Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-04-08

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myself. Why did ven leave the Rhine
and the Rhone and the borders of Lake
Geneva! WHY did .yca leave Neufeha-
| tel and Constance? Why did you leave
the Eibe and the Scleldt and the Hague!
Why did YOU leave sunny Italy. The
scene of civil war for more than a hun-
dred years, and why the vine-eiad hills of
Frame! Why did YOU leave CaIedunia.
stern aud Wild" and sweet lakes that
nestle in the bosom of hills, Why did
you leave Killarney and Kilkenny. and
those consecratcd places where CuIran
and Gra;tan tbuntcred against oppression.
and where Emmct laid down has lie
| tAPp.au~e) Why did YOU leave the
graves of your kindred in the Faiher-land,
the Gods acre : OF Germany. and the
churchyard % tire United Kingdom
Why did YOU leave iic historic scenes Of
! the ok world where the Roman, the
| Norihnan, and the blue-eycd Goth have
bceu, and where they have left the i'm
press of il:-ir moral power, or of brute
/ torcs--sccnCs where | have sometimes
stool. as il were, cutranced TIL l seemed
10 be incorporated with the past, whilst
the ages surwed 10y me. Why did ygu
leave the bright. the beautiful. the tender.
the touching, the subimc-why did YOU
leave ali these for the new world Bet
ter, perhaps, ! have sometimes thought in
thcse DAYS of trial. that the good ship in
which ycu embarked had been stranded
on the Fr,nci. the German. OF the irish
ceast. and YOU pinckcd from the remorze-
less wave-no: less cruel and remur~c!eSs
! than the wrath ot ,naa--haye returned to
| your native village. there to take up the
| bUrthcu of lie aCi.i,4-bcitcr this than
that YOU should have come here Just II
taste the sweets of liberty and all at once
have the cup dashed from your lips
| iApflause-) And'now for my answer.
You came here 10 get rid of unjust law.
Of olious taxes THAT take from the mouth
of labor the br,a I'd which /; has earned"
TO get rid of large armies and navics that
eat OF: the substance Of the people, 10 get
ril of stamp acts and conscripti"n acts,
to BE- rid of provost narsha's. and game
keepers. and bunbail;tfS. tha instrum MS,
of tic iron rile. Great APPLAUSE You
came hirhcr 10 &c, rid of vile systen. of
eSJ}optge for which our lancua.e has no
nam, aui to get rid Of III passport sys-
tenn that stops VA at every frontier tom
till vour passport can be vised and stamp
ed You came where speech WAS free
and the press .re, where there was trial
bv iurv. where labor was honored. an |
man, tue lord OF his little patch Of ground,
or, it may be. Of his acres, could take h;s
children Il his arms and thamk God that
they yvc. { bern in I land of freedom.
(Chcylin@.1 This ! what YOU came for
And you came where civil AMI reli-ious
lib rty had found an asy lam and reared
her temples 20 Justice and to the worship
OF the lisiag God. But, men OF foryigr
( lanis, vol whom have sometimes wei
coined 70 our shores. am bound 10 tci
Won that in some things YOU have bccr
: mislcd i;t,clv, d,csivei, bcc,iiicd, and
/ east, rs i. were. iiitu the horrible pit. II
l the last vcar-a wear which, from its ,io
lation Of personal rights and disregard %
1 constitutional obligations. should b
i stricken from the c;.lc,Ider-ilie men il
4 power. disrcgarding the right of tie Pco
: pie ui;ler the Constitution, have strucl
/ down in a succession of outrageous blow.
: MARY of the rights which YOU bad acqui
+ rel here, ard the privileges you had be
1 gun to criov. and have renewed here il
: our country some of the worst feature
D of the rotten ,ivnas;ieS Of European ane
o ASiatic countries And now, eentil men
Y your remedy i in voGr own hands N:
# ted together and firm in your purpose yor
: NAV recover shat which YOU have los;
e and recover these inestimable privileges i
- , constitutional vv:lv
II Gentlemen &C the different clubs-:o
o | suppose YOU are represented herc-I se
: in your organization the noble impulse
!. the patriotic purposes. the holy. aspir;,iio
|, and herQic resolve which have charaI
,f tcrizcd the true friends of liberty in 4
IT ages of the world. Your late conventio
,e was 4 rrn:arkable one. Every town
" the State WIS represented. This i som,
n thing which never occurred before, NJ
re Is the explanation difficult one. Ever
\ town has suffered more or less by ii
ii war: every town has seen on the edge
" its horizon the shadow of some comir
~ despotisIn every town has giver som
ht thing of the flower of its youth To the eau
n. some have returned crippled for hi
re others have come back 10 tell tlie stol
| of how they were treated by those VI
he should have been TO them friends ard pr
a iectors. Every tJwn II loaded vi
Il. boxes: IN all of them there Is NOR, OF le
n ,pqgrring-Rachel weeping for her Oh
M dren aud .rcfusiu- ;o hc conlfort~d bocau
he tl.ay are p.:--aI.d 81 o. this niscT