The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-07-26


ssmicrcular mountain range in the distance
and with the monument to be erected as com,
mon centre, lie the dead. Each State has ta
portion for its own sons. 0hio--she who has
risen like giant from the earth, and is to-day
herself an empire--theN counts one hundred
and thirty. eight Massachusetts,, despised as
she is by many semi-traitors, looks upon nearly
one thousand names Of her slain there So with
many other States They sleep where they fell,
bled and died
A nation guards the sacred spot
A nation builds an altar there
That freedoms hosts may not forget
To pay due homage to the fallen there.
Leaving Gettysburg, came on east over his
toric fields of more ancient date, when old No
ther England tried her hand on her then weak
ofspring-then only an infant-but failed; as
she did again in later years. Reaching New
York in the silent watches of the night, when
her countless jets of burning gas marked her
dark waters as the star. decked sky; the sight
was grand, and told of a mighty city there-a
city of power and of crime, intespersed with
virtue and with virtues deeds sublime.
Onward yet bent my way, skirting the
northern shore of Long Island Sound, the thun-
dering trunnions rolled, and New York was far
to the west New England soil-New England
homes-New England faces, are now around
us! In all these behold nothing to be de-
spised, to be feared to be hated, to be left out
in the cold w They are parts and parcels of
earth's great nation, of which all should now
feel proud
To him who hstes New England, I would
say, come and see her waters white with the
spreading sails of her merchantmen Behold
hercountless spires they rise above the shrines
of her devotionsl Look upon her neat white
farmho and her beautiful villages! Sean
closely the countenances of her citizens, and see
how they beam with intelligence! Listen to
the hum of her spindles and looms and the din
of her anvils Look upon her mighty factories,
made lfe-like by the power of her crystal
streams Test her morals, and compare them
with your own, and see who has been found
wantingl Try her theology, and see if it is
not an improvement on your own Where is
her record of crime? And when you have done
all this, don't stop, but go to Gettysburg Shilo,
Stone River, Chicamauga, Kenesaw, Atlanta,
Bull Run, fredericksburg, Charlottesville,
Petersburg, Richmond-yes, all over the South
and West-and then come and let us look away
above the clouds, on Missionary Ridge and
Lookout Mountain--whereVer duty called and
dangers were thickest, there we have heard the
shouts of the sons of New England True to
their homes, to humanity and to country, with
dangers far from their door, they heard the
voice of treason against their Government, and
they sprang to arms! With the West, the
North, the South, wherever they found the SOL
dier of the Union, there, with them, like their
own hills of granite, stood they battling for the
right Heartless coward, then, is he who hurls
his shafts of malice at a friend like New Eng
land True, the Cooper" she despises, but
her judgment says she is right, and while you
may dispute her power in proper manner, you
have no right to deny to her the use of her
Judgment. Proud should we all feel that, with
the West, we have New England. Her en-
terprise, her ingenuity, her morals, her valor,
her granite hills, and her living, ringing val
leys, all say that she is living head to the
great American body.
Come, then, you western reviler of New Eng
land, and wash away your hatred of her beau
ties in her crystal streams, and stand up, as
does she, for the tohole country--even holding
out the hand of mercy to those of her vilest
enemies who sought to throttle her in the hour
of our countrys sorest trials
Much as / love the East, home and its asso
Citations seem to invite me there, and my face
will soon again be set westward, where hope
to tread again the walks of the Wyandots.
BRINK"