Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-07-17

biIites. We sovereigns-al alike clothed with the
powers and attributes of sovereignty and in that capacity
we constitute what the world never before perfectly
beheld "A community Of free and equal sovereigns.
What sovereigns! Do we not enact our own laws
and execute iheml True; but where is the equality
What ignorant though be be Of the first letter of
the alphabet cannot neutraze the ballot box the vote
of Calhoun or a Webster Clay CT q Buchanan.
And amidst ell our boosted greatness, should
fail should this last trial for the success Of sefgove
men prove abortion, then will the mightiest interest
the world struggled for be forever lost And is there
no danger Of a failure Turn for moment TO the lore
Of the pasta voice rising from the ombs of fallen
pubcs speaks in thunder warning avoid the
shoals upon which they stranded their brightest hopes and
most pleasing snticpatons Sparta tried the experiment.
and her memory lives only the page of Athenian
history. The conedertted of Greece tried self
ernmtnt and fell prey TO ambition. Rome repeated the
experiment, and where is she Her glory has de-
psred-he sacred Pon directs for her the ship Of State
his mandate from the brow Of royalty its
and exalts a peasant the throne At later period
France conceived the bold project of throwing off her
former system of Government and declaring the sovereignty
of the people, and what the result The French
revolution presents the bloodcst picture in the book Of
time She sbandons the project and to monarchy
And why all these failures The cause is obvlous-he
public mind not sufficiently enlightened There is a
maxim, that in desposms the Ignorance the more
peace" vet where the will Of single individual is the
law, with what intense anxiety his qualifications
looked hy his subjects Is he wise Is he good they
ask stronger guaranty for their safety. And il not
obvious that where all sovereigns all be wise
all must be enlightened Then if would Perpetuae
happy form of government let dliiuse general
knowledge among the people. What has changed Amer
lea in the last two centuries Why smiles with
fuilfulness this Western Valley, recently gloomy
wilderness Enlightened has been here Our less
enlightened brethren of South America have waded hro
Of blood to attain liberty, which is often wrested
from them by the chietans grasp. They lack inteli-
gence and virtue But our Union has rsen like the sun
his strength her internal order scarcely disturbed and
her rights universally respected Her commerce is wide
the earth, and she presents the sublime spectacle of
nation uncontrolled by religious monopOes, rising in
intellectual and moral grandeur, and throwing open her
territory receive the distressed emigrani he flies from
despoc power. Let then look we'll TO safeguards
| build firm our bulwarks-and may prove ourselves
an example worthy the imitation Of the nations of the
earth. May war invade territory But peace
with all its attendant blessings be for And may
the United States continue rise in Importance and
interest until the nations all shall be blended in great
and holy sserhood And may grateful incense ascend
from the altar of liberty, until the herald shall appear
sound the drge of time and light natures funeral pile
the beacon fires Of eternity.