Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-08-04
Patriotic Reading.
TEXTS FOR THE TINES.

Few, few were they whose swords, Of DID,
Won the fair land in which we dwell;
But we are many, wewho hold -173iAA3
The grim resolve to guards it we'll. 1891
Strike for that broad and goodly land ~.
Blow after blow, till men. shall, see
That Might and Right move hand in hand,
And glorious must their triumph be. d
|alegG 41Ead9 ID0t 9nra [ad'--Bryant.,
Let our object be our country, our
whole country, and nothing but our coun-
try-Dqpiez We5ster.a -sqls.madt 81.
He-If our property is taxed, it is only to
teach us that liberty is worth paying for, as
we'll as fighting for.-Na1ison. zaGT2
Every man in arepublic is public prop
erty. His time and talents-his youth
his manhood-his old age--and more, his
life, belongs to his country. rRush.rd az
Liberty, the one Of the two claimants,
who swears that her babe shall not be split
in halves, and divided between them, is the
true mother Of the blessed Union Holiness
1T is. subversive of every principle Of
sound, policy, to trust the safety of com
munity with government totally destitute
Of the means of protecting itself or its
members. -lfadison. - 1gc r7iv5
| God being willing, whether traitors be
many or few, as have hitherto waged war
against traitors and treason, and in behalf
of the Government, which was constructed
|, by our fathers, intend to continue it to the
enl.-Andrew Jackson. Il fs-l~7sr4
j II profess, in my ycareer. hitherto, to have
kept steadily in view the prosperity and
honor Of the whole country, and the preser
walton of our federal Union It is to that
Union we owe our safety at home, and our
consideration and dignity abroad. It has
been to US. q copious fountain of national
social and personal happiness. ~ 1lp(e3ster.,
Il This government mustnot cannotfail.
Though your flag may have tFailed in the
dust; though the banner Of our country
l-mav have been sullied, let it he. borne on
ward +; andaif, for the prosecution of this
war in behalf of the government and the
Constitution, it be necessary to cleanse and
purify that banner, I say let it be baptised
with fire from the sun and bathed in a ma
tion's ood.-Andreaos johnson. sv,s,~.6 .
If the true spark of religious and civil
liberty be kindled, it aoiW burn g Human
agency cannot extingufsh it. y Like the
earth's central fire it maybe smothered for
a time; the ocean may overwhelm it noun
tains may press it down but. its inherent
and unconquerable. fires will, leave both the
ocean and the land, and at some time or
other, in some place or other, the volcano
will break out and fame. up to heaven
Daniel Webster. 9 yr-4u39 bssrr9w
3-Patriotism emanates from the heart,
fills the SOUL infuses itself into the whole
man, and speaks and acts thesame language
A friend of his country in war viii feel,
speak and act for his country; revere his
fcountry's1 cause, and hate his country s
enemies America wants no friend, ac-
knowIeages the fidelity Of no citizen, who,
after war is declared, condemns the justice
of her cause and sympathizes with the
enemy. All such are traitors in their hearts
l--Stepbe7a A. Douglas < ID. s-.e-f
Ei.-Rather than suffer all that we have
poured out of our blood, all that we have
blavished of our substance, to have been ex-
pended in vain, and to bequeath an unset
tied question, an unfinished conflict, an un-
avenged; insult, an unrighted wrong, a
stained escutcheon, a tarnished Shield, a
dishonored flag, an unheroic memory to the
descendants of those who have always
claimed that their fathers We're heroes !;
j rather than do all this it were hardly an
! American exaggeration to say, better that
The last man and the last dollar should be
1 followed by the last woman and the last
dime, the last cent and the last copper
Holiness III a8 zAf84 Ii 3Eav v985 !as9
- Health, an Indispensable requisite for
business, as wellas amusement, which young
tnnen spend the greater part Of their money