Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-07-07

destruc ton, the clear calm voice OF those mem
b.rs would be heard bidding every mariner to be
steadfast to his duty, loudly encouraging him to
exertion. and with the Constitution as their chart
pointing out the: only course, which could ieaa
to safety; and that voice will be only hushed.
when the curling ripple shall cover aud conceal
the vortex which engulphed US.
Under a government thus happily constituted,
the people enjoy liberty, indebted BY licentlous,
ness; and we trust that this enjoyment will be oil
long continuance. For with our political Aero
polls constructed as we have described it, its
walls the strong walls Of Union, every citizen
whom they encircle not only enjoying it as pr.
vilege, but having it enjoined upon him as duty,
to cry out when the enemy approached, and to
combat with that enemy, the unpensoned press
as our warder, and each one having it per-
United to him to pray to his God in such man.
ner as his conscience may dictate, to avert the
evils which may bcset US, we may long hope to
keep the arch-iend Tyranny from within our
gates. Whilst calling up the pleasurable teel-
ings consequent upon this enjoyment, and con-
trasting them with the sad and gloomy ones which
filled our bosoIns when our necks were yoked, we
are induced, for a moment, to make mention OF
him who. by dltfasing that strong ray OF truth
that " all men are created equal" dispelled the
delusun with which we were bound. and led US
from the Cmmerian darkness Of political igno.
rance and slavery, to the bright regions oil light
and liberty which we now inhabit Attempts
have been made to detract from his high fame,
and to lessen the veneration and esteem with
which he ought TO be regarded by every true ad-
mirer Of his country's greatness. His faults fOr
like all mortsIs. he had his faults,) have been
held up to the public gaze, blackened and be.
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vored to oershadow The lustre of his virtues; but
, it could no mure cloud it, than could the green
and siiny covering Of the putrid pool mantle the
billowy oceans snuw.capped crest Even the
finn of prejudice is penetrated by the brightness
which emanales from his characters mlrrOred sur
face-that surface which the foul breath of ca.
lumny. come it from what polluted source it
may, cannot for moment sully, much less last
ingly soil.
Happv as is now our condition, there is much
to b. apprehended lest that happiness should be
marred The splendor Of our political sun, un.
clouded as it now is. may yet be o'ercast. There
is dark speck upon that lumlnary-the sPeck
OF D,snnion-which NAV go on to increase and
spread, until it shall shadow the broad disk -
| How ought we not to pray that that spot may be
dissolved into light, aud that fair sun. shining
out in all its refuIgence, may transfuse its rays
into the farthest portions of the earth, aud with
its genial heat, warm into life, the sermsof liberty
which may be planted in other countries and on
nther continents. There exists even on the ground
# expediency every reason why the Union should
he preserved. 1t is tsue that the interests of the
several States are different and diversified; but
it is this very difference which contributes to the
gnnd # the whole. A., in the armament. orbs
acting upon orbs keep within their proper and
respective spheres. sources of light and life to US
below, which, if not thus acted upon, would,
rushing throughout space, encircle with destruc.
ton all tia, thew encountered in their fiery course;
80 interests which, if they alone existed, would
lnjure materially our we'll being. operated upon
BY counter inter ests, are made to conduce to the
general veal.
Ii we should be disuuited-if the cord which
now bind, US together should be severed-what
would no. be the wre,chedness Of our condition.
Our name, now respected IN every land, and our
flag, now floating triumphantIy over every sea,
We have advanced to the Hottest height Of nation.
| al grratDe>s-a height which we will long be
enabled to maintain. if we keep our eye firmly
ixed upon our polar star. the Union. But let US
once permit ourselves to be distracted by the fe.
ry meteors which shoot across our political space
let US once lose sight If that star, and tGtter-
Ing from the sddy Arhos upon which they now
; tread. the States. broken and severed. would
sink into the lowest depths Of political oblivion.
Many of those States, now members of Confe-
deracy which, as such. could bid defiance to the
world, would. if disunited, be- dependent for their
politics as we'll as their commercial existence
upon some of the larger so. erei gnies at home. or
what would be still worse, upon some overgrown
power abroad: and those which would be enabled
to sustain themselves by their own resources,
would be but not beds Of facti"n--f spots Tor the
springing up Of the ranking growth Of discord-
their peace asltated BY civil commotons, their
prosperity blasted by designing demasogues.-
That which. under the fostering influence IF the
Federal head. blooms and blossoms, shedding its
sweet fragrance DER ali around. if npped by the
biting frost of Dsunion, will he wasted and wi.
thered-its place supplied by loarhsome weeds
which cumber the ground. Wehave just emery
ed from the chrysalis state of our exIstence-the
sun gilds with hls radiant beams the wings which
watt US on the morning breeze; let not that
suns meridian rays find US Invested Of our beau.
ty, dead and decayed. The eyes Of the whole
world are at this moment upon US; all look anx.
iously forward, TO see US pass from our stage of