The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-07-12

the hand Of charity and friendship! Shall
we so rudely treat them, that they will
hang their harps upon the willows and
weep that they have, under delusiye
hopes, so lily exchanged their native land.
with all its faults, for this, where they
have found but change Of masters Do
they not love our country Did not La
Fayettc, Kosciusko, De kalb, and Mont
gomery and a host of others, cXpend their
treasures Of money and blood to gain our
liberties, and shall we now deny them to
their countrymen?
They mingle with US as the rain-drops
with the ocean, which cannot affect lhc
general character of the element What
little of their influence is supposed to be
injurious, cannot be perceptbe in the
great mass what few of their principles
anli-repubican, must soon be carried
away by the onward current Of events,
as has been the case before. The first
emigrants to Virginia were the cavalier
the royalist. They imported with them
aristocracy and hierarchy, and all their an
ti-republlcan incidents. But these were,
in time, abrogated, and here were reareda
Jefferson, "the apostle Of liberty" and a
Washington, "the father of his country"
Finally, the preservation Of the consti-
tuition of the United States is the great
| conservative measure which it is the duty
of every American citizen 10 sustain.
This we regard as the palladium of our Ii.
berry. 1t is the work Of the master minds
Of the revoIutlon--a work Of great poltl-
cal and legal wisdom, happily combining
the virtues of other kinds of government
for the first time ataned-the energy
of monarchy, the wisdom of aristocracv,
with the equality and freedom of repub-
lie. 1t rises over this Union grand,
magnificent arch, lvalling, in utility, the
spendor Of the bow of promise written by
the finger of the Almighty upon the clouds
of heaven. 1t is true, however, that there
are some Imperlectlons in, or existing I'M
der, this system. 1t would not be Of this
world if il were not so for evil is COM
mingled with the greatest of human per-
lectons. Though our bill of rights de-
clares that sail men are created equal
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights, among
which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness !" that governments are in
sliuted among men deriving their just
powers from the consent Of the govern
ed though, in theory, every man pos
sesses his elective franchise and, however
humble, the way is at least open for him
TO ascend TO the highest pinnacle OF fame
10 the highest Office in the republic;
yet, we must nOt-Cannot forget, that
mma-immorfGi. inicHcctudl man, "the
image of God" made but ga little lower
than the angels" is bought and sold in
the market, "chauel personal" yoked
with the beasts, doomed to unreQuied
toll, and all the fountains of his happiness
embittered with NORWOOD and with gall
that his rights and privileges as man-as
a citizen, are violated and that his mind
while that Of his more fortunate master
may soar "far as the solar walk or milky
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