The weekly Butte record., 1861-08-17

early mdnnOOu. anu DTlDg5 GOWN the gra
hairs of the aged with sorrow to the grave
1t weaves the widows weeds with the brida
wreath, and our land, like Rama, is filled will
waiing and lamentation. 1t lights up th
darkness with the flames of happy homes
consumes, like the locusts of Egypt, every liv
/ ing thing in its pathway IL wrecks fortunes
brings bankruptcy and reputation, and blast
the fields OF the husbandman-it depopulate
towns and leaves cities modern Hercula
neum. 1t desolates the fireside and covers th
family dwelling with gloom, aud an awful va
cancy rests, where, like the haunted mansion
" No human figure stirred to go or come,
No face looked forth from open shut or easement
No chimney smoked there was no sign Of home
From parapet to basement.
No dog was on the Threshold, great or small,
No pigeon ON the roof, no hou-eh creature,
No cat dcmurely dosing on the wall,
Not one mestic feature
1t loads the people with debt, to pass dow
from one generation to another, like The curst
OF original sin; upon its merciless errand o
violence it fills the land with crime and tuInul
and rapine, and it "gluts the grave with un
timely victims, aud peoples the world OF perdi
ton. In the struggle of its death throes, il
heaves the moral elements with commissions
and leaves few traces of utility behind it to
mitigate its curse, and he who lnaugurates it
like the ferocious II uu, should be denominated
the scourge of God, and when his dav o
reckoning shall come he will call upon the
rocks and mountains to hide him from popular
Indignation. But with all its attending evils
such Union cannot be yielded to its demands
even though, like the Republic of France, we
may exchange for a time liberty, equality
and fraternity" for infantry. cavalry and ar.
tlllery. Nor are tame and timd measures the
guarantors of peace. 1t is as much the nature
OF faction to be base, as of patriotism to be
noble; and a divided Union, instead of Sc
curing peace, would present constant occasion
for conflict, and be fruitful source of war
Let the rabble cry of divide aud cruelty go
on from the throat of faction, and the cold
and calculating political Pilates wash their
hands and proclaim their innocence, while
their souls are stained with guilt and crime
for urging it forward but let the faithful
conscious OF their integrity,a and strong in truth
endure to the end. Yet bless as the SWAY
and devastating as the course of war. it is not
the greatest of evils, nor the last lesson in
humiliation. Sweet are the uses of aiver-
sity," In its current of violence aud blood
1t may purify an atmosphere too long sur
charged with discomfort and corruption, and
apostacy and treachery and littleness, and
prove how poor a REM ly it is for social
grievances. 1t may correct the drv-rot OF
decentralization in public station, and raise us
as people, above the dead level of mean
and morbid ambition. 1t may scatter the
tribe OF bloated hangers on who seek to serve
their country that they may punder and be-
tray il; and above ell, it may arouse ;he pop
ular mind to IA uSt sense of its responsibility
until 1t shall select It's servants with care, and
hold them to faithful discharge of their du-
ties; until deficient morals shall be held ques-
tonable ialsehood a social fault, violations of
truth disqualification. and bribery disgrace
until integrity shall be recommendation
and treason and larceny crimes
Can Union once discovered be recon
structed by the arrans ement of all the parties
concerned in It's formation MOI When it
is once destroyed. it is destroyed forever Let
those who believe it can be, first raise the
dead, place the dimpling laugh of childhood
upon the lip of age gather up the petals of
May flowers and bind them upon their native
stems in primeval freshness amid the frosts of
December, bring back the withered leaves of
Autumn and breathe into them their early
lnXuriance, and then bring together again the
scattered elements of a discovered Union,
when the generous Spring time of our Repub-
lie has passed away, and selishness and ambi-
ton have come upon it with their premature
fross and * Winter Of discontent'
Shall we then surrender to turbulence and
faction, and rebellion, and give up the Union
with all its elements of good, and all its holy
memories, all its hallowed associations, all its
blood bought history?
"Noi let the eagle change his plane.
The leaf its hue the flower its bloom
But do not give up the Union. Preserve
it to flourish i'll immortal YOUTH until it is
dissolved amid the wreck of matter and
crash of worlds. Let the patriot and states
man stand by it to the ast whether assailed
by foreign or domestic foes. and if he perishes
in the conflict, let him fall like Rienzi the last
of the Tfibunes, upon the same stand where
he has preached liberty and equality to his
countrymen.
Preserve it in the name Of the Fathers of the
RcvoluiiOn-preserve it for its great elements
of good preserve it in the sacred name of lib
erty-preserve it for the faithful and devoted
lovers of the Constitution of the rebellious
States-those who are prosecuted for its sup
port and are dying in lis defense. Rebellion
can lay down lis arms to GOvernment-GOv-
ernment cannot surrender to rebellion.
Give up the Union = this fair and fertile
plain to batten on that moor" Divide the
Atlantic, so that its tides shall beat in sections
that some spurious Neptune may rule an ocean
of his ownl Draw line upon the suns disc,
that it may cast its beams upon earth in d.
visions Let the moon, Ike Bottom in the
play, show but half lis face Separate the con.
stellatou of the Pleiades and suuder 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 but the history of
a violated Constitution and of awess ambition.
No let us stand by the emblem of our fathers,
- Flag of the free, hearts. hope and home,
BY angel hands to vaIor given,
Thy stars have lit the wekin dome,
And all thy hues were Jrn in Heaven.
Ask the Christian to exchange the cross
with the cherished memories Of a Savors love,
tor the crescent of the impostor. or to address
his prayers TO the Juggernaut of Jush, instead
of the living and true God ! but sustain the en-
blem your father loved aud cherished.
Give up the Union Never The Union
shall endure, and its praises shall be heard
when lis friends aud its foes, those who support,
and those who assail, those who bare their
bosoms in its defense, and those who aim their
daggers at its heart, shall all sleep in the dust
together It's name shall be heard with venera-