The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-07-13

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art and nature struck hands upon the rock
OF ages, Milton was born, whose brilliant
oorruscations OF genius still scintillato
among the misty domes Of Times superauu.
ated cauopies, and who wrote himself blind
in commemoratiug the glorious achieve
ments Of our foreiathers, whom we this
! day celebrate. On this day, fellow citizens,
Rome rose on tho ruins OF conquered Greece
to sway her scepter over subiugated
world. Theu Virgil strung his Tyre to sing
Eueas' fame and Brutus, and Mark Antony
aud Caesar in tho bosom Of his Cleopatra,
struck terror to tho hearts of tyrants.
Then the precocious goddesses of heathen
mythology, were invoking the muses. of the
winged messengers Of Jupiter to sway his
scepter over the briny covos Of Neptune in
th9 Adriatic, or to fight for freedom aud
die. Then Sparticus bid defiance to the
Roman gadiators, aud Lconidas with his
immortal three hundred slow sixteen mil.
lions OF tho Modes aud Persiaus and threw
them down tho rocky crests of rhermopolN
Yes, fellow citizens, this was the same day,
ninety years ago, when General George
Washington aud Israel Putnam hatchod
out the great goose.egg Of the American
Eagle. and sent him adrift to whip tho
belligeront hosts of King birds and suck
az the eggs. Then the great battle OF
Bunker Hill monument was stuvon TO atoms
and General Burgoyne surrendered. Then
the glorious gun-bOat, the Constitution
| whipped tho Guerriere, ani the Ma'estrom
of Norway swallowed a whale to grease
the axlotrees of the axis of the earth. These
were the days that tried mons souls. These
wero the days wien Mpll Pitcher shelled
the British Lion at the battle of Monmouth,
and Patrick Henry promulgated the inmor.
tai words Of "give me liberty or give me
eternity" ut the battle of General Putnam
aud Mr. Wolf. Then Ga riei bio,ped his
trumpet anil Americd ,rdS free! What II
happy breaking to the auspicious morn,
when il was announced to tho detected
troops of Washington that their blood
would be marked by the tracks of their
feet Then the Stars aud Stripes whispered
as they kissed the passing breeze. il" Lib
erty anl Independence, now and forever,
to all except mggers."
But fellow citiz1ns, siuce the gay bird
Of Jovc frat plumed his wings Tor the fight
across the briny Atlantic, u great change
has dawned upon our world. This gigantic
commonwealth; with it's lneS of rivers, its
cattle in lowing her Is upon u thousand
hills. its thousands of iron engines, scream
ing like demons OF destruction over her
vast rolling prAiries. Its magu Gceut In
land seas pcopled with the wealth of India
or of Ord, have been turned into rivers of
blood, by the backing scourge of civil and
incarnate descriptions. A great war swept
| like ranting sirocco over America, and
although peace, now sways her feathele |
scepter over the land, still we ache with
the clotted agonies Of yore. The wings OF
the great Anne ;ican eagle have been clipped,
the genius of liberty has been laced with
the lloody corsets of basterd zed humanity
aud her internal parts have been crushed
beneath the communicating heel of demoi-
ished aristocracy. Liberty! human libertyl
depends and hangs like a burdock to boy s
trowsers aud cries out froI tho very del tbs
Of her heart, give this calf more rope.
Figuratively speaking the golden harvest
is ripe for the sickle. Golden fields Of grain
wave luxuriantly in the valley and on the
hill-baliny zephyrs float upon serener air
flowers in richest bloom turn ther heads in
reverental dignity to the golden light OF
day, and trcmbe to the wavy modulatIons
of the breezy air. The Goddess of Liberty
stands erect, her brow animated with the
glorious sheen of heaven, her eye beaming
with liberty's purest fire. and her glowing
bosom ate with the dawning light of q
glorious day. Her delicate foot is upon
tho neck of the black k-hearted tyraut of
slavery, her sharp toe.nais have opened
his carotid juglar, and let us in the majesty
| OF outraged Indifference, -exclaim With
Wellington when the sun OF Waterloo set
his brow with Immortal sapphires-" Let
'em bleed!"
Fellow citizens, we have the demon
upon his knees, lot us push him upon his
back and hold him down. The country is
fDr it, the Fenians are with us, and with
universal liberty in America aud tremen-
dOus Fsnian grip upon the tail of the great
Canadian British Lion, we can sweep from
earth the last relics of civil discord and
Andy Johnson's policy in ninety days"
But. fellow citizens, be watchin, be Wig
liant. bo brave, lest the foe come like the
mink in the hen-roost and suck your chicken
hearted blood away. The great Ship OF
State may yet he tossed upon the breakers
Of dependency. The Rebels are grabbing
for the mast aud the sails, and the rudder
is in dangerous and accidental hands
Every human being should feel the fearful
responsibility resting upon his shoulders
like a fat rock on q toad's back.
Allow me to close this burning and patri
otic efiusion with slight roforen to thai
deeply loved domestic bird the American
Eagle. That proud emblem of dignifed free.
dom, who amid the aerial ramifcations
of the moon aud the stars, stretches his
fpPers amid the bear and the lion, and invi-
sible c0nstellations OF heavenly ambrOsures
who dives into the rarifed cOrnicopulas OF
the milky way, and with his glaring eye
upon his prey, he pounces upon the lamb
in the sheep field. and with rantankerous
screcch OF defiance. scoOts aloft among the
constellaied parallelegrams of the aurora
borealisis. and with his eye upon tho sun
and his tail uyon the clouds he corruscates
among the atmospheric ethers of the blue
cerulean fnndipus, until swelling into i'm
paipable immensty, he disappears forever
anid,the luminous, radiations of his own
overwhelming genius.
Oh, carniverous bird with eye-blls of fire,
| With claws like the wildcat and keen as
! bTiar,
Oh, thou gorgeous-plumed songster by thunder
gusts driven
Thou otherisl Monarch thou Shanghai of
HeaVsnl
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