The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-09-11

hands, ana IN weakening MN You weak
en- yourselves, and you weaken the strug
Cling country which we are all striving TO
save. He is at this moment overwhelm-
ed with mountains of responsibility and
of toll, such rs have rested on no public
man in our history, and he is fully enti-
titled to all the support and all the con-
ISOLATION which generous and warm heart,
ed patriotism can give him. Applause
Fellow citizens, amid all the discourage
ments that surround US have still an I'M
faltering faith in human progress, ana III
the capacity of man for selt-goyernmeh'..
Next to the worship Of the Father OF
our spirits, the grandest and the strong
est, and the boliest sentiment OF when
our nature is susceptible, is the love OF
our country. [Applause. When that
sentiment has become corrupted, like an
arch from which the keystone has been
displaced the whole moral fabric seems
TO tumble into ruins. Immense APP
pIause.1 The public and private profit
cacy of traitors and spies, both male and
female, have been borne testimony to by
all history, in all times, until it has nigh
grown into a proverb, that the man who
will betray his country will betray his
God. Applause. He will bctray his
friend and his kindred, and, if need be,
he will betray the very wife of his boz
som and the children of bis loins. Cries
of "That's sou Fellow citizens, sup
pose you lived in one Of those cities
where there is steam fire engine and
also paid company to operate it; and
suppose that your house was on fire, and
this company whose engine has been
summoned to the spot is vigorously en-
gagged in cxtinguishing the flames, and
suppose you observe from time to time
some parties stealthily slipping through
the crowd, and rs occasion serves, cut
ting the hose with their knives, from
which the water is seen TO spout in all
directions on the pavement and on the
street, how long do you think would the
presence Of such miscreants be endured !?
But, suppose that on looking more closely
at the faces OF these men, you discov-
cred that number of them were MEM
bers of the very company who received
salaries from the funds TO which you con-
tributed, would YOU not, in the first burst
of your indignation feel that the punish
ment would not be too great for them
were they thrown into the flames they
had thus been indirectly feeding9 APP
plause. And yet this has been precise
ly the condition of the government of the
United States with regard to its traitors.
This has been, from the very commence
ment of this struggle the condition of the
government. / know chat there are
those who look with moro liberation at
those offenses which prevail among us
than can possibly do. Perhaps l am
too harsh. Cries of "No, no." But
| must say this, that the men who in our
midst give aid and comfort to the enemy,
either by furnishing them with secret in
formation, or by advocating their cause,
or striving TO sow dissension among our
selves, or by insiduously persuading loyal
men from entering the military service
these men are more fatal foes TO the gov
eminent and the country than if they ac-
tually bore arms against us in the army
Of the Confederate States. Applause.
1t is a war OF dnty, because devoted
as we profess to be to law and order and
good government, and TO the high inter.
ests of civilization, it behooves us to re.
Duke and chastise and punish those crimes
committed through this rebellion, not only
against us, but against the very race tc
which we belong, all over the world
Applause 1t is finally war of duty
because We have assumed to ourselves rs
people the special championship, mol
only of the right but of the capacity o.
the race for selfgovernment-- trench.
dous applause and that assumption has
been accepted and recognized by the low
ers of freedom everywhere. And now,
with the men and nations of the world
looking upon us, and towards us, rs from
the seats Of some vast amphitheatre
watching the strife in our midst, we have
no idea of permitting the sacred cause 10
be smitten down and crushed upon the
battle fields of the South, TO perish there
amid the SCOTS and jecrs and taunts of
the kings and despots Of Europe. en-
thusiostic applause. How anxiously
and with what confidence have the enc
mics of freedom the world over predicted
the day, and how have they longed for
its coming. In the essential antagonism
Of their institutions to ours, and the In
tense adherence which they feel to that
system Of government which gives honor
and the fortunes of the earth to the toll
ing millions Of tho earth, lies the secret
of the hatred Of tyrants TO us. And how
gladly would every one of these tyrants
this day behold a monument of us, in
the skies, could they see inscribed upon
it these Words -" In memory of the
great republic Of the United States, foun-
dcd by Washington and destroyed by
Toombs, Twiggs and Floyd" Immense
applause.
If this Union be dismombered and the
government overturned, the grave OF
every earthly hope will omen Mt NV feet