The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-07-31
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about. .r0And then let them see and feel
what we had in eighty years of unexam- r
Piled prosperity and Happiness under that
Constitution Let theme look back upon
those eighty years of civil liberty, of the
reign Of Constitutional law, eighty years
of securityoto odr homes, of living in our
castles, hnmble though they may have
been, with no power to invade them by
night or by day, except under the we'll
defined and exhibited authority, of law,
written published law, enacted BY them
selves for the punishment Of crime and
for their own protection, eighty years of
the great experiments which sastonished
the world.
If the people will DO this, / cannot, I
will not believe thatwe are so smitten by
Judicial blindness, thdt,the great mass Of
our population, North and South, viii not
some day resolve that we come together
again under the Old Consultation, with the,
old Flag. II [Applause1 / will not be-
lieve' that this experiment Of mans capa-s
city for selfgovernment'which was SO sue,
cessfully illustrated until all the, ,Revou.
tionary men had passed to their final re-
ward, is to prove a.humiliating failure.
Whatever others may do, we will never
abandon. the hope that the Union is to be
restored. [Appbuse, aa Whatever others
may do, we will cling to it tissas the mari-
ner clings to the last plank when night
and the tempest close around him" No
matter what may have been. done North
on South to prodtceit, this terrible ordeal
Iof blood which has been visited upon us
ought to be sufficient to bring us all back
to CONSCIOUSNESS of responsibilities and dut-9
ties. The emotions Of all good men are 9
those of sorrow and shame and sadness
now, over the condition of their country
when they retire at night, and when they
open their1eyes upon the sdawning day.
struggle against them though they may, 9.
they attempt to disguise It ?io moi '3aiii LA
.SoEcitudeii which hinges upon appre2
hensfon of personal danger or personal
less, and that alone, is contemptible. >
lTrifing men may indu!geiiu trifing word
land thought, while the foundations laid
/ by the Fathers are crumbling beneath
their feet ); but the artifcers who laid
those foundations found no time for tri. :
fling while engoged in their grand and Sc
rious work . nor can you'll They could &c
|liftup their souls in prayer; butthey had
Ino heart for levity and mirth My friends ="
you4hayei had, most of you have had great
SORROWS, overwhelming personal sorrows, y
Fit may be truegr but none like these, none eol'
Hike these, which come yelling up, day by 4
day, from the. great fountain of national q
Disaster, redfwith the best and dbravest
blood ofythe country, North and South; q
red with the blood forhose iui both secl' =
Itions of the Union whose fathers fought 4
THE common battle OF lIndependehee. I'sf
Norhaves these sorrows brought with themsa
any, compensation, whether of national d
pride or victorious sarins. lbs For is1it not q
vain to appeal to you to raise agshout ofisi
ljoy because the. lneaofrom the land of
Washington, Marion and SUMTER are, :
barring their, breasts tothe steelof the 1hensIA
from, the land of Warren, Stark and .
tStockton, or because if this war ia To coni4 u
tinue to be waged. one or the other musti,1
go the wallarmust be consigned to the
hulmilliatting l spbjugation? This fearful,oa
Ifruitless, fatal civil war has,exhibited our %
amazing All resources and vast military pow.b0
ferso lt!has shown that united, even, into
carrying ont, 10 the widest interpretation5as
the Monroe doctrine, ,aons this bContinepA,3D 70
we could with such protectionias the broad tc
ocean which flows, between tourselyessandl II
European powers affords, havesystoodio 10
/ against "a the world in arms I'd speak qpf
ltheswar "a fr1itless j, for il is1oclear chat, ca
[proseeuted upon the basis of theprocama- q
lions, Of ,Septq I'D and .24thS 1852, prose-
tcuted az az | must must understand those mocla4di
\ nations, to say, nothing Of she akindnsd.
brood which has followed, upon the, ,theOAea
| ri. Of emancipation, devastation, sahjhga4
tion, it cannot fail to be frpitless in every-;r
thing except Shec harvest Of woe which t8
is riPenipg fpF what vas opce, the peeslesssE
Republic, [Applaase. j. Now,,fellow-cissss
lizsna alter having said thns much, W itsisaq
fright yo1 should ask me that would YOU u.
do I'D = bis fearful extremity? rsplysAs
from begin npip oflthe struggle sotbe j,
prsseps az dmlogg,ent, g NY hopss has beeHin d
mora. poTeg,I There il treposss ostill -uaE
When I, IA lthe spring Iof 1861 4 bad ocsaaal
sion To- address my fellows ,citixeps .of .thisea
tcity, from The balcony of the hotel heforesd
us, then said 4 had not bekeyed, ard Aid
Indt tEen, Relisye, ggEcsslo arpa Masse
[either n sp}tabls doE posslbl lemeiy ifqEsaa
Existing \, evils. lausss All thet Il