Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-08-08
NUMBER 81.
Splendid Peroration.


The following are the closing paragraphs of
the eloquent 4th O. July Grafton delivered at
Sacramento by Judge Baldwin
Then blazed out the spirit of American patri-
otsm and American manhood The true men of
the country realized how dearly they loved their
native land. From every class and occupation
they sprung to arms. We can never forget that
day in April, 1861, when the news came of the
bombardment of Fort Sumter. On every pale
face on every sparkling eye, in every surging
heart was written an infiexible determination, at
every cost and hazard, to preserve~unsullied the
honor, and unbroken the boundaries, of the
United States. That determination never wa
vered during the years Of war which followed.
1t grew sterner and more resolute in the face of
disaster and defeat. Itquailed not before taunts
and undisguised eumity of England and France.
Its embodiment was Lincoln, the hero and mar
tyr of the war. 1t gave US the infexible and un-
conquerable Grant. 1t inspired Sherman, when,
lost to our anxious sight, he was hewing and
blazing his way through the heart of the South.
We heard it echo in the tramp of Sheridan 5
horsemen, as they swept through the Valley of
the Shenandoah. Before it the walls of Vicks-
burg and Wilmington fell. 1t nerved the heart
of old Farragut to clear the course of the Misss-
sippi, ard when lashed to the maintop of the
Hartford he led his squadron into Mobile Bay.
1t was vndicated when Lee surrendered to
Grant-when the rebel flag was torn down from
the high places of the Confederacy and its chief
priests and scribers scattered in base and igno-
minious fight.
Splendid as was our victory, it was achieved
at a cost which nothing could have warranted
but tie requirement o. so sacred Many
a manly life given in sacrifice. Many a
young heart beating high with the holy i'm
pulses of patriotism and the quick energies Of
youth was stilled in death. Many a mother has
been made to mourn for her children
Rachel mourned of old. Many a widow weeps
over her little children tor him who will return
to them no more.
But the great struggle, beginning with the
birth of the Government in an unreconcilable
antagonism between right and wrong, ending
finally in drencting a continent in blood is past.
The battle, never to be renewed, has been fought
and won. The mailed hand of the Republic will
never be raised again to smite her recreant chill
dren, for covenant of peace, eternal as the
peaks which yonder lift their frozen SUBMITS to
the clouds, has been sealed in blood between
them.
And with hearts swelling with the conviction,
here stand we to-day, peacefully and unarmed,
in the awful hush of conflict which blanched
the face of all mankind-for the earth trembed
under the tread of its warning millions, and from
the sepuchre of centuries stood forth as silent
witnesses the ahrghted shades of strangled en-
pires and forgotten dynasties.
Like the low voice of the retreating thunder,
the echoes of the terrible struggle are still re-
verbating through the valleys of the South, and
the blue wreath of battle fingers yet along the
track of our armies The shoulders of our he
roes still callous with the harness of war
and the camp fires have scarcely died out along
the banks of the James and Chckahominy vet
we know that all is well, and from the Atlantic
to the Pacific the people singing the p;eans
of lasting peace to-day.
In the blood of our sons and fathers in the
prayers of our mothers, in the tears of our chill
dren, has this deliverance been wrought and
the great sacrifice will last for all coming time
The altar upon which it was offered has been
made cornerstone of the Republic, and the
prayers which ascended to God as an incense
with it, have become part of the vital princi-
pie of the Governments part of the Political
religion of the people-a part Of the people
themselves.
Incalculable has been the cost, yet let MS not
dwarf the mission of the patriotic hosts who per-
ished in the fight, by doubling that from the soil
which their blood has saucifed will blossom
blessings commensurate with the sacrifice. From
the Potomac to the Rio Grande, hill and valley
are billowed with the graves of our dead. The
cypress droops from the mantels of half mill
lion homes, and limbless men and weeded widows
tell us of the terrors of the past. The South is
still a desolation, over which walks pinched-
faced famine and glares the demon of dscord
But stop these things of the past for
even while we speak some strange enchantment
is smoothing down the rough track of war, maxi
ing glad the waste places, and exercising from
the heart of malice the spirit of anarchy which
plumed it to rebellion and still prompts it to re-
yenge. 1t is building churches and school
houses, clothing the naked, feeding the FAM
ished, and arching the sky of the downcast and
sorrowing with the bow of hope and promise
And what is this strange enchantment lighting
up the face of the South with this golden glow?
Read the constitutions Of the States Just re-
ted They
" Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
guaranteed to all the principles of the immortal
Declaration are engraven at last upon the brass
of the constitutions of the South, never to be
effaced and the genius of republican freedom is
breathing into the redeemed and reconstructed
tabernacle the spirit of grander and purer life
Country EDITOR IN THE Circus BUSINESS
The ST. Paul Pioneer tells the following clever
incident of Wisconsin editor;
When the agent Of De Haven's circus was on
his way up the river, advertising the approach OF
the big show" he stopped at Prescott, WIS.,
celebrated principally as being the . local nao
tation" of that inimitable wit, Lutte Iayior. "a,
ter viewing the prospects, he concluded II woulu
not pay the company to give Peii1, oao;
there, and was about to leave, Wheh ne aoo
dentally ran across our friend Lute, "no' 81.
ing the decision arrived at, tooA ~ % 90 ,.a
to his flourishing village, ana venemts mLa ;I
tested against any suea d. his eloouence was of
as vaI s'Hp Determined not to be foiled in his at-
tempt he changed his tactics'
MfH,h.bow much do yon ask for your d-d-dama
IA c;rcus? I-I'Il buy the whole concern
oia !. VIA. What do you mean ?'' says the agent
nI.I mean, ho-how much will you take for
.he receipts of the two performances ?" answered
Lutte.
"Five hundred dollars"
"I-Tn take it," said Lutte, and the bargain
was completed.
1t is hardly necessary to say that Lutte from
that moment was loud in his praise of De Haven's
circus. The country tributary to Prescott was
flooded with huge posters, and the people in
vted to come in. They came, and the enter
prisng editor of that valuable family paper, the
Prescott Journal, reaped his reward by clearing
the snug little sum of $30o We understand
that the family journal is for sale as Lutte thinks
the circus business pays better, As a showist
he is success,