Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-04-04
EDS. REPUBLICAN i:
With the pressure of your pail

still warmly IN my own, and the memory
of your kindness in the heart, I have invol-
unfairly reached for the nib as ssme-
dunn " of thanks. I have fathomed no
new strata of interest in the inkstand, for
nothing is new to day, but deeds which
are borne to US upon the thunder of battle;
no record fastens the public eye, but that
of blood And if a day wears away, and
no news of bloody battles fought, there is
feeling of disappointment The public
mind is drunk on gore? The terrible,
deadly minstrelsy of mortal strife is the mu-
sic we listen to hear, and our eyes take up
the details of slaughter, as the hound
would lick up the blood from gaping
wounds of the quarry.
But do not wonder that the great
loyal heart of the North, trampled upon,
gashed by the plantation lash, and with
ing under indgnity and wrong for so many
years, and at last pierced with the steel of
fratricidal hands, beats with the power Of
eighty years ago, and burning with the
furnace heats Of slowly enkindled wrath,
sends its tide to the hand to the scabbard-
less blade. @
''Our toilsome years have made US tame,
Our strength has slept unfelt
The furnace fire is slow to flame
That bids our plowshares melt.
Enough ofspeech the trumpet rings
Be silent, patient, calm
God help them if the tempest swings
The Pine against the Palm"
In Gods own time and way let the work
60 on The noblest structure of human
Liberty; of Freedom and self rule, the
world has eyer seen, cast full baptism OF
blood. 1t as a0orth another And no man
should claim kinship with the self sacri-
ticing martyrs of a seven years struggle,
who now hesitates to guard and defend the
legacy they bequeathed. God help US to
be worthy of the trust! .r
Wendell Phillips lectured here last eve.
ning on the 6: Lost Arts" The Academy
of Music was filed to the utmost with the
best of this noble city. Knowing what is
the estimate of clog uenee among the mas.
ses, | could see that thousands would be
disappointed in hearing tie "silyer
tongued i" orator of New England.
But he is eloquent nevertheless eloquent
in the moral power which breathes from
his countenance and kindles from his lips
IN that calm, self poised manner and
mighty grasp of thought He is not the
fiery, impetuoas orator who storms with a
battie-cry, but his columns. close ranked
and completely disciplined, move In the
grand array of conscious strength and bis
steel, sweeping in masters hand, cuts as
keenly as Damascus blade. A single
thrust oftentlmes, in passing, will transfx
man OR principle to the very hils. He
is mana giant-a heroic Humanity
has hot lost all of its grandeur while here
and there endorsed by such hearts and
minds.
Phillips was mobbed in Cincinnati. And
shall Russell's libels upon our people,
prove truths at last
Shame, that in the north scholar and
gentleman, whatever his opinions of the
Black Idol of this Nation should be out
ragged by the shoulder htters who
swarm in our city hells Even Toombs
and Mason, imperious and defying could
stand upon the holy ground consecrated to
Freedom by the baptism of blood, and
ningle the hideous utterances of Slavery,
with the whisperings of old Faneuil. The
writer has had much to do with questions
arousing the deepest and bitterest preju
dlces, and to day would welcome any foe
man to the list who should prove worthy of
his steel and before the people test the
mail with honest speech The flames
which Bigotry has kindled at the stake
has ever been the beacon in the advance
columns of after time We often hear a.
wish expressed that the haters of slavery
might be hung. When that day comes,
the writer bespeaks rope and place by
the last man who is crowned with MARTYR
dom of exercising one of the highest pre-
negatives of freeman. We remember a
day when, in your usually quiet city of
Watertown, the birthright of Americans,
was foolishly and wiekedly challenged in
the streets.
May retribution as significant and eff
fectual, follow all similar outrages. The
writer would defend his deadliest enemy in
the exercise of common rights, whatever
his opinions Of evils. IRONSIDES.
Milwaukee, March 9th, 1862.