Nebraska advertiser., 1863-08-15

ing aAd elevaling influence across and
over our continent, and the Tightening
Of heaven we're made the s~psssrYient
and willing messengers of thought.
Our population had incread from three
millions 10 thirty millions Of people, and
every where might be heard, the din
of cheerful industry and the song of con-
tentment andpeace, the winds aud waves
were made our servants of commerce and
our ships ~traversed every ocean. and the
elements FIRE and water, were our spirit
winged messengers Of peade and of war.
The tonnage of our commerce on our
great lakes and mighty rivers, exceeded
by far the total tonnage of any nation on
the globe. The people Of the old world
looked on with astonisment and wonder,
Kings and Despots, sat trembling in
their places, and the iron heal of tyrany,
shrank from the presence of u conquir-
ing banner and struggling humanity
breathed freer and easier Throughout the
world. .dsns79
The muse of history as she writes the
record Of the past, dipping her pen in
the bright sun light Of heaven, shall in
scribe high upon the temple of fame, the
names Of the thirteen colonies, but high
er, brighter, greater than these the name
of the American Republic. And still
higher, and brighter still the names of
the Patriots and Warriors of the r%evolu-
lion, and over and above all she shall
write in the bright golden rays of living
light, plucked from the throne Of Deity
itself the immortal name Of Washington.
What a mighty and terrible RESPONSE.
bility rests upon US to transmit these in.
situations, our Union and Constition I'M
broken and unimpaired to our posterity.
Young men and men of to-day politi.
cal demagogues and Office seeking trick
sters, and blood stained traito:s, whose
highest aspirations Y rose above self
sordid gain. are now in arms against the
Union and the Constitution. They have
already torn down and trampied upon
the flag Of your country-apd the exul-
tant shouts of traitors are heard in the
land Let US do our duty and do it nobly
and we'll. Here under the broad arch.
way of heaven, let US on Bonded knees,
with our hands and swords pointing to
heaven and circling about our heads, as
mathematical of the never ending integ-
rity of our hearts, swear by the graves
of our mothers, by the sacred memory of
our revolutionary fathers, by the glories
OF the past, by our sacred honor and by
our life, by the God of our fathers
and the God we worship, that our
glorious Union and Constitution, must
and shall be preserved.
To you mothers of to-day. the nation
must look for future salvation, the pure
est fire ever kindled upon the hearts altar
is the undying fame of a mothers love.
The brightest lamp that ever beamedup-
on our life path vas the pure lamp of af-
lection, lighted in the spirits inner tenn
pie, and beaming forth from the souls
windows as the mother gazed for the
first time upon her new born child,
The most lasting impressions, those
which will go with US, when we
shall tread the dark valley, even down
TO the chambers of death, are the tracings
of a mothers early teachings, craven in
delibly upon tn tablet of the mind.
Mothers of to-day, it is to you we
look to so temper your words, your pre-
cepts and your example that the echoes
which shall come down in after years to
the rising generation, shall make patri-
otto men and patriotic women, hold up to
your offspring the beauties of yitue, and
point out the hideous deformities of vice:
Teach your sons and your daughters
their duty to their Creator and preservor,
the great Author of their being, their
responsibility, and the force of their ex-
ample in all the relations of life, and so
entwine the love of country, Of freedom
and of right, about their heart strings,
that IN all our land, North, South, East
and West, the burning, shameful brand
of traitor, shall be forever wiped away.
Let the noble precepts of The mothers of
this. generation shine forth in coming
years, in the actions of sons and daugh-
tiers, who are to control the future des-
tiny and guard the interests of our Coun-
try and the Union. May there come
from the cool northern cline, where the
stately pine can flourish best and the
bracing air makes man strong and hardy
as his own snow-clad hills. And from
the sun kissed Southern land rich with
the perfume of fruit and flower, from the
dew dappled morning hills, and the beau
teous sunset plains. may there come one
glad and general shout from the land