Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-14

tny violence against thy brother shame
shall cover tlee. Thou shouldst not have
satisfied thy mouth on their subsistence in
the day of their calamity. Thou shouldst
not have stood in the crosssway, to cut off
those of his that did escape neither shouldst
thou have delivered up those Of his that did
remain in the day Of distress. The pride of
thine heart hath deceived thee thou that
dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose hab.
itstion is high; though thou exalt thyself as
the BAGLE, and though thou set thy nest
among the STARS, thence will l bring thee
down, saith the Lord" 1t seems In old
Obadlah's time also they had enthusiasm for
the eagle" and the 'stars," and they had to
be brought low ere they fully knew that
they could mount up like the eagle only on
the strong pinions of justice, and shine with
the stars only when every ray was reflected
from the sun of Righteousness.
But are we quite sure that this uprisen
America means to speak the final word? If
the storm should pass, would not trade and
pulpit be all compliance and compromise TO
slavery once more2 Among the millions
rallyiDg to the banner of the Union, how
many are fighting for Union with freedom
in it, how many for a Union with slavery
in it2
On The Fourth of July 1861, the annivers.
ary Of the day when America pledged her
life and sacred honor 10 defend the faith that
"All men are born free and equal" the most
important Congress that can ever assemble
in this country will gather at Washington.
There lies more fearful danger TO this
Union than any threatened from the South.
For already we see preparations made to
silence the sublime No Of the people, and
make them eat the word ere it is fully aud
triumphantly spoken so as never to be un.
spoken. Efforts will be made there to make
aha
eighty-five years before backward, and re-
construct the Union by accepting the South
ern Barabbas and giving humanity to be
cTucified. Low compromises, base conces.
sions, infidel negotiations, are now being
hatched, to make the Fourth of July of '6f
the epitaph Of that of '76. Were we wise we
would count the whole South an army of
mosquitoes, compared with the dangers
threatening to bring about ruinous, ignoble
and utterly delusive peace. For though in
this moment when, flushed with our una
venged insults, we think but little of patch
ing up the shattered vase with compromise
cement, there will come time when the foe
shall look up from our feet and ask our
terms.
That will be the critical and terrible bat
tie of this country; and as it shall then be
able or unable to say no, will it erect the
tomb or the temple of Liberty and Union,
one and inseparable, now and forever
"once to every man and nation comes the moment
In the strife of Truth with FasehOod, for the good
Some great cause, Gods new Messiah, Offering each
the bloom or blight,
Part the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep
And the choice goes By forever 'twlxt that dark.
ness and that light"
That solemn moment when again we shall
aglxpd n hpt al
and secure it with new entrenchments, see
advancing; and it is more terrible than any
army with banners. Instances are not
wanting in history where the masses of a
nation have, by the stormy revolution
against wrongs, been uplifted to glorious
nights of liberty and equality, as desert
sands in the sirocs breath stand up as pill
lars against the Heavens; but as those sands,
when the storm is spent sink back to be
again the arid desert with serpents creeping
over il, SO have such people been seen to fall
awey from the noble watchwords and stand
ards of their revolution, barren still, and
with tyranny yet trailing over them. So in
the glorious elevation of their conflict for
independence, our fathers saw and bore wit
ness to the equality of mankind--to the
right of each and all to life liberty and the
pursuit of happiness but when that great
inspiration was over they sank, and the
fugitive slave clause and the slave basis of
representation crept with all their Shiny
length, over the Constitution itself. Oh, It
was grievous fall from the pinnacle of the
Declaration. God grant it prove not fatal
yet = ..
Our fathers fought well and bravely for
us, but, alas, they set us the bad example of
saying yes when No was the true word. HUI
man nature likes to comply and SO we went
on saying yes TO every wrong; we said it in
the Missouri Compromise, the Mexican War,
the Compromise Of 1850, with its odious Fu-
gitive slave Bill and our first Anti-slayery
went to Washington with a
compromise upon its lips. But now, thanks
to the insolenee of the foe and the imperish-
able love of Saxon blood for its oca freedom,
the thunderpeal has burst forth at last with
its brave No. p.
Now let every man plead with his brother
that this denial of slavery be made to include
"an men," and that it be made as fixed as
the Rocky Mountains. So shall the coming
Fourth July be the new birth of this nation.
Let there be no retreat from the verdict
" hich leaps from the American heart to-day
upon slavery. You have read of the general
who, when he had landed his troops on the
shore he meant they should conquer imme-
diately burnt all the ships that had brought
them. That is why | love the fiery word
No. Itburns the ships behind us. 1t leaves no
hole to creep out at. A great many things
may be said against it, as that it isn't concli-
atory, nor polite, nor affectionate; but, at
any rate, it is genuine, true and unmistak-
able and the plainest truth turns out in the
end the kindest and tenderest thing. 1t is
said that once Frenehman did not dare to
help drowning man because he had not
been introduced to him. The full grown
No is rude Viking, doubtless, aud stands
on no ceremonies, but he rescues the drown
ing.
All these glorious fellows, the brave chill
drep Of our proud motherland, how they go
forth with smiling faces aud cheerful step to
hold out their breasts to the blow aimed at
America How they come up from, hill and
plain, each on the straightest path, bringing
their bearts from the ties of home, to cement
them all together into great heart-fortress
about their cOuntryl Now shall we not
have thought moral courage, and sacred
devotion to the right of an equal stature
Shall we not have moral heroism to match
the animal2 Shall the unfaltering soldier
waYer when called to the post Of simple
tIuth2 o, my felloW-men, implore you to
your souls for this moral conflict
which is so sure to come. And when over
the border they begin 10 erect gentle batter
les to silence the voices within us which cry
OUT hBdlusI duy more slavery Wnbn Luey
begin to point compromises at us instead Of
cannon; then let every manly heart make
itself into moral Collmbiad, and fire into
every covenant proposed with human slavery
the chain-shot, No, nepsri Love your
enemy too much to bind him to you with a
lie to God and man, Clasp his hand warmly;
cling to peace with him reply to his ours
ing with calmness; never let it enter your
mind TO be revenged on him for any insult
offered you; wherever il concerns you alone,
do not fail to yield and yield but wheIe the
sacred immoftals, Principle, Honor, Truth,
Justice, Liberty, are in question, and where
you are called on TO surrender NOT your own,
but those crownjewels of God, then, though
il turn the earth to an ash-hsap, thou shalt
say MOL
When America can bring herself up to the
elevation Of speaking that word 10 the
usurper; when she can send it crashing forth
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