Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-04-26
It still Lives.

Divers sundry old women, some oratori-
| cal, other editorial, in the Old World and the
New, arc favoring their cliques and publics
| with walls and dcary mes over the down
fall Of democracy and freedom in America.-
Alas that SO fair prospect il dimmed
and spoiled" cries Once Week, and an Ar
| my Of noodles rcecho the cry
Don't believe. The Republic is now a.
large, gentlemen, as ever it was, and great
deal more purified. What hare We lost, let
us ask, in the name Of all justice and truth
Leave out the blacks and tell us when was
there ever any Republicansm-an rccogni.
ton of the equal rights Of white men, in tho
seeding States?
When did they ever legislate humancly
and tenderly so as to give the poorer human
being among them so much kind treatment
as English laws extend to dumb bcastsg
When did they ever recognize " the great
est good for the greatest number" as tho
fundamental law of society
When was there ever any popular rcpudi-
alton of the Mud-sill theory, proposed with
internal coolness BY their representative man
HAMMOND.
Whom was there ever any spirit of public
charity, philanthropy and reform shown in
planter-dom? What have they done amid
their boasted millions and enormous prosper.
ity, towards educating the poor.
When was it that "poor whites" and
"mean whites" and dirt eaters" were not
terms Of reproach, and who ever laborcd
earnestly and Christianly among Cotton leg
isators to alleviate the condition Of those
poor degraded creatures?
When were all their boasts and all social
tendencies in any other direction saye to
magnify few !" first families" and concen-
trate all social power in the hands of very
limited number?
For all which cruelty and hardness Con
will hold them TO judgment.
II the secession Of a country-of State
which have for years lived and brcathed in
a spirit of bittercr and narrower aristocracy
than is known in Europc---indcatc any de.
cay of democratic principles, we confess that
those principles must differ very materially
from VANITY Fans idea of the article. Ii
popular liberty depends upon the possession
of a certain amount of territory instead of on
the action of hSarts and brains of frcc-born
men-why then, the sooner it goes the bet
ter But j, does not Neither is all yet lost.
Men Of America Others -friends--all-
remember this. While man exists, whilo
Nature gives us her golden glorious laws Of
life and beauty--whilc Spring succeeds to
Winter, human liberty is always progressing
and always WILL progress. The last man
will always be the frecst. Secession and war
will only hasten it. Freedom is never lost
and never goes backwar Is.
~rE Noch ist del Freihct nlchi yerlorcn
In every song of tho lark 1t is born again:
wherever goodness and beauty and truth well
forth, there Freedom rises to light. 1t comes
with the bursting bud and the rose to life
| it is the soul Of happiness, and man is never
happy without it. Never tell us that Free
dom has gone backwards in America Her
| sun may be overcast, but it is rising-cvcr
| rising, and when the clouds pass away it will
| burst forth fairer than ever. And wc--wc
may live or die, but let us never lose faith in
the progress Of Freedom, any more than we
would our faith III the eternal beauty Of Ma.
turc and in the mystery of COP.
| Up and arm! This is no time now for
half measures, haiEpolcies, or half-mcn.-
Sumter is takcn~~it is the signal rocket
fired away into night and lost, but ts blaze
| calls every freeman to arms
And now for battlc Drive out the trait.
ors from among us--lct no one breathe Sc
cession now. WAR is on there is no
rose water compromise to be spoken Of.
Hurrah then for war! BE brave, prompt and
true. The ancient devil of tyrany now van
ishing from every land in Europe has taken
his last stand among our foes. And woe to
the coward who quails
| The loss Of fort shall not crush us. Tho
loss Of every fort-yea, Of all things, would
be as hife to the spirit which is awakened
and which calls for war. From the Border
over West and North there now goes up but
one cry---the millions are aroused. Freedom
makes her last great effort en- Garth and calls
for glorious DEATHS Panify Fair.