The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-09-26
sTRoUDsBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA SEPTEMBER ss 1861

cost large sum Of money; but il it leave.
Government aud the old Stars and
Stripes, it will not be maintained too
dearly. There is to be a taxation. Un.
doubtedly it will be severe. Suppose il
take. one half of all we have, but leaves
US law and order. A voice, Better take
1t all. Yes, better take it all; for il
Government is not N maintained. it will be
taken by rebel marauders. The rights
OF person. and every right we hold most
dear are involved in this issue You can
never divide this nation peaceably. You
can never find stopping place, when
once you have rewarded treason, BY per-
nitting it to succeed. Owls will boot
from your dwellings; foxes look out Of
the windows of your churches; ruin, dark
ness, and DISSOLUTION, will brood over you.
Such assemblies as this will be prevented
by hostile troops, under the anarchy
which will ride rough-shod over you
Where are the great spirits-the C!ays,
the Websters. the Bentons, OF the nationl
They have been waited away like the
prophets of old. My father, my father,
the chariots of Israel and borsem me o there
of Would to Heaven that we had the
voice of Clay, of a Webster, to cheer us
on now. How they would drive the re-
bel to his hiding place! Henry Clay
would make it cover and tire Bile like a
deer at the VOLTS bowl And the ma.
jestic Webster-wbat dark clouds would
rest upon bis portentons browl And the
logical and the statistical Benton, who al
ways stood up for the Union, with bis
sarcasm and logic, would make them
wlther like mown grass. They are gone.
They rest from their lsbors. They SOW
our countrys glory, but not ber shame.
Peace be to their ashes. A voice: ERE
month Fremont! Yes; doing his duty
like soldier. Tremendous and long
continued cheeriug.] I never supported
him as politician; but | support him as
a General. And God speed him. l
have no doubt he will do bis full duty;
and if he does. will labor increasingly
to stay up his hands, and cheer bin on
ward in his discbare of duty. shall in-
quire no mans politics now who endeav-
ors in good faith to protect the nations
honor. And be who dose not, I hold to
be no patriot, no Democrat, no honest
man. A voice: "a tory.'1 Worse than
a tory; traitor. No; our Ship Of State
happily exemplfed here to-day, upon
these grounds (pointing to ship which
bad been brought in the procession by
the boatbuilders of Ithica although she |
las been arrested in her successful course, |
let US all rally around her, not inquiring
who is in con- meDd, whether it be Lincoln
Or Jackson, Republican or Democrat who
are the crew. bot seeing it is our ship,
lnder our flag, preserve it, whether it be
'alled by the one or the other empty
name; let US rally around her, let us 60
'n board, let her be manned, weigh an.
,hor, hoist all sail, cut her loose, let her
steer into the broad ocean, to cruise on
q this great errand of merey-the free
lom of mankind-carrying the Stars and
Stripes to every sea under beaven-car-
'ying peace and goodwill to all men,
Let her
SdIi OH iHLO TIE S6d, " SUPP
Through wind and waves right onward
steer"
Ob, my fellows citizens, let US ell devote
ourselves to the service of our country
Amen Every one can do something
o his sphere. For myself, am enlisted
or this great war-rage how it may
erminate how it will Give me poverty,
stripes and chains, give me shame. give
ne destitution, give me want, give me
'bject misery and distress, give me be-
let my heart be wruug by ev-
'ry emotion that can agonize and torture
nan, make a wanderer in the earth, sud
,ive me an ignoble death. rather than
permit my country to perish. [Cbeers. n
Sooner than that should be done, in the
anguage Of Emmett, would raze every
louse, burn every blade OF grass. and the
at iDtrenchmen: of Liberty shall be my
grave. No. my fellow citizens, let our
Eatcbword be, our country, our beloved
And l will exclaim with you,
oh, my country, may God protect her
rom evil" Immense cheering from the
audience of then thousand, who had be-
ome filled with the sentiments of the
peech. greeted Mr., Dickinson as he re-
ired