Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-08-08
Sentiments ofa Democratic
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Eloquent Conclusion of a Speech!

The Hon Daniel S. Dickinson, of New
York, in a recent speech gave vent to tho
patriotic feelings that animate the spirit
Of the Democracy. We do not know a
Democrat who does not fully endorse, i'll /
sentiment aud in act, the burning words /
of this old and veteran Democrat
"Shall we then surrender to turbulence |
and faction. and rebellion, and give up the
Union with all its elements of good, and
all its holy memories, all its hallowed as
sociations, all its blood-bought history?
"No! let the eagle change his plu G,
The leaf its hue, the flower its bloom;"
But do not give up the Union. Pre-
serve it to "hourish in immortal youth"
until it is dissolved amid the "wreck of
matter and the crash of worlds" Let tho
patriot and statesman stand by it to the
last, whether assailed by foreign or dom
estic foes, and if he perishes in the conflict,
let him fall like Rienzi. the last of the
Tribunes, upon the same stand whcio he
has preached liberty and equality to his
countrymen.
Preserve it in the namc of the Fathers
of the ReYolution-preserve it for its
great elements of good-preserve it in
the sacred name of libcity--prcserye it .
for the faithful and devoted lovers of the
Constitution in the rohelIions States
those who are persecutcd for its support, |
and are dying for its defense. Rebellion
can lay down its arms to Government
Government cannot surrender to rebellion
Give up the Unionl ",he fair and fertile
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 its own! Draw line
upon the suns disc, that it may cast its
beams upon the earth in divisionsl Let
the moon, like Bottom in the play, show
but half its face! Separate the constella-
ton Of the pleiades and snndor the bands
Of Orion! butretain the Union.
Give up the Union with its glorious
flag, its stars and stripes, full OF proud
and pleasing, and honorable recolloctions,
for the spurious invention with no ante
cedents but the history Of a violated con
stitution and of lawlcss ambition? No.
let us stand by the emblem Of our fathers,
"Flag of the free hearts hope and home,
by angel hands to valor given,
The stars have lit the wckin dome
And all thy hucs were born in Heaven"
Ask the Christian to exchange the cross
with the cherished memories of a Savior
love, for the crescent of the impostor, or
TO address his prayers to tho Juggenaut
or Josh instead Of the living and true God !!
but sustain tho emblem your fathers low
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Never! The Union shall endure, and its
praise shall be heard when its friends and
its foes, those who support and those whe
assail, those who bare their bosoms in it's
defence, and those who aim their daggers
at its heart, shall all sleep in the dust to %
gether. Its name shall be heard with
venertion among the roar Of Pacilic's
waves, away upon the rivers Of the Nanh
and East, where liberty is divided from
manarchy, and be waited in gentle blcez
IS upon the Rio Grande 1t shall rustic
in the harvest, and wave in the standing
corn, on the extended prairics of the west
and be heard in the bleating folds and
lowing heards upon thousand hills. 1t
shall be with those who dclve in mines
and shall hum in the manufactures Of
New England, and in the cotton gins OF
the South. 1t shall be proclaimed by tit,
stars and stripes in every sea of earth, n
tho American Union one and indivisiblc
upon the great thoroughiarcs wherever
steams drives and engines throb, anC
shrek, its greatness and pcrpotuity shall
be hailed with 8Iadness. IL shall be lispcd
in the earliest words, and ring in the mer-
ry voices Of childhood, and swell to hcav.
On upon the song OF maidcns 1t shall
live in the stem resolve of manhood, and
rise to the mercy seat upon woman's gen
tie avaiIng prayer. Holy men shall in
woke its perpetuity at the affairs Of religion
and it shall be whispered in tho last nc
conts of expiring age. Thus shall surviv,
and be perpctuatcd the American Union
and when it shall be proclaimed that TIM
sall be no moro, and the curtain shall fall
and the good shall be gathered to more
perfect Union still. may the destiony oI
our dear land realize the conception, that
"Periumes us Of Eden flowed swcctly along,
And voice, rs Of Angels, enchanting my song,
Columbia, q lImbin, to glory arise,
The Queen Of the world and the child of the
skies"
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