Soldiers! Your country calls you lo her defence. Your homes, your fire~sides-the scenes of your former joys, and future anticipation ; all the endearments of domestic happiness, and all the hopes of future competence and peace, summon you lo the field. You are summoned Loo by the spirits of Travis and Fannin, and their gallant companions, whose blood has cemented the foundations of our freedom. Their flesh has heen food for the raven, and their bones have been whitening on the prairies, until your pious patriotism gathered these scattered relics, with decent sepulchral honors, lo a soldier's grave. But their glorified spirits still hovering around the home of their patriotic devotion, cal.I upon you to sustain the independence which they have consecrated by their martyrdom, and to recompence, with merited vengeance, the wrongs they have endured from a perfidious and dastard enemy. Shall the call be made in vain? Shall we turn a deaf ear lo the voice of our country, and the beseeching cries of our murdered brethren? Surely, there can be no man, so insensible to guilt and shame as to look with indifference upon the desolation of her own country. 1f there be so foul a blot upon humanity-if there be one in the whole limits of our land who is mean enough, when his honor is invaded by an insolent foe, to seek safety in dishonorable Oighl, I would say to him, detested recreant! retire lo the shades of infamy, and sully no more a beautiful laud, whose blessings belong to the bra\'e ,md virtuous. Let then every patriot and soldier, every worthy citizen who ahhors the name of Lrailor. and continue Lhe vile epithet of coward, rally to the call promptly, around the unfurled banner of freedom-let him repair with impatient zeal to the theatre of his nation's glory, ancl there snatch upon the hri11k of danger, fame for himself and safely for his country. The dastard who lingers hr.hind may live lo fallen upon the fruits of his rccrnancy; lest wht!II he dies he rots in infamy, lo the joy of .ill- while the noble hero who mak1~s his hosom the bulwark of a people's liherly, will find a rich reward for toil antl valor, in Lhe thanks of a grateful land, and the smiles of its high toned beauty. If he falJ in the holy c:ausc, he will stiU survive in the affections of his comrades, and his name wiUgather glory with the flight of ages-
"Each little rill, each mountain vi,;w, Rolls mingled with his fame forever."
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