The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-09-03

falling bothraces. We can not resist. We
can only bear with patience and tortitude
asbest we can. The time has, however, 1
hope, arrived, when the people OF the North
will see the dangerous tendencies of all
these unconstitutional measures; that
they are destroying the rights OF
the States and Of the people; taking
away their local self-government--tliat
the wrong done to the Southern States
will ultimately extend and fall upon the
States of the North. The States must be
all equally free or under a despotism,
all ultimately enslaved. The union OF
Ih,.e States can no. always be sustained by
physical force, but by the much stronger at
~tractive principle Of equal justice to each
State and mutual convenience and adVant-
ace. The sober sense Of the masses of the
Northern people, may, and | hope will, save
our country from being engulphed in such
Il despolism. Through the harmonious
working olllie true principle OF the rights OF
the States, local selt-government, we are
destined to enter upon a new career 81
greatness and arrive at greater achievements
IMAM we have heretOlO.c attained under Tie
patriotic administrations OF Washington,
Jefferson and Jackson.
But if centralism is ultimately to prevail;
if the institutions of our patriotic fathers
are to be subyerted and all empire To be
fastened upon the people; if that is TO be
| the last in the great drama now being ell
| acted, tltn the gallant people OF the oJuI'I
| will be acquitted by the Judgment OF man
| kind from responsibility for such Il terrible
| catastrophe, and from such an atr0clolls
| crime against liberty and the rights OF hui
| manity. If this shall be our fate, produced
by the hate and maddcned tanatlclsin OF
the North, our honor and GOOD name shall
| remain un,arnishcd. The Southern peopl"
will ever maintain their manhood tiIls'li-
lied. Their affections will still cling To
their native South; they will still cherish
| the memories of their nobl dead "and fh"
| land of memories" and will have
the nerve to express their sentiments
| of the past Us well us our hopes II Inc Ia
ture, and endorse and cherish the nom"
sentiments of Father Ryan, olcof the mos
eminent divines and one Of America best
poets:
ga land without ruins Is II land without mem
| orics--a land without memories Is Il lh'u Witl-
ont liberty! a land that wears lanrtl crown
NAV he fair to see, but twille Il rev Hld cypress
leaves around the brow OF any llId' ana DC ma
land bcautylcss and bleak, it becomes lovely, ~
its consccrntrd cOronct Of sorrow, ana ~ Wits
| the sympathv Of the heart and history. ,r"Wis
| of roses IWlr-crUwns oi tliorhs cilure' 'hNa
| ricS and crnciiiNcs take deepest hold ol h'Ihithi
| ty.-thc triumphS Of might are TRANSIENT thcN
,,,ss AWAY and ARE tvruuttrm-ilc Snit'rihgS OF
right ~" craven deepest on the chronicles VI
nations!
YES. give me II land where the RUNS are
spread, 49,
dead;
Yes. yIIr me n land that is blcst by the dust.
And H,riyht with the deeds OF the dOwn-trOddcn
Just! 49,,
Yes, Give me the land ta.t hath legend an"
lays,
Enshriuing the memoir sof long-vaniSled days
YES. give me "A land that hath story and song.
TO tel ui the strife OF the iIshN WIN 'hc
Wrong;
Ncs, give Ia the lahd WIN Il gEINr VI r''h ~,
And am"S in the graves that Sian not pc I"i-
Yes, 49, me the land of the wreck AMI the
tomb, m.i,
! There { Grandeur in graves here's a glory in
gloom. ..
For q ., OF ,ur gloom future brightness Is born,
As after the night looms the sunrise OF morn;
And the graves Of the dead, with the grass over
Nav vet form the @iootstool of Liberty'S throne,
And each single wreck in the war'patlI OF
Might, -,
Shall yet be u rock in the temple OF kighH'
Ladies and gentlemen, | am now dohe.
retire with the most profound feelings OF
love and gratitude for the honor you have
conferred upon me by this friendly greeting,
and hope that happiness and prosperity may
attend each of YOU through life, and that oll
clIildren's children may live to see 4 res
tored Union, with the sovereign right OF
the States to local self-govcrnment, WIN
all the rights and liberties OF the citizen
enforced aud maintained.