter Of national adversely, aud
in the hour of national defeat Cheers. -
Unless tins country can thus feel the sui Of
her national life, which is now obscured, may
vet 90 down forever, amid storms and dark
ness--if all our great material interests are
crushed TO e'",L Gy I'll. shadow Which i' pass
inc over that sun, what would be our condi-
ton if that shadow should deepen into the
night Of permanent defeat! l. there nothing
to live for but the gaius of commerce, moth
ing but the establishment Of our estates and
our homes; and tho furtherance Of our case
aud comfort! Are courage, and manhood
and honor, and loyalty, and national fame,
aud the respect and homage of the world,
nothing? Is it nothing 10 live without flag,
aud without country, and without future
for ourselves aud for their children and TO
stand forth the degenerate and base descen-
dants of lustrious sres. We might lay our
selves in the dust, and be stripped by traitors
hands of all that cnnobles anl swectcns hu
man existence, and still live on as do the cat
tie of the field, but our lives would be more
ignoble than theirs (Cheers.) If with all our
vast material resources, il with our known and
acknowledged physical superiority over the
rebels, il with our clamorous and proiuse
ayowals Of devotion to our institutions We
suffer that rebellion TO triumph over Us, do
verify believe the American name would be
come stencil in the nostrils Of the world, aud
that an American citizen would NOT be per
m:tted to walk the streets OF II European
capital without having the finger of scorn
pointed at him. (Crics Of "Bravo' and
cheers.) Fellow citizens, if | might be per
mitted to utter a word upon such subject, |
would earnestly counsel iorebearance and pat.
ience iu reference to those charged wlts the
administration of our Government, (Grcat
sppIause.) Before crtici,ing their conduct We
should remember that We may not see all tc
field Of action, and may not be in condition
justly to appreciate the difficulties to be over.
come. (Appause.) No man can doubt the
honesty aud loyalty Of the President of the
United States; (imrneuse applause, waving of
hats, and cries OF mo, or bis determination
to suppress this rebellion. To him, under th.
Constitution tue popular voice has committed
absolutely the fate Of this Republic. His
hands are emphatlcaIly your hands, and in
weakening him, you weaken yourselves and
you weaken the Struggling country that we are
all striving so save. lie il, too At this mo-
ment overwhelmed with mountain of res
possibility and toll, such as never rested on no
public man in our history, and he is fully en-
titled to all the spport and all the consola
ton VIII ch generous AM warm he utei pat
rotism can give him. (Grcat applause.) Amid
all the discouragements that surround Us, |
have still an uuf,ltering faith in human pro.
gress aud in the capacity OF u man for self
government. | believe all the blool which
the true lovers of our race have shed upon
more than thousand battle.fclds has borne
fruit, and that fruit is the Republic Of the
United States. (AppIause.) 1t come forth
upon the world like the morning sun from its
chamber, and it pathway of light and glory,
and it has poured its blessings upon its people
in brimming fulness, as rivers from their wa
tcrs to the sea. l cannot admit to my bosom
tho crushing thought that in the full light Of
the Christian civilization of the nineteenth
century such Government is fated to perish
beneath the swords ofguity men who are now
bounded together for It's overthrow. (Applause,
loud aud loug.) | cannot, | will not believe
these twenty millions of people, cultivated
loyal, courageous-twenty millions of the IN.
glo-Saxon race, bearing the names OF the he.
roes OF the Revolution, and passing their lives
amid the inspirations Of its battle teId--wIIl
ANONYMOUSLY. suffer its institutions to be over
thrown 10y ten millions, nearly half OF whom
are wrctchcd, helpless slaves with ietters in
their handsNGreat,applausc; cries Of NEVER
No page OF history 50 dark and SO humIa-
Ting rs this has been written Of any portion
OF the human family; aud the American
people had better, Ear better, never been born