The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-01-27
True and Brave Words from Marylanders.

True and Brave Words from Marylanders.
At recent banquet given to Gen. Schenck
by the citizens of Baltimore some excellent
speeches were made. We make few extracts.
Gov. Bradford said
" The loyal men Of Maryland have but one pup
pose and one hcpe-but one ambition aad one
though.-and that is the Union, its restoration,
its preservation, and perpetui,y. applause
We would save it, if it is possible, with all the ia
stitutioAs and with every interest that has ever
found shelter beneath H. Save it, and save it we
may if from No other object than that we would
be thsS saving it, in the very shape in which the
inheritors received it from their own glorious an
cestors. (Applsuse) VS. would, therefore, save
the ark and all that it contains--every bird, and
every beast. and every creeping thing tina: has
ever found refuge beneath its roof applause. J
But i his be not possible, and some nustbc tkrown
oUerbsard let them go-lct hem go. (Greas APP
plan o. Let them go--saored patriarcha though
some may bslieve-tothe depths of the sea, SO
that we can save the ark itself and its precious
freight Of popular government, public liberty re-
publican institutions, the heme OF cur children.
whenever it goes down." Applause and three
cheers.
Hon. Henry Winter Davis eloquently said;
"The fate Of my Maryland ; is determined
But is the fate OF the Union Determined ZAP
plause.) Would to God, fellow citizens, that the
question were determined, as the other mas been,
upon one decisive, plain, well adapted and clearly
settled field; but that is still in question. 1t is
questioned by our enemies on their banners Of re-
belIion, it is questioned by nsidious cons pirators
who clothe themselves in the GARD Of innocsnes
SO that they may deceive and We are How here
this night 10 reflect and see whether our feelings
are up to the high patriotism of the toast to
which you have called upon me to respond.
That Uuon mnst be preserved, though this gen
Grafton shall perish in its defense. (AppIause.)
Perish in its defense Why, what is this gen
eration7 1t is the life OF the men who are before
me- 10 our liberty and the dnion Of this country,
it is our willingness to endure all, and to be ready
in our own persons, to do what SO many soldiers
by the thousands Ihavs done on every Geld of
battle-to be prepared TO die, that their blood be
not in vain. By no balance in your ladies' cham
bers can shis be accomplished, by no debating
upon streets, nor by any consideration in the coua
Gill; but by stubborn, hard, resoute, fearless blows
upon the deadly field, wherehrue men lay down
and seal their patriotism With their blood and
they who live owe ii TO the memory OF the dead
that their blood shall Rot have been shed in vain.
(Applause.) An armissce say the doubtful,
heSltating Union men. A voice" traitors"
An armlstce that would relax your arms, would
compel your submission recognition of the Con-
fedsrate States the disruption of the American
name, its eternal degradation peace for a month,
for year, for five years, wars for generations and
anarchy to the end Of tms. (Applause) Onoe
make division line between the North and
South, said the Speaker, and more than one will
divide the North nself. One stone from the arch
bringsit in ruin on your heads.
But who are they that moot these question:
They of the South do not talk of armislces !;
they are the men Of the loyal States Of the North,
and ofMaryland they are those who have crept
surrepti,ousy, under fslse pretenses, inio power,
and now, in more than one great State, threaten to
transfer the theatre of civil war from the rebel
lious to the loyal States. | speak in the pres
snce of the military and political representatives
of those States here, this night and say. rather
than that the arm of lbe government shall be
| p sied welcome the spears TO our breasts wei
come cvi! war to oar soil and let them know
that we are not now to be frightened by civil war
in the Nsrth any more than when its bydrahead
was raised in the South. (Applause.) | here
| recognize but tive classes Of men, and we cenfne
them to no political geography. Theysra the en-