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268 REMINISCENCES
"Here it would be pleasant to stop, or at least to occupy the remainder of the time allotted me in giving utterance to kindred thoughts, or in elaborating those already expressed. But he who is chosen to address an audience of his countrymen on this sacred day has obligations resting upon him which he can not avoid, has solemn duties to perform which must not be neg¬ lected.
"If he knows that any of the great fundamental principles of freedom and equality upon which our in¬ stitutions are based are being violated—if he finds that the attachment of any portion of the people to those principles has become weakened or impaired, it is the duty ol the orator upon these occasions (as it is the duty of every citizen upon all proper occasions) to raise the voice of warning, to give the alai*m of danger, and not to lull to repose. If there is oppression in the land, if wrong prevail, if fraud and corruption exist in high places, if the God-given, unalienable rights of any class be stricken down, it is his imperative duty (and accursed be he who shrinks from it) to denounce, to his assembled countrymen the wrong and the wrong-doer and to call upon his fellow citizens by all the sacred memories ol the past and all the glorious hopes of the future, by their veneration for their fathers and their love for their children, by all that is valuable in free¬ dom or ennobling in a patriotic devotion to our country, to arise in their might and by the proper use ol the all powerful yet peaceful means within their control, to abolish the wrong and correct the abuse, and to see to it that the Government fulfill the purposes for which it was organized.
"The framers of the Constitution declared in the preamble to that instrument the objects for which the Government was foimied. They say:
Object Description
| Title | Reminiscences of the Civil War |
| Source Title | William Penn Lyon's Reminiscences of the Civil War |
| Regiment | 8th Infantry; 13th Infantry |
| Author/Creator | Lyon, William Penn, 1822-1913 |
| Description | Republican attorney William Penn Lyon (1822-1913) was representing Racine in the Wisconsin Assembly when the war broke out. He formed a company in the 8th Wisconsin Infantry and served as its captain until 1862, when he was appointed colonel of the 13th Infantry. This volume was assembled by his wife from letters and diaries, supplemented by her memory of months spent with him at the front. It covers his entire service, from raising a company after the First Battle of Bull Run to his post-war service in Texas. It describes the battles of Fredericktown, Farmington, and Corinth, the drowning of Governor Harvey, and the War Eagle "Old Abe." Slavery is a common theme, and the letters describe refugees, African-American soldiers, and difficulties encountered bringing a black woman to Chicago with officers' wives. After the war, Lyon served on the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1871 to 1894 and moved to California in 1903. |
| Subcollection | Personal Narratives |
| Source Type | personal narrative |
| Place of Publication | San Jose, Calif. |
| Source Creation Date | 1907 |
| Source Publisher | Press of Muirson & Wright |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2011 |
| Rights | We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. |
| Digital Format | XML |
| Digital Identifier | CWPN019010000 |
| Type | Text; Image |
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| Title | 268 |
| Source Title | William Penn Lyon's Reminiscences of the Civil War |
| Author/Creator | Lyon, William Penn, 1822-1913 |
| Source Type | personal narrative |
| Place of Publication | San Jose, Calif. |
| Source Creation Date | 1907 |
| Source Publisher | Press of Muirson & Wright |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2011 |
| Rights | We believe that online reproduction of this material is permitted because its copyright protection has lapsed or because sharing it here for non-profit educational purposes complies with the Fair Use provisions of the U.S. Copyright Law. Teachers and students are generally free to reproduce pages for nonprofit classroom use. For advice about other uses, or if you believe that you possess copyright to some of this material, please contact us at asklibrary@wisconsinhistory.org. |
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| Full text | 268 REMINISCENCES "Here it would be pleasant to stop, or at least to occupy the remainder of the time allotted me in giving utterance to kindred thoughts, or in elaborating those already expressed. But he who is chosen to address an audience of his countrymen on this sacred day has obligations resting upon him which he can not avoid, has solemn duties to perform which must not be neg¬ lected. "If he knows that any of the great fundamental principles of freedom and equality upon which our in¬ stitutions are based are being violated—if he finds that the attachment of any portion of the people to those principles has become weakened or impaired, it is the duty ol the orator upon these occasions (as it is the duty of every citizen upon all proper occasions) to raise the voice of warning, to give the alai*m of danger, and not to lull to repose. If there is oppression in the land, if wrong prevail, if fraud and corruption exist in high places, if the God-given, unalienable rights of any class be stricken down, it is his imperative duty (and accursed be he who shrinks from it) to denounce, to his assembled countrymen the wrong and the wrong-doer and to call upon his fellow citizens by all the sacred memories ol the past and all the glorious hopes of the future, by their veneration for their fathers and their love for their children, by all that is valuable in free¬ dom or ennobling in a patriotic devotion to our country, to arise in their might and by the proper use ol the all powerful yet peaceful means within their control, to abolish the wrong and correct the abuse, and to see to it that the Government fulfill the purposes for which it was organized. "The framers of the Constitution declared in the preamble to that instrument the objects for which the Government was foimied. They say: |
| Digital Identifier | CWPN019010277 |
| Type | Text |