Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-06-04

stab at American integrity as when
Chief Justice OF these United
States, in spite OF the Declaration of
independent Ill defiance OF the
Constitution, but in obedience to the
behest of the slave-ring power. SOL
EMMY and judicially ratified, as the
] fiat OF Justice, that such pursuit and
capture of runaway slave, escaped
/, beyond the borders of the State
wherein he had been claimed as a
chattel, might be made, ,uch inhu-
manities practiced, wounding unto
death, branding with iron hot, as
would never have been permitted
upon beast.
We have not time to review hist
ory minutely, but war came as the
seGrence to such calumination of
atrocity, after the genius OF states
men had failed to affect satisfactory
compromise, and because law had be.
come perverted in Interpretation and
was no longer the expression of the
freemans will, but the instrument OF
vice for the performance OF crime
and the continuance Of iniquity, the
degradation of manhood; because as
guaranteed by that Great Bill of HUI
man Rights. there was no longer an
opportunity for the pursuit of life,
liberty and happiness; because God
himself was revered rs the author of
injustice, the law giver for the wicked
and no star of Heaven but what
threw light upon outrage of man to-
ward man, who spread his nets as q
fowler. shared his brother man, vio-
lated his home, outraged the wife he
had widowed, sold at public vendue
the children he had enslaved.
Is 1t to be wondered that right
reason and power then mustered
their forces and in history's grandest
ontburst took the field?
"Flag Of the heroes who left ustheir glory;
Borne through our battle field, thunder
and flame,
Bfazoned in song and iflumined in story,
Wave DER us all who inherit thy fame"
So sings patriot bard respecting
our dear old Stars and Strips, beneath
whose futtering folds, stormed at by
shot and shell. the volunteers Of the
Union. under the leadership of grand
captains, marched to noble victory.
Not a mercenary horde bent on des
poilatiop and plunder, but the defen-
ders Of grand principles? Not with
the desperate heart of the in er
bent on subjugation, the desecration
Of q peoples sfrrines, but with the
pure spirit OF patriots under God di-
vinely commissioned to expunge the
falsehood from our Constitution. puri-
fy our laws abolish fearful evil, and
create more perfect union "a un-
ion OF hearts and a union of hands
and the flag of our Union forever !"
The most sublime sacrifice Of life and
torture known to history! Armies
such as Alexander never fancied
and Xerxes never saw, the citizen
soldiery OF the grandest Republic TN
der the sun, nndisciplined at arms
irdifferently equipped, accustomed
to the luxury OF home, pushed to the
field to endure harGships unsurpassed
and do feats OF valor never eqnaled
Is it all a dream Pa passing vision
Of the night, the wakefnl imagery of
a dayH. q dream OF Haunting flags
reverberating drums. the din and
clash OF battle. the hustle OF prepara
tion, the horror OF fields red with the
dews OF carnage, strewn with corpses2 ?
of old men with silvery hair, bathed
in tears?, mothers weeping for their
first-born refusing to be comforted2,
maidens dumb with the agony OF buri.
ed hopesY, No the altered conditions
bear most eloquent testimony TO the
/ actually Of the past. o. it was sub
lime Poet, historian, orator, will
never do justice to that magnificent