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curse. Let rs show now what manner Of people
we are. Let US be clear-sighted and far-sighted
to see how great is the issue that hangs upon the
occasion. 1t is not q mere military reputation
that is at stake, not the decay of a generation's
commerce, not the determination of this or that
party to power. 1t is the question of the world
that we have been set to answer. In the great
conflict OF ages, the long strife between right
and wrong, between progress and sluggardy,
through the Providence of God we are placed In
the vanguard; Three hundred years ago world
was unfolded for the battle-ground Choice
spirits came hither to level and intrench. Swords
clashed and blood flowed and the great reconnois.
sance was successfully made. Since then both
sides have been gathering strength, marshalling
forces, planting batteries, and to-day we stand in
the thick of the fray. Shall we fail? Men and
women of America, will you fal2 Shall the
cause go by defaultY When q great Idea that
has been uplifted on the shoulders of generations
comes now to its Thermopyl@, its glory gate, and
needs only stout hearts for its strong hands,--
when the eyes of great multitude are turned
upon you, and the fates of the dumb millions In
the silent future rest with you,--when the suffer.
Ing and sorrowful the lowly, whose immortal hun
ger for justice gnaws at their hearts, who blindly
sec, but keenly feel, by their God-given instincts
that somehow you are working out their saliva
tion, and the high-born, monarchs in the domain
of mind, who standing far OF. see with prophetic
eye the two courses that lie before you, one to
the Uplands Of vndicated Right, one to tho
Valley of the Shadow of Death, alike fasten
upon you their hopes, their prayers, their tears,
| will you, for moments bodily comfort and
rest and repose, grind all these expections and
hopes between the upper and neither millstonep
Will you fail the world in this fateful hour by
your iaintheartedness Will you fail yourself,
and put'the knife to your own throat9 For the
peace which you SO dearly buy shall bring TO you
neither ease nor rest. You will have spread
bed of thorns. Failure will write disgrace upon
| n m lgba will ant
last the age. 1t Is not with us as with the South.
She can surrender without dishonor. She is the
weaker power, and her success will be against
the nature OF things. Her dshonor lay in her
attempt, not in its REIMBURSEMENT But we
| shall fail, not because of mechanics and mathe-
=, mathics, but because our manhood and woman.
hood weighed in the balance are found wanting.
There are few who will not share in the sin.
There are none who will not share in the shame.
4 Wives would you hold back husbands2 Moth.
crs, would you keep your sons ? From what
for what? From the doing of the grandest duty
that ennobled man, to the grief of the great.
est infamy that ever crushed him down. You
would hold him back from prizes before which
! Oiympian laurels fade, for fate before which o
Helot slave might cover. His country in the
agony of her death-struggle calls TO him for sue
cor. Alkthe blood in all the ages, poured out
tor liberty poured out for HIM, cries unto him
from the ground. All that life has of noble, of
heroic, beckons him forward. Death itself wears
for him golden crown. Ever since the world
swung free from Gods hand, men have died.
obeying the blind fiat of nature; but once In
generation comes the sacrifcial year, the year of
jubilee, when men march lovingly to meet their
fate and die for nations life Holding back.
we transmit to those that shall come after us, q
backened waste. The little one that lies in his
cradle will be accursed for our sakes. Every
child will be base born, sprnging from ignoble
blood. We inherited fair fame and bays from
a OlOTiOua haiti hut for him IL hack urOund.