Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-09-07

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shall dstest forever the words imprisonment for
debt, and pust beg ofyou, you should hear of any
instance ofhe of dead bodies, to brand them
with the iifamy which they merit.
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ALFHlD--BR CE-WASHINGTON.
The most llevating passages il, the history of our
race are those national RESTRICTIONS, as may
call them, in which thu popular spirit that had
med exti4uished, has suddenly shot up again into
blaze, aid the cause of liberty or independence,
after havig given up for lost by almost all men,
has yet b4en raised from the dust and set on high
by one MINIS patriotism, which no despair could
quench Even if human life were a mere game, ev-
cry such bbound of a people from depression and
deg -adatiPn would be pregnant with interest and
excitemejt. But the occasion is always one OH
which fadhighef qualities are called into exercise
than mer skill and dex,erity, Or any kind of tall
ent or kn(wledge ability, great and varied, there
must be, pf co,irse but the sustaining inspiration
of the efo isalways the moral grandeur and strength
which he crisis dovelopes, both iii individuals and
in the heart and sole of tho nation. Of all the
other means and resourcesby which contests among
men ale influenced and decided, there is generally
more sbre in the hands of the established tyranny,
than ID those OF the young power that attempts 10
throw down; there is no reason, AT lenst, why the
counsofs and generals of the former should not be
fully t equals of those of the latter in political
wisdom aud in military science, while with armies,
and til whole material strength of war, they are
likely 10 be much more plentifully provided. If
the iss,e therefore depended solely chiefly upon
the conflict either of physical of intellectual ec-
mentslthe chances would always be greatly against
the success en- Of the shteous insurrection.
But te life aud best might of such cause lie in
higheaprinciple than that other of physical force
OF intellectual capacity ssFwice is he armed, - il
has bhn truly said, s'that hath his qua rel just;'
besid tho blessing OF heaven that may in that case
deemal to go with him, his sense of his quarfel's
jusiiceis as good to MIN another right hand and
braces every sinew TO double .lgor on this SIDE,
too every thing is at stake. The struggle is not
for mere power glory, but for existence itself,
for all that makes existence deai-for air 10 breathe
Or for the decision of the question, whether the
lbreass n drawn shall DO life poison. Hence
the care, vigilance and activity, oflcadefs and
followers, the circumspection and economy in ali
things, the quick scsure OF every advantage, the
great deeds that achieved, the important ends
and objects that are gained, with the scaltiest
means. fence perseverance to the death, and
; endurance whose nerve tolls and hardships only
: harden and strengthen. And not energies on
ly are called forth in all engaged i'll the solemn el-
lterprze; it infuses something of its own majesty
into each and elevates his whole mind and nature;
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odswalkt hc earth, or beings more than men!'
Such a contest, crowned with victory, never fails
10 leave behind it certain Nobility Of blood and
character to the people which has worked out its
l freedom.
1t is cheering also to observe how often has hap
pened nat naGo aai regeneration OF this kind has
been essaii ally the work of bur single Individual
he ci,c instances 40 do hit in all sach cases may
be said to haze called 10 tn the man, and also to
ha provided him With the means OF accomplishing
what he did; bIt still, without The man to turn them
to account, the circumstances would have existed TO
no purpose. They were al most the ready instru-
|ment, hch, with all thoir aptitude, would have
lain dead and useless had they not been taken up
and welded by his living hand. 1t Is cheering, we
say, TO perceive in this way what one man can do.
1t helps 10 keep alive that ath in himself which
each oiIs somewhat in danger OF losing in high
ly artificial state OF society, when the individual
seems to be wholly swallowed u, iii the throng, like
adrop OF water in the ocean; and all operations
seem to be carried OIL, and all effects to be wrought
by the movements of men in masses. This state
Of things is attended with great conveniences and
: advantages; and il is, besides, the inevitable re-
suit of advanced civilization SO that, even if its
advantages were less than they are, il would be in
vain to struggle againstit; but that is no reason why
siyoi resist, AND gladly nynii ourselves oi
Whatever helps US better to resist any depressing
tendency II may have in the direction we have nel,-
toned Nothing could be conceived better fitted to
train mankind to any yoke Of bondage 10 which il
night be attempted subject them, than the extnc.
ton Of all strong belief III the ccacy of individual
exert qn and the general difugion among us Of the
COZ clioa that each individual In the system OF so
aeiasy ssh5o battsr than one Of tho units Of bat
talio,, haassly revolving spoke IN one OF the
lwIesls OF great machine. II
i OF iae.modern European commUnitesalEcste ~
cry one has, at one period or another of it's exis
9 tence, been served and saved in the manner o
which We have spoken. Thus Spain kas had hc
e Pelayo, Switzerland her Tell, France her Maid o
Orleans, Portugal her Alfonso. Henriques, Holair