The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-06-18
I will only say in the language Of the mar

ative OF Gilpin's ride:
May be there to see.''
It would certainly prove deeply interest
ng spectacle.
It is true that before this deliverrnce of +
the popular mind of the South from the 7
threatenings and alarms which have sub
dued it. can be accomplished, the remorse- /
less agitators who have made this revou- |
ton, and now hold its reins, must be dis /
carded alike from the public confidence and /
the public service. The country in its ago
ny is feeling their power, and too well un-
derstand how difficult will be the task of
overthrowing the ascendancy they have Sc
cured. But the Union men of the South
believed to be in the majority in every sece-
ded State, except perchance, South Carroll
na-aided by the presence Of the Govern
ment, will be fully equal to the emergency.
Les llaze agitators perish, politically, II
need b.. by scores
ga f4aat. an unmal,e them as a breath has made
Hr-E this Republic and
"a, here is that Promet heau heat
T.at its light relume r.
once eltombed, when will the Angel of
fa Eezurrection descend to the portals Of
It's =.uulchre? There is not a voice which
comes TO rs from the cemetery of nations
faat does not answer: Never never
hujG Che torments of perturbed existence,
vs may ave glimpses OF rest and OF free
DOM a tie maniac has gllmpses OF reason
between ne paroxysms OF his madness, but
Va shall stain to neither national dignity
nor national repose. We shall be a mass of
>rpirasf fragnnaniary States an
eebIed md demoralized, without power at
home. OF responsibility abroad, and, like
the Republics of Mexico and South Ameri-
cq We SIT drift away on shoreless and
arsg1ar ID sea of civil commotion, from
which. # The teachings of history are to be
trusted. we shall be finally rescued by the
iron hand of some military wrecker, who
will coin the shattered elements of our
Greatness aud of our strength into a diadem
agd a throne. Said N. Fould, the great
French statesman. to an American citizen,
a few weeks since g Your Republic is
dead, and it is probably the last the world
will ever see. You viii have reign Of
terrorism, aud after that two or three mon
arches" All this may be verified, should
this revolution succeed.
Let US then Irvine each thread Of the glo-
rious tissue OF our country's flag about our
heart-strings, and looking upon our homes
and catching the spirit that breaths upon
us from the battle-felds of our fathers, let
us resolve IQaL come veal OF Voc, We VIII
in life and in death, now and forever, stand
by the stars and stripes. They have float
ed over our cradles, let it be our prayer and
our struggle that they shall float over our
graves. They have been unfurled from the
SHOWS of Canada to the plains of New Or
leans, and to the halls Of the Montezumas,
aud amid the solitudes of every sea; and
everywhere, as the luminous symbol Of re-
sistless and bene6cent power, they have led
the brave and free to victory and to glory.
1t has been my fortune to look upon this
flag in foreign lands and amid the gloom of
an oriental despohsm, and right well do
know, by contrast how bright are IFS stars,
and how sublime are its Inspirations If
this banner the emblem for us of all that is
grand in human history, and of all that is
transporting in human hope, is to be sacri-
feed on the affairs of Il Satanic ambition
and thus disappear forever amid the night
and tempest OF revolution, then viii | feel
and who shall estimate the desOlation Of
that feeling-that the sun has indeed been
stricken from the sky Of our lives, and that
henceforth we shall be but wanderers and
outcasts, with naught but the bread Of sor-
row and of perjury for our lips, and with
hands ever outstretched in fcebleness and
duplication, on which, in any hour, a mil
itary tyrant may rivet the letters of des-
pairing bondage Nay God in his infinite
mercy, save you and me, and the land we
so much love, from the doom of such a de-
graduation.
No contest 50 momeneous as this has
arisen in human history, for, amid all the
conflicts Of men and of nations, the life of
no such Government SIS ours has ever been
at stake. Our fathers won our independ-
ence by the blood and sacrifice of a seven
years war, and we have maintained it
against the assaults of the greatest power
upon the earth and the question now is,
whether we are TO perish by our own hands,
and have the epitaph Of suicide written up
on our tomb. The ordeal through which
we are passing must involve immense suf-
fering and losses for us all but the eXpend
iture of not merely hundreds OF millions,
but of billions of treasure will be well
made if the result shall be the preservation
of our institutions.
Could my voice reach every dwelling in
Kentucky, ] would implore its inmatcs-if
they would not have the rivers Of their
prosperity shrink away, rs do unfed streams
beneath the summer heats-tO rouse them
selves from their lethargy, and fly to the
rescue Of their country before it is everlast-
ingly too late. Man should appeal to man,
and neighbOrhoOd TO neiGhbOrhooI, until
the electric fires Of potriotism shall fash
from heart to heart in one unbroken cur
rent throughout the land 1t is a time in
which the workshop, the Office, the count
ing-house and the field may well be aban-
doned for the solemn duty that is upon us
for all the tolls will but bring treasure not
for ourselves, but for the spoiler if this rev
olution is not arrested. We are all with
our every earthly interest, embarked in
mid ocean on the same common deck The
howl of the storm is in our ears, and "the
lghtning's red glare is painting hell on the
sky, and while the noble ship pitches and
rolls under the lashings Of the waves, the
cry is heard that she has sprung "a leak at
many points, and that the rushing waters
are mounting rapidly in the hold. The man
who, in such an hour, will not work at the
pumps, is either a maniac or monster
Sincerely yours, J. HoLT.
MORE TROOPS ACCEPTED FROM INDIANA
The following dispatch from Mr.. Holloway,
the Commissioner of Patents gives us the
agreeable information that the President