The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-09-18

tell you it is q deluson if you will go into the
cemetry of nations, aud hold your ear to the
sepulchre OF those young and generous and high
spirited nations that have persisted through the
convulsons Of civil strife, they will answer in
accents OF Observation-Disclosures, il is delusion.
And if you will not listen TO the voices Of the
past, 60 into Mexico and South America and
ask the inhabitants Of those bright lands, blest
with climate the best Of earth, and occupying
a soil OF exhaustless fertility, aud living amid
akes, rivers, aud mountains Of grandeur aud
uspiratior-they will lit up their bowed heads
amid Decentralization, poverty, and dishOnor, and
they will tell you it is a delusion. Cheers. Eel
low Citizens, l rel ice to believe-may l not say
to know-that the spirit of loyalty at this time
dwels richly and abundanty in the popular
heart of the North and West. But do beseech
YOU, you who have a deep stake in the present
and future If our country-you men of culture
and OF fortune, and of moral power, do implore
YOU, by all means possible add yet to the power
aud to the fervor of that loyalty. If it grows
cool amid the calculations of avarice, or craven
under the discOuragements Of defeat, our coua
try will be overcome. What we now need is a
patriotism that will abide the ordeal Of fire, a
patriotism that is purged of all sel6shness, and
from all fear, which is heroic and exhaus,less
which vows with every throb of life, with every
pulse, that it will raly-if stricken down it will
rise again. and that under the pressure Of no
circumstances of defeat, of sorrow, or Of suffer.
ing shall the national flag be abandoned, or the
hOaOr OF the country compromised Enthusiast
tic applause. What we need is a patriotism
which rises fully to the comprehension Of the
actual and the awful perils in which our insiitu
tons are placed, and which is wiling to devote
every power OF body and mind and fortune to
their deliverance. (Cheers. A patriotism which
celebrating al! party lines cheers long contn-
ued, and repeated again aud again, breaking
forth in loud hurrsh Ia patriotism which, OBJ
literating all party lines and entOmbing all party
issues, saws to the President of the United
States: Here our lives, aud our estates use
them fire ly, use them boldly, but use them sue
cesstuily. 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 aud this Union shall live.
Great cheering, the assembly rising to their
feet and waving hats and hsnkerchets IL is
| ,uch patriotism as this, and such only, that
will conduct you to victory. Aud l rejoice to
believe that this spirit has been everywhere
| aw akened throughout the loyal States. The
capitalists have come nobly forward cheers,
aud, risking all, they have exhibited grandeur OF
devotion to the country which, while it will as
| tOnish the people OF Europe, has inspired the
gratitude and the admiration of every true
American heart. lCheers all honor to them!
they have proved that if there is much gold in
Wall street, there is more patriot sm there.
[Cheers Not Summer patriotism, which flour
| ishes amid the peans of victory, but patriotism
which struggles, and sacrifices, and suffers. and
is prepared 70 put all things to hazard, even i'll
the Winter of national adversely, and in the
hour of national defeat. Cheers. Unless this
country can thus feel, the sun Of her national
life, which is now obscu ed, may yet 60 down
| forever, amid storms and darkness-if al our
great national interests are crushed to earth by
the shadow which is passing over the sun, what
| would be our condition if that shadow should
deepen into the eight Of permanent defeat? Is
there nothing to live for but the gains of COM
merce, nothing but the establishment of our es
tates of importance. and the furtherauce Of our
ease and comfort? Are courage and manhood,
aud honor, and loyalty, and national fame, and
the respect and homage of the world nothing?
Is it nothing to live without flag, and without
country, and without future for ourselves and
for our children. and 10 stand forth the degen-
crate and despised descendants Of illustrious
sires. We might lay ourselves in the dust, and be
stripped by traitors hands of all that ennObles
/ and sweetens human existence, and still live Oh
a. do the cattle Of the field, but our lives would
be more ignoble than theirs. (Cheers) II, with
all our vast material resources, if with our known
and acknowle lodged physical superiority over the
Rebels, if with our clamorous and profuse avow.
ala Of devotion to our institutions, suffer that
rebellion to triumph over US, verify believe the
American name would become a stencil in the
nostlils of the world, and that an American cit
lzens would not be permitte1 to walk the streets OF
European capital without having the finger of
scorn pointed at him. (Cries OF Bravo and
L Pill Wi, 4 v~.:, h. H.. II
70 enter q word upon such . subject, would
earnestly counsel fOrbearance and patience in
reference to those charged with the sdministra
ton Of our Government. (Great applause.) Be-
fore criticising their conduct we should remember
that We NAV not see all the field of action, and
may not be in a condition justly to appreciate
the difficulties to be overcome. (Applause.) No
man can doubt the honesty and loya of the
President of the United States; Immense ap-
plause, waving Of hats, and cries of "No."O or
mis- determination to suppress this rebellion. To
him, under the Constitution the popular voice
has committed absolutely the fate of this Repub.
lie. His hands are emphatcally your hands, and
In weakening him, you weaken yourselves and
you weaker the struggling country that We are
all striving to save. He Is too At this moment
overwhelmed with a mountain of responsibility
and toll such as never rested on no public man in
support and all the consolation which generous
and warm he.-.sd patriotism can give him,
Great applause.) Amid all the discouIa gemeu,-
that surround US, have still an unfaltering faith
in human progress and in the capacity OF man
Tor self government. l believe all the blood
which the true lovers of our race have shed upon
more than a thousand battlefelds has borne
iruit and that fruit is the Republic of the United
States. (Applause.l 1t came forth upon the world
! like the morning sun from its chamber, and it:
. pathway has been the pathway of light and glory
aud it has poured its blessing upon its people ii
Drumming fullness, as rivers pour their waters t(
the Sea. l cannot admit to my bosom the crush
ing thought that in the full light of the Christian
, civilization OF the nineteenth century such
Government is fated to perish beneath the swords
! Of the guilty men who are now banded togethe
for its overthrow. Applause, loud and long.)
3 cannot will not believe these twenty millions o
4 people, cultivated, loyal, coursgeous-t~ent,
millions of the Anglo Saxon race. bearing th'
names of the heroes of the Revolution, an,
passing their lives amid the inspiration Of its bat
: tle-helds-will ignominiously suffer its lnstitu
b tons to be overthro~n by ten millions, nearl
: half Of whom are wretched, helpless slaves viii
letters in their hands. (Greas applause; cries O
e I"Never. No page OF history 90 dark and g
{ humiating as this has been written of any por
4 ton OF the human family; and the America
= people had better, far better, never been Dor
r than TO have lived TO have such history write
e Of themselves. Let US then, fellow -ctizsns, en-
desvor to raise ourselves fully to this grea,
e OF duty. If it 10 to be done we'll, it should b
d done quickly. If We would economist bot