Daily national Democrat., 1861-06-14
Patriotic Utterances by Edward Everett.


Edward Everett made one of the most elo-
quent speeches of his life on the occasion of
raising the American flag in Chester Square,
Boston. We give couple of extracts:
All former differences are swept
away; we forget that we have ever been par
tisans; we remember only that we are Amer
leans, and that our country is in peril And
what is it that has kindled this quiet and
peace loving community to the present uneX-
ampled excitement, patriotic unanimty not
witnessed in 1875? Why is it, that the flag
of our country-always honored, always be-
loved, is now, all at once, worshipped, may
say with the passionate homage ofthis whole
people? Why does it float, as never before,
not merely from arsenal and masthead, but
from tower and steeple and private dwell
ings in magnificent display or miniature pre-
sentiment? Let Fort Sumter give the an
swer. When on this day, fortnight the 18th
of April, "a day forever to be held in inaus-
picious remembrance, like the dies III ieaSiS
in the annals of ROme) the tidngs spread
through the land, that the standard of United
America, the pledge of her union and the
symbol Of her power, which SO many gallant
hearts had poured out their life blood on the
ocean and on the land to uphold, had in the
harhor of Charleston been, for day and a
half, the target of eleven fratrcidal batteries
one deep, unanimous, spontaneous feeling
shot with the tidings through the bosom of
twenty millions of reemen, that liz outraged
honor must be vindicated. And OH fellow
citizens, if, aloOf as we are from the immedi-
ate danger of the conflict, sheltered in our
comfortable homes, with the objects of our
affections around us, we can refu3c our sup.
4, Eopst;tut;np +l, la nd fha
Government, in whose defense these seventy
brave men, for thirty frightful hours, without
sleep, almost without food, compelled to
draw the breath of heaven into their lungs
through moistened handkerchiefs, stood faith
full and undaunted beneath the iron storm
bursting from above, and the raging fires
around them, We shall deserve ourselves, on
some disastrous day, to pass through o like
fiery ordeal
| speak, fellow citizens in no spirit of un
kindness to the South | have been, through
my public life, some of you have thodght, too
much her friend. To avert what deemed
the impending danger of general conyul-
sion, have been more willing than some of
you to pursue-always | hope through hon
orable paths-the policy of Cancellation. Be
side this, in my humble efforts to rescue the
home and tomb of Washington from deseera-
tion land oh, saddest desecraton Of all, that
the sacred precincts should perhaps even now
he troaden by armed bands, fastening to lay
the city which bears his name in ashes)
have traversed the South, everywhere re-
ceived with the most flatterng kindness,
more than most northern men. In no part
of the Union have | more or more valued
friends but as Heaven is my judge, it is my
most profound and solemn conviction that it
is infinitely more desirable for the South than
the North that this suicidal attempt to break
up the Union should be frustrated "
| wiz only say in conclusion, All hail to the
Flag Of the Union Courage to the heart
and strength TO the hand 20 which in all time
it shall be entrusted May it ever wave in
unsulied hsnor over the capitol, from the
country's strongholds, on the tented field,
upon the wave-rocked tempest. 1t was ori-
ginally displayed on the lst of January.
l776, from the headquarters of Washington,
whose lines of decentralization around be-
leaguered Boston traversed the fair spot
where we now stand and as it was first given
to the breeze within the limits of our beloved
State, so may the last spot where it shall
cease to float in honor and triumph, be the
soil of our own Massachusetts,.