The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-04-24


pointment to revolution, aud reducing q Temporary
constitutional miacrty into hopeless organ 9 pc,
convention To abo sh the Fourth Of July and throw al
It's patriotic powder into the
oda conflict but they cannot, except through e.td,
stuction, permanently disrupt nationality TAX Of
the wise statemsnshp OF the south Had they Hove
Kansas TO become free State they would have been
possession OF the national government this
Although the repeal Of the Missouri Compromise swoke
the North from It's deep seer upon the slave lestion
ine most s eO0n nsa gu Lay would have
indefinite future Then Mexico would have been possible
without the awful leap which copies her morals without
the possibility OF possessing her territories South Caro-
lima once lived upon potato TO king, and is
fast going back TO that immortal vegetable in order 70
natien or means nothing Together the parts temper
each other asunoe the srstocracy of the power
safely democratic If Abraham Lincon has osagurateS
crash george washington Is to be no longer known
the success ul contender for combined aud seltregu
ating nationality; Bishop Berkeley's star of empire
has crumbied away into bellgerent ASTEROIDS and
are 10 fall like Caesar at the base Of this black Pompey
pillar, we shall 1t least 60 into ths holy battle Tor the
constitution with no law broken and no national duty un
fulfilled We have not stolen single ship pound Of
powder or dollar OF coin 70 suy the sacred tramp with
Ills OF the south could have been remedied within the
constitutional their wrongs rghted by tho victory Of
future votes. Shall tell you what Il
means ambition in the Southern leaders and misappre
henion in the Southern people Its policy to imperial
ze slavery, and TO degrade and destroy the only free
republic IN the world. 1t is fog Of the brain and
potion at the heart Dodging the halter, 1t walks in
volcano DuSf explode whenever tempe6tu0uG
shock OF Northern invasion shall render slavery mposs
be The day that Southern statesmanship pirate
Southern slavery lost s last hold Northern fobear
Ance God forbid that servie war should be
conscieDces but what power could restrain the frsnzed
passion Of continuously provoked muttudes when the
not come here to tax about any mans party
creed. We have not TO seek the falling
fruits Of patronage but to the beautiful aud WIDE
spreading tree upon which all our blessings grow Party
and party isms are dead; only grim, black powder "a
alive now Who talks Of Tammany or Mozart HALF Who
nou hcIn
fuel 10 on fire for flag and country? Did Washington
eight years. break ice the Delaware break bones
bleeding fest 70 where no blood ever comes and pass
from clouds Of smoke to archways OF owersor WHAT
That States should defy their best guardian which the
nation insult history and make repubcanism impossbes
Here In this city Of love and prde this cradle Of the
civil life Of Washington where despotIsm sheathed its
where steam FIRST boiled it's way TO throne and art and
commerce and finance and al the social amenities
shaed their forces TO the sweet strain Of the first nsu
gural-here where government began and capital cen.
tres is the sheet anchor Of American loyalty Nothing
dsappoins secession as the provoking fidelity Of New
Jefferson Davis expected to pay his army, and riot
in all the streets and in all towns and cities OF the North
men on o Sas sos
loyal, gold determined; II ows easy, be the war
is not TO subugae or inure any but 70 bring back
and rebeious brother brother whom we have trusted
and toasted, fought with side by side the battle field
voted for at the ballot box sowered honor after honor
upon his recreant head while thai brother was poison
ing the milk In his mothers breast striking parrcidal
blow at the paterna government which has protected
and propered US all as no people were propered
and protected Heretofore, in differences, we have
shoudered ballots instead of bayonets With quiet bit
hundred battles about tariff, bank anti rquor, anttren
and all thoee social and political questions about which
ss people nay sm S d a 4 slavery cannot be
the bayonet will only pierce wounds in its history
We have heretofore kept all lead moulded into type
Southern BRAIN until passion and precipitation have
forced to melt down that yps into lsss friendly
Waiter Kossuth says that bayopets think, and our
have resolved solemn convention 70 thl1k deeply &C
promptly, and end vctosiously D, you wonder day
70 see that nag lying over all our rea.sked national e
pole, but streaming forth camp signal from every p
vate hearthstone, breaking out Ia 1--we 2mpes all hown
our garments, running like wild vine flowers Who'll
acres OF compact anxious citizens &hy has tasi teade
maiden turned her aabsster hands into he oc little lag
safs, which, with no loss of modest unveils to tn
world her deep love Of courtry9 Do Won nfan
show OF iw plaT things, totterng under rosettes
swathed In the national emblem By TO- cboding parents
who would protect its growth with this holy tlsman
safety DO you see, too those grave Old citizens sharp
ened by ganseeking, and sobtred with law expouning
invade their plain exterior with peacock hle which
claim such teDacity TO flag that has flannel, like
angels wing, every form Of prosperity and ordes
1t seems hard for philosophy to divine how any section
Of the country so comprehensiy ely could al
low mean Jealousy Of another portion, little
wealthy and popuous, to so hurry on into rebellion
not against us, but common government and common
glory, to which both subject and both should love-
Docs not each State belong TO all the States should
u 10
Louisiana sugar drops into Ohio ,esoup and should mol
every palace built Fifth moi its head amicaby
TO whatever cotton receipts us bills. overprids Of Ioca
thirty stars broke the north STAR did not Texas
well Pennsylvania light up the bleak Arctic skyY When
the old flag first rose over the untouched god Of CALI
fornia did Georgia and New York Join hands 10
yelling the tempting ore Virginia has seceied and
red my political fathers with it-washington and Jefer
SON. The State has allowed their tombs TO crumbie, as
well a. their principles Outlaw their sod Who will
dare 70 ask me for my passport at the Washing
tonf
SPEECH OF MR., KNAPP.
Loud calls for Mr.. KAPp made, wh) was enthus-
asticaly received Being introduced by the President
he spoke as follows
II understand you rightly, Mr. President, Your object
in inviting German speakers TO this large meeting Is TO
crisis there is difference OF opinion cs Of our
population, that unanimiy Of feeling prevails In the
hearts Of all citizens, adopted as well a. native, and
that the same just and patriotic indignation swells
the breast Of every lover of his country against
the inscriptions traitors who are trying TO Sc.
up q government OF their own by perjury, theft
and plumber 1t has often been said, and sorry to
confess without shade OF truth that wherever
there are two Germans together there are three different
that IL is not the face OF the danger which
threatens to bresk up the national government l see
around me old German democrats and repubiicas-men
belonging every variety of parties at home and Ia this
county But the past differences are forgotten, and a.
long as the present crisis viii last AN sure all will
unanimously cooperate for the same end, namely
for the preservation OF this great republic which as
dear 70 the Germans az to any other men, Although !
am not authorized TO speak for others, feel confident
that do but express the sentiments OF every German In
this country when say that we are all unanimously for
the adoption OF the most energetic means against the
nsndish attempts of common foo Fellow cit zens,
let us deceive ourselves the present srugge re-
auiree prompt action and powerful means 70 over
come II. The stroIser We prepare ourselves, the
better we sha be able TO defeat the purposes Of the
enemies Of this Union, and who are at the same time
the enemies TO the of universal CIVILIZATION
aud liberty. The internecfne war now raging here
Is not only private affair Of America II s question
Of the highest importance 10 the whole civilized world
which expects that viii crush anarchy In iu incep
ticn We have prove that civil liberty, with all It's
blessings Ia only experment-not mere passing
state Of political being, which lasts only 30 long a.
not atssled either by military or tho tlavehoders des
potisn but that Is q power self sustaining and inter-
woven with our natures and with whole national cx
sttDce. Liberty ID precariops, and we Jnd not be
worthy OF unless have sense and spirit enough 10
defend t. Let prove ourselves aequate 70 the erpec
tatons Of the friends OF liberty In the old world as well
well % in the new, whose eyes are liked upon u.s.