The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1845-07-19


ing 10 ~, let ~ continue 10 cherish their fam
and initiate their immortal examples. Hut fol
low cltkens, lct "a change the picture for mo
ment and contemplate With gaddencd heart
ne present happy condition Of our country
ana let the call upon you 10 glance your eye OF
NC pegc ofhistofy aud SEQ that The chgnicies o
OI past antiquities do not record The existence o.
so pure government. Here man IL free ant
and unfeslraned, governed by no law but Of hi,
own enaclng aud acknowledging no superior
bul The God who made him. Here the portals
| OF science which had long been closed arc
thrown WIDE open aud are as accessible by the
poorest cotiager AZ the proudest potentaic
Here no established church perverts true rel.
glon. And above all here there is no beredita.
ry mobility, born TO wealth and greatness, who
usurp the station Of merit and rob true genius
OF It's prize. And here too is the city Of refuge,
where oppression may find balm for its wound.
Here liberty hitherto not believed to exist only
IN the heated Imagination of poets and orators,
reIgns pure divinity, regarding alike the rights
OF It's votarIes. AgovernmeBt framed by the
strong tics of mutual interest and fraternaI love,
and poised upon the sure basis OF universal G.
quality. And, fellow citizens. l. our ancestors,
guided by divine inspiration. have secured to us
such political legacy, Nature has been o less
munIiicent IN the best owment of her blessings
Look abroad upon the bosom OF our lovely coun
Try and behold her lavish productions accom-.
modated to every purpose and adapted TO every
taste. Does fancy take pleasure IN contempla.
ting tho sublime works Of Creation! then let
your eye rest upon the blue chain Of mountains
that SKIRT the horizon, whose lofty peaks, piled
IN chaotic confusion, lift their towering erests
ABOVE The clouds, and whose cragged and pro.
J 'ctlng rock threaten terrible destruction to the
vale below; upon whose cloud capt summit in.
dlcates the awful commissions of the dreadful
Volcano, from whose fiery bowels floods OF
burning lava are continually belched forth. Or
II you delight in peculiar and visionary fancy,
let your eye glance over the wild gardens OF
Nature as they are displayed in unbroken vari.
cites upon the face of The prairie, clad with
pure vesture of Flora are garnered up.
might here delineate some ofthe advantages
which have accrued to the agriculturst; But
sufhce 1t to say that Ceres, the goddess of fruits,
IN rich pTofusion bath crowned our fields with
golden ears, and stored cur gamers with her
choicest gifts. | might here speak too of the
Improvement in commerce; but let il be sufi.
Gent on this proud occasion TO say that our rv.
ere and ports gSoan keaoe,s4 the ingenuity Of
skili and the richest Injuries of life. And while
we are famed by such gentle zephyrs and re.
pose IN the lap OF ease; let US proudly reco
ect that this sacred trust, that the preservation
u SO benign government rests upon each OF
ls. And IN order to preserve this haowed
'oor which has been handed to US sealed with
he blood of our fathers, untarnshed from the |
land OF despotlsm, we must mark the rock upon
which other nations have been wrecked and
moor around their destruction. And here
would ask the historian what have been the
auses which have led to the destruction and
verthrow OF all other republics! And a res.
onse which should alarm every true patriot
) re.ech, ed-re,igious superstition and religious
igotry. Who ask that has one drop of pa ri
tic blood still lingering in his views, tina, can
for one moment some of the scenes
which have transpired in our happy country for
he last few years, without feelings of the mos,
Verifying and revolving character. Look will
'ou at some of our churches who profess to be
he temples for the ndweng of that God who
lone can preserve our nation from dilapldaton
md ruin. Their alters once of pristine purity
AVE been desecrated by discussions belonging
lone to national policy. And from this dark
cture turn your eye 10 one stepped in still,
acker dye of political fanaticism. And must
tell this people that here upon the land OF the
rave and the home of the oppressed, in humane
utcheries and scenes of bloody tragedy have
een perpetrated. And that some of our cti-
ems have had ropes drawn about their necks
md dragged through the streets of Philadelphia
Ike dogs; when at the same time their wives
With screaming infants at their breasts we're
unning to escape the devourng flames of their
'wn mansions, Flying frantic and wild not know
nc whittier to escape the fury of the bowling
lewis who had been made SO by their hesh
eaders. Is this picture the work of fancy or
eality. 1t reality is il not astounding that God
las not forsaken our nation and given us over
nto the hands of the Phiistnes. And here the
doubtless wishes TO know who it
vas that had their literary institutions aud or.
han assylums reduced to heap of cinders.
answer men like ourselves, belonging to the
anne human family, Created and fos,ered by the
anne Omnpotent Jehovah, before whom they
md their aggressors will sooner or later appear.
iud what was the offence that brought down
lpon them such unparalleled brutality? Simply
because they or their parents by the will of their
Creator we're born across the Atlantic and whose
kir,s [ ask are stained with the blood of this /
people! Instigated monsters m human shape, |
demagogues, like these of ancient
Rome who ever and anon cry change, change IN |
Political fanatics combined under
he delusion cognorncn of Native Americans for
The no less purpose, than that OF crushing if pos
sibIe the political and religious tolerance which
was sealed by the warm gushing blood of our
What | ask would have. been the
condition of this happy country, had it not have
been for foreign assist nee! Where would have
been the liberties that we this day as freemen
enjoy! Who aided in snatching this country
from the grasp of Brtainl Was it Washington
with Morgan Warren Wayne or Quit.
man alone! Did they alone achieve go wonder
full a VICTORY; Nay, fellow Citizens, nobly and