The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . ! We come! Rear high the Flag, that knows no single star. Hurrah! Hurrah, etc. 478 THOMAS WILLIAMS And more twill count, no Pleiad lost, of all that shining host,Though dim eclipse have veiled their fires, and traitors loudly boast;But one by one those wandring lights shall gem our heavens, like Mars,And all the nations bless our stripes and coronet of stars. Hurrah! Hurrah, etc. No other flag shall ever float above our homes or yonder blazing oriflanmie,
The life and speeches of Thomas Williams orator, statesman and jurist, 1806-1872, a founder of the Whig and Republican parties . ! We come! Rear high the Flag, that knows no single star. Hurrah! Hurrah, etc. 478 THOMAS WILLIAMS And more twill count, no Pleiad lost, of all that shining host,Though dim eclipse have veiled their fires, and traitors loudly boast;But one by one those wandring lights shall gem our heavens, like Mars,And all the nations bless our stripes and coronet of stars. Hurrah! Hurrah, etc. No other flag shall ever float above our homes or yonder blazing oriflanmie, that flutters oer our braves;Its rainbow stripes, our Northern lights—with no sinister bars;Our ancient flag! Our Fathers flag! Our glorious stripes and stars! Hurrah! Hurrah, etc. Then bear that banner proudly up, young warriors of our hearts of love, and arms of faith, and more than iron hand!Down with the Northern renegade ! and join our gallant tars,In rearing high, in victory, our deathless stripes and stars! Hurrah ! Hurrah for the Union Flag, Hurrah !Hurrah for the Union Flag, that knows no single CHAPTER XVI His Election to the Thirty-eighth Congress The Sumner of the Lower House His Notable Eulogy on President Lincoln 1862 In the autumn elections of that year, 1862, in keepingwith the new, aggressive spirit represented by the appoint-ment of Stanton as head of the War Department, theconstituents of Mr. Williams determined that his goodwork in the Legislature should be recognized and thatanother aggressive force should be contributed to theLower House of Congress at least, since the Legislaturehad not sent him to the Senate.^ The Thirty-eighthCongress met for organization a year later, namely, on the7th of December, There upon the floor he foundhis old-time anti-Mason antagonist, the venerable thoughnone the less fiery Thaddeus Stevens, then seventy years His was the Butler-Armstrong district. Moorehead was retained for Pitts-burgh. A confiden
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