Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-07-24

nave been hOwiInG Tor mohtns, ouI
the nation is not quite dead. The Eu-
ropean vultures will have no opportu-
nifty of satisfying their appetites on
the carcass of dead Republic ! Look
on it if you like, and commend or GEN.
sure, no matter which but keep on
your side the fence. We seek not
your fricndship-wc fear not your
enmity.
Enemies never bctray You, the am.
bush. the betrayal comes from your
friend. England bullics the weak
nations and toadies the strong ones.
The honorable speaker makes fear
full admission when he says that Eng
land has put up with insults for more
than fifty years, instancing the Maine
boundary, the Oregon question, the
San Juan difficulty. and the overhaul.
ing ships in the Gulf. Hear.) So
much the worse for England's bravery,
if these were insults. which they we're
not, and as England is ever ready to
attack weak powers, it follows that
England was afraid of us. (Ob land
dcrisive laughter.) You may sneer,
sir, but England never acts but from
motives of interest or fear. Hear.)
An opium war in China, or Fill
clustering expedition to Mexico, a
fight with the Afghans, or an attack
upon the Indians of the Southern
ocean, Just suits the tastes your peo-
pie. (Ohl end dissent.) Give US
money. give us land, give US trade, or
judgment is ours, and we will repay.
,ys this Christian nation. daughter. }
When you wanted money last centu-
ry, your war policy was comprised in
a sentence: Squeeze the old Begnms Of
Oud<. (Laughtcr.) Read the i'm
parchment of Warren Hastings, which
Burke prepared for Sheridan to deliv-
or to the House of Lords. Your poll
cy this century has been: when you
wanted to distract attention from Eu-
ropcan complication, you overhauled
an American ship and then apologized.
ooh y always ready to strike small
man, but careful not to hit q man OF
your own calibrc. (Oh I and hear
Intervention in our affairs means war
to the knife, war to the lannon's mouth.
Oh though perennial be the strife,
For honor dear, for hearthstone FIRE;
Give blow for blow take life for life!
Strike till the last armed foe expire
You complain of our being 30 long
ia putting down the revolution. You
landed in the Crimea in September,
1854, and did not enter Sabastopol
till September, 1855. (Hear.) We
have been some time /; but you forget
that we have been fighting our own
people, Americans against Americans.
Had we been pitted against English
men or Frenchmen, as we should be
in case either dared to interfere--(oh)
VIC would have arranged the matter in
half the time. (Ironical laughter, fol-
l,wed by loud cheers. An English
audience will always cheer . plucky
thing, even though it tells against
them Invade us, proud kingdom, If
you dare, and We will
Make every home. and rock. and tree,
And hill, our forts and fen and food
Yield not our soil shall rather b
One waste of fame, one seA Of blood!
Fear not your steel, nor fear your gold.
Nor English force, nor English fraud,
Trust not your race, "a false ~ cold,
Whose very prayers are lies to GodI
(Hisses and applause.) Domestic
war may bring foreign discord but
foreign war would bring domestic hap
piness. Solomon was wise when he
detected the false mother by ordering
the child to be cut in two. There was
music in the war songs Of our revOlu.
tionary sircs:
States of the West my own fair land!
Our foe has come, the hour is nigh;
His bale-fires rise on every hand
Rise as one man to do or die
FRI m mountain, vale, or prairie wide,
From forest vast, and field. and glen,
And crowded city, pour thy tide,
Oh, fervid band Of patriot men (Applause.)
Up, old and young the weak be strong !;
Rise for the right, hurl back the wrong,
And foot to foot, and brand to brand,
Strike for our own dear native land
tCheers.) Interference Who ev-
or heard Of an author introducing a
stately figure in the last scene Of the
last act of great drama. Think OF
trotting Macbeth out for the first time
just before the fall Of the curtein.
(Langhter) The price Of truth is
Islander, the price Of falsehood is
praise, nevertheless truth is Gods
law, while falsehood is the DEVILS coun-
sci. applause. Give me sneers
and let me be honest, or give me cheers
and make me traitor. England ap-
plauds Secession. and misses Unity
and patriotism, not because she loves
the South more, but the North less.
Ny words may annoy you. but my
points l will force you to submit to.
Twin youl)
How absurd for the learned speak.
err to say that America is always in
sulting England. II it is true why
not resent it when the gauntlet is
thrown down why don't you take it
up! No, Mr.. Chairman, the fault Of
our people is they think too much Of
England, else they would not feel 40
sensitive at your most unmanly, un-
generous, unnatural conduct. Ameri-
ca hate you !-you are misiuformed.
1t is the elder who cnvies the younger
nation. The father in England is jes-
lous of the son who is growing up to
overshadow him no more prominent
trait crops out Of English character.
The First George hated the Second,
the Second disliked the Third, and the
Third George was always at war
with the Fourth. Pitt and the King
were always plotting against Fox and
the Regent. Royalty gives the fash
ion, mobiles copy and hate their first
born sons. The landed gentry follow
and dislike theirs /; aud the middle
classos, under the bsrbarous old feu-
DIAL Laws Of primogeniture. initiate al
the vices Of the aristocracy without
copying any Of their virtues. Ooh !
and applause. Hence the envy and
jealousy of the father towards the son
who will supercede him in the en-.