Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-03-07
DELAWARE, OHIO, MARCH 2, 1862.

| plete or partial bondage seems for many cen
turies. If not ntan's iidiiire, to have been his
fdte. But il has been left our country TO give
! the world new example in harmony with It's
1 highest good. Though ain AeNanler wonld
have made mote worlds TO conquer: thOugh i
Caser would have crossed second ruhcon;
and Napoleon woud have created an univer-
sal empire; while Socrates, a Virgil and a
Locke, would have sent forth the subimest
philosophy, the sweetest poesy and the pro-
foundest wisdom, yet amid these gigantic efforts
of the world, all the monuments Of liberty old
] time hin.self has ever seen, piled one upon the
other, would be TO the one erected in our land
/ like the schoolboys SNOWFALL TO the crashing
avalanche, or the quivering "tcar that flows
down virtues Faanly cheek" TO the rolling
depths of the Atlantics basin. American
/ Freedom born upon the barren rocks of Ply
mouth; held in check by no despotic sceptre;
fettered by no courtier5 arrogance; too strong
for the chains forged in expressions furnace;
and too resolute TO yield to nonarchs die.
tates, ''it went forth in life's morning march
when its spirit was young;' opened new era
10 the watching world; matured the hupes of
a rising nation; entered manhOOds prime under
| the fostering Of him who O'e birthday we COM
memorate; published its manifesto, and spread
tue 'glad tidings" that now bind US with sill
yer band, the loyal hearts of free determined
i people, and inscribed upon the unseen tablet OF
our nations future, glorious destiny. Amer
/ lean Freedom 1t is the worlds great time
piece of progress. And from every quarter
of the globe is heard ascending, voice after
voice, exc!aiming, what Of the heur?' aud as
| the minute hand glides round the surface, tick
after tick with every intervening echo, is caught
up by the bret ze of reform, and borne away to
earlh's remotest corners, stamping with tele-
graphic rupidity and precision, the lessons OF
our prosperity upon the worlds great palpita'
F.! ting heart And when, with the rolling year,
the hour hand completes its circuit, every ty-
rant, every despot, and every foe to freedom,
| trembhs like the aspen, when it peals TO- tn its
magic tones Of power. the tOcSin of liberty S
birth and the death knell of oppression. Our
fathers met in Americas first workshop, and
! from The glowing forge Of patriotism they
framed golden key with which to wind the
worlds great umpire clock of nations. They
placed that key in the hands of Washington
from whom it has descended, adorned with fl
delitys houors and the bright luStte of Il well
kept faith But to-day as the darE cloud of
civil coinmotiOn gathers and grows blacker, the
reckless hand of treasOn would, with blood
stained fingers, lain pluck the jewels from the
worlds chronometer, and tear from its position
the handspring of Il nations only hope. They
have broken but u few Of the most unimpor-
tant of its works. And thank Gnd the old
clock still keeps time; and it will keep time
! until treason and her votaries, palSied 5y poi
| son, selfadministered, shall fall beneath the
crumbling ruins OF mad ambitions fabric, and
sink into the lowest, deepest pit of muulane
desoation. Aad upon those ruins Freedoms
ensign, the "Star Spsngled Banner will wave
| forever
Cnstained with blood by traitors shed,
Nor weeping o'et the pat lot dead.
We know not the nature of the people, I'll
there are any, and we believe there are,) that
dwell in distant globes beyond this visible di.
urnal sphere" nor the character of the inst /
tutions under which they live, but we believe
that if they be similar to ours, aud it were
possible TO construct some magic telegraph
connecting planet with planet and globe with
| globe, the first message sent through the bound
less feds of space, along the mystic wire
would be freedoms manifesto" Heaven born
freedom TIE hope of the youthful, and the
solace of the old. Childhouds sweetest song
manhoods nublrst topic. and the subIimest po
esy Of age. 1t is 10 our countrys ginIy. like
the poets guardian lion of heavenly Una and
hcr milk Write lamb Rome the eternal CITY
looked dovrI from her scten hills, and saw hei
/ L.,
Tiber, and the image of the golden house oil
Nero was but the ghostly spectre of decay.
We stanl upon the fsighes1 pinnacle of thc
worlds modern capitoline, and looking tf0wl
upon our valleys, our rivers our lakes. ant
our plains, belrokF IN them gem. set like 1
diamond in casing sea, and giving back tc
u. the reflection of our nutions perpctuity.-
Rome had her eagle, but it built its aerie II
the crumblng palaces Of despots, and stainc,
its claws with pIcbeian blood. We have our
eagle, but
Its hornn is on the mountain top,
It's Held the huuadlcSs air"
and its eve, radiant with freedoms glow. Free
dom that holy, heavenly gift and shall j
ever be struck from our cOuniry's coronet. ant
ground under expressions iron heal? NcUer
blood; our brothers and onr sisters weep o'c
many a fallen brave; yet we believe that err
many suns shall rise and set, exulting shout
shall take the place of mourning and the an
gel Of peace shall bear away on wings Of Fri
umPh, the news Of freedoms rescue to tht
most distant of creations fields. And to-nigh
we cherish the fond hope, that when coming
years shall enroll our names with those of thC
'shceted dead" some Freshman Class, of Oul
own alma mater, may form one OF u huhiber Il
come up hiihcr to celebrate the birth day .
WASHINGTON, as we tonight are doing
with freed rms soil beneath their feet,
Anu fyecdb1s b tuner waving U'cr tn n,,''
TOAST OF THE SENIOR sciENTIFIc CiAss:
Read by,I. C. F. BELL.
q" The United States; may Ic erer lead h
ran in defending The t,7uurks Of Liberty"
RESPONSE OF y W. s'ENDENrAII.
Prior TO the Revolution, which resulted il