The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-06-01
L ON tue UNION.
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Why this Country Cannot be seVOred-Tho
wall of the Lost Cause.
ErlaetI from PodnaSr General Was Speech al
he Academy Of Music, Brooklyn, 4dy 81.
BY Gods Providence, our fathers deliv-
cred this land from bonds, and dedicated
It to DO the homestead Of liberty forever.
They established, under divine guidance,
tho constitutional union Of these states,
to stand before all mankind an example
and a proof Of how men may live in self
government with the highest happiness
and the nOblest development. They left
II to US a blessed legacy and a sacred
charge, To divide, Is 10 destroy It. Other
divisions will follow, and liberty disappear
in anarchy. Kings and their CourtierB al
ready smile AZ our threatened catastrophe,
while fear casts gloom and horror on them
who love their fellow.men. Away with
every base appeal TO ease, to interest, or
10 safety No m%ercenary sophiBtry
shall cloud our clear perception OF manly
duty. We will hear no argument, put
nothing to the peril Of debate, consider Of
no compromise. No king shall exult, no
philanthropist mourn, over the downfall
Of this Government. The union Of these
States shall not fail not q State shall be
lost 10 the great family Of the Constitu-
tor; not q star shall fall from the azure
field Of the flag OF Our country. We seek
no conquest, we will invade no right. But
reckoning no Cost, no sacrifice, no peril,
wherever treason and rebellion raise their
heads against this Government, there we
will strike them down, till the last foe
bends his knee In duty and allegiance.
This was the plain and simple issue
rendered 10 the arbitrament OF arms; this
the call 10 battle to which the Union
soldier answered. He went out 10 no
campaign OF diplomatic policy, by The
events Of which peace might be better or
worse negotiated; he went TO desperate
war, to do battle TO the death, until the
peace Of exhaustion came. He went on
this awful Grand TO shed blood In the
cause Of humanity, by war 10 maintain
the dominion OF brothefly love among
men. When before Ii all the past Of
earth did patriotism, did liberty, did love
Of man or God, stir up a vast, widespread
people, free Of choice and will, unbound
to any sovereign but the impulses Of their
heafts, 70 such q struggle, 10 such sacti.
iCes, for such ends, since Christ and his
Apostles Btrove for mans redsmption2
The past cannot be altered the future,
Under God, IL In our hands.
The hope OF that future 10 Ia union, the
genuine union Of fellowship cemented
BY interest," by patriotism aud by pride.
Every consideration that can compel the
Judgment Of men draws a tighter hand,
o eecutef stay, about the Union,
The watning voice Of Washington, with
force renewed BY the sad expetlnce Of is
Disregard, points attesh the greatest peril
to which our country can be exposed the
peril Of passion which tends 10 CfyBialliSe
Into sectional hate, The great truth Re.
mains, though simple and title, that The
fires Of passion may be Nindled BY mere
words OIL iohy % by acts Of injury, Re-
pfOacheB for deeds beyond fedemption,
Tor conditions gone forever, sfhs iof
hopes once entertained, but long turned
10 aShesi may DO worse than Jolly, they