Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-07-09

please fanatics Tor the great principles OF liberty and
fanatca IN their determination that those rights
and liberties are established We have seen 10 our land
small parties each inconsidernb8 minority in the sec
lion Of country where they existed but OF porpose
men OF ZEAL Of fanatcism We have them wage
war upon the Constitution Of your country with per-
ssenc and power that have at last shaken to It's very
fcundaton aud brought to-day 10 the very brink of
tional ruin We have what zeal and purpose could
do when 1T was opposed only by dun mental acquescence
in great truths What may hope that may not
do when the great majority of the people have
fersent longing aud vital faith in these principles which
you have heard aud read and who propose TO maintain
them at every cost and at every hazard
Do you wish for peacei Do you wish for victory
Do you wish for the restoration OF national privileges
Here lies the pathway and let the American people
learn the full value Of their liberties fathers did
and the battle 10 fought aud Without this, my
friends, war can bring you give you
no quiet until the American people thus educated and
elevated and believe they rapidly becoming educated
aud elevated Until that takes place peace il the
incident of the great underlying Of convusion
which have affected land and shaken institutions
to their very centre Remember this that the great
DERIVING cause OF this not what particular APP
caton you may give it, what your particular views may
lead you to attribute it to- special another
special cause but there great underlying general
cause which must be removed before it be restored
and that Indifference to rights indifference
to our Liberties, and want of proper intelligence with
gard to our country and want Of elevated wisdom
that could understand the duties of American citizenship
When you have gained this peace will be restored when
you have gained this all the world that have
gone back to the wisdom Of fathers and that
again sustaining institutions that invited the whole world
to their shelter and that made
but three short the most glorious nation on the
face of ths earth. When have again restored that
virtue and that intelligence country will again bs re-
stored to its former greatness and to its former glory
But my friends thing short of this will dsappoint
hopes No victory restore greatness and glory and
power to people who unworthy of liberty No peace
will bring back prosperity to land which cannot under
stand the great principles upon which governments should
be founded and the great objects for which governments
are instituted.
LET resolve, upon this sacred day, that we will
hereafter stand by the Constitution Of the country, the
power of the Government and the rights of the States
the privilege of the citizen and the Independence and the
purify Of the Judiciary Whatever others may do let
show ourselves obedent and respectful to the authorities
acting within the limits of their constitutional jurisdictions
and the time show ourselves resoute 10 the main
tenance of rights. Let US do duty and de-
mand rights Let US do duty cheerully prompt
ly, and faithfully. Let demand rights resoutely
and firmly, in all their fullness He who fails to do bis
duty untrue to his country He who fails to demand
his rights false to the principles of liberty and of free
dom"