The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-07-02

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BE Tsylor, d the Chiesgs s1pswvas.
TINS describes the ptpsssdiags from The
report Of the Committee on resolutions 10
the close Of the Conventiou: sssa't
And now comes che Confession cf Faith, !
losing nothing By the clear, emphatic IT.
teranca of Henry ]. Raymond. Il cuts y
broad sWath; it leaves not q weed to wave
it's lonely head, for any ossiaa 10 rave
about. Cheers break in all along, like,
the chorus 70 song, aadwhen, to the clos
ing resolution, o warning glance II fang
ever the salt water, they are all caught mp,
Ike Elijah in chariot oil. fire, and adopt
ed with one heart and one voice. The.
day wears on the brisfsst Of days Ia eli
the calender. II Has ten. The clock d
on the stroke of two. The word they have
come TO say 10 yet unuttersd. Pennsyiva-
MIA writes, For President, Abraham Lin
coin, Of Illinois" Iowa springs 20 her
feet, and nominatss /" AbFalam Lineoln,
of Illinois" {" Il could have swept through
the Convention ike the June hurricane
in Iowa, a few summers ago. Cheers,
Hutter, us, but ealnaer counsals prsvaiL--
Says Mr. Raymond, it has been asserted
that we win attempt 70 make the nomina-
tion ride the whirlwind ofacciamation. Let
US declare d. thberate purpose. Let the
ron of the States be called. Il was wise
counsel To call the roll of our army.
where every one cries here!" Or an
swers for his eomrade, =" dead on the field -
= s-..rl k,,A IL LII IS kna.I
Continent is sublime.
And 50 Illinois has the fooT al last, and
cries, " We give you Abraham LfAeoln i"
Maine is shmmoned, and It's answer i,
" Abraham Lincoln" The Granite Hills,
the Green Mountains and the Alleghanies
echo Lincoln" The word comes outof
the heart Of old Berkshire, and up from
the valley of the Connecsieut, and away
from the "wild where rolls the 0regcn."
It drifts in letters Of gold from Caifor-
MIA, glitters from Co1rado, sighs from the
eedas Of Tennessee, Is shouted by "the
hunters of Kentucky" across the grave Of
the mill-boy Of the slashes. And 90 the
roll shouRds from Maine to Montana; the
most impressive scene I ever beheld. 1t
is announced at last. All for Lincoln
FIVE hundred and twenty-nine." Men
spring to their feet; handkerehiefs take
wing lntheg gallaries; the quivering cheers
rise free and full; young faces are veiled
in tears; women laugh and weepaltogeth-
er; stong men swallow their hearts as they
listen.
And now the splendid band in the gal
lery bursts out with "The Star Spangled
Banner" Do you think how wonderfully
eloquent it is, here in BaltimoreH Why,
fifty years ago, British feet of fifty sail
entered at the mouth of the -Patapsco.-
On the night of the 18th Of September,
opened FIRE upon Fort McHenry. All
that dreadful night, Francis 8. Key, a
child Of Maryland, was a prisoner in a
British ship, within the sound of bell of
the place where this Convention is now
sitting. With the dawn, the storm of
shot and shell dies away, and the prison
er's eye seeks through the gray of the
morning for the flag that foated above
the fort at sunset, and he tremblingly
asks:
Oh! say, can you see by the daWns early
light,
What so proudly We hailed at the twilight's last
cleaning,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the
peFilous fight
Ger the rampant We watched, we're 50 gallRDtly
streaming;
The rocket red glare--bombs bursting In air.
Gsye proof through tho night that our Gag was
still thers.
Oh say does that star spanglsd banner still wave
Ger the land Of the freq and the home Of the
brayef"
And then, when the sun touches it up,
he cries ont exultingiy:
"'Tia the star spsaglsd baansri Oh, lag may D
wave --. -. .... .t= f - re-
e'sr ths land Of tAs fra, saa tAe hsnsssf u
brave sg1E Il ~ ~ 81 - &
esaszsea l|ioas&n6 sSsxS
time. The praaidsnt announces d dis. |
patch from che seesstsry Of War. il
talls q Hunssrs sistory. II h al
assaar,s St fnaasrsp n - lef In ew |
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