The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-14

CT his infant years. The heroes Of the
revolution were all before him. The
wonderful country which God had made
for the home Of great nation filed his
soul with the majestic events Of the fu-
ture. What words Of love and patriot
ism, what stores Of sentiment and golden
treasures of wisdom, the great man has
left as the legacy to posterity, to humans
ty, in all coming time. How &c that
DANIEL WEBSTER should have arisen in
the land that gave birth to a new nation,
a new man, anew civilization, among the
founders Of free religion, free schools,
the authors of new literature, the in
ventors Of machinery and all mechanic
arts, the heroes of liberty, the seamen of
Marble Head, that have made the ocean
their home and our empire in all coming
time. All these elements, the spirits of
New England's mighty dead The in
spiration Of the great WEBSTER now call
on us who venerate the glories of the past
and look for the realization future hopes
to stand firmly and bravely around the
charge committed to our hands. DO we
love their examples, do we cherish their
glorious memories, and suffer traitors to
desecrate the land from which our heroic
ancestors sprung? Are we men and suf-
fer treason to lulI us to sleep and murder
patriots?
The Nation, planted by the wisdom of
so many sages and watered by the blood
of so many patriots, can not be strangled
in its cradle. The infant giant is wax
ing from his sleep, and begins his work
in earnest. Let all that 1--we their coun-
try take courage-you and may perish
as did our fathers at Saratoga, Camden,
and Yorktown. What glorious saying
"My father poured out his life for his
country at Monmouth" II will be still
more glorious in coming time to say my
father was slain on the plains of Ken
lucky or Virginia, aiding to crush cruel
rebellion against the civilization of the
nineteenth century"
1t will do us good to recur to the past
and to drink anew from the waters of
life which have flowed from the rock of
New England at the bidding of the Great
JEHOVAH. Let us look again at some of
the words of wisdom spoken by the man
whom GOD made for the organ of oar
Nation;
81 have not allowed myself, Sir, 10 look
| beyond the Union, TO see what might lie
hidden in the dark recess behind. |
have not cOOlly Wei he'd the chances of
preserving liberty when the bonds that
unite us together shall be broken asun-
der. | have not accustomed myself TO
hang over the precipice of disunion, to
see whether, with my short sight, can
fathom the depth Of the abyss below
nor could | regard him as a safe counsel
lor in the affairs of this Government
whose thoughts should be mainly bent
on considering, not how the Union may
be best preserved, but how tolerable
might be the condition Of the people
when it should be broken up and de-
stroyed. While the Union lasts, we have
high, excl ing, gratifying prospects spread
out before us, for us and our children
Beyond that ! seek not TO penetrate the
veil. God grant that in my day, at least,
that curtain may not rise God grant
that on my vision never may be opened
what lies behind When my eyes shall
be turned TO behold for the last time the
sun in heaven, may not see him shining
on the broken and dishonored fragments
Of once glorious Union on States dis
severed, discOrdant, beligerent; on
land rent with civil feuds, or drenched il
may be- in fraternal blood! Let their
last feeble and lingering glance rather
behold the gorgeous ensign of the repub-
lie, now known and honored throughout
the earth, still full high advanced, its
arms and trophies streaming in their
original lustre, not a stripe erased or pol
luted, nor single star obscured, bearing
for its motto, no such miserable inter-
rogatory as "What is all his worth -
nor those other words of delusi0n and
| folly, Liberty first and Union after
wards -; out every where, spread all over
in characters Of living light, blazing on
all its ample folds, as they float over the
sea and over the land, and in every wind
under the whole heavens, that other SEN
timent, dear TO every true American heart,
Liberty anil Union, now and for ever,
one and inseparableP
'Other misioriunes may be borne, or
| their effects overcome. II disastrous war
should sweep our commerce from the
ocean, another generation may renew il
if it exhaust our treasury, future indus
try may replenish IL; if il desolate and
lay waste our fields, still, under a new
cultivation, they will grow green again,
and ripen TO future haryests. II were
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