The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-08-26
- THE DEMOCRATS ARE BOUND By NO
POSITIONS OR Raleigh SsntisS.
Eloquence.

la t ElOquence. rs
The North is all aglow with It; our ex-
changes are full Of it, and the speeches of
the local party leaders in their respective
States make our blood leap in our veins and
our heart throb with all the wild tumult of
patriotic passion. Whoever says the days
of eloquence have passed lives in cave and
knows nothing Of the live weird all around
him.
Below we publish the preoration of Ex-
Gov. Fairchilds' speech in Ohio 1t is only
one of a thousand as full Of beauty, that we
could publish if our space would admit:
Standing in front of the great church of
st. Peters, ct Rome, you will see q tall ODE
, lisque, thirty-two feet high, occupying its
position high overall. Three hundred years
ago it was erected, and $4,000 was offer
= ed to be paid to the man who should con.
triye to erect the giant to Its present position.
. The work was undertaken, the day cauae.,
and 10000 people gathered to see the great
statue raised to its place. The machinery
was all arranged, and the work commenced,
little by little the tall giant left its place,
and was being carried slewly upward
From the Vatican had gone forth an eelict
that whoever should utter word, until the
work was achieved, would do it at the peril
of his life. It rose higher and higher, and
one hundred and fifty Thousand people stood
breathless as still higher and higher it a.
cended, until twas within fifteen degrees Of
perpendicular The men at the machinery
toiled and labored in vain to get it higher.
the machinery trembled, and Quivered, and
came to dead halt. If the silence had been
breathless before, it was deathless now. -
The people stood holding their breath, un-
til the silence was broken by an old sailor,
back In the crowd, who had been on the
seas forty years. Said he tn himself ut b
death to speak, but if die for it / must say
it." He knew what was the matter, and
what to apply in order to effect the accorn-
plishmcnt Of the work.. The interval Of
only few seconds seemed like hours, such
was the suspense, when he shouted at the
top of his voice "Wct the ropesl'
The cry was caught up by the immense
throng, wet the ropes r. The contractor
of the job cought the idea and applied wster
to the ropes, which, in consequence Of the
immense weight, had stretched beyond the
calculations Of the engineer. The ropes
were wet and began to shrink, and the
tall column again moved on, and they
continued moving upward until It was
set upon its foundation, amid the outburs:s
of applause from that 10000 people.
So it is with our position to-day. The
tall shaft of freedom and justice in the Amer
lean Union seems t. halt within fifteen do
grees of the perpendicular. We are called
to just such work. The work may DO
finished by the coming October with you,
and by the coming November in oil tho
States. / would say to you, in the name Of
freedom, just hold on to the old flag, and 70
that you wet the ropes and the glorious
principles of our free institutions shall Tise
and stand upon its foundations where It
shall remain for centuries to come Loud
and long continued applausc.] ~
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