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The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], King William Co., May 20, 1861. (search)
ven they cannot do. One is to destroy "Hail Columbia," and the other is to destroy the "Star-Spangled Banner." [Repeated cheers, intermingled with exclamations of "no, never."] They will fail to do it only because human nature needs that the one shall continue to be so, and that the other shall continue to float over the sea and the land. And what human nature needs, God Almighty, the father of human nature, decrees. [Cheers and repeated applause, and music from the band.] Secretary Smith, in response to calls for him, said it was scarcely within the power of any human voice to reach so vast a multitude, but he knew their hearts were warmed by the same feelings of patriotism which prompted those who exhibited to them to-day the glorious banner of our common country. No sight has ever been presented to the American eye, whether on the shores of our own country, or on a distant soil, or on the wide extended ocean, which is more calculated to warm our hearts, and excite ou