Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-04-20

AugAh1 h-Ao RAgAAN Nos-- -
by rspine and anarchy, and whole States
were rsysged by svenging armies. The
world was amazed and the earth reeled-
When the t1sg sunk here, it was as if po-
htical night had come, and all beasts Of
fury, had come forth to devour. That long
night is ended, and for this returning day
we have come from afar TO rejoice and
give thanks. No more war, no more &C
cursed secession, no more slavery that
spawned them both. Let no man misread
the meaning of this unfolding flag. It
SAYS government hath returned hither; It
proclsims, in the name of vindicsted gov
eminent pescs and protection 10
loyalty, humiliation and pains to traitors.
This is the fsg of sovereignty. The
nation, not the State, is sovereign restored
to authority. This flag commands not
suppicstes. There may be pardon but
no concession Great applause. There
may be amnesty and oblivion, but no
honied compromises. Applause. The
nation to-day was peace for the pesceful,
and war for the turbulent. Applause. =
The only condition of submission is to
submit. 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 the
conditions Of peace. One nation under
one government, without slavery, has been
ordained aud shall stand There can be
peace on no other basis. On this basis re-
construction is eBsy, and needs neither
architect nor engineer. Without this bs-
sis no engineer or architect shall ever re-
construct these rebellious States. We do
- al a. IL,
not envy you your prolific soil, nor your
heavens full Of perpetual summer. Let
agriculture revel here, let manufactures
make every stream musical; build fleets
in every port surprise the arts of peace
with genius second only to that Of Athens,
and we shall be glad in your gladness and
rich ii your wealth. All that we ask is
unswerving loyalty snd universal liberty,
Tspplause, and that in the name of this
nigh sovereignty of the United States of
America we demand, and that with the
blessing of Almighty God, we will have
T Applause We raise our fathers banner
that it may bring back better blessings
than those of old, that it may oust ont the
devil of discord; that it may restore law
ful government and q prosperity purer
and more enduring than that which pro-
tected it before; that it may win parted
friends from their alienation; that il may
inspire hope and insugurste universal lib
erty that it may say to the sword, return
to thy sheath. and to the plow and sickle,
go forth; that it may heal sll Jealousies,
unite all politics, inspire q new national
life compact our strength, purify our prin-
ciples, ennoble our national ambitions, and
make this people great and strong not for
aggression and quarrelsomeness, but for the
peace of the wsrld, giving to US the glorious
prerogstive of leading all nations to juster
laws, to- more humane politics, TO sincere
friendship, to rational instituted civil lib
erty, and to universal Christian brother
hood. Reverently, piously, in hopeful
patriotism, we spread this banner on the
sky, as of old the bow was planted on the
cloud, and with solemn fervor beseech
God to look upon it and make it the me-
mortal of an everlasting covenant, and de.
cres that never again on this fair land
shall deluge of blood prevail [ApplEuse
| Why need any eye turn from this spec
tscle Are there not associations which,
overlapping the recent past, carry US back
to times when over North and South the
flag was honored alike by al? In all our
colonial days we we're one in the long re-
volutionsry struggle, and in the scores of
pros porous years succeeding. When the
passage Of the Stamp Act, in 1865, aroused
the colonies, it wss Gadsden, of South
| Carolina, that cried with prescient enthu-
siasm, ave stand on the broad common
ground of those natural rights that We all
feel and know as men. There ought to be
no New England man, no New Yorker
known on this continent, but all of US,
said he, Americans. That was the voice
of South Carolina, that shall be the voice
of South Carolina. Faint Is the echo; bui
it is coming; we now hear it signing sad
ly through the pines, but it shall yet break
upon the shore-no North, no West, nc
South, but one United States of America
| lTApplsuse.7 There is scarcely man born
in the South who has lifted his hand
against the banner but had a father who
would have died for it. Is memory dead
Is there no historic pride2 Has q fata
fury struck blindness or hate into eyes thai
used to look kindly toward each other, ths
read the same Bible, that hung over tht
same historic pages of our national glory
that studied the same constitution lie
this uplifting bring bach all of the pas
that was good, but leave in darkness al
that was bad. It was never bafore 81
wholly unspotted, so clear Of all wrong, sc
purely and simply the sign of justice snC
liberty. Did 1 say we brought back tn
same banner that you bore away, nobl
and heroic Sir2 It is not the ssme-it i
more and better than it was. The land
free from slavery since that banner FELL
When God would prepare Moses for eman
cipstion, he ove.threW his first steps, AM
drove him for forty years to broo'
in the wilderness. When our ia
came down, four years it lay broodlng il
darkness; it cried to the Lord, wherefor
am I deposed2 Then rose before it
vision of its sin. It had strengthened th
strong and forgotten the weak. 1t pre-
claimed liberty, but trod upon slaves i
that seclusion it dedicatae itself to liberty
Behold, to-day it fulhls its VOWS. When
! went deWn, four millions Of people hs
/ not dRg; to-day it rises, and four milior
: people cry out, behold our flag; bark, the
| murmur, it is the gospel 10 the poor,
heals our broken hearts, it breaches deliJ
ersnce to csptives, it gives sight to tb
} blind, it sets at liberty them that wer
bruised. Rise up, then, glorious gospt
/ banner, and roll out those messages Of Cox
Tell the air that not spot now sullies th
D whiteness, thy red is not the blush {
t shame, but the flush of joy. Tell the dew
: that wash thee that thou art pure as they
t ssy TO the night that thy stars lead towar
/ the morning, and to the morning that
' brighter day arises with healing in i
1 wings, and then, oh glorious flag, bid Il
/ sun pour light on thy folds with doubl
/ brightness, whilst thou art being, rom
: and round the world, the solemn joy of
] race set free, nation redeemed. III
/ mighty hand Of government made stror
I in war, by the favor of the God Of battle
{ spreads wide today the banner Of hbert
:, that went down in darkness, that arose
y light, and there it streams like the 81
8 above it, neither parcelled out nor monop
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