Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-06-07
ATUBDAY MORNING, JUNE 7. 1862


mighty oath in the presence Of Heaven
and Earth--an oath whose influence
shall be felt to the --latest syllable Of re-
corded time" Our invocation is an
swered by twenty-six millions Of voices;
some in exultatiion, some in calm reso-
luton, some in wild enthusiasm and
some in the groans and agony Of martyr
dom which catches CLEAN Of Heavens
glory from the flame and smoke of the
pyre Of persecution. Why is the vast
assemblage? What means this tremen-
dous gathering from the East and the
West and the North, and even from the
outraged, prosecuted down trodden
South, for half a century the toy and
sport of heartless tyrants? 1t is an
uprising of American democracy and re-
publicanism, whose life is now endanger-
ed by wicked conspiracy. 1t is the
instinct of self-preservation which calls
this multitude from the walks of peace to
the tumultuous ranks Of war The Sou
thern conspirators have combined at last
to ruin the Republic, and to blot out the
nation, and moved by patriotic impulse
a divine instinct as it were-its citizens
rush forward to its defence with grand
unanimity never witnessed since those
heroic days when Greece sent forth her
children to drive back the hosts of
Xerxes-when The sunlight Of patriotism
gilded the frowning pTecipices of Their
mopyl@ with everlasting light--aye those
old heroic days
(Which shone upon the Perian flying,
And saw the Spartan smile in DYING
1t is the grand, not death, but life,
struggle of the republic Of the New
World, and upon the issue of that strug-
gle the nations of the whole earth gaze
with interest, and hope, and prayers, and
tears unutterable, Humanity, with
streaming eyes upturned to Heaven and
clasped hands, exclaims: "May God de-
fend the rightp'
New England hears the arm, and fred
with the memories of her classic days
of Lexington and Concord and Bunker
Hill, and The Boston Tea party, and the
story of the sainted WARREN, the Cheva-
lier Bayard of our land, who lived
enough for glory, but alas, too briefly for
his country-grasps again the banner,
the musket and the sword, and arrays
her sons in the line of battle. Her hun
dred villages and mills send out an army
of restless, daring youths, eager to show
the world that Yankee blood can fight as
well as Yankee brains scheme and invent
Before her serried ranks the martial form
of NATHANIEL LYON passes like meteor
fore doomed to depart too early from our
eyes:
80 stars that shoot along the SKY
Shine brightest re they fall and die,'
The Middle States, nation in them
selves, wealthy, enterprising, enlightened
and teeming with population, respond
also TO the call of President LINCOLN,
with no drowsy voice "'twixt sleep and
wake" but earnestly and eagerly. The
Empire City of the Empire State sends
out an army Of herself, and the proud
old keystone, imbued by PENN with an
ardent love of peace, yet dauntless and
quick TO defend the legacy Of freedom
and the honor of the nation, hurries
forward her imperial and inyincible cav
airy.
The Great West, tie empire Of the
Mississippi Valley, pours out countless
array Of woodsmen, of farmers, of hun
ters, Of boatmen, all fred with eagerness
to attack the impious band who seek to
overthrow the republic Who can with
stand their furious onset, as they rush
forward, with bayonets set, on the ranks
of the eonspirators?
Hark Even from the far West, whose
mountain streams leap over golden sands,
and Oregon
sSlHeafa no sound,
save bis own dastings'
BAKER, glorious and manly in person as
a Grecian hero, leads forward a gallant
band, doomed too early TO mourn with
the whole nation the fall of their chival-
rous leader.
Yes, the whole nation is awake, and
her people come forward to repeat the
mighty oath in an eternal and inviolable
sacrament
Record II, Heaven and let its words
be hencelorward an inspiration to pa
triots and a warning 10 traitors Heark-