Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-03-14

renee, anu W RratlIy an unnatural sym.
patby for the slave, commit treason
against human hope, in sacrificing the
high destinies Of the Anglo-Saxon race
upon this continent? Shall we turn mo.
nomaniacs on account Of slavery, and
lower ourselves to an equality with the
negro, and, in company with him, com
monce from that moment to measure
back our steps to savage and brutal life? ?
trust not.
Never before lived there any people en-
joying such birth-rights, such an un
bounded horizon Of greatness and glory
as that which now presents itself before
the enranptured vision of every enlighten
ed American citizen. Should this great
Anglo.Saxon family of families fall out
by the way? Should this great nation
Of nations, this followed and august IN
ion OF SO many sovereign and independ-
ent states, of one political faith, Of one
rich and noble, eclectic language, and OF
one divinely true and supremely grand
religion, be sacrificed at the demon shrine
Of any sectional idol? Then, indeed,
would the measure Of our disgrace be
complete; our folly, our fall would be an
eternal shame. an everlasting reproach,
the greatest calamity that time could re-
cord, involving in its details all the ter
rife horrors that demons can plan, and
wicked and fallen man execute. Chaos
would then mount the car Of discord; our
ears would be saluted with the dread
clarion Of death, our eyes behold the mel.
ancholy spectacle of LIBERTY expiring
amid the SIN oking ruins of her once fair
citadel, and Washington's fair Temple oI
Freedom vailed forever fran human view
1t cannot be. 1t must not be.
Beset as the world is with natural ant
moral evils. though virtue, patriotism
and piety be bleeding at every pore
though the sweet influence of the Heaven
be turned to bitterness, and some of tn
stars Of our glorious constellation be pull
ed down from their high abodes. and will
fanaticism be breathing mildew and pes
thence over the pale face of the aston
ished nation, yet bright hopes are enter
tanned that in the appointed time REA
SON, true to the natural impulse of he
heaven born and inextinguishable nature
will at length return, bringing with he
the bloom of Eden, the exiled stars ant
an unrent banner. For three quarters o
century has the mighty fabric erected
by our patriotic sires, loomed up like /
splendid beacon amid the solitudes O
time, rendering Columbia the light hous,
of nations, in whose citadel earth's pill
grims have in peace reposed, and hel
exiles dropped their chains. But tbs
structure is not yet complete.
Let no rude hand now prematurely
seek to place the capstone on our dome
of liberty, nor limit its fair goddess in
the freedom of her range. The rays OF
living light and lustre. streaming from
Columbia's banner, were destined to shine
on, and on, ever irradiating the executive,
the judicial and the legislative mind; ever
guarding the poor mans heritage, and
staying the strong mans arm ever en-
tightening, in their transit, the Northern
freeman and the Southern slave; ever in.
spring Columbia's sons with single
wish, and a single will. and guiding the
land Of Washington's bequest, till they
infnse thrill of his own electric life in
every American heart.
Then, and not till then. let the cap
stone be brought forth with shoutings,
and raised high upon the towering dome
of freedom. Then, and not till then, may
the wild eagle be loosed from Columbia Is
banner and permitted to escape to his ma
tive mountain, no longer to bathe his
beak in blood, and amid those glorious
stripes and stars
With the tpndrils of olives,
And goddess entwined,
In her garland Of beauty
Tne dove be enshrined.
Halowed embems of peace
Forever to wave
"O'er the land of the free
And the home of the brave"