Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-09-05
The OLD Couple.

They sat in the,sun together,
Till the day was almost done,
And then, at lis close, an angel
Stepped over the threshold stone.
He folded their hands together,
He touched their eye-lls with balm,
And their last breath aoa.cd upward
Like the close Of solemn psalm.
Like bridal pair they traversed
The unseen, mystical road,
Tha. leads t. the Beautiful City,
Whose Builder and Maker 10 God.
Perhaps, in ,hat.miracle country,
They viii give her lost youth back,
And the flowers Of a vanished spring
Shall bloom in the spirits track.
One draught Of the living waters
Shall restore his manhood's prime,
And eternal years shall measure
The love that out.ives time.
But the shapes they left behind them
The wrinkles and silver hair
Made sacred to us by the kisses,
~. The angel imprinted there
Well hide away in the meadow,
When the sun is low in the west,
Where the moonbeams cannot find then,
Nor the wind disturb their reY.
But we'll let no tell-talc tomb. stone,
With its .ge and date. arise
Ger the two who are cid no longer
In their Fathers house j u the skies.
F.om the New York Tribune, May /, 1862.
We have steadfastly affirmed AMI upheld
Mr. jefferson doctrine, embodied in the De-
6 aration of American Independence. ofthe
right of revolution We have insisted that
where the right is asserted. and its exercise
Is properly attempted, il ought not to be nee
assary to subject all concerned to the woes
and horrors Of civil war. In other words,
what one party has right to do, another can
nave no right to resist. And we have urged
hat, had the great mass Of the Southern peo-
pie really desired dissolution Of the Union,
.nd been willing to exercise reasonable pa
ience, their end might have been attained
without devastation ana carnage; for we,
with thousands more in the North, would
ave done all in our power to incline ourfel-
ow citizens to defer to their request and let
hem 90 in peace. Hence, we have contend
d that the violent, terrorist, outrageous pro-
.eedincs OF the Southern Jacobins-their
seizure of the national forts. armories ar
,enals, sub-treasurics, etc., eliminating in
he bombardment OF Fort Sumter-were not
nexcusable in themselves, but signally cal
.ulated to defeat the end they professed 70
nave in view. Take the case Of onr own Pa
,ifc empire as further illustration. No
ioubt, the people of California and Oregon
ire to- day loyal and fervsnt in their devo-
lion 10 the Union. But they are mainly ma
tives Of the Atlantic and Gulf States
!. bone of our bone acd flesh Of four flesh -
and their loyalty is a matter Of education,
of feeling and habit Fifty years hence,
when our Pacific coast shall have popula-
ton Of 10 600, coo or 1000, 900. mainly born
nn that slope, it will be very different-
Now should the time arrive in our day, when
The great body Of the people Of
our Pacific States shall say dclib.
crafty, kindly firmly, to those this side
of the Rocky Mountains, :" You are stronger
than we-order, more wealthy mere powers
zee ask you to let us go for re teAese
ne can do better by ourselves than Nth youf-
Go in peace-Hearen's blessing attendyou We
believe that is right, the wise, the Christian
answer TO such request, and that the world
will yet perceive and recognize the .ru.h.