Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-04-23
From tho Ashland Union.
An Eloquent Pcroratiou

All EtOQucht Fcforhtiou
Persons who were present at tho DEM
ocratic meeting on Saturday night, repre-
sent the speech of Mr.. McSwecny as one
of the richest oratorical treats they ever
enjoyed. His peroration was par ticularly
eloquent, and we regret our inability to
give il TO our readers as IL fell from the lips
of the speaker The following is but an
imperfect sketch of the powerful appeal
with which the speaker closed his argu-
mcnt. lie said:
1--WE have assembled together, not by
tho permission merely Of our adversarios,
not by grace or favor Of our rulers, but by
virtue of the Constitution of our fathers,
which secures to us tho unalterable right
of peaceably assembling together, the
right of free speech and free press, the
right to discuss the character and conduct
of our servants, the right to donounce and
point out corruption in high places, and
the right to petition the Government for
the redress of grievances under which we
suffer"
"The Constitution with all its compro.
misses is the political Bible of the Demo
cratic party. Upon this rock have we
built our church, and against it the gates
of hell shall not prevail, over its proud
ramparts the Secession hosts of the rebels
shall never Chamber, aud against its base
the foam OF Abolition fanatcism shall
dash in vain. a Democracy with the
, proud record of three quarters OF centu
ry, can well accord to their silly foes and
e patry childish privilege of calling names.
The equanimity of no Que should be dis
= turbed thereby. But when they go fur
j. ther, and presuming too much on the
long suffering and forbearaace Of the peo-
. pies attempt by threats of violence and
$ bloodshed to check the utterance Of the
r thoughts of freemen, they will discover
g that we are not dastards nor ignoble des-
cendants of those who baptized with their
IS blood and transmitted to use the priceless
v boon of liberty regulated by law. The
sooner this sleaned by the blind advo.
10 Gates of force, the sooner will there lie pres
sented more formidable front to the
Southern foe.
=, Democrats will &ssembe-wll discuss
" will think-vill speak and have 9
voice in the attempt TO preserve our com
mon country from meeting the fate o
4" those nations whose Tyrants crushed out
y free thought ami speech, and which now
fh only live in the musty records of thing
that once were, but are now no more for
IN ever.
Mt You may implison the body, but tin
spirit of man is not bound by chains. Th
III ilatterers and sycophants around tn
il throne of good King Canute of the older
time, assured him that the winds of heav
ii en- and the waves of the deep were subjec
6, to his will; and the monarch, to teacl
them lesson as to the true limits o
o kingly power, babe them bring his roya
y. throne to tho margin of the sea and t.
j., furnish him with massive chains where
- with to bind the advancing waves. But
' the wild waters were nearing the shore
They receeded not before the royal com
l. mand. They tossed his iron fetters il
ne playful glee, and the aifrightencd courtier
I'd were glad to rush to the rescue of thci
he monarch and save him from the ocean
~ wrath And the poet, seiz;ng the legen'
has beautifully and truthiully said:
re Tyrants. in vain We trace the wizard ring,
er In vain ye limit Minds unwearicd spring;
w nat. can We lull tnc winged WlnuS uSlCcpi
Arrest the rolling world, or chain the dccp2
t., No the wind wave contemns thy sccptcrcd hant
az 1t rolled not back when Canute gave command.
he Nor can any man, in this year of on
Oh Lord, whether robcd in the purple gar
mcnts of Kaiser, Czar, Khan, or King
or President place himself upon the grea
o. and boundlcss sea of thought, and as tn
rs heaven born emotions of freedom take
themselves the form and utterance c
speech, bind them with chains or fette
. them with links of steel; nor, at this in
III perial sway of his punny sceptre, bid Il
!" wild waves be still
W They rolled not back when Canute gave comman
% Free thought and free speech will bre'
Oh through the dungeon bars which entom
Of Of the body-will rise from the gloon
,Sa vaults of the lowest and flthicst cell
,' =, Fort Warren-will scale the battlcmen
~ and lofty turrets of frowning Lafayet
W. w will catch the first glow of the NOR
nd ing's glad bcam-will penetrate and i'll
as mine every dark spot where foul oppre
" sion is doing its cruel work, and will
Ia. nally triumph over all its foes, for it is
,mro ~ heaven born gift of God to man, al
~ ~ therefore cannot-shall not perish.
aa We copy the above extract from
,' speech made by John j. McSweenny
g Wooster, aShort time since. 1t is co
NJ tanly one of the most eloquent peror
-. tons we ever read or heard. n sneakil
" ".'o pack of abolition blood hounds have e
ho to hunting Me-, and instead OF runni
"u ,ru him, he turned at bay and "squclcheC
@ the blood hunting thieves, A short tin
", since these blaclsnakes wrote to the Sta
aa "' journal that Nc. was Van Buren, abo
~. ZIONIST. This being charge of no orc
" nary meanness no wonder that it rails
his or Irish, land that he event
on them" as only Nc. can do.
49,, "Tyrants in rain ye trace he ,rissard ring,
i"' Ia rain ye hmn Minds un,cedred spring.
- stand by the GOvcrnlnent.
Certainly. Democrats always stand