Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-07

NA.AAiia nOl0s ~ AutlA - uAtANcAJ AoAhAo1
without formidable opposition; SO long AZ
the Government stood at its beck and call,
Il was all May day with slavery. But up
there in New England slaverys sky was
presently heoked with little cloud Of agi-
tation presently Il hundred little; and
afserwatd II tbundered o great deal, and
iiebtened with such burning thoughts and
utterauces es had not been heard since the
days Of Burke, and Chatham, and Henry.
IN that little cloud, no larger than mans
band, was contained the blessed storm now
OyeFspreading oar sky with rains for the
parcbed lands and thirsty hearts, and an
Asheathed Iightnings toppfify the murky and
. oppressive atmnspherel The solstiee has
yne. Slavery IL now equaled for all the
n ssbis of representation for all the money
I Ind territory poured in her lap4-even in
brute power matched, confronted, and soon
TO be overwhelmed. After the equinox, and
Its storms, please God, Americas days shall
be longer, and her nights shorlsr. r36
< To this point then the freemen Of Americ6
are brought; By whatever divers OF devious
paths, there they stand, IS one man. deter
mined, one and all, that because Freedom
begins 10 have the long days, Slavery shall
not arrest the earth on its azia Nasth't
things have boea Overturned q good dsai
already, 70 Aave brought Henry Ward
Beecher and the New York Herald 70 Eight
aOA tue eultt tlub ADOuL Six @ Weeks ago
Wendell Phillips spoke in the Music Hat,
with a mob around him, called there by the
Boston Courier; Sunday before last M.
Phillips bad to beg the mob MOTTO tear down
the Courier office; and now Phillips and the
CouSer are fighting under the same banner.
VI will overturn, oyerturn, overturn.p
NFhere are the parties now ? Where is the
yiilepublican or the Democratic platform2
VIXEN Mr.. Lincoln went to Washington, he
end his Secretary of State offered TO put an
, smendment in the Constitution parsIysing
the constitutional power of the people over
| Slavery. That was for the party. Bnt think
k-you that the President would 10 day inter-
pose his arm between slavery and the ava
I Eiauche which IL has loosened upon itself?
/ NeUer. That bomb shot into Sumter killed
yah the parties in the Union; and to-day
America renders TO slavery the suicidal fate
itlhas demanded. For War is the statesman
sship of Fate. Il is nature in man raising the
world TO the elevation ofthought. :
With genius rature is bound iu eternal alliance, o.,
Whatever mind has vowed, nature piouiy ptrfoI nv,
q Up in the little town of Aldo, when they
beard the first bomb fired at American Lib
trty, and, thanks to the telegraph, saw it's
BASH, the entire population went to the conn
mon, where the two poles with their party
hogs-Democrstic and Republican-stood
! with one accord they cut them down, tore
| Oft their party flags; splced the poles to
Sether and raised them as one pole with the
gtar-spangled banner on top The whole o.
| America was epitomized in Aldo that day
Throughout the land party flags have de-
seended and every party has brought all the
! good that was in il, and had it spliced in
| with the best of all the others-all to form
one great standard Of America, fit to bear in
the van of humanity the banner that has
now so much of America and liberty about
| il that slaves are not permitted to see it'll
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful bannerl who
could not die for thee now2 ..sas.t
| And there where Americans stand unit
! ltt us labor and wait. 1t is enough to-day
| that America can point to her twenty milf
ions of loyal children and say TO slavery with
the old Sea King; n ~
| =. The gale that wrecks you on the sand
| II Teaches my rowers TO row;
The storm Is my best galley. hand
And guides me where go.
That is what we should all now plead for
10 JolIo,O the leadings Of The. storm. Qud
cVTsifah UeEtts. Let the current mark Oul
coufse let us trust our ship to the divine
bFsath Sling her sails. /, for one, protes
G.NsApsA li the gRaanflee, ,.--against ali dsf
4 Vie determinatnIss as t6 whether this wal
! is 10 wipe out slavery at once or otherwise
| to ampdtate King Cotton or otherwise. Lei
us not impawn our future, nor commit our.
| serves preinaIurely.
Pb@ton took the chariot of the sun from
the god appointed to drive it, and he not
only scorched up the earth, but killed him.
self. Let us profit by his example, and leave
God to guide the sun, while we walk firmly
and faithfully in the light it vouchsafes US
So if the final step turns out TO be separation,
or Of it turns out to be the extinction oI
slavery, donbt not we shall march up to il
thesolid phalanx we are now. Let us take
the step that lies next to us, knowing that q
| light shall rise upon every one that is be-
yond. Let US thank God for the unity oi
| freemen witnessed in the North to-day,
knowing that He will overturn, and over
turn, and overturn, until the right is en-
thronedi and, as where the flying doves met
in ancient Rome, the Temple of Jove was
built so, now, where the hearts of freemen
meet the Temple of Liberty shall be reared
and unto it shall the nations flow, and there
shall be everlasting Peace and Joy.