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axe in hand endured all human toil, and shrank not even from 

 death itself for our good, rather than because thej have learned 

 the new dogmas, and new figments of new sects, or fight lustily 

 for those of old ones. If the Union is saved, it will not be by 

 the fillibustering of a few little, miserable, office seeking dema- 

 gogues, at Washington, called Presidents, Senators, Representa- 

 tives, and all that, getting up a tempest in a tea-pot, and affect- 

 ing to believe that the world is coming to an end, because they 

 can't all be made Presidents at once ; but if the Union really is 

 saved, it will be saved only by you — the free laborers of the 

 Republic — arising in the majesty of your freedom, your patriot- 

 ism, your intelligence, and your power, and hurling from their 

 position of social and political influence, the miscreants who thus 

 insult and betray you ; and showing to the world that you dare 

 again to be free ; and that you are worthy to rule the Republic 

 that the God and the blood of your fathers gave into your hands. 

 If our towns and villages are ever saved, it will only be be- 

 cause they are alive with the industry of your art, and adorned 

 by the virtues of your life. If our gre it cities are ever saved, 

 from becoming a dead sea of sharks below, and a sodom of 

 "snobs and flunkeys" above, it will be only because the streams 

 of virtue and of true manhood continually flow from your hill 

 sides and your mountain tops, into their stagnant and putrescent 

 depths. If our doctors, our lawyers, our divines, our states- 

 men, editors, speakers and haranguers are ever to be saved, it 

 will be because your heroic valor in defense of freedom and vir- 

 tue, your intelligence forecasting the aim, and foreordaining the 

 doom of servility and corruption, saves them, from becoming 

 the more imbecile demagogues of the senate, the rostrum, the 

 pulpit, and the press. If your posterity are to be saved, it will 

 be because steadfastly refusing to become the servile tools of 

 partisan demagogues at home, or the cowering slaves of lordly 

 tyrants abroad, with souls of fire and arms of power, you bear 

 nloft the banners of the Republic, cherishing in your hearts the 

 virtues of your fathers, and bequeathing to those who come af- 

 ter you, unsullied and unimpaired the freedom which you re- 

 ceived from them. Tell, then, those miserable drivellers, one 



