Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-08-24
SWITZERLAND To TIE rSlTED 80
A Voice from Freedoms Mountsir

lend on the 9th Of July last, which 1av.
ZION Suisse describes as meeting Of emf
men of ell parties in favor of the A.,
Union and OF measures taken by the Gore,
naent at Washington for the abolition :.
slavery After addresses by many proDinsr.
men OF Switzerland, the following add.
was reported By committee, and adoDted -
reclamation:
~ E 70 II OF THE AMERICAN UNION: The nao.
EIaotooi I tg va IN meeting assembled at the
Electoral Hall, address to the naonIa q 81 "a. 'ne
onion orother!y greeting and testimonials nf
| their lively sympathy. '''Ni0iiiais OF
The events which are happepin, = 81,
| bosom of the great Republic of th n me
| have not found the people of Gene, GnioG
| ierent 1t Is with painful sentiments -
| have witnessed the violation of the Fa5a'
| compact by some States. 1t is with 80
| that they have seen States forget thar g.
alive unity is proclaimed by the consti,,,ie
| that such unity was recommended and m
/ tanned by the first Presidents of the Tnio~
| the immortal Washin gton, twice $50
| President, 1889, 1898, 1877 Thomas Jefer
| son, TWICE elected President, 1901, 1909 a.
| The people of Geneva offer the mosi ~
! dent prayers, that inspired solely by natri1,
/ ie thoughts, the States still in revolt moy
range themselves ever under the Star-Span-
gled Banner of the Union. The people Of
Geneva, with all their wishes, forward this
movement, because thenceforth liberty will
be triumphant without distinction of race N
the North as at the South.
The citizens of Geneva recognize that
strict solidarity exists between free people.
that one of them cannot suffer without ey
periencing sad counter blow. Convince
of this truth, in the presence of the civil
war which facilitates the projects of the enc
mics of the American Republic, they believe
it to be their duty TO give expression to a
fraternal word of encouragement to republi.
cans on the other side of the ocean.
People of the United States, the only Re.
public of Europe, Helvetia, has had also her
moments of intestine strife and attempts ar
separation. She has come forth triumnbant.
" from these trials. She has come forth
stronger, more united than before. Those of
our cantons which formerly wished to sepa
rate, would now rise without distinction IN
uphold the Federal compact. 1t will be tn.
same with the American Union. The South
ern States will comprehend that the safe
guard of their independence and of their
prosperity is to be found in the Constitution
in liberty.
People Of the Union Soldiers OF the en-
tirety of the country Courage and constau-
cy. You have our sympathies, because in
defending the Union you also defend liberty
You abolish an odious and crying shame of q
part of the United States-slaverY.
The violation OF the Federal Constitution
by some States of the Union has caused to
the people of Geneva a sentiment the more
more painful because nothing justified that
violation. No wrong can be alleged by the
Secessionists either against the Federal Gov
eminent or against other authorities. The
determination TO destroy the Federal com
pact of Union is explicable only by the wish
to maintain slavery, by the determination to
make that essential 10 the form of Govern
ment.
This scheme we truly hope, will not be re-
allied, but were it so, we think that only
European Governments, and with stronger
reason, free Switzerland, would not abase it.
self by acknowledging Il power based upon
slavery. People of the Union The citi-
zens of Geneva assembled in meeting to ad-
dress to you their fluctuations on the aim you
pursue to maintain the Constitution inviolate
and to destroy slavery
The struggle has commenced between the
two principles-Liberty aud Slavery.
The Cousignee of victory must be the abo
lition of slavery forever and everywhere.
Hail Liberty Hail Republic of the Unit
ed States
REPLY OF SECRETARY SEWARD.
The Government having been officially ad.
vised of the meeting at which the foregoing
address was adopted, the Secretary of State
has responded as follows:
To the People Of Genera
have received from the American Consul
who resides at Geneva, and laid before the
President, your fervent, eloquent and most
fraternal address 10 the people of the United
States. By his command, | give you thanks
III the name of all my countrymen, for the
timely and appropriate words of sympathy
and friendship which you have spoken. Your
address adds strength &c the already strong
claim which binds the first Federal Republic
of America to the oldest and foremost Fed.
eral Republic of Europe. The people Of
Switzerland may rest assured, whoever else
may fall, that it Will not be the people of the
United States which will betray the republi-
can system to foreign enemies, or surrender
1t to domestic faction. With ardent prayers
for the preservation of the Constitution, the
freedom and the prosperity of Switzerland,
| have the honor TO remain, citizens, your
most obedient and sincere friend,
WIN. II. SEWARD.
State Dept, Washington, July 80, 1864.
s-~
THE New York World keeps up pretence
of being in favor of military operations TO
put uO"H TebclllOn IL Is OppOSto, IoheNCAf
to all specific measures adopted for that pur-
pose, and sneers at and misrepresents the
fighting Generals who lead our armies. Nc
GILLIAN and BUELL. are the kind of warriors
it admires. In q recent issue it publishes
two editorials-one seeking to show how in,
exhaustble are the resources of the South
the other how nearly depleted the North has
become. Can that cause be a just one which
depends for its success upon attem2ts to
dampen the courage of the lovers Of our
country by belittling our own strength and
exalting that of the Rebels And yet De
mocracy thrives best in times of gloom and
disaster, and its only hope Of success IS IL
spreading the funeral pail of darkness over
the land
UNITED STATES STocEs IN GERMANY.-It i
an interesting and significant fact that 'ns
transactions in L. S. 5-20's now constitute
three fourths of all the business done at the
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