Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-05-10

Thai lind us in sacred communion.
Her nest "tha blue heutn will never forsAke,
And that nest is the glorious old Union.
wilmington, May 9TH, 1861
Iisto he supposed, since he sens OF Delaware are
called "Tho blue Hens Chickens that Delaware herself
must be 'slho BLU Hem
EDWARD EVERETT ON THE CRISIS.
Hon Edward Everett, on Monday week. de-
liycred the following speech in Boston on the
ocoason Of raising a flag in that oty
FELLOW CITIZENS AND FRIENDS; The great as
semblage that see around me, the simple but
interesting ceremonial with which the flag Of our
country has been thrown to the breeze the
strains Of inspiring music, the sweet concert OF
these youthful voices the solemn application OF
the reverend Clergyman which fills our ears-
nj these proclaim The deep patriotic sentiment,
of which TINT flag is the symbol and expression.
Nay more, it speaks for itself Its mute elo-
quence needs no aid from my lips to interpret
its significance. Fidelity to the Union blazes
from its stars; allegiance to the Government
beneath which we live is wrapped within its
folds.
We set up this standard, my friends, not rs
matter Of idle display but as an expressive in
dication that in the mighty struggle that has been
forced upon us. We are Of one heart and one
MUD that the Government of the country must
be sustained. We are law.abiding, quiet-lOy-
energies, are habitualy devoted to the peaceful
arts by which States grow and prosper but,
upon I'm issue in which the life of the country is
involved We rally as one man to its defence. All
former differences of opinion are swept away /;
we forget that we have ever been partisans we
remember only that we are Americans, aud that
our country is in peril.
And what is it that has kindled this quiet and
peaceloying community to the present unex
omnlpd pxqitpmpnt--n natriOtic unanimitv mt
witnessed even in l1I5? Why is it that the flag
of our country--always honored, always beloved
is now, all at once, worshipped, l may say
with the passionate homage Of this whole people?
Why does it ioat, as never before, not merely
from arsenal and masthead, but from tower and
steeple, from the public edifces, the temples Of
science, the private dwelling, in magnificent dis
play or miniature prescntmentl Let Fort Stump
ter give the answer. When on this day fortnight.
the 18th of April (n day forever to be held in
inauspicuous remembrance, like the dies Atheists
in the annals OF Rome,) the tiding spread through
the land that the standard of United America,
the pledge of her Union and the symbol of her
power, which so many gallant hearts had poured
out their life blood on the ocean and the land to
uphold had, in the hnrbor of Charleston, been,
for n day and half, tho target of eleven fraciri
cidal batteries, one deep, unanimous, spontane
Gus feeling shot with the tdngs through the
bOsoms OF twenty millions of freemen, that its
outraged houcr must be vindcated.
And, oh, fellow citizens, if aloof as we are from
the Immediate danger of the conflict, sheltered in
our comfortable homes, with the objects Of our
affection around us, We can refuse our support
to the Constitution, the Laws, aud the Govern
ment in whose defence those seventy brave men,
for thirty lrighlrul hours, without sleep, almost
without food, compelled TO draw the breath Of
heaven into their lungs through mOstened hand
kerchiefs, stood faithful and undaunted beneath
the iron storm bursting from above, and the
raging fires around them, we shall deserve
oursclves, on some disastrous day, to pass
through Il like fiery ordeal.
1 speak, fellow citizens, in no spirit of unknd-
moss to the South. | have been, through my
public life, some OF you have thought, too much
her friend 10 avert what deemed the i'm
pending danger Of general conyulsiOn have
been more wiling than some of you to pursue
always hope through honorable paths-the
policy Of consolation. Besides this, in my hum
bic effort to rescue the tomb n Washington from
dissertation land oh, saddest dissertation of oil, that
the sacred precincts should perhaps even now
be troddsn by armed bands, Fastening to lay the
city which hears his name in ashes), have ira
versed the south, everywhere received with the
most intlcring kindness, more than most North
ern men. In no part Of the Union have more
valued friends; but rs Heaven is my judge, il is
my most profound and solemn conviction that it
is infinitely more desirable for the South than
the North that this suicidal attempt to break up
the Union should be frustrated.
For consider, fullOw-citizens, that that flag,
which you have this day given to the breeze, is
not merely the symbol of Union at home, but Of
peace, safety, md respect abroad. The unhal-
lowed blow which has been struck at it has not
only as its first result, involved the country in
whit all history prOolaims the diresi of national
calamites--l civil war-but it has at once placed
IL .aT.as nntsv naufar
No Government on this continent can command
the respect of Europe, that does not possess a
navy; aud the North, from natural causes, must
ever be the exclusive seat of the naval strength
of the country. Our climate, our harbors, our
fisheries, our commercial marine, are the ele-
ments Of this strength The South has naval
stores brave officers, live-oak forests but whal
are live oak trees without live-oak men to com
pact them into noble ships and to launch their
thuuders? What would it avail the South to
possess the whole English navy, while their har
bors arc shut up by bars, over which you cannot
ilont q bombketch No, fellow-citizens, the
South-if she succeeds in rending the Union
not ouy throws away her share in all the future
naval glories of the country, but she puts her
self in the eyes of Europe, by the side of the
petty-trading republics of Bremen, of Hamburg
Of Lubbock; She exposes her commerce to the in
suits of every rover of the sea-hods her coast.
and her hoTbors not only at the mercy of thu
great maritime Powers OF England and France
but of Austria and Of Spain-of any third-rat'
Government that keeps few steam frgates n
sea. AT this moment, there is nothing but tina
flag which you have this day displsyed-tha
navy which the South is seeking to paralize ant
desiroy--which protects Norfolk, and Charles
TIN, and Savannah, and Pensacola, and Mobile
and New Orleans from the insults of Spain, justl.
irritatcd at the hllibustering war which has BEEF
so often waged upon Cuba.