Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-09-20

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swer in Observation-Disclosures it is a delu
e sion.
: And if you will not listen to the vol
e ces of the past, go into Mexico ant
e South America, and ask the inhabtant
] of those bright lands, blest with clmat
= the best of earth, and occupying a soil 0
: exhaustless fertility, and living amic
r lakes, rivers and mountains of grandeu
and inspiration-they will lift their bow
ed heads, amid demoralizaton, poverty
and dishonor, and they will tell you it i
delusion. (Cheers)
t Fellow-citizens, rejoice to believe
! may | not say to know-that the spiri
Of loyalty at this time dwells richly anC
abundantly in the popular heart Of tht
North and West. But do beseech you
you who have deep stake in the pres
ent and in the future of our country
you men of culture, and of fortune, anC
of moral power, l do implore you, by
all means possible add yet to the power
and to the fervor of that loyalty. If il
grows cool amid the calculations of av.
arace, or craven under the discourage.
ments Of defeat, our country will be over
come. What we now need is patriot
ism that will abide the ordeal of fire, a
patriotism that is purged of all selfish
ness, and from all fear, which is heroic
and exhaustless which VOWS with every
throb of life, with every pulse, that it
will rally-if stricken down it will rise
again, and that under the pressure Of no
circumstances of defeat, of sorrow, or of
suffering, shall the national flag be aban-
doned, or the honor Of the country COM
promised. Enthusiastic applause y
What we need is a patriotism which ri
ses fully to the comprehension of the ac-
tual and the awful perils in which our
institutions are placed, and which is viii
ling to devote every power Of body, and
mind, and fortune to their deliyerance.
(Cheers.) A patriotism which obliter-
ing all party lines-(c (cheers long contin-
ued, and repeated again and again, break
ing forth in a loud hurrah)--a patriotism
which obliterating all party lines and en-
tombng all party issues, says to the Pres
ident of the United States Here are
our lives and our estates; use them free
ly, use them successfully, For, looking
upon the graves of our fathers, and up
on the cradles of our children, we have
sworn that though all things else should
perish, this country and this Union shall
live. (Great cheering, and the assembly
rising to their feet and waving hats and
handkerchiefs.)
1t 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 through
out the loyal States. The capitalists
have come nobly forward and, rIsking all,
they have exhibited a grandeur Of devo
tion to the country which, while Ii will
astonsh the people of Europe, has in
spired the gratitude and the admiration
of every true American heart. (Cheers.) |
All honor to them They have proved
that if there is much gold in Wall street,
there is more patriotism there (Cheers.) |
Not a summer patriotism, which flour
ishes amid the p@ans Of victory, but
patriotism which struggles, and sacrif-
ces, and suffers, and is prepared to put
all things to hazard, even in the winter
of national adversely, and in the hour of
national defeat. (Cheers) Unless this
country can thus feel, the sun Of her ma
tional life, which is now obscured, may
yet 90 down forever, amid storms and
all our great material in
terests are crushed to earth by the shad-
ow which is passing over the sun, what
would be our condition if that shadow
should deepen into the night Of perma-
nent 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 man
hood, and honor, and loyalty, and national
fame, and the respect and homage of the
world, nothing? Isit nothing to live
without flag, and without country,
and without a future for ourselves, and
for our children, and to stand forth the
degenerate and despised descendants of
llustrious sires We might lay our
selves in the dust, and be stripped by
traitors hands of all that ennobles and
sweetens human existence, and still live
IN as do the cattle of the field, but our
ives would be more gnoble than theirs.
lCheers.) If, with all our material re-
,ources-if, with our known and ac-
physical superiority over the