The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-07-11
Dotal setattcrs.
TIME TADLE---Dayton & Michigan II.
independence Day at Bowling Green.

"epulc OF BoWlpg btfcen' j ne uny was Deautlu
at early hour every road leading TO the vii
lage thronged with wagons, carriages and
bugges. Taking up the line of march, the assem-
bled mass proceeded to shady grove about one
half mile north Of Bowling Green, and at about
half past IL o'clock the order of exercises were
commenced.
Geo. Williams, ESQ., the President Of the day,
called the people to order, when the Bowling Green
Glec Club gave us " Hail Happy Day" with WILL
The exercises were then regularly opened with II
prayer by Rev. Mr.. Baldwin. At this iuncturs it
was announced that Phillip Shuc, soldier of the
war of 1912, present, when that aged veteran
was invited and came forward 10 n seat upon the
stand. Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated Army
Hymn" published in the June number of the Allan
tic Monthly, was sung with patriotic ardor, and
fairly made US feel glorious" The next in order
the reading of the Declaration of Independence,
by Mr.. E. Elliott, after which the nations favoritc
"The Star Spangled Banner" was sung by the
Glee Club.
Mr.. Slevn, of Perrysburg, then being introduced
by the president, took the stand and spoke in sub
stance as folows H. said we had assembled fora
three fold purpose. First, TO Offer up gratitude to
God for the blessings we have received in the past
Second to return gratitude to our iorcfathcrs for
the doliverance from oppression received nt their
hands. And last, to take upon ourselves the pleas
ant task of again renewing our covenant with the
glorious anniversary OF our American independence
lie alluded briefly to the great price the securing OF
liberty to cost our lorlfahcrs. The Declaration
OF our independence was not only Il noble event in
our history, but in the history of ages. The great
ideas which grew out Of that event have like the
leaven hid in the measure Of meal, silently been
working the most momcntous changes in the condi
tion of the people all over the world and the end
is not yet. sChrsan lib ry art and letters go hand
hand and the progress of the world for the eighty
five years which have followed the Declaration has
been greater than five times the length of that peri
cd which preceded it. But Just now question.
which our unexampled prosperity for these eighty
live years was supposed to have been settled, has
been re-opened. The French and English press tell
us that This war is to settle the question whether
Republican form OF government can, after all, main
tain itself against domestic turbulence or whether
we shall be compelled to go back to the old AMI long
established and kingly forms of government. Hence
there are m1mcntouS consequences hanging over
the present crisis. Already our armies have gone
to the " tented field" and who knows but at this
hour some great battle may be raging. Nowhere
upon the face of Gods earth will liberty be realized
and appreciated if this rebellion is not wiped out
With all these facts in view, We came again To con-
sccratc ourselves to liberty. Ii the price WAS terri
BILE that gained the liberty we now enjoy, what
should we not sacrifice to maintain that liberty =
the orator here drew comparison between the
condition of our armies in the early tmes and the
means now at their command Tor the maintenance
of the Union intact. We say to al. foreign coun-
tries, and England in particular, " hands off" we
can attend to or own affaIs and he thanked God
that there was representative of the army here
to-day, who helped to teach her that respect We
r. be compelled 10 teach her again il she at
tempts to interfere in our present difficulties. To
establish the original rights for reemcn is great
er trial than even the War Of Independence. Be
cause the principles enunciatcd in the Declaration
of Independence were not truly carried out may be
attributed the cause of the present great rebellion.
Mr.. ). then gave very life-likc picture of the
Southern disposition to "luc or ruin :" how they
had been continuously favored with large m ior-
dty of the Federal offices bow the Missouri COM
promise was established to extend the area of sla-
very how it was taken down for the same object
the Mexican war being for that purpose ; the Ma
tion's Treasury robbed all this has been done 10
satisfy the demands of slavery, and the North has
submitted for the sake of peace. But it is not for
anything the North has done THAT the South are
dissatisfied. Here he read an extract from a
speech made by A. II. Stephens going to show a
long prem ,ltatel purpose to overthrow the funll-
mental doctrine of Thomas Jefferson, that "all men
are created equal !; and is to resist this great error
that the hardy sons of the North are now lockng
to the field of battle He thought there was bat
one choice between submission ani resistance TO
this steady advanceo of tyranny. To be a soldier in
the Revolution was no protection for man in the
South. He had read in the papers of an old vpter-
an having actually been tied to tree and his BODY
riddled with bullets, his only crime being because
he loved the Stars and Stripes, and gave expression
to thai love. Refugees constantly arriving at
the North from the South many of whom were
compelled to leave home, property and all, barely
escaping with their lives. Under these circumstan-
ces, every loyal citizen had duty to perform, and
that duty was to see the rebellion put down, law
and order re-established, and the Stars and Stripes
handed down untarnished to future posserily lie
did not pretend to say how the cause of the present
trouble was 10 be done Away uith, but he would
rather the whole thing should be abolished-blot-
ted out from the face of the earth than that the life
of one of our should be sacrificed On the fields
of the South. lie did not believe this should be
made an object of the present war but if it were
necessary to the perpetuity of the Union, should
glorfy in its downfall lie then briefly alluded to
the struggles of the Revolution, and closed with a
beautiful and touching allusion to the patriotism
which prompted the grand rally for the muntc-
nance of free institutions, handed down to us by our
forefathcrs.
loving to the DrCSSurp of b1SinaSS V-aI boo,
compelled to " cut down the remarks of Mr.. S
and may in some instances have done him Injustice;
but the points in the main are very near c0rrect1
At the conclusion of Mr. SIS remarks, The
Sword of Bunker Hill," was sung by Mr.. II. G.
Condit after which all repaired to the tables, and
proceeded to provide for the " inner man." Dinner
over the people again returned to the stand to hear
the reading of the
REGULAR TOAsTs.
1st. The day we celebrate NAV its memories
inspire our hearts, and kinde anew the fires of pa
triotiSm and here the 4th of july 1861 in imita
ton of the patriots of '16 let Us pledge to each 9th
er and our country, our lives, our fortunes ani
our sacred hCnOrs." Responded to by Rev. j. A
Shannon.
2I The President of the United States NAV
he be guided by the wisdom and aided by the III N
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