The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1861-06-20

h.hsvsd 70 b in the msiority in every Sc
oedsd Stass. except. perhaps. soash Ceron-
na-aided by the presence g the
ment. Win b fully equal 10 the emesgenSy
Let these asitatoss psEish. point eAily' " 'e
Be-. By scores. s..
bu, destroy this Rspubfe snd--
.wA~. "a shss Psoosthsan heat
ms sas iss light Esiumsr
o.tombed. when will the Angel o..
-. Reeuuection descend to the portals o.
;ts sepulchre? There il not voice when ,
coues 10 - from the cemetfy OF nations Una,
6oes mot answer: "Never. never! Amio
the torments of perturbed existence we
msv have glimpses OF rest and freedom az
-. waniea has alimpsss Of reason between
-. c.,oxvsms Of his madness, but We shall
stt.in 10 rather national dignity nor nation
q ,enosa. We shall be q mass Of jarring.
-.,,!n~. haementary States. enfeeblsd and
6emo,siised. without power at home, or re-
snactability abroad, and. like the Republics
~ Nax;co and South America. we will drift
avsv ON . shoreless and ensanguined sea OF
c;vH aommotion. from which. if the teach
~, AZ history are to be trusted. we shall
- fnally rescued by the iron hand of some
miItarv wrecker, who win coin the shat
tered elsments of our greatness and OF ou
strength into . diadem and throne. SAID
N. Tould. the great French statesman, T.
an Amarican citizen, few weeks since:-
sYou, Republic is dead. and it is probably
thu Last the world will ever see. Yop
win have . reign Of terrorism, and after
thai two or three monarchies." AL TIL
NAV be verified, should this revolution cue
coed. az
Lat M then twine each thread OF tbs
ploYious tissue Of our copntry's flag abou
our heart strings. and looking upon ou'
homes and catching the spirit that breathe
upon M from the battle-6elds of our faith
ara. let US resolve that come veal or woe
va vill in lie and in death. now and foreve'
stand by the stars and stripes. They have
aoated over our cradles. let it be our praye'
and our struggle that shall foat over our
.orayea They have been unfurled from ths
snevs of Canada to the plains of New Or
leans. and to the halls OF the Montezumas.
and amid the solitudes Of every sea; and
sverywhers, as the luminous symbol of re-
sistless and benefcent power. they have led
the brave and the free to victory and to
glory. Il has been my fortune to look up
on this Dag in foreign lands and amid the
gloom of an oriental despotism. and right
Wen do know. by contrast. how brigh.
are its stars, and how sublime are its inspi-
rations! II 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 sacrificed on the affairs OF satanic am
bition, and thus disappear forever amid the
night and tempest of revolution, then will
feel-and who shall estimate the desolation
of that feeliug-that the sun has indeed
been stricken from the sky Of our lives, and
that henceforth we shall be but wanderers
and outcasts, with nought but the bread o
sorrow and Of perjury for our lips. and with
hands ever outstretched in febleness and
duplication, on which. in any hour. a mill.
tary tyrant may rivit the letters of des-
pairing bondage. May God in his infinite
mercy save you and me. and the land we
SO much love, from the doom of such ,
degradation.
No contest SO momentous as this has ariseI
in human history. for. amid all the conflict
Of men and Of nations, the life of no sucl
government as ours has ever been at stake
Our fathers won our independence by thu
blood and sacrifice of seven years war
sd We have maintained i against the :, a g
taph OF suicide written upon our tomb
The ordeal through which we are passing
must involve immense suffering and losses
for us al. but the expenditure of not mere
ly hundreds OF millions. but of billions OF
treasure will be 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 pros
pezity shrink away % do unfed streams be-
meath the summer heats--to rouse them.
selves from their letbsrgy. and fly to the
rescue Of their country before it is everlast-
iDgly too late. Man should appeal to man,
and neighborhood to neighborhood. until
the electric fires Of patriotism shall flash
from heart to heart in one unbroken current
throughout the land. It is time in which
the Workshop, the Office. the counting house
and the field may well be abandoned for the
solemn duty that is upon Us, for all the tolls
VIII but bring treasure. not for ourselves,
bus Tor the spoiler, if this revolution is not
arrested. We are al, with our every earth
y interest, embarked in mid ocean on the
same commoa deck. The howl Of the
storm is In our ears, and "the lishtnins's
red glare is painting bell on The sky" and
while the noble ship pitches and rolls under
the lashings of the waves. the cry is heard
mat she has sprung leak at many points,
and that the rushing aters are mounting
rapidly IN the hold. The man who, in such
an hour, viii not work at the pumps. is eth.
eS maniac or a monster.
Sincerely yours. J. HOW.
Department Of Public Instruction,
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.