31 Keep step with the music of Union, What grandeur its flag has unrolled For the loyal, a star-lighted Heaven, For traitors, a storm in each fold ! The glorious shade of Mount Vernon Still points to each patriot's grave, Still cries " O'er the long mighty ages That Eagle of Lexington wave." North and South, East and West, fyc. Keep step with the music of Union, * The forests have sunk at the sound, The pioneer's brows been with triumph And Labor's broad opulence crowned ; Oh ! yet must all giant rude forces Of Nature be chained to our cars All mountains, lakes, rivers and oceans Crouch under the Stripes and the Stars. North and South, East and West, fyc. Keep step with the music of Union, Thus still shall we nourish the light Our fathers lit for the chained nations That darkle in Tyranny's night ! The blood of the whole world is with us, O'er ocean by Tyranny hurled, And they who would dare to insult us Shall sink with the wrath of the world. North and South, East and West, fyc. Keep step-with the music of Union, All traitors shall fall at our march, But patriots bask in the blessing Flashed down from yon heavenly arch ! Then hurrah for the Past with its glory ! For the strong, earnest Present, hurrah ! And a cheer for the starry browed Future With Freedom, and Virtue, and Law. Nortli, and South, East and West all unfurling ONE Banner alone o'er the sod, ONE voicefrom America swelling In worship of Liberty's God .' SPEECH OF GEN. HIEAM WALBRIDGE. Gen. WALBRIDGE was then introduced, by his Honor the Mayor ; who observed, inpresenting him, that he would present to them their distinguished fellow-citizen, who as early as April, 1861, was in favor of calling, at once, six hundred thousand men to suppress the rebellion. Gen. WALBRIDGE said : MR. MAYOR, FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS : Fourteen months ago, from this very platform, the city of New- York, in the presence of a quarter of a million of loyal citizens, declared that she would not sit tamely by and behold a wicked, reckless, malignant
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