The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-01-27
THE GATE CITY


4 LIZ VA liz VI i 4
An Eloquent Persrasion.
The following is the conclusion OF TIKI
Message Of Governor Andrew of Massa
chusetts:
Gentlemen of the Senate and House O
Representatives.:
Several topics-amopg others of the
military-omitled from this Address, al.
ready long, can be better matured here.
after, should occasion demand their dis
cussion. | must not omit to bear public
testimony again to the efficient manner
in which the recruitment of volunteers is
conducted through the municipal gov
ernments. The work is brought directly
home to the people. Led by their own
local magistrates, it is periodically done.
Time, an element not usually understood,
will enable them to ELL our contingent.
| can never express my sense of the eub-
lime devotion to public duty l have wit
messed in this people from my watch
tower OF observation (; nor the gratitude
| owe for their indulgent consideration.
But the heart swells with unwonted
emotion when we remember our sons and
brothers, whose constant valor has sus-
tanned on the field, during nearly three
years of war, the cause of our country, of
civilization and liberty. Our volunteers
have represented Massachusetts,, during
the year juet ended. on almost every field
and IN every department of the army
where our flag has been unfurled. At
Charlottesville, Gettysburg, Nicksburg,
Port Hudson and Fort Wagner, at Chick
amauga, Knoxville and Chattanooga
under Hooker, and Meade, and Banks,
and Gilmore and Rosecrans, Burnside
aud Grant-In every scene OF danger and
of duty, along the Atlantic and the Gulf,
on the Tennessee, the Cumberland. the
Mississippi aud the Rio Graude-under
Dupont ana Dahlgrea, and Foote, and
Earragut.and Porter,-the sons OF Mas
sachu,etts have borne their part, and paid
the debt OF patriotism aud valor. Ubi-
quItous as the stock they descend from,
national in their opinions and universal
in their sympathies. they have fought
shoulder to shoulder with men of all Sec
tons and Of every extraction. On the
ocean, on the rivers, on the land, on the
heights where they Numbered down from
the clouds of Lookout Mountain the de-
iiauce of the skies, they have craven with
their swords a record imperishable.
The Muse herself demands the lapse of
sileat years to sotten, by the influence of
time, her too keen and poignant realza-
tion OF the scenes of Wharf.-The pathos,
the heroism, the fierce JOY, the grief, OF
battle. But, during the ages to come,
she will brood over their memory. Into
the hearts OF her consecrated priests will
breathe the inspirations Of lofty and I'M
dying Beauty, Subhmity, and Truth, in
all the glowing forms of speech, of ltera-
ture and plastic art. By the homely
traditions OF the fireside-by the head
stones in the church-yards consecrated to
those whose forms repose far off in rude
graves BY the Rappahannock, or sleep
beneath the sea, -embalmed in the mem
ores OF succeeding generations of parents
and children, the heroic dead will live on
in immortal youth. BY their names,
their character. their service, their fate,
their glory, they cannot fail.
They never fail who die
IL great esus Z; the tioe may soak their gore
Their heads mas soadeI in the sun, their limbs
BE strung Co eiti aates and castle walls;
But Fill their spiii's walk abroad Though years
Elar-e aud Others share as dark a doom,
They but augment The deep ana sweeping thoughts
Which oyerIower all others, and conduct
Tls world at last t. Freedom.
The cdict Of Nantes maintaining the
religious liberty of the Huguenots gave
lustre to the fame Of Henry the Great,
whose name will gid the pages of philo-
sophie history after mankind may have
forgotten. the martial proves aud the
white plume of Navarro. The great
Proclamation of Liberty viii lif: the ruler
who uttered it, our nation and our age,
above all vulgar destiny.
The bell which rang out the Declara-
ton Of Independence has found at last
voice articulate, TO " Proclaim Liberty
throughout all the Land and to all the
inhabitants thereof 1t has been heard
across the oceans, and has modified the
sentiments Of cabinets and kings. The
people Of tho old world have heard i, and
Their hearts stop to catch the las. whisper
Of its echoes. The poor slave has heard
1t. and with bounding Joy, tempered by
the mystery OF religion. he worships and
adores. The waiting Continent has heard
it, and already foresees the fulfilled pro-
phecy, when she will sit 9 redeemed, re-
generated and disenthralled by the &C.
MUS OF Universal Emancipation"