New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-03-05
WHOLE No. 9os.

and loved and made the he which mlSled the
honest and the simple.
But. far away from the scenes of violence and
crime, and the monsters that shall engender and
nourish these agencies of evl,-tar away from
the home of ancestral pride and hereditary honor
away from the classic al,-and Ear from foreign
lands and courtS.-ar away, in humble rustic
scene. we shall find him who is appointed unto
he mission of the age,-to achieve the pur-
pose o. his g time"
There. IN that wild woodland, on that rough
road leading from the little one-stoTy farm. house
to the mill, through groves, and swamps, aud
fields, there PAGES an Old horse, laden with bags
of grain, en which sits careless looking, bright
eyed boy. sunburned and barefooted, in his coarse
homeSpun dress, evidently an exclusive patron Of
domestic manufactures, and pledged to retrench.
lnent.
That simple rustic scene is one unsssoeiated
with high achievement in history. It is not one of
The fields on which our fathers fought the murder
Gus savage or the naughty Briton. Yet It has
associations which shall make it as dear TO Amer
leans, as rich in its peculiar glories, as Bunker
Hill, Yorktown or Tippecanoe. 1t shall be to
the republicans of every age and cline one OF
the places holy to liberty, one of
the Palestines.
- The Mtccas OF the mind
1t shall be the source OF nations hopes and
happiness. Patriots, poets, philosophers and his
torans shall trace from it the mighty stream of
the events OF the age. and pilgrims come far to
salute the blest spot" and find IN It a lesson to
the world
That scene is the Sashes of Hanover and
that poor little orphan child is "the Mil. boy of
the Slashes, an appellative whose rude provln-
clal sound shall not hinder it from becoming more
,r1c N. hall
make the music of ages and nations and it shall
be the watchword and rallying-cry of millions
rushing on to bloodess battle. 1t shall be shout
ed in the assemblies of the patriotic and faithful,
and repeated with intonations of enthusiasm and
rapture in the great congregation Of the just
The day shall come when the utterance of that
name shall raise the awful voice of a mighty ma
ton in tones of thunder from the Lakes TO the
Gulf, from the Ocean to the mountains, and from
the mountains to the distant sources of the Father
of Rivers for 1t shall associate with that nations
most inspiring membranes and exalted hopes.
1t shall be their glory-ther pride, their boast to
the world,-heard throughout Chrstendom, and
welcomed everywhere as the sign of republican
faith indicated and American honor retrieved.
Longs shall ring through the Continents and
over the Oceans that glorious name, associated
with that Of Washington, from Peru. La Tlata
and Oregon, to Sparta, Athens and Thebes.-
These two names shall be heard when nothing
else that belongs to America is known,-shail be
heard as the excmplihcation oil all that is good
and hopeful in the cause of republican principles,
popular righissand human liberty. The name of
''the l-boy of the Slashes should be name
:. above all Grecian and all Roman fame" above
all classic and romantic gory,-rich in more than
the historic and poetic associations OF antiquity
Il shall be cherished and endeared in the remem-
brancc of the learned and unlearncd alike, when
the story of the wolf.nursed, iratrlcdal founder of
Rome shall be discarded as miserable fable, and
consigned to oblivion or contempt, with all the
absured vagaries of the heroic and the silly ro-
manccs of the chivalric age. Romance shall cease
It's inventions, wild adventure shall restrain the
utterance of its wonders; and history shall pause
and look back in vain over all the recorded and
unrecorded past for parallel to the forty years
movement which he shall begin and end.
He shall unite all hearts in divided and wlde.
spread nation,-shal concentrate aud harmonic
all interests shall be supreme and alone in the
love and confidence of all classes and sections
" The rich and the poor shall meet together IN
affection for him !; and each shall proudly do his
part-the rich pouring out his gold in tens OF tens
of thousands at his feet, and the poor avishing
breath, energy and soul, IN oratory and song for
his advancement. His name shall be spell-e
bond of ieowship-a pledge OF hospitality, that
shall open to the stranger alike the hut IN the
forest and the palace in the metropolis. The as
prations OF the venerable and sanity for his pre-
servation and triumph, shall rise all over the land
with every mornings prisons and in the incense
of the evening sacrifice. " PRAYER shall DO offered
for him continually, and daily shall he be praised"
He shall be the incarnation OF the spirit of De-
MocRAcY-a thing which shall long be a mere
name, vague abstraction, an unmeanlng by
word trick TO cheat the people OF the real BEN
efi,s Of free Government, to dlshsnor Republican
ism Throughout the woodland all TO enrich and
promote a few banded plunderers. And still the
people shall love that abused word, for the sake
of what it should mean. They shall fondly fol-
low that false light in that true love, often to
their own undoing, though it shall lead them
through boys and morasses and pools, III mist and
gloom, over slippery places, and to the very
verge of the abyss, till at last (you cannot
tell how or why, but you shall know phen)
suddenly the mist and fog -damps shall roll
away; the earth-engendered will o,-the wlsp shall
vanish and they shall see in hdm the light they
sought, bearning on them from the West, clear
and bright, like star IN the Empyrean. Then
they shall rush with one heart and impulse III
thrOnging millions to the high places through
whose pure air it shines brighter and the whole
people shall hail it with a voice of rapture. that
shall waken the world TO see and share the Joy OF
that realization of the long -yainly sought Idea,-
democracy not in the abstract, but in the con-
crete-liylng, perfect-not lawlessness but love
Of law peryading people not ungoverned, but
self governed and SO governed as to solve the
problem, of the age, and proclaim to the fastsuc
ceeding, inquiring generations of the teeming
future, the truth that the people can make them
selves not only free, but more obedient to law
and more prosperous underit than kings or mobiles
could make them, with the power of fleets and