The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-05-30

give IneU 10 poetry anu rhetoric as pre-
cious jewels 10 adorn verse and declama-
ton. the people of the republic will, AZ
we do to-day. bid the granite OF our hills
yet unborn and tell the story of your
valor. Like the statue that sits in the
midst of plain near old Cairo.
serene and yigilant, still keeping un-
tired watch over the lapse of ages and
the eclipse of Egypt and which. IN the
Olden time. sent forth, from lips OF stone.
voice of music to the morning sun, SO
shall this monument, Memnon-likc. sing
the praises vi the heroes il cOmmcmO.
rates but, unlike the statue of ancient
Egypt. IL will never lose its voice. nor will
1t De ever dumb. II will speak forever
to all who shall come to hear Mcmnon.
WHAT DiD THEY DO:
Five thousand one hundred sixty
three of the brave men buried IN this cenl-
etry." says the preamble of the Casey
monument act, "lell defending the prin-
ciplcs of the constitution" What are
theyr Union and liberty, one aud insepa-
rable-the government of the people. by
the people, for the people. We may dill
fer about the tariil aud the currency and
internal mproyclncnts--iipon an infinite
variety OF other questions but there must
be no difference on the subject of the Union
of these States and the liberty OF the cit
zen. These are the pillars Of the Con.
sutntion, and II any sampson Of mis-
chief should ever tear them down, the
| temple of the Republic will fall with n
crash and all our hopes be- crushed.
UNION oUr OF WAR.
The Union II must be preserved -
| rang from the lips of Jackson. years ago.
and his hand made motion to grasp The
sword but just before the War of Seccs-
| sion was iilaugurated. the belief pre-
vailed very generally throughout the Re
! public, ihat the Union could not be pre-.
served by the sword. Douglas declared
that war was dsuniou, and his words be-
| came common echo ia The land. "lfthe
mailed form of Civil War shall ever ap-
pear in the Republic said timid pa
triots. "the Union will be destroyed. and
the fair features Of Liberty be beaten by
| the clcncled hand of Military Power into
the ueliness of Despotism.'
Events have not Justified these as.cr-
| tons, for out OF war has come true Union:
aud those who look back beyond the late
| conflict Of arms. now know. that there
existed for many years before the South
! ern STATES took mp the sword. no real
| Union between the North and south.
The Union of the constitution had been
| destroyed by the fell spirit of
| Sectiouali.m. that was born of the
womb of Slavery. aud sat with its
mother. rs ugly a. she. shaking it, dart
and cxccrating Freedom. He of the
| North who passed to the South before
the war. felt that he was stranger in a
| strange land. The moment he crossed
| the imaginary line between the Northern
| and southern States. the knowledge
came forcibly 10 him that he was among
people who did not sympathise with the
sentiments of the people of his section
-amcng people proud and Jealous of In
stitutions he deprecated. who applaudcd
what he disapproved, and denounced
what he reverenced.
There was. indeed. az much bitterness Of
feeling existing between the North and
south before the late war. rs ever existed
betwan France and England. when those
two Countries were mortal enemies and
kept Europe constantly in war or in dread
of war. "Therc was time" says
Buckle in the Introduction To his Civil
History OF England. "when every honest
Englishnan firmly believed lie could
beat ten Frenchmcn a class of beings
whom lie held in sovereign contempt. Us
lean and stunted race. Who drank clare.
instead of brandy, who lived en-
ureiy on frogs. Our people have
not forgotten there was q
believed he could beat ten Northern men,
and held the people of the North in con
tempt as race OF despicable and cow
ardly beings who drank cider instead of
whisky. aud lived entirely OIL cheese.
We were hostile peoples, bound together
by compact that was labeled the Union,
but which was weak thread. The
progress of Improvement. by bringing
the two countries closer togelher-the
mere force of increased contact--dissipated
the foolish preiudices existing between
France and England, and made them
friends by teaching them to respect each
other. Steam applied to the pur-
poses OF travelling was the great
peaemaker in this instance. But
not so here. Intercourse between the
sections was common There was no
barrier 10 trade: but the people were in
name only iellow-citizens. The Yanceys
Of the South might. il is true. argue in Ia
vor of the doctrine of Secession at the
North, aud the Iiainmonds,
without exciting our resent
mcnt, dcnOuncc our mechanics rs
mudsills; but the suspicion that the
Northern man in the South admired
Wendell Phillips or William
Lloyd Garrison-that he lated
slavery-was resented by violence and
not intrequently by death. Steam could
not cure this disease of hatred between
the sections but the sword-a medicine
we iearcd-the heroic atment-did.
AT the South the Northman found
slavery dominant and insolent. aud was
lI,.I 20 81. 4
its presence. A monster it was, that sat
like a bllghting fate upon the posterity Of
,he fiire>t land the sun in all his course
looked down upon. 1t created a favored
class-the lords Of the South. who
ruled at home with absolute
sway and would not brook opposi-
ton from any source--an oligarchy of
rule or ruin. II destroyed the Union in
fact, and when at last is yotarics-many
OF them honest but all mislcd-attqmptc
to consumnate disunion by the ceremony
OF Secession, the dread the monster had
creatcd-thc tear 1t had instllcd into the
public mlnd--the perverted lessons it had
taught--uduccd public sentiment at the
North 10 declare, that if the resistance of
the sword were interposed. all hopes of
the Union must be abandoned and the
presence of Anarchy and Despotlsm an
ticlpated. There was therefore hesita-
ton at the North, always slow to wrath
and inclined to walk with steady step in
the pleasant paths of peace. But when
a blow had been struck by the South
when Slavery angrily sprlng upon Free
dom-the spirit of the days Of Lexington
and Concord was aroused.
"Who darcs this was the patriots cry
"For her To live, for her 10 die2 -
4 million hands flung Mp reply,
A million voices answered. 81
And the Mortimer then, with resolute
step, fell hastily into the ranks of war.
L will NOT rcriLn the Story of the conflict