Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-09-13


do sincerely believe that t,is Repuhlic-
z the cues ion Of pibl,c hoaor an, of question
! ont Of view-that this Republic could he
Z separated, and that peace colll be patch
! ed up, and that The tNo Governments there
after could live on pro'parol,ly. peaceably
, as before. No more false or faal thought
: ever crept serpent-likc, into an American
bosom. Great cheering Yol might as
= well tell me that the boat which has been
: turned adrift above the cataract of Niagara
will have tranquil voyage. Cheers
II you will % and stand, Al many Of us
have done, amid the ruins of crumbling
: empires in the old worl,!-ask them, they
win all ten yon il is dnsi6a; if YOU will
60 into the cemetery of nations, and hold
your ear TO the sepulchre of those young
aud generous aud high.spiriled nations that
have persisted through the commissions of
civil strife, they will answer in broken.
heartedness, it IS aIlelusion.
And if you will no; listen to the voices
OF the past, go into Mexico aud South
America, and ask the inhabitants Of those
bright lands, blest with climate the best
OF earth, and occupying soil Of exhaustless
fertility, and living amid lakes, rivers and
mountains of grandeur and Inspiration
they will lit their bowed leads, ami / de-
moralization, poverty and dishonor. and they
viii tell you it is a delusion. Cheers
Fellow-eitizens | rejoice 10 belieye-may
not say to know-hat the spirit o. loyal
ty at this time dwells richly and abundant
" IN the popular heart OF the North and
4 West. Bot | d. beseeeh you, you who
have deep stake in The present and in the
future OF our country-you men of culture.
aud ot fortune, and Of moral power, do
\ mplore you, by all means possible add yet
/ to the power and to the fervor of that loval-
+ ty. If il grows cool anil the calculations
/ OF avarice, or craven under the discourage
ments of defeat, our country will be over
come. What we now need is patriotism
! that will abide the ordeal of fire, patriot
ism that is purged Of all selishness. and from
/ all fear, which is heroic and exhaustless
which VOWS with every thlob of life, with
every pulse, that it viii raly--if stricken
down it viii rise 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 eoun-
try Compromised. Enthusiastic applause
fully to the comprehension o. the actual and
the awfal peFils in which our institutions
are placed, and which is wilin. to devote
every power body, aud mind, and fortune
to their delirerance. Cheers A patriot
ism which differing all party liaes-T cheers
long continued, and repeated again and
again, breaking forth in loud hurrah la
patriotism which obiterating all party lines
and eut5mbing all party issues, says to the
President Of the United States Here are
our lives and our estates; use them freely,
use them successfully. For, looking upon
the graves Of our fathers. and upon The
cradles of our children, we have sworn that |
though all things else should perish. this |
country and this Union shall live TGreat
cheering, and the assembly rising to their |
feet aud waving hats and handkerchief.
1t is such patriotism as this, and such
only. that will conduct you 10 victory. And /
| rejoice 10 believe that this spirit has been
everywhere awakened throughout tie loyal
States. The capitalists have come nobly
forward and, riskins all, they have exhibit
ed grandeur of devotion TO the country
which, while it viii astonish the people of
Europe, has inspired the gratitude and the
admiration Of every true American heart.
CCheers. All honor TO theml They have
proved that if there is much god in Wall
street, there is more patriotism there
Cheers. Not a summer patriotism, which
fiourishes 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
and in the hour of national de-
feat Cheers. Unless this country can
thus feel, the sun of her national life, which
is nov obscured, may yet go down forever,
amid storms and darkness-if all our great
interests are crushed to earth by
the shadow which is passing over that sun,
what would be our condition if that shadow
should deepen into the night Of permanent |
defeat? Is there nothing to live for but the
gains of commerce. nothing but the embel- I
lishment of our estates, of Importance, and Z
the furtherance Of our ease and comfort :
Are courage, and manhood, and honor, and
loyalty, and national fame, and the respect l
and homage of the world nothing? Is it '
nothing to live without flag and without I
n country, and without future for our c
selves, and for our children, and to stand c
forth the degenerate and despised descend S
ants of ilus,rious sires? We might lay 1
in tie Dust and be stripped by B
raitors' hands of all that ennobles and b
iweetens human existence, and still live on I
Is do the cattle Of the field, but our lives 4
you'd be more ignoble than theirs Cheers. .
f. with all our vast material resources-iE a
With our known and acknowledged physical a
superiority over the rebels--if with orr II
Humorous and profuse avogals of devotion
0 our institutions, we suffer that rebellion b
0 triumph over us, do verify believe the O
American name would become a stencil il q
he nostrils Of the world and that an Amer al
san citizen would not be permitted to walk v
be streets Of a European capital without q
aving the finger of scorn pointed at him, o.
Cries Of /" Bravo and cheers. b
Fellow-ci,izens, if | might be permitted "
, utter word upon such a subject, woull G
arnestly counsel forbearaace and patience b'
! reference to those charged with the adj 4
of our government. Great B!
pplaue Before criticising their conduct 1t
-e should remember that We may not see "
Il the field o! action, ana may not be in a d
onditiou justly to appreciate the difficulties Ii
he overcome. [ Applause. te
No man can doubt the honesty and 10y q
liy of the president Of the United States II