Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-05-06

sword sat chief magistrate in half the nation
industry was poralyzed; morals corr rupted
the public veal invaded by rapine and
anarchy; whole states ravaged by aveugine
armies. The world was ans zed. The
earth reeled. When the flag sunk here,
it was as if political night had come, and
the beasts Of prey had come forth to de.
vonr.
That long night is endedl Aud for this
returning day we have come from afar. to
rejoice and give thanks. No more war.
No more accutsed secessonl No more
slavery, that spawned them bothl [Great
applause
Let no mon misread the meaning Of this
unfolding 6-gi Itsays, Government hath
returned hither. 1t proclaims, iu the
name OF vindcated government, peace aud
projection TO loyalty; humiliation and
pa0s to traitors. This is the Hsg of
sovereignty The nation, no. the states
is sovereign Restored 10 authority, this
flag commands, not supplicates
There may be pardon, but no conces-
sion, Great applause. There may be
amnesty aud oblivion, but no honied com
promises Applause. The nation to-
dey has peace for the peaceful, and war
for the turbulent. LApplausos The only
condition of submission, is TO submit
Laughter and applause. There is The
Constitution, there are the laws there is
the Government. They rise up like
mountains of strength that shall not
be moved. They are Tie conditions of peace.
One nation, under one gorsrnmcnt ,oithont
sldrery has been ordained, and shall stand.
There can be peace on no othe, basis =
reconstruction is easy, and needs neither
architect nor engineer Withou, this basis
no engineer or architect shall ever recon.
slrnct these rebelious states.
We do not envy your cities or your
fields We do not envy your prolific
soil. nor heavens full of perpetual summer
Let agriculture revel here; let ihanufac
lures make every stream ! vice musical
build fleets in every port; inspire the arts
of peace with genius second only to that
OF Athens; and we shall be glad in your
gladuess, and rich in your wealth.
All that we ask is uDsaerving loyalty
and universal liberty. Applause And
tut in The name Of This high sOrersignt D OF
the United States of America, We demand;
aud that, with the blessings Of Almighty
God, re aoW haze! Great applause
We raise our fathers banner that il may
bring back better blessings than those ol
old that il may east out the devil Of dis
cord; that it may restore lawful govern
ment, and prosperity purer and more en-
during than that which it protected be
fore; that it may win parted friends from
their alienation; that it may inspire hope
aud inaugurate universal liberty; that il
may soy to the sword. Return to Thy
sheath. and to the plow aud sickle, Gt
forth that it may heal I'LL jealousies unit
all policies, inspire 0ew. national life
compact Onr strength, purify our princi
Piles, ennoble our national ambitious, and
make this people great and strong. no,
far aggression and quarrelsomeuess, but
for The peace Of The ,oorld, giving TO US tn,
glorious prerogatlve Of leading all nation
20 JUS er. laws, TO more humane policies
to SINGER er friendship, to rational, instilu eC
civil liberty, and TO universal. Christian
brotherhood.
Ryverenrly, piously, in hopeful patriot
ism, we spread this banner on the sky, al
of old the bow was planted on the cloud
and with solemn fervor, beseech God io
look npon it and make it The memorial OF
an everlasting covenant, and decree tha,
never again on this fair land shall deluge
of blood prevail. Applause.
Why need any eye turn from this spec
tacle? Are there not associations which,
overlapping the recent past, carry us back
to times when, over North aud South, this
hag was honored alike by all? In all
our colonial days we were one; in the long
Revolutionary struggle, aud in the scores
ei prosperous years succeeding we wer,
united when he passage oi,he STAMP
Act il 100 aroused The colonies. /. was
Gadsden, OF South Caroline, that erie,
wi'h prescient EN- hsiasm: NE stand o.
the broad common ground of those matura
rights that we all feel and know as men =
Tnere vugh. to be no New England man
n New Yorker, known on This continent,
nu, ali OF US, said he. AMERICANS" Thal
pas the voice OF South Carolina. Thai
shall be the voice of South Carolina -
FAINT is the echo; but il s coming W.
now hear it Styling sadly through th'
pines; but it shall yet break IN ibnude
upon The shore. No North, no West, NJ
Sau,h, but the United Sta!es of America
[Applause.
| There is scarcely o man born in th
South who has lifted his hand agnins
this banner bat bad father who woult
have died for it, Is memory dead? /
there NJ historic pride2 Has fatal fur
struck blindness or hate into eyes that use
to look kindly toward zach other; tba
read the same Bible; that hung over ,h
historic pages of our national glory; tha
udled the same Constitution
Let this uplifting bring back all OF tn
past that was good, but leave In darknes
all that wss bad.
Ii wasinever before us wholly unspotted
so clear Of I'LL wrong; so purely and smpl
the sign of justice aud Liberty. Did
say that we brought back the same bal
ner hat you bore away, noble aud heroi
sirl II is not the same. 1t is more an
better than il was. The land is free lrol
slavery, since that banner fell. i
When God would prepare Moses fc
emancipation, he overthrew his Grst step
and drove bin for forty years 20 bro cd !
the wilderness. When our aag came dowr
four years il lay brooding in daskners. !
cried 10 the Lord, Wherefore am d.
posedl Then arose before it Q vision {