The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1863-07-17

faith: fixed in their purpose fanatics if you
please, for the great principles of liberty,
and far a!cal in their determination to see
that those rights and liberties are estab-
lished. (Great applause We have seen in
our land two small parties, each An incon
siderable minority in the sec:inn pf coan-
try where they existed, but men Of purpose
men Of zeaI-men of fanaticisni. We have
seen them wage war upon the Constitu>
ton of your country, with persistence
and power that has at last shaken it to its
very foundation and brought us to>day to
the very brink Of national ruin. We have
seen what zeal and purpose could do when
it was opposed only by dull mental ac-
qnescence in great truths. What may
we not hope that we may 60 when the
great majority Of the American people
have fcrvent and vital faith in these prin-
cip'e, which you have heard and read, and
VIII" propose 10 MAINTAIN them al every
cost and at every hazard. (Great ap-
plause.)
Do you wish for pesce! Do you wisl,
for victor; Do you wish for the resio-
ration of our national privileges Here
lies the pathway, and let the American
people once learn the full value of their
berties as our fathers did, and the
battle is fought and won. Without this,
my friends, war can bring you no success
peace can give you 10 quiet until the
American people are thus educated and e.
eva,ed; and believe they are rapidly be
coming educated ard elevated-until that
takes place, war or peace are the mere in
, cidents Of the great underlying causes Of
conyulsion which have affected our land,
and shaken our institutions to the very
center. Your particular views may lead
you to attribute it to one special cause or
another special cause, but there is one
great underlying general cause of this war
which must be removed before the country
can be restored, and that cause WAS indf-
| ference to our rights, Indifference to our
| liberties. and want Of an elevated wisdom
that could understand the duties Of Amer
ican citizenship. When yon have gainad
this peace will be restored; when YOU
have gained this all the world can see that
we have gone back to the wisdom O.! our
fathers and that we are again sustaining
Institutions that invited tho whole world
to their shelter and protection-institu-
tions that made Us but three short years
ago tho most glorious nation on the face
Of the earth. When we have again re-
stored that virtue and that intelligence.
our country will again be restored to its
former greatness. and to its former glory
| fGreat applause) But, ny friends, any
thing short Of this will disappoin. your
hopes. No victory can restore greatness,
and glory, and power TO people who are
werlhy OF liberty. No peace will bring
back prosperity to land which canno.
understand The great principles upon which
governments sl,ouli be protected, and the
great objects for which governments are
instituted. But, my friends, mus. close
("Go on! Go on!'') Let US now, upon
this sad and solemn, as we'll az glorious
occasion, re-dedicate ourselves to the ser
vice o. our country in pure and fervent pat
rio;isn, putting aside passions and preju
dices as far as va may, and preparing our
selves to assert aud maintaip the great
principles stated in the Declaration Of In
dependence, anil secured to rs nv the pro-
visions Of the Constitution of the IUlied
States. Let US resolve from this time on
to do our duty, and to demand our rights
| (Great applause) In all that dignies us,
and so f:.r As they are acting in the sphere
of their constitutional powers, lot Us be
obedieut to rulers, let US submit cheerful
ly, patiently, and willingly, to those com
maids which they have right to issue,
whether we like them or not. When we
have done our duty let us claim our rights
in all their fulness, in all their complete
ness, aud in all their perfection. He who
does not do his duty withou! regard to the
misconduct Of others is untrue to his coun-
try. lie who does not claim his rights is
untrue to liberty and TO humanity. Zap
p!ause.) Our pathways are clear before
US if We will but accep, the simple and
wonderful teachings of our fathers. From
this time let us resolve that we will uphold
all the just powers Of the general govern
ment, and the rights Of the states, Gap
plause) and the rights Of persons, and
above all, as their best and surest shield,
the dependence and purity of the judic-
iary. (Applause We stand to-day amid
new made graves; we staLd to-day in a
land filled with mourning, and our soil is
saturated with the blood Of the fsrcest
conflict of which history gives us AZ &C
count. We can, if We will, avert all these
disasters, and these caami,ies, and evoke
blessing. If VIC will do what: Hold
that Constitution, and liberties, and laws
aresu.pended untrue 70 them-shrink
back from the assertion Of right, VIII
that restore them? Or shall we DO as
our fathers dil under circumstances Of like
trial. when they ba,tled against the powers
ola crown1 Did they say that liberty was
suspended Did they say that men might
be deprived of the right Of trial by jury
Did they say that men might be torn from
their homes by midnight intruders? Tire
mendous and continued applause.) IF you
would save your country, and your liber
ties, begin right. Begin At the hearth
stones. which are ever meant TO be the
foundation Of American institutions be.
Gin in your family circle; declare that