The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-12-17
BOUNTY FUND MEETING.

w e II LENU.
Pursuant to a call of Mayor Robinson, a
meeting of citizens was held last evening at
Simmons Hall. The meeting was organized
by the election of his Honor, the Mayor, Chair
man, and G. G. SHoLEs, Secretary.
The object of tina meeting was stated by
the Chairman, to consult as to what measures
should be taken to offer such bounties to
volunteers as would fill the quota of the city
without resort to draft on the 9Th of January
next.
On motion Messrs. O. s. Head and |. W.
Webster, were appointed a committee to ex-
anime and report to an adjourned meeting
whether under existing statutes there is a
law authorizing the city in its corporate ca
pacity to raise by tax a bounty fund for vol
unteers
After some desultory discussion, the meet
ing adjourned to meet at Simmons Hall, on
Saturday evening next at half past seven.
We are not posted as to the law in the
premises, but we notice that several towns
and cities in the State have already voted in
their corporate capacity to pay bounties to
volunteers.
The City Council of BeIoit has voted to pay
5000 in addition to the Government bounty
to each volunteer until its quota is filled. Sew
eral days since the city had raised 40 volun-
teers. The city of GAINESVILLE and several of
the towns in Rock county, are about taking
the same action. The city of La Crosse has
also taken like action. If those places find
warrant in the law for their action, it is high
ly probable that the report of our committee
will be favorable.
We should have a full meeting of our citi-
zens on Saturday evening. What is done
must be done quickly, for the 9Th of January
is not far off.
TheCOnSiRzeatsAl 1aonGaaly.-For want
of Tina and space, we have 'n tied t. notice the
December No. of this desesvotly popular Aaga>
zine The leading article this month, entitled
" The Nation is by Row Il. NJ. Thompson, Rec>
tor of St. Mathews Church, of this city. Those
who have listened 10 the ministration of Rev. H.
u Thompson for the year past, will Rut fail to
recognize the style aud tone OF thought, of this az
ticle. Jealous. hopeful, patriotic and practical
every sentence CLOVIS with the earnestness of the
writer. Few win cayil at the sentiments Of this
article, though some may be disposed to give their
philosophy a more sombre cast.
We cannot do better to give the reader an idea
of the sptrat OF the article than by copying il few
Of the closing parag' apis, with The suggestion
that the Continental containing the article can be
obtained at Robinsou's Bookstore, for 25 cents
"No! thank Heaven for this virtue of patriot
ism 1t lifts q man out of his lower nature, and
makes his heart beat with the hearts OF heroes
Tn ere are two or three things in the world men
viii die for. The Nation is one. They will die for
the land where their fathers sleep. They will
fling fortune, hope, peace, family bliss, life itself
all into the gulf, to save is hearths from shame,
ira roof treea from dishonOr, They will follow the
tattered rag they have mado the symbol of it's
right, through bursting shells and his sing hail of
rifle shot, aud ssrried ranks of glittering bayo>
nets, into the jaws Of death, into The mouth OF
He'll, when they are called. They will do this in
thousands, the poorest better than the richest Of
ten. the humbie5. just as heroically as the leaders
of the people, And therefore, we say, thank GoD
for the e~levating power of Patriotism, for nation
al Pride, for national prejadsce, If you will, that
can, by this great love of country, SO conquer
seltishness, meanness, cowaTdice and oil lower
loves. and make the very low est by its power,
a uSIO3 Hul0 liz AliiIl IbhH uIoS IOT tuG lIAtOOf- |
tai Nation! Let a man commit himself boldly to
the tendencies aud influences of his Lace, then.
Let him work with them. not against them. lie
cannot be too much ali American, too thorough>
~ penetrated with the convictions and the spirit
OF his country. And he need fear no contracting
narrowness. The Nations aims are wiser far and
loftier far than the wisest and loftiest of any one
man. or any one generation.
We have family shado wed out here something
of the meaning of THE NATION. If we are right,
we can pay no price that shall come near its Val>
ue.. For ourselves, for our children, for the ages
coming, it is verify the Ark of the Covenant. We
have seen that we are here to build it. Because
COP needed these United States, he kept a con-
tinent till the time was ripe. and then sent His
wOrkmen to the work. We are all, in our degree
bui ders on those walls. We are building fast
these days. Some rotten stones have entered in
to the structure, and it is hard work to get them
out, but we shall succeed. We shall see that
no more ofthat kind get in. Let u0 build on the
bro d foundation of the fathers a stately palace,
of marble, pure and white, whose towers shall!
fash back in glory the sunlight of centuries, tow
eEs of refuge against falsehocd and wrong and
cruelty forevermore.
We are all builders, We say. The humblsst
does his share. Iheres fear in that thought, but
more of hope Nothing perishes. The private,
who falls. bravely fighting, does his part like the
general. Tbs plo wmans life gives its sontribu>
ton to the Nations greatness as the life of Web
ster does. All is telling in the long results of
time, helping to decide what style OF manhood
shall be fashioned in America for generations.
For the great Nation grows slowly upward to
its perfect proportions as the parent and teach
er of men. And all things and all men in it help
to decide and develop that capacity. Not daz-
Zling battle-bursts alone, not alone victorious
charges on the trampled plain, not splendid tri-
umphs, when laurelled leglons march home from
conquered provinces and humbled lands. not the
mighty deeds OF mighty men in camps, nor the
mighty words OF mighty men in senates, though
all these do their part, and a gram part too-not
these alone give the great land its character and
~ tHh Thee nntrn Pow - n.. s.k1- - -
VIC seldom think of. BY the workman's axe that
fells the forest as by The soldiers bayonct, by the
cleaning ploughshare in the furrow as by the
black Columbiad couchant on the rampant. by the
schoolhouse in the valley as by the grim battery
on the bay by the church spire rising from the
grove, 10y the humble cottage in the glen, by the
Bible on the stand at eve, by the prayer from the
peaceful hearth. by the bell that calls TO worship
through the haJlowed air by the merchant at bis
desk, and by the farmer in the harvest field by the
judge upon the bench, aud the workman in his
shop, by the student in his silent room, and by the
sailor on the voiceful sea, by the honest speakers
by the honest Writer'S pen, and b ythe free
press that give, the whole of both a thousand pair
of eagles wings over land and sea, by every lust
and kindly word and work, by every honest, hum
bic Industry, by every due reward to manliness
and right and loyalty, and by every shsckle forg
ed and every gallows built for villany and scouu>
Likelihood by a thousand things like these about
us daily, working unnoticed year by year, is the
great river swelled ,Ofthought and feeling and CON
VlcLloh, mat noW6 a mighty nations grandeur ON
through the waiting centuries.
Gov. BRAMLETTR ON THE CoPPERHEADs.-
Gov, BRAMLErTE, Of Kentucky, in his recent
message, says:
''TO sympathize with rebellion is wrong, if
rebellionis wrong. But as mere sympathy
not endanger the life of the Government.
it may be tolerated, though wrong. Yet.
when that sympathy assumes the form of aid