The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-11-02
ELOQUENT EXTRACT.

ELOQUENT ENrAACE
The following Is an extract from an elo
qusns address delivered BY uon. ReBxsr c
WlxrHaoP, on the occasion Of Gag presen
tation in Boston, to Senator wnsoS's Reg
inent:
"Union for the sake Of then Uion >
sour country, our whole country.
and nothing bu. our country''-these are
the notices, old, stale, haekreyed and
thresdbare, as they may have seemed wher
employed as the the watchwords OF an elec-
tioneering campaign, bus clothed With q
new power, . new significance, new gloss
and new glory, when uttered ~ the battle
cries Of nation struggling for existence
these are the only notices which can give .
just ard adequate expression 10 the cause
10 which you have enlisted. Sir, l thank
Heaven that the trumpes has given no un-
certain sound, while you have bsen prepar-
ing yourselves for the battle.
This is the cause which has been solemnly
proclaimed BY both branches Of Congress
in resolutions passed at the instance Of those
true hearted sons Of Tennessee and Ken
tucky-Johnson and Critienden-and which
rejoice to remember at this hour, recsived
your own official sanction, as Senator Of the
United States.
This is the cause which has been recog
nized and avowed By the President of the
United Statss, with frankness and fear
lessness which have won the respect and
admiration Of Us all.
This is the cause, which has been 30 fer
yent!y commended to Us from the dying lips
Of Douglas, and by the maschless living
voices OF Holt and an Everett.
Tkis is the cause, in which the heroic
Anderson, lifting his banner upon the wings
Of prayer. and looking TO the guidance and
guardianship of the God in whom he trust
ed, went through that fiery furnace un.
harmed, and came forth, not indeed without
the smell Of fire aud smoke upon his gar
ments, but with an undimmed and undying
lustre Of piety and patriotism upon his
brow.
This is the cause, in which the lamented
Lyon bequeathed all that he had Of earthly
treasure TO his country, and then laid down
his life IN her defence, whose value no mill
ions could measure.
This is the cause, in which the veteran
chief OF our armies, crowned with the lau.
rels which Washington alone had worn BE-
fore him, and renouncing all inferior slle-
glance at the loss Of fortune and Of friends.
has tasked, and is still tsskinx to the utmost,
the energies Of o soul whose patriotism 10
age could chill.
This is the cause to which the Young and
noble Mcclellan, under whose lead it is your
privilege to serve, has brought shat match
less combination of sagasity and science, OF
d.. a
which have made him the hope OF the hour,
the bright particular star Of our immediate
destiny.
And this, finally, is the cause which has
nbliterated, as no other cause could have
done, all divisions and distinctions of party,
nationality and creed; which has appealed
alike TO Republican, Democrat and Union
Wing, to native citizen and to adopted citi
zen; and ia which not the sons Of Massa-
chusetts or of New England or Of the North
alone, not the dwellers on the Hudson, the
Delaware, and the Susauehanna only, but
so many of those, also, on the Potomac and
the Ohio, the Mississippi and the Missouri,
on all the lakes, and in all the vast Mesopo.
tamia Of the mighty West--yes, and stran-
gers from beyond the seas-Irish Scotch,
German, Italian and French--the common
emigrant and those who have stood nearest
to the throne-brave and devoted men from
almost every nation under heaven--men who
have measured the value Of our country to
the world by nobler standard than the
cotton crop; and who realize that other and
more momentous destinies are at stake upon
our struggle than such as can be wrought
upon any mere material looms and shuttles
all are seen rallying beneath common
aag, and exclaiming with one heart and
voice: ssThe American Union--is must and
shall be preserved"
And we owe it, sir, to the memory Of our
fathers, We owe it to the hopes Of our chill
dren, we owe it to the cause Of free institu-
tions and Of good government, of every
sort, throughout the world, to make the
effort, cost what it may OF treasure or Of
blood, and, with Gods help, to accomplish
the result.
Nay, we owe it to our misguided and de-
luded brethren of the South--for l will not
forget that they are our brothers still, and
will call them BY no harsher name-ue owe
it even to them, to arres. them, if it bepos-
sible, in their suicidal career, to save them
from their worst enemy themselves, and TO
hold them back from ths; vortex of anarchy
and chaos which is yawning at their feet,
and into which, in their desperate efforts to
drag US down, they are only certain Of
plugging themselves and epguihag all that
is dear TO them.
Would to heaven, this day, that there
were any other mode of accomplishing. or
even attempting, this end, but the stern ap-
peal to battlel Bot from that hour Of that
ungodly aud unmaDly assault upon the little
garrison at Sumpter, they have left US no
alternative. They have laid upon Us ne
cessity 70 defend our counsry-and woe,
voc unto as, If we fail to meet that neces-
sity as men and as patriots.
congratulate you, Col. Wilson, with all
my heart, on the success Of your own efforts
in this great work of National defense. Re-
turning from the discharge Of your labor
ious and responsible duties as chairman OF
the COMMITTEES of Mill. ~ Affairs in the
Senate Of the United States, you have
thrown ont q recruiting signal for 9 reg-
ment; and lol two regiments have responded
to your call; yes, and with Sharp shooters
and light artillery enough in addition, TO
make up the measure Of no ordinary brigade.
And though one Of your regiments is not
yet quite ready for the 6eld, it will follow
you in few days, and you will march 10
the capital ~ the virtual leader Of them all.
Sir, must de.ain you no longer. have
said enough, and more than enough TO man
ifess the spirit in which this Gag is now
committed to your charge. Il is the Ma
sional ensign, pure ard simple dearer 70
all our hearts at this moment, a. we lift Is
to the gale, and see no other sign Of hope
upon the storm cloud, which rolls and rat
ties above it, save thas which is reflected
from its own radiant hues; dearcr q thou
sand fold dearer TO us ali, than ever il vas
before, while gilded By the sunshine Of
prosperity. aad playing with the rephvrs OF