Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1843-07-13
THURSDAY MORNING. JULY I3, 1913.

whether Of nature or man, so insurmount
able that the New England spirit will no
dare and overcome them.
And, consequent upon commerce ane
the industrial arts. an honest wealth, with
its train of benefits, has been gathered in
upon our country. A wealth not amassed
like that which was poured upon Italy
by the proconsuls Of old. who robbed prov.
inces to bring home with them the means
of raising marble palaces, and baths on the
shores Of Campania, of drinking from am
Der, OF Teasing on singing birds, of exhib-
Ting armies of gladiators; wealth not
amassed like those spois of the robber
which the Spanish viceroy's, leaving be-
hind them the curses of Mexico or Lima
and entering Madrid with gilded coaches
and trains of sumpter horses trapped and
shod with silver" poured upon Spain, but
an honest hard earned wealth, the fruit OF
wholesome industry, adventurous energy,
and wise economy.
The religion Of Christ has grown and
fourished well amongst US. How many
church. going bells send out their sounds
from our houses oil God, on every blessed
Sabbath! 1t is scarcely TOO much TO say,
that, calling from town to town, from hill
to hill, they fill continent with the gentle
solsce of their holy music.
And knowledge has spread amongst us.
Schools for the education of youth are
numberlcss over the land. And there is
scarcely village in the widest forest of
the west that does not contain its printing
press--its little chronicler of man and his
doings. What stride from the laborious
beginnings of those worthy fathers of the
art of prlnting-Guttembergh and Caxton
and John Daye! How little would they
have credited the augury if any man had
said IN their day that in so brief time
their wonderful art would come to be so
common in the hands of men.
And letters have hourished amongst US.
We have Historians, poets. novelists of
whom any people might we'll be proud
We have bad It is true, no one great COM
handing poetic genius; such an accident
OF the planetary influences has not CHANGED
in our short life as nation. But how many
generations Of our ancestors in England
passed away before the birth Of Shakespeare.
All intellectual powers, naturally vigorous
in the Anglo Saxon race, have been iipen-
ed by the freedom of our Institutions. We
have had great NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. than
whom
mono better ever held
The helm Of Rome, when gowns not arms repellcd
The fierce Epirot, and the African bold'
And eloquence has been amongst US in all
lis extremes of form. Who lorgets that
pla,nest Of all spoken language that ever
won men from errortotruth the eloquence
of the great Marshall? When will the sill
yer voice of the eloquent Randolph be for
go,tens His strange and feverish spirit
has been long at rest-the decisive calen-
ture OF his life on earth has, long ago, sub
sided into the quiet of the grave, but the
marks of his footsteps are not yet worn
from the arena where he won the laurel
the wounds which his keen lash inflicted
are still uiceroos and aled-the ears
of men are still haunted with the magic of
his utterance. Our dead orators are many,
but the divine gift has fallen upon many
living men. The arena is still pressed by
feet worthy Of the golden sandals. The
eager and listening multiiudes OF our land
have heard in past times, and still hear,
words as profound in wisdom, as Iich in
melody as ever broke upon the thr, nged
silence Of the Grecian Portcoes.
In this great mass of good--in the in
crease of our territory and population and
wealth, in the spread of our commerce, in
the development, Of intellect and the ex-
tension of religious and temporal knowl.
edge among US, in our growth in arts
and letters, we see the results of free in
situations operating upon vigorous peo-
pie, of the best system Of government IN
der the sun operating upon the best family
of men.
The fleets Of our successful "stand for
liberty" and Of the ST, blishment of our
free institutions of government, have not
be n confined 10 our own soil. They have
bten lclt n every pulse aud nerve oil the
Christ an world. Europe has bn for ma
ny centuries passing from i,udal TO leder4l
principles f, ON subj, eli n OF the many
10 the few, TO condition OF universal blnd
Ell equality. We have ceItsinly been
the means Of qulckening the step of Eng
lind towari this 6 eat inevitable eud.
Our Triumph against her arms re c.ed up.
ON hersel.--our bright example filled her
vision IN spite Of asst enmnies. The re
forms in the popular part { her Represen
tatve system, which are an advance TO-.
ward tn great end, originated IN no 81 gh,
neasu e in the fixedress oi avowed purpose
with which we have evil maintained, and
adh' red to, as cardinal Principle, the
putty OF popular Representation. The
wat of Manchester sgainst old Sarum- Of
The wesllhy and Furnishing modern cites,
against rot en- bnroughs-drew no tile Of
Is incentive force from the IusE irat on OF
our shining example.
In France our example pr cipitated the
t,ans ton of WI ich have spoken. Blu,
the Gallo mind was net pr pared 10 re-
ceIve the pure blessings Of d, mucr tic lib
erty. Ignorance and Ling ptnt-up pas.
Sous sn t,hed at .hem-they were not
calmly propriated to the good OF man by
an enligh ered virtue. Aud so ,h,ir &C.
quisition was curse and mockery. But
the CONFUSION is over, and much real ad-
vance m nj has been made even 10 France
oward the great end.
Aud Spain, Germany, I'a'y-Every ma