St. Cloud Democrat

In all parts of the Eastern and Western states men are volunteering to sustain the Government and wipe out, in blood, the insult to our national flag. The spirit of the free North appears to be that, to the last man and the last dollar our Government must be maintained. In counting on the Northern democracy to aid their war upon the national flag, the traitors have reckoned without their host. Party lines are obliterated, and it is only "the Union the Constitution, the Law." The mob in Eastern cities, which the traitors counted upon, is all on the side of the Union. Never before has the American flag been so dear to the American heart. And the aiders and abettors of treason have been obliged to run it up to save their buildings from destruction at the hands of the mob. The secessionists counted that they had only to commence war upon the old stars and stripes, and that Northern Democrats and Bell-Everett men would mob the New York Tribune and all kindred presses—haul down the national ensign, and throw themselves into the arms of the traitors. But haven't they found their mistake? It is the Journal of Commerce and the Herald that is mobbed.

"All glory to the Lord of hosts from whom all glories are!"

Fort Sumter is lost, but Freedom is saved. The great central idea of our government, "the majority shall rule," will be defended to the last, and the monarchists of King Cotton will find that the American nation has no king but He who ruleth on the throne of the heavens—that on earth the people represent his sovereignty. Our Declaration will be defended, and our fathers justified before the world. Thank God for the reawakening of the old spirit of '76. Our children shall not be slaves. No king, no despot, no oligarchy shall rule our beloved fatherland: and again we say "Thank God."