The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-09-09

doned, or the honor of the country COM
/ promised: Enthusiastic applause. What
we need is a patriotism which rises
| fully to the comprehension of the ac-
\ tual and the awful perils which our institu-
/ tions are placed, and which is willing to
/ devote every power of body and mind and
| fortune to their deliYerance. CCheers. i
| A patriotism which, obliterating all party
lines cheers long continued and repeated,
again and again, breaking forth IN loud
! hurrah la patriotism which, obliterating
/ all party lines and entombing all party is
sues, says the President of the United
States: Here are our lives and our estates;
use them freely, use them boldly, but use
them successfully. For, looking upon the
graves of our fathers and upon the cradles
of our children, we have sworn that though
all things else should perish, this country
and this Union shall live. Great cheering,
the assembly rising to their feet and wav-
| ing hats and handkerchief, II is such
patriotism as this, and such only that will
conduct you to victory. And / rejoice TO
believe that this spirit has been everywhere
awakened throughout the loyal States
The capitalists have come nobly forward
[cheers1 and risking all, they have exhibit
ed a grandeur of devotion to the country
which, while it will astonish the people of
Europe, has inspired the gratitude and the
admiration of every true American heart.
ICheers.1 All honor to them They have
proved that if there is much gold in Wall
street, there is more patriotism there
[Cheers.1 Not Sumter patriotism, which
hourishes amid the peans of victory, but
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 de-
feat. TCheers. Unless this country can
thus feel, the sun of her national life which
is now obscure, 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 thai sun,
what would be our condition if that shadow
should deepen into the night of
permanent defeat Is there nothing to
live for but the gains of commerce, nothing
but the establishment of our estates of i'm
portance and the furtherance 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 a
flag, and without a country, and without q
future for ourselves and for our children
and to stand forth the degenerate and
despised descendants of -illustrious sires
We might lay ourselves in the dust, and be
stripped by traitors hands of all that emo
bles and sweaters human existence, and still
live on as do the cattle of the field but our
lives would be more ignoole than theirs
TCheers. IT, with all our vast material re-
sources, If with our known aud acknowl-
edged physical superiority over the rebels
Il if with our clanorons and profuses avewais
Of devotion TO our institutions, we suffe.
that rebellion to triumph over US, l do YER
lily believe the American name would be-
come "a stencil in the nostrils of the world,
an American citizen would not be per-
4 mitted to walk the streets of ali American
capital without having the fager of scorh
pointed at him. Cries Of 81 Bravo, " and
cheers.l Fellow citizens, If J might be
permitted to utter word upon such snb-
jecf, would earnestly counsel forbearance
and patience in reference 10 those charged
with the administration of our Govern
ment Great applause. Before critici.
sing their cOndnct we should remember that
we may not see all the field of actip prra 40 d
ate the difficulties to be oTercome. r An
plause. No man can doubt the honesty
and loyalty of the President of the United
States Immense waving of hats and cries
of" No, . or his determination to suppress
this rebellion. To him, under the Constitu-
ton, the popular voice has committed abso-
iutely the fate of this Republic His hands
are emphatically your hands, aad in weaken.
I Ing him, you weaken yourselves and you
weaken the struggling country that we are
all striving to save. He is at this mo-
ment overwhelmed with a mountain of re-
sponsbility and toll such as ever rested on
no public man in our history, and he is
| tuily entitled to all the support and all the
/ consolation which generous and warm
hearted patriotism can give him. TGreat
| applause. Amid all the discopraeemeuts
/ That Surround US, have still an Ia nfaIteripp
faith in human progress and the capacity Of
! man for self-government. believe all the
4 blood which the true lovers Of our race have
shed upon more than a thousand battle
fields has born fruit, aRd that fruit is the
Republic OF the United States. fApplause I
Il came forth upon the world like the morn
ing sun from its chamber, and its pathway
has been the pathway of light and glory, /
and it has poured its blessings upon its neo-
pie in trimming fullness, as rivers from
their waters TO the sea. { cannot admit to I
my bosom the crushing thought that in the /
fau light of the Christian civilization of the
nineteenth century, such a Government is
fated to perish beneath the swords of the 1
guilty men who are now banded together |
for its overthrow. Applause, loud and |
long.l cannot, / will not believe these +
twenty millions of people, cultivated, loyal, i
eourageous-twe nty millions of the Anglo |
Saxon race, bearing the names of the heroes I
of the Revolution, and passing their lives
amid the Inspirations of its sbastle-fieIds-
will ANONYMOUSLY suffer its institutions to
be overthrown by ten millions, nearly half
of whom are wretehed, helpless slaves With
letters on their hands. TGreat applause
cries of "Never."] No page of history so
dark and SO humIliating as this, has1been Il
written Of any portion of the human fami-
lily and the American people had better.
far better, never been born than to have
lived to have such history written ofj
themselves. Let us then, fellow-citizens
endeayor to raise. ourselves. fully to this
great work Of duty. If it is TO be done
we'll, it should be done quickly. If we
would economist both blood and treasure,
we should move promptly--we sheuldmove t
nightly. If at this very moment, it were c
possible to precipitate the whole phi ysical /
force or the North upon the battle-fields of e