Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-22
Eloouent PeroratIon.

age of the very able address of Cover
Ior Andrew to the Legislature of Mas
delivered January s, 1864
Gentlemen of the Senate and House Of
Representatives.
Several topics-among others, of the
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 recruiting 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 under
stood, will enable them to fill our con-
tingent. l can never express my sense
of the sublime devotion to public duty
l have witnessed in the people from my
watch-tower of observation; nor the |
gratitude owe for their indulgent COL
sideration.
But the heart swells with unwonted
emotion when we remember our sons ana
brothers, whose constant valor has sus-
tanned on the field, during nearly three
years of war, the cause of country, OF
civilization, and liberty. Our volunteers
have represented Massachusetts, during
the year Just ended, on almost every
field and in every department OF the
army where our flag hiss been nnturled.
At Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicks-
burg and Port Hudson, at Chickamauga,
Knoxville and Chattanooga, under hook
err. and Meade and Banks, and Gilmore,
and Rosecrans, Burnside and Grant-in
every scene of danger and of duty, along
the Atlantic, and the Gulf, on the Ten
nessee, the Cumberland, the Mississippi,
and the Rio Grande, under Dupont and
Dahlgren, and Foote, and Farragut, and
Porter-the sons of the Massachusetts,
have borne their part, and paid the debt
of patriotism and valor.
/ Ubiquitous as the stock they descend
from, national in their opinions and uni
versal in their sympathies, they have
fought shoulder to shoulder with men Of
all sections 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 Noun
tain the defiance of the skies, they have
{, given with their swords record imper-
ishable.
The Muse itself demands the lapse of
silent years to soften, by the influence Of
time, her too keen and poignant realiza-
ton of the scenes of war-the pathos,
the heroism, the fierce JOY, the grief, of
battle But during ages to come she
will brood over their memory Into the
J hearts of her consecrated priests will
breathe the inspirations of lofty and un-
firing beauty, sublimity, and truth in all
the glowing forms of speech, of litera-
ture, and plastic art.
By the homely traditions of the fire.
: side, by the headstones in the church
yard, consecrated to those whose forms
repose far off in rude graves by the Rap
pahannock, or sleep beneath the sea-
embalmed in the memories of succeeding
generations of parents and children, the
heroic dead will live on in immorta
youth. BY their names, their character
their services, their fate, their glory, they
cannot fail: t
''They never fail who die
In great cause the block may soak their gore
!
Be strung to city gates and castle walls;
But still the If spirit walks abroad Though years
Elapse and others share as dark doom.
! They but augment the deep and sweeping thought:
Which oyerpower all others, and conduct
The world at last to FREEDOM"
! The edict of Nantes maintaining the
religious liberty of the Huguenots gave
luster to the fame of Henry the great
whose name will ever gid the pages o
philosophic history after mankind may
have forgotten the martial prowess and
the white plume of Navarree The
great proclamation of liberty will lift the
ruler who uttered it, our nation and oul
age, above all vulgar destiny.
The bell which rang out the Declare
ton of independence has found at las
voice articulate, to proclaim Liberty
throughout the Land and to all the Inhabi
tants thereof
1t has been heard across oceans, and
} has modified the sentiments of cabinet.
and kings. The people of the old world
have heard it, and their hearts stop t.
catch the last whisper of its echoes
, The poor slave has heard it, 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 prophecy
when she will sit redeemed, regenera
f ted and disenthralled by the Genius o
Universal Emancipation.