The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1862-11-20
From The New York Independent.
FIGHT OR DIE.


on The maps, but ilp. nevertheless, prac
urally exlincl--dral. II may have a
large popull.ion and that inherent
strength which numbers give but like the
strength Of Gagged lin, a m inaced gi-
ant, or an imprisoned warrior, it il USE
less II may have fruitful valleys and
fertile hills. thriving manufactures ani
temporary individual prosperity, numer-
Gus railroads and lar-reaching canals,
mines and mineral wealth, anl all The
riches OF institutional greatness and mag,
influence, al immense army aud pow
e.IuI nay2, good government, honest,
God earring, man.oying rulers but if it
DO tied, toltered and anchored in bank
rup'cy, what is il good for ? 1t were bet
Ter that it should perish, and It's name
be blot'ed out forever A bankrupt
oation, Ike IA iuividuoI in such di
Iemma. should 60 into liquidation. 1t
should wind up is political aTlirs, dis
pose Of It's assets, of name, place and
10 yer, and honestly, before Col and The
people, yield up lis executive life, and
ask funeral rites and ceremonies--a De
cent burial from the sight Of man. if
we, as a naIon, have Bible wisdom, we
shall toresee the great evils of bankrupt
cy now threateningu ' aud hide from
them. We shall use, without a moments
delay, our strength and powsrto crush
the monster now gnawing at our vitals.
We shall, Wl,h the mortal tramp of fr
resistabIc forces, overwhem our enemies,
and eud forever the great conflict be.
tween freedom or slavery.
We are enIangering more than liber.
y BY longer hitting between two opin
ions, We are imperiling our very exis.
tence -our national life. We shall
soon be bound with chains which never
can be broken We are bliniy anirap
idly floating into The depths of bankrupt
cy. We must now fight, or we must
die. The cation may will rightly, our
armies may cover every hilltop, aud our
rulers be hoocs,, patriotic and pure; bat
nevertheless we must now fight, o: as u
nation VIC must die--this is inevitable.
The voice from our national Treasury
is, fight, or we die.
The voice fpom the tribune of our pc.
lit'coI power is, fight or we die.
Tne voice from every workshop and
every manufacturing village in the Union
is fight, or we die.
The voice Of a burdencd mutton Of tax
payers is, fight rive die.
The voice OF every ships crew, sailing
in peil sf pirates IL, fight, or Wa die.
The voice of all the great moneye ed
institutions of the naiion is, fight, OF We
die.
The voice Of mcrshant, banker, and Of
all business men is, fight or we die.
The voice, trumpet tongued. from our
currency troubles, is, fight, or we die.
The voice from every haIffrightenel,
golI'hcarling misCr, is, fight, or we die.
The voice Of widows ard the father.
less, and Of thousands who are now
mourning the loss olincome, is, Il INT, OF
we die.
The voice of soldiers, sick, wounded
and dying by thousands in hospitals and
Southern prisons, is, fight or we die.
The voice Of every true General, eth
er from West Point, or wcst-aDyWhero
is, fight, or we de.
The voice from New York, aud every
other cOmmcraial city Of the Union, is,
fight, or We die.
The voice of every departing, home
less, tyrant hating e1.Ie, the world over,
is, fight, or we tie.
The voice of the millions Of slaves,
bleeding aud manac'ci, IS, fight, or we
die
The voice ofliberty, from the poles to
the equator; the voice of tho round world
groauing in sin and hoping in Cod the
voice Of high heayrn, as plainly Us ever
Numbered rom Mt. Sinai, is urging us
on to duty.
VIII you hear that voice, President
Lincoln, for whom thousands are now
praying on every shore, in every land Of
every christian nation?
Willyou hear it, Secretary Seward
war horse of liberty-whose ear has new
eryct failed 10 hear the cry Of the poor
aud the oppressed!
viii you hearil Secretary Chase, over.
wbejmod aud almost bowed down with
unparalleled burdens and cares; nobly,
horoiCally and successfully battling with
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