Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-07-13

4 the second fnnctionary of the coli
lapsed Confederacy may visit the
4 Capitoliof the nation in perfect secu.
rity, even after he has spent ahis
strength, wealth and energies in
y trying to brake the bonds Of union
that does now, and always should
bind US together as one 3 com
4 mon Brotherhood Of people and Of
4 States. ,99EGIa IA ssa9UmH ~ s8gEt-
i My friends, liberty ia triumphant
Right here in this beautiful grove
/ with hundreds Of rich and fertile
4 fields spread out before us, grooming
under the weight of q rich harvest
almost ready tor the sickle, and here,
almost within hearing of the church
4 bells Of q beautiful village, who does
q not feel proud of being an American
4 citizen? A citizen protected by the
>! laws of the Union, in life, liberty and
property; protected against ursurpa>
4 tion OF corrupt local power, and feel-
ing perfect security in q permanent
\ S0lhihcuts3 84E8I s@4sgM avn t{Nf
Gigantic as was the armed antag~
onism to the supreme laws Of the
land, tits fortunate for the cause OF
human liberty and the great and
broad principles of republican inst,
buttons and democratic forms and
usages, that the Federal organization
retained strength sufficient, morally,
religiously and physically, to crush
out and bear down that armed oppo-
sition. In the very nature of thiags
in the constitution of gov ernments,
had the attempt to nationalize the
Contederacy succeeded, o military
idesrotism would have been erected
on the ruins OF the best government
the world ever knew. In fact, as
far as the war had progressed, it was
nothing short of q military despotism
unbridled. And to-day there is no
love in the hearts Of the great masses
of the Southern people for that hy-
dra-headed monster which reared its
/ head in the once happy, prosperous,
1 proud Southern or Cotton States, ia
the form of Southern Confederacy,
and afterwards transformed itself to
a nearer proximity to the Federal
Capitol. aA1 q ai4a 4Ia4an98A
i My friends, the day we celebrate
\ is pregnant with proud remem-
brances, the recollection Of which
should produce emotions of gratitude
to the great author of the happiness
of individuals and of States. In an
evil hour, the Southern States in an
organized form determined, in the
madness of political excitement and
sectional strife, to efface the.remem-
brance of this day, which should have
been gratefully remembered by every
man, woman and child in the land +;
and the people of those States have
been serely chastised for the folly of
suffering themselves to be misled by
vain ambition. - g. ''ls..ii& = :
We can to-day renew our affec-
tions for the patriotic struggles Of
our fathers of the Revolution, in
which the bleod of soldiers of Mass
achusetts and the Carolinas, of New
Hampshire and Virginia, was mingled
in fighting for tho common cause Of
republican institutions and govern.
ment, 9. o@ @'~-.e#'i ~ 'o a'T'iiA'iitis
! In the recent revolution, only four
of the original States conjoined to
sever the Union of the great Wash
ington and Jefferson, of Hazen an d
Hamilton, of Adams and Pinckney.
And, my friends, two of the four
percipitated the other two into re "
olution. And we can also to-day
give thanks to Almighty God that
the efforts to sever that Union were
overcome by the determination and
resolution of the remaining nine
States. And we may feel further
security, that the power which has
grown out of tho original thirteen
States will be strong enough in NOR.
al and physical proportions, to m ain>
tain the union of these States, and
perpetuate human freedom during
our day and generation. '.''s - =
Ii once stated in letter to friend
| that the battle field had its compen-
sations and redemptions, however
bloody and fatal it might be. IT
might DO impious in me to wish that
the gallant and brave mon who have
fallen in the sanguinary struggle OF
the late contest-the one side to
maintain the government of the
i Union, the other in resisting that
government-were restored TO us,
for God in his providence permitted
all to be done, and in his own good
time stayed the hand of violence. and
caused the counsels Of the usurpera
to come to naught. God doeth all
things we'll ) bat while we piously
submit to the will of our. Advise God,
we cannot cease lamenting, in our
4 finite views of somnipotent wisdom,
for being thusdeprivcd of the society
| of friends and relations, but we must
and will submit but ! will tor day
1 beg all who in any way have sympa-
| thized, aided or abetted in the late
Rebellion, either in, act, . thought
word or deed (and l doubt iflthere in
one here) to look on that banner,
the emblem of grandeur, of progress
of virtue of ennobling pride and
power, and bless the day that Lee
surrendered and that banner stook
the place of the Stars and Bars of q
misguided people, The time had
come for fighting to cease; and thetims
had also come to exhibit the folly OF
the policy of misguided and bewil-
dered precipitancy !; and the time
had come when this government
should proclaim to the world the
: principles of general emancipation.
The events of the past eight OF
nine years on this continent have
J been more fertile in Developments
than the same length of time at any
, former period We have astonisheC
{ and caused the powers of Europe tx
tremble- when they review our &C.
! complishments since 1852 Tn,
} mind of the world, tho ideas, tn,
: thoughts, the aspirations, the affec-
tons and ambitions Of the peopl,