Patriotic citizens! choose you which you will serve, the world's best hope,—our noble Republican Government,—or that bottomless pit,—social anarchy. Adjourn other issues until this self-preserving issue is settled. Hitherto a good Providence has smiled upon the American Union. This was the morning star that led on the men of the Revolution. It is precisely the truth to say, that when those sages and heroes labored they made Union the vital condition of their labor. It was faith in Union that destroyed the tea, and thus nerved the resistance to British aggression. Without it, patriots felt they were nothing; and with it they felt equal to all things. The Union flag they transmitted to their posterity. To-day it waves over those who are rallying under the standard of the law; and God grant, that in the end, as it was with the old Mother Country, after wars between White and Red Roses and Roundheads and Cavaliers, so it may be with the daughter; that she may see peace in her borders, and all her children loving each other better than ever!The Boston Liberator, edited by William Lloyd Garrison,
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cause gave words of earnest eloquence.
The Union, one and inseparable, and how Massachusetts could best serve it, were the themes which inspired them all. Resolutions were passed, pledging life and fortune to the cause.
Large sums of money were subscribed and paid.
Historic memories were revived, and the sacrifices of the fathers in the War for Independence held up for imitation.
The women formed aid societies to sew and knit and work for the absent soldiers and for their families at home.
Young men formed military companies, and more companies were offered than the Government would receive; and more articles of clothing and stores of provisions than the men required.
The public journals of the Commonwealth spoke with one voice.
Party spirit was allayed, political differences forgotten.
The past was buried with the past.
The Boston Morning Post, the leading Democratic paper in New England, gave to the cause its strong support.
It had sustained the nomination of John C. Breckinridge for President the preceding year; but it did so without intent or thought of following him into rebellion.
On the morning of April 16, the Post published a patriotic appeal to the people, from which we make the following extract:—
1868. E. P. DUtton and Co. Boston,.
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