The great "Flag" excitement.
--The Philadelphia Inquirer claims the credit for having started the excitement about "the flag," which has cost the North about four hundred thousand lives. It says:‘ In our city, on the 13th day of April, 1861, the people were moved, like the waves of the ocean in a storm. From all quarters of the city the people frantically rushed to the centre of news on Third street and when the old flag was unburied, in all her undiminished glory from the Inquirer office, cheer after cheer arose from the vast multitude, and strong men weep and grasped hands with nervous emotion vowing that the insult must be avenged.--From this moment the emblem of our nationality became the charm of loyalty and the sign of Union. The great flag excitement started from this incident, and all our loyal people, young and old, bore upon their hearts miniature flags of their country. From every house the old flag waved, and at every hearthstone in the loyal States it was prayed for as the of the great American Republic and the home of freedom.
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