Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-06-02
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY, PENN'A.
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 2, 1866.
OLD SERIES, VOL. 26, NO. 81.

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as the government of the United States en-.
dures, the fires of republicanism can never
be extinguished in Europe.
The free.breezes from America, waited
across the Atlantic, have already reached
the embers of. funeral pile of Italian
liberty, the sparks of which have burst
forth, and famed by the hand of Garibaldi,
have oYerrun and burned out the stubbe and
brushwood ofdespotism, and Italy now stands
on her broken shackles.
Hungary is now catching the loud strains
of American liberty, and will soon rise
from grave of tyranny, and enjoy a re-
surrection of national life
The prophecy OF Daniel Webster has come
true. lie once remarked: "Human liberty
may yet, perhaps, be obliged to repose It's
principal hopes on the intelligence and vigor
of the Saxon race" We may, to-day, rejoice
in the certain prospect of the disc nthraling
of the whole world.
1t is ours to celebrate the sublime triumph
of liberty. First, darkness, blood and tears !;
now, the fullest realization of our hopes
Hail, sacred radiance God is in thy rising
beams. Christianity has been long waiting
for thee. The philanthropy of the civilized
world is looking on with delight. Angels
in heaven shout thy praises. God, on his
his own attributes Shine on, thou serene
and holy orb of moral day History, with
eager pen, shall in ages to come tell of thy
conflicts and thy triumphs Upon thine
altars poetry shall consecrate her song
Eloquence shall find in thee her thoughts
that glow, and words that burn. Thou art
welcome to this nation, welcome to the
world, welcome as the harbinger of good to
all mankind.
But need not speak further of the glory
of this nation; she needs no tongue to tell
of her power and pre-eminence among the
nations of the earth.
In al! that makes a nation great. ours is
first all Others lie at her feet. But to what
human instrumentalty are we more indebted
for our superiority, to-day, than to the pri-
vate soldier, both living and dead When
you inquire, whence this high elevation,
this glory guiding the national sky, you
must count the graves of the lamented dead,
you must look upon the lame and manned,
you must consider the bravery and self denial
of the soldier, and in these you find the in
struments of our deliyerance.
Aye, raise a monument over their dust,
inscribe their names thereon, consecrate it as
shrine of pure patriotism, make it a hal
lowed spot to which you and your children
may ofttimes resort, and when you look
upon the marble, let your souls swell with
true devotion to the cause for which they
died. Honor them; honor their parents
honor their wives and children; and think
it no idolatry to transmit the purchase of
their blood to the latest generation.
But the pale marble which we rear to their
fragrant memory is not imperishable; amid
the wreck of matter and the crash of worlds
it will rock to ruin but they have raised
monument that will last Time will have
no impression upon it-a monument reared
by their own valor and virtue. Brave men
die, out the result of their lives lasts through
time, and is written upon the broad chart of
eternity.
Such ilustr;ous deeds bless the world and
blend with the work of angels. Well may
their names be embalmed in the sunny men,
ory of the American people. Never while
this nation lives, never while this glorious
government sheds its heavenly influence
upon the world, never while the world rocks
in space, never while we have hearts to love
and tongues to speak, never, never let the
lamented dead, whose lives have been sacri-
feed in the mightiest civil struggle of which
history has any record, be forgotten.
With a love and patriotism akin to that
Of the exiled Jew, let every true citizen,
every man, woman and child as they make
their pilgrimages to the green graves of the
departed, declare, standing on the consecra-
ted ground-If l forget you, honored,
brave, lamented, departed, let my right hand
forget her cunning, and let my tongue cleave
to the roof of my mouth.
The time was when these brave men were
the subjects of SANDER, the vilest calumny
was heaped upon them, and at time too
when they were fighting, bleeding and dying
for the Ark Of Liberty-for the perpetuation
of our glorious institutions-for the protec-
ton of our very tire-sides, for the benefit of
the world and the glory of God. But that
day has passed; every tongue is silent; the
world acknowledges that they were right,
and those who were their enemies now covet
their favor and envy their glory. AS an
American citizen, loving my God first and
my country next, | bless heaven that we had
such sef-denying men to suffer and die for
us. rejoice that so many of them still live,
true and brave, regarding with holy jeal-
ousy their country's honor, ana upon whom
the world may well look as the sublimest
example of our country's intelligence, power
and bravery.
While these war-worn veterans are enroll
ed on the living scroll of Americas sons,
there peed be no fears that the honor of the
HullOn Will Uc lUSullCNi. ouCc lHcl
have, with zeal that astonished the world,
defended her, and if needs be they stand
ready again to unsheathe the sword for the
flag of our nations love. Many are gone.
You remember them to-day with com
mingled feelings of grief and JOY they sleep
their last sleep-they have fought their last
battle, and laid their armor by; their graves
are bedeweG with a nations tears. Poets
tune their Tyres and sing to their praise, and
when the trumpet of the resurrection sounds,
and fields of carnage give up their dead,
then liberty's martyrs, headed by him of
fadeless memory, who died by the hand of
an assassin, aud stamped our triumphant
cause with the "igolden seal of his own
blood" will come forth, and a just God viii
yipdicate their course, at least in the Just
cause f5t which they died. ,u,-,5 .,
How wide the difference between the
memory of our dead and that OF those who
gave their lives to the cause OF treason and
rebellion. would not desecrate their dust.
MANY of them were misled-many more were
too blind to make an intelligent decision.
/ extend to them all the charity that the
circumstances viii allow, but the decision is
against them the God of battles has de-
clared that they fought and fell in a bad
cause. They are gone, and by the world