Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1861-11-16

In Q recent speech made in Boston,
by Col. 7. +. Meagher, late of the six
ty.ninth, he referred to . visit to Bun
ker Hill Monument and apostrophized
the Aag fioating At the top - follow:
A national hag 10 the most sacred
thing which . nation can possess. Ii
brar:ss, museums, exchequess, the
tombs and statutes Of great men-sll
are inferior to it. IL 10 the illuminated
diploma of its authority; it is the i'm
perishable epitomization Of its history.
As / cast my eye along that shaft Of
granite, what did l see there! l saw
Cornwal!is delivering up his sword. l
saw the British troops evacuating the
city of New York. saw George Wash
ington inaugurated as the first Presi-
dent of the United States. I saw the
lofty brow and gaunt frame of Andrew
jackson. I saw the veterans of the
Peninsular War reeling before the fire
of Tennessee rifles in the swamps of
Louisiana. saw the thunders of Lake
Erie, when Perry commanded them to
90 forth and sweep the friend of the
South and the enemy Of the North from
it's waters. saw the American sailor,
pursuing his desolate and heroic way
up the interminable stream of the Am
izon, disclosing new world even with
in new world to the industry and the
avarice of the age.
I saw, in the bay of Smyrna, the
hunted prey of Austria rescued beneath
the Stars and Stripes. saw the tow
ers of Mexico and the causcway over
which Cortez went. saw those tow
ers and that causeway glistening in q
glory greater than even Cortez brought
to Spain. eaw the white bird scared
as the explorer stood upon the shore of
the sea in which the human form had
never before been mirrored. These and
throng of other grand incidents passed
like vision over those folds, as / stood
beneath them this day, Oh, may that
flag never incur another disaster! May
the troops that carry it into action die
where they receive the fatal fire, rather
than yield one inch of tho soil over
which it has right to float. May the
troops that carry it into action from
henceforth have this motto written upon
its folds: "Dcath ifyou will: victory if
God will give it us; but no defeat aud
no retreat"
Oh! if this is not worth fighting for,
if that flag is not worth fighting for, if
the country which it typifios, and over
which it has right to expand its folds,
if the principles which it symbolizcs-
if these arc not worth fighting for-if
the country which Mirabeau, with his
superb diction, spoke ofglowingly even
in its infancy, which DeTocqueville
recommended, with such calm wisdom
and accurate philosophy, to the accept
ancc and respect of the statesmen of the
old world, which Burke, with the mag
nificence Of his mind, pictured in it's
development, even when there was but
the "seminal principle, as he said him.
self, of its magnitude on earth-if this
and these are not worth fighting for
infinitely better worth fighting for than
all the kings and queens, than all the
Gibraltars and seraglios, than all the
jungles and pagodas which Irishmcn
have fought for under European flags
then l stand in minority. But it Is
notso. Ifin minority I stand tonight
uttering these words and this invoca-
ton, it Is . minority Of twenty millions
against ten. This, too, l know, that
every Irishman this side of Mason and
Dixon's line is with me. II there is
one who is not, let him take the next
Galway steamer and 60 home.
TIE ENEMY At HoME.-If we were
at war With England, We should not