The Cecil Whig., 1861-09-21

past, 60 into Mexico and South America. and
ask the inhabitants Of those bright lands, bl.st
with climate the best Of earth, and occupy
ing soil of exhaustlees fertility, and living
amid lakes, rivers, and mountains of gran
deur and inspiration they will lift up their
bowed heads, amid dcmoralisation, poverty
and dishonor, and they will tell you it is delu.
SION Cheers. Fellow-citizens, rejoice to
belicve-may not say, TO know-that the
spirit of loyalty at this time dwells richly
and abnndanlly in the popular heart of the
North and West. Bu. do beseech you, you
who have deep stake in the present and in
the future OF our country-you men of culture
and Of fortune, and of moral power, | do
implore you, by all means possible add yet
to the power and TO the fervor of that loyalty.
If it grows cool amid the calculations Of ayar.
ice, or craven under the dlscouragemen,s of
defeat, our country will be oveI come. What
we now need is patriotism that will abide the
ordeal of fire. patriotism that is purgcd of
all sellishness, and from all fear, which is
heroic and exhaustless; which vows with
every throb Of life. with every pulse, that It
will rally-if stricken down it vii rise again,
and that under the pressure Of no circum-
stances of defeat, of sorrow, or of suffering
shall the national flag be abandoned, or the
sastic applause What we need is a patri-
otlsm which rises fully to the comprehension
of the actual and the awful perls in which
our institutions are placed, and which is
willing to devote every power of body and
mind and fortune to their delverance.--
Cheers. a patriotism which. oblilcrating
all party lines cheers long continued, and
repeated again and again, breaking forth in
loud hurrah "a patriotism which, oblilera-
ting all party lines and entombng all party
issues, says to the President Of the United
States: Here are our lives and our estates
use them freely, use them boldly, Lut use them
successfully. For, looking upon the graves
Of our fathers and upon the cradles of our
children, we haze sworn that though all things
else should perish, this country and this
Union shall live Great cheering, the assem-
bly, rising to their feet and waving hats and
handkerchiels 1t is such a patriotism as
this, and such only, that will conduct you to
victory. And rejoice to believe that this
spirit has been everywhere awakened through
out the loyal States. The capita lists have
come nobly forward, cheers and, risking
all, they have exhibited grandeur of devotion
to the country which. while it will astonish
the people Of Europe, has inspired the graft.
tude and the admiratio Of every true Ameri-
can heart. Cheers, All honor to them =
They have proved that if there is much gold
i'll Wall street, there is more patriotism there.
Cheers. Not summer patriotism, which
tlourisheS amid the poans 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
adversely, and in the hour of national defeat.
Cheers. Unless this country can thus feel
the sun Of her national life, which is now
obscured, may yet go down forever, amid
storms and darkness If all our great material
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 nigh; Of permanent defeat! Is there
nothing to live for but the gains OF COM
mcIce, nothing but the establishment oe our
estates Of mpor tance and the fuIthcrance Of
our ease and comfort! Are courage, and
manhood, and honor, and loyalty. and
national fame, and the respect and homage Of
the world nothing Is it nothing to live
without flag, and without country. ard
! without a future for ourselves and for our
children and to stand forth the degenerate
and dcspSed descendants of illustrious sres
| We might lay ourselves in the dust, and be
stripped by traitors hands of all that emo.
bcs and sweetens human existence. and still
live ON as do the cattle of the field, but our
lives would be more ignohle than theirs -
| Cheers IT, with all our vast material
resources, if With our known and acknow led
ged physical superiority over the rebels, if
with our clamorous and profuse avowals of
devotion to our institutions, we suffer tina.
rebellion to triumph over US, | do verify believe
the American name would become stencil
| al rt,I. th Al.
American citizen woulG not be permitted to
walk the streets of a European capital with
out having the finger Of scorn pointed at him.
[Cres of Bravo and cheers. Fellow
citizens, if might be permitted to utter a
word upon sucl. a subject, would earnestly
counsel iorbearance and patience in reference
our Government. Great applause Before
critlclslng their conduct we should remember
that we may not see all the field of action,
and may not be in condition justly to ap
preciate the ditlicul ties to be overcome
Applause. No man can doubt the honesty
and loyalty Of the President of the United
States: Immense applause, waving of hats.
and cries Of" No" or his determination to
suppress this rebellion. TO him, under the
Constitution the popular voice has committed
absolutely the fate of this Republic. His
hands are emphatically your hands, and in
weakening him, you weaken yourselves and
you weaken the struggling country that we
are all striving to save. lie is too at this
moment overwhelmed with mountain ol
responsibility and toil such as never rested on
any public man in our history, and he is fully
entitled to all the support and all the conso-
laton which generous and warm hearted
patriotism can give him. Great applause
Amid all the discouIagements that surround
US, have still All unialtering faith in human
progress and in the capacity of man for self
government. believe all the blood which
the true lovers Of our race have shed upon
more than Thousand battle fields has borne
fruit, and that fruit is the Republic Of tho
United States. [Applause.] 1t came forth
upon the world like the morning sun from its
chamber, and Its pathway has been the path.
way of light and glory, and it has poured its
blessing upon its people in Drumming fullncSs,
as rivers from their water to the sea. | can
not admit to my bosom the crushing thought
tha. IN the full light of the Christian civiliza.
tion Of the nineteelh century such govern
ment is fated to perish beneath the swords OF
the guilty men who are now banded together
for It's overthrow. Applause, loud and long.
| Cannot, | will not believe these twenty
millions of people, cultivated, loyal, coui age.
ous-twcnty millions the Angl glo.Saxon race,
bearing the names of the heroes Of the Rcvo-
luton. and passing their lives amid the
inspirations Of its le.lields-wiil igromin-
lp a han br,,