All hail! all hail! the here unflinching! The pure patriot we sing, unwavering and bold, Who foul treason denounced, and with deeds was still clinching His strong speech, when vile traitors in numbers untold Howled hatred demoniac, and madly were clamoring, His life should be forfeit! triumphantly sing, And utter the welcome with the tongue's feeble stammering, The welcome, the warm welcome, our hearts to him bring! Safe! safe in our midst, we shall hear the man's voice, That had cowed all his foes, and made us rejoice; Then hail him again, and forever and aye! His country he loves, and for it he would die! Rejoice! rejoice! for freedom is marching With her power resistless, to punish and crush; And the Iris of Union will soon be o'erarching Again our loved country, when its brave children rush To rescue its life from the demons now seeking To blot out its name from the nations of earth. But rather than this, let their black blood be reeking, Unpitied by earth, so disgraced by their birth. Thus speaks he, the hero! Then sing with one voice: We love and revere him, in his presence rejoice! Then hail him again, and forever and aye! His country he loves, and for it he would die! Shortly after eight o'clock Parson Brownlow came upon the stage, leaning upon the arm of Joseph C. Butler, Esq., the President of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Butler, in introducing Mr. Brownlow, said: