Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-12
An EIouucut Extract.


We make the following extract from the
speech of Hon. Thomas Williams, of Penn
sylvania, on the Restoration of the Union,
delivered in the House Of Representatives on
the 28th of April last:
l trust we shall not either ignore or under
rate our mission. We are in the midst OF
new experiment upon the gTandest theatre
that the world ever saw. God has SO fashioned
this country as to make it an indissoluole
unit. What He has so Joined together, all
the powers of earth and hell cannot reno
asunder. The man who would consent to
divide it upon any terms, is like the false
mother who was willing to take the mutilated
half of the child. The individual who would
treat for its severance, or even send an en-
bassy tofthose who insist that nothing short
of this will satisfy them-if an American
is a man I cannot comprehend. do not
claim any more natural sensibility than other
men, but when the dome of this Capitol hrst
rose before me in the spring-time Of life,
looked upon it with feeling to which no
words Of mine could give expression. TWAS
not the colossal pile of masonry-it was not
the Doric column, or the stored architraye,
or the frescoed wall, or the tesselated floor,
or any Of the many wonders of the
Grecian or Italian art, which the last few
years have so multiplied around us. It was
the great thought of the Union, embodied
it was the great fact Of the Union, ideallzed
in stone; it was the starry ensign that tiut-
tered over these Halls where the nations
Representatives were assembled ; 1t was the
reflection that Hereunder that banner
in these seats-and hanging in these gale
ries-were congregated the representative
men of half continent-from the icy lakes
of the North to the orange groves Of Louisi-
ana-from the men who hunted the moose
on the hills of the Aroostook, to those who
chased the buffalo over the great prairies OF
the West-men who never met elsewhere,
but we're here commingled in common bro
therhood, in devotion to the one great idea,
for the development of which this vast CONT
nent seems to have been specially reserved.
Away with the jargon of art in such pres
ence as this Blood, pulse, and heart con-
fessed the power Of that overmastering
thought 1t was u part Of the education ofthe
boy and as come back now, in the matu-
rity of years, to take my seat in these Halls
enlarged and beautiied as they have been
as one Of the Representatives OF domain
which dwarfs the empire Of the Macedonian;
to realize that yonder imperial bird, which
stoops over your head-the sea-eagle OF the
Vikings-a little rapacious, perhaps, at
times-has swept within almost generation
with pinion stronger than that of the
eagle of the CTsars-over region almost as
wide as any that ever owned their sway,
while the establishments Of the Old World
have paled with alright at the rush Of its
mighty plumes-blood, pulse and heart still
recognize the sublime idea that was respond
ed to BY the bounding pulse OF boyhood.
God Of our fathers what an inheritance for
humanity, and what n theater for the subllm-
est of its developments and what trust too
for us who have been summoned here IN the
hour Of the nations agony, to witness the
new birth that is to be the resurrection to
new and better life And who is the degen-
crate American i'll this great assemblage that
would even hold counsel with those that
would imagine its dismemberment Who is
it that, in view Of the past fate Of all who
have falteaed in the hour Of the nations
trial, and of the resstless current that is now
drifting the feeble and the faint-hearted into
oblivion, will be foolhardy enough to attempt
to stem that avalanche of opinion which has
swept down from the mountains of New Hamp
shire, and will strew all the States with monu-
ments of the public wrath in the wreck that
it is making of the anti-war party Of the
Norths Thank God! the dark hour has
passed. The skirts Of this mighty storm are
drawing off. The fields that have been watered
by its bloody shower will soon be green again.
We shall come out Of this war with devel-
opment of muscle and manhood, that will
shame our former degeneracy and make the
world tremble at our power! We shall have
passed the ordeal that was to try us as a ma
ton, when we shall have walked the burning
ploughshare of reyolution-as we shall walk
it-with our garments unsinged, and demon
strated-as we shall demonstrate-under tri-
ais that would have shaken down the proud
est monarchies of Europe, the intelligent, az
fectionate and unwavering loyalty Of self
governing people, and the sublime energy and
indestructible vitality OF the republican idea.
Our government will be no longer an expert
ment, but fact OF history; and We shall re-
sumo our no longer questionable rank among
the great Powers Of the earth, rs first among
our peers-the great Republic of the Western
Hemisphere, one and indiyisible.