American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-11-09

get that some OF the oest oil ner own poou 10 oSa,
ing in their veins that her hardy children, WIN
their axes on their shoulders have been literally
among the pioneers IN this march OF humanity ;
that young as she is she has become the mother oil
popuIous states. What generous mind would sac
riice to a selfish preservation OF local preponde.
rance the delight of behoding civilized nations MS
ing up in tie desert; and the language, the man
ners the institutions TO which he has been reared,
carried to the foot Of the Rocky Mountains? Who
can forget that this extension oil our territorial Inn
its is the extension Of the empire OF all we hold dea
Of our laws, of our character. oil the memory oil our
ancestors of The great achievements in our history
Whithersoever the OF the thirteen states shall
wander, 10 southern or western climes, they will
send back their hearts the rocky shores, the bat
tie fields, and the intrepid councils oil the Atlantic
coast. These placed beyond the reach OF vicls-
sltude They have become already matter OF his
Tory, OF poetry, OF eloquence:
The love, where death has set his seal,
Nor age can chill, nor rival steal,
Nor Ialsehood dsavow.
Divisions may spring up, i'll blood arise, parties
be formed and interests may seem 10 clash but
the great bonds OF the nation are linked TO what Is
passed. The deeds Of the great men, TO whom this
country owes its origin and growth, are patrmony,
| know OF which its children will never deprive
themselves. AS long he Mississippi and the
Missouri Shall flow those men aud those deeds will
be RENE mbered on their banks. The step.re o.
government may go where il will; but thai OF pat
riolic feeling can never depart from Judah. In oil
that mighty region, which is drained by the Mis-
souri, and its tributary streamslhe valley coexten
slye with the temperate zone evil there be, as long
The name OF America shall last father that vii
not lake his children on his knee and recount t.
them The events OF the both December, the 9th oil
April. The 18th oil June, and the 4!h Of July!
This is The theatre, on which the intellect OF A
merca is TO appear, and such the motives to its ex
eron; such the mass to be influenced by its ener.
lies, such The crowd TO witness its efforts, such the
glory to crown its success II etr, 10 this happy
VISION Of my country's fortunes, thank God Tor an
error anmang. II this be fsIse, may ne, er
know the truth. Never may you, my friends, be
under any other feeling han that great, 4. ow
tGg, an UNNECESSARILY expanding country, is Calling
upon you tor your best services. The name ana
character OF our Alma Mater have already been car
ried by some Of our hren thousands OF mites
from her venerable walls and thousands of miles
still farther westward, The communities OF kindred
men are last gathering, whose minds and hearts Will
act in sympathy with yours.
The most powerful motives call ON US as scholars|
for those eiious which our common country de
mands OF all her children Most OF US are OF thai
class, who owe whatever o! knowlt dye has shone
nto our minds. 10 the tree and popular institutional
d our native land There are few oil Us, WHO may
rot be permitted TO boast, that we have been reaiedl
n an honest poverty frugal competence, andI
owe every hing TO those means OF education which,
ire equally open TO all. We summoned to ut
mercy and zeal by the high nature OF the expert |
nent we are appointed in Providence to make and
he grandeur OF NE theatre which il is 10 be per
ormed. When the old world afforded no logger
ny hope, it pleased Heaven to open this last reup
It humanity. The attempt has begun, and is gong
IN, tar from foreign corruption, the broade ST
Gale, and under the most benignan auspices and
certainly rests with US TO solve The great pi obleu
u human society, to settle and thar for ever the
nomentous question-whe,her mankind can be
rusted with purely popular system. One nigh,
lmost Think without extras agance that the depart
d wise and good OF all places and times, are look
ng down i'om their happy seats 10 witness what
hall now be done by US; that they who have lavish
d their treasures and their blood OF old who la
oured and uttered. who spake and wrote, who
ought and persisted, in the great cause Of Free
om and Truth, are now hanging from their OF bs
% high, over the last solemn experiment Of human.
~ As have wandered over the spots once the
Gene OF their labors, and unused among the pros
rate columns OF their Senate Houses and Forums
have seemed almost TO hear voice tlom the
omos OF departed ages; from the sepulchres Of the
atoms, which died before The sight. They exhortl
S, they adjure US to be faithful to our trust Thew
npore Us by the long trials of struggling human
=, by the blessed memory Of the departed by the
ear iaith which has been plghied by pure hands,
D the holy cause oil truth and man by the awful
ecrets OF the prison houses where the sons Of tree
ON have been immured bv the noble heads winch
ave been brought TO the block by the wrecks oil
me, by the eloquent ruins of nations, they cenjure
5 not to quench the light which is rising on the
or!d.
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