The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-07-18

tona escutcheon efectually and forever erased
Notwithstanding the and invaluable bles-
sings and privileges which enjoy, doubts and fears
occasionally expressed respecting the permanency
of the union How idle and grauitous are such APP
prehensions for surely that government must stand
firm which is founded upon the sovereignty of the peo-
ple-whose noble declaration of rights and unrivalled
constitution ndeibly engraven the hearts of its
citizens,-a government, word, built upon and sus-
tanned by the affections of the people who created it
where every is alive to the honest ambition of serv-
ing his country, and where every citizen is ready TO
exclaim % if the splendid fabric must fall shall es-
teen it proud destiny to be buried beneath its ruins! 20
The soustirring influence of the principles which
led to that declaration which has Justly haowed this
day above all others in the national calendar has spread
ITSELF in degree, to the remoes regions of
the EARTH In of the oppressed countries of the
old world the torch of Freedom, yet burns but dim
ly 81; is Frightening however, and the degraded sub
Jects of tyrannic sway, gaze, with astonlshment and
delight at the beauty of the western world and while
they gaze, they feel that they and long to be
free. The example of our fathers shines, beacon
light to the rest of neutrality-suspicious. them to the altar
of liberty, and engenders in the breasts of all but the
advocates of legitimacy, thirst for freedom and de-
voton to the rights of and the cause of universal
emancipation.
OF the old and inveterate monarches of Europe
destroyed and others the brink of dis
solution and that continent, ere long, will be shak
en- to its very centre; many of its Thrones
lettering towards their fall and many of its diadems
trembling those heads where deplorable ig
norance once placed Them The despotic Tyrants who
yet retain their ill-goton and worse used power may
make martyrs of many of those daring spirits who
bark and risk their all in the cause of freedom but
the roots of bertys tree will only be ferzed by the
blood of the murdered!
Can chains bind-prison walls confine-or bayonets
keep in subsection the spirit Of freedom?
No! for
even in the deep and deadly damp
OF dungeons, the soul rear her sceptre,
Smile in anguish and triumph Ger oppression!-
As well then might these besotted despots attempt
to snatch the trident from the hands of Neptune and
rule old oceans waves,-or to deprive Jove of his pow
to thunder, and themselves direct and command the
artillery of the skies for liberty, like TRUTH is all
powerful and eternal, and must prevail =
il is the brilliant gift of heaven,
IT'S reasons self, the kin of deity
And man toiH not resign it,.
Permit me, briefly to notice few of the instances
in which the patriots Of other countries inspired by the
spirit and stimulated by the bright example set
them by the heroes of revolutions have dashed from
their lips the poisoned chalice of Slavery, and have
Numbered retrbutive vengeance the head of the OPP
pressor.
South America, joined to our own land by an 18TH
is part of soil, and ought to share largely
in affections, and hear devout petitions to the
God of Battles to establish her in that freedom for
which she has so noby struggled. Every American
feels that he is degraded long any portion of that
division of the earth which bears the name of his coun-