Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-07-31
Splendid Union Effort by ID. =.
Dickinson.

Amherst college,, was an eloquent Tribute
to the Union and a pungent argument in
favor Of vigorous measures" against the
rebels. We give a couple Of extracts;
Can Union cnce discovered be recon
structed by the arrangement Of all parties
concerned in its formation? MOI when it
is once destroyed it is destroyed forever.
Let those who believe it can be, first raise
the dead, place the dimpling laugh of
childhood upon the lips Of age, gather up
the petals Of May flowers and bind them
upon their native stems in primeyal fresh
ness amid the frosts of December, bring
back the withered leaves of Autumn and
breath into them their early luxuriance,
and then bring together again the scattered
elements Of discovered Union, when the
generous spring time OF our Republic has
passed away, and selfishness and ambition
have come upon us with their premature
frosts and 'winter of discomfort"
Shall we then surrender to turbulence
and faction, and rebellion, and give up the
Union with all its elements Of good, all its
holy memories, all its hallowed associa-
tons, all its blood bought history7
sNo 1T the eagle change It's plume,
The leaf its hue, the flower its bloom"
but do not give up the Union. Preserve
it to Flourish in immortal youth" until it
is dissolved amid the swreck of matter and
the crash of worlds" Let the patriot
and statesman stand by it to the last,
whether assailed by foreign or domestic
foes, and if he perishes in the conflict, let
him fall like Renz, the last Of the Trb-
unes, upon the same stand where he has
preached Liberty and equality to his coun-
trymen.
Preserve it in the name Of the Fathers
Of the eyolution--preserye it for its great
elements of good-preserye it in the sacred
name Of liberty-preserve it for the faith
FIJI and devoted lovers Of the Constitution
ia the Rebelious States-those who are
prosecuted for its support, and are dying
in its defense. Rebellion can lay down its
arms to ACKNOWLEDGEMENT cannot
surrender to rebellion.
Give up the Union! 'fhis fair and fer
tile plain to batten on that moor" Divide
the Atlantic, so that its tides shall beat in
sections, that some spurious Neptune may
rule an ocean Of his own Draw a line
upon the suns disc, that it may cast its
beams upon earth in divisions! Let the
moon, like Bottom in the play, show but
half its face Separate the constellation of
the Pleiades and sunder the hands of
Orion! but retain THE UNION.
Give up the Union, with its glorious
flag, its Stars and Stripes full Of proud,
and pleasing, and honorable recollections,
for the spurious invention, with no ante
cedents but the history Of violated Con
stitution and of lawless ambition. No!
let us stand by the emblem of our fathers !!
q. Flag Of free hearts. hope and home,
By angel hands TO valor given,
The stars have lit the wekin dome
And all thy husi were born in Heaven
f. Ask the Christian to exchange the cross,
with the cherished memories Of a Savior's
love, for the crescent Of tie imposter, or to
address his prayers to the Juggernaut in
stead Of the living and true God but sus-
tain the emblem your fathers loved and
cherished.
/ ITS HOPE HEREAFTER.
Give up the Union? Neyerl The
Union shall endure, and its praises shall be
heard, when It's friends and its foes, those
who support and those who assail, those
who bare their bosoms in its defense, and
those who aim their daggers at its heart,
shall all sleep in dust together. It's name
shall be heard with veneration amid the
roar Of the Pacifc's waves, away upon the
rivers Of the north and east, where liberty
Is divided from monarchy, and be waited
ia gentle breezes upon the Rio Grande.--
1t shall rustic in the harvest, and wave III
the standing corn, or the extended prairies
Of the West, and be heard IN the bleahng
folds and lowing herds upon thousand
hills. 1t shall be with those who
delve in mines, and shall hum in the
manufactures Of New England and
in the cotton din Of the South
1t shall be proclaimed by the Stars and
Stripes in every sea Of earth as the Amer
ioan Union, one and indiyisible; upon the
great thoroughfares wherever steam drives
and engines throb and shrek, It's greatness
and perpetuity shall be hailed with glad
ness. It shall be lisped in the earliest
words, and ring in the merry voices Of
childhood and swell to Heayea upon the
songs Of madens. Itshalllive in the stern
resolve of manhood, and rise to the mercy
seat upon woman's gentle ayailing prayer.
Holy men shall invoke its perpetuity at the
affairs Of religion, and it shall be whispered
in the last accents of expiring age. Thus
shall survive and be perpetuated the
American Union, and when it shall be pro-
claimed that time shall be no more. and
the curtain shall fall, and the good shall be
gathered to a more perfect union still, may
the destiny Of our dear land realize the
conception that
:. Perfumes As Of Eden flowed sweetlv along,
And voice, as Of angels, enchanfingiy sung,
Columbia. Goiumbia to glory arise.
The Quepn OF the world and the child Of the skies.
IT, Mr. Lamberton, the Postmaster at