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dictates of their consciences, receiving equal protection
equal benefit from the laws, having equal the highest
aud equal liberty direct their talents energies
profitable channels was to be expected tia, talent and energy would
be developed vigo progress
wonderful 1t has been unparalleled hepopuaon of the country
broadcast like gems the land pleasant villages adorn
distant river and forest depth Railroads canals
points of the unon and like great
send the life and prosperity and the of social
and political friendship through the body of the The
wilderness has become fruitful field the solitary place made glad
and the desert has been made blossom
Ting river and the placid lake. the mountain side quiet
in the light of heaven. And while yields
teeming arves the abors of the husbandmen the of the
and Schools hy scattered from Maine Louisiana
sending the wholesome of sound knowledge among the
bound the lshnng wing and raising his rod The clouds,
scep,re of science he has said the DESTROYING clement
delegated author shu shall thou 60 and no far
ther The steamboat trophy Of genius rides upon
hundred rivers The Telegraph eung messages with magic
speed Boston Orleans Baltimore and ST. Louis will
sit side by de and hbors
Factories rise and and the products of American skill
hndiig their way to the remolest quarters of the globe.
Commerce too employing wealth upon shores
Our citizens found every cline, ships every
Among the icebegs of Greenland sunny South
the deadly of Africa and spicy shores "Aaby
bes' the saansed banner floats proudly side by side, with the
time honored and batlle-staned cross of ST. George
The winds prevail, the sroan,
Surrey our empire nd beholl home
Our relations with the great powers of the earth those Of
her the broad Pacific and shaken hands with old China
Olives there a with soul so dead,
Who to himself hath
This my nat land"
May God bless country May lie long rule councils
and unmpacd the wise and autary institutions which have
wrought out such glorious results But there dark side the
picture There is IN all human things poclvy that
almost be SAID that all vice is but of virtue Avarce
of prudence, podgay of beay theft is the result of
great and murder the the
strained exercise OF feeling 10 epeervaton Liberty
which blessing when properly restrained and directed
when unchecked dgens into Righteousness breaks down all the
barriers OF law order and religion aud spreads like dosoang
flood through society," mmgmg It's elements together in wild conn-
raising the and deg the surface and settling down
s IN 'n uIau ana sagha poor OF ueSpoS over he runs {" al
that sacred and valuable. Are there of such result i'll
beloved country? There fear that the love OF
law which has heretofore characterized people, and which drew
forth the admiration of the profound and ndcous De Toquev
beginning TO relax and that growing spirit of Agrarianism
spreading and more widely every year.
The love of money doubt the Of all evils but the
derae desire OF property feeling implanted in the breast of
acquire properly and mold it security of The principal
of social and happiness When the rights of properly
are not respected when not allowed TO legally and
uprlghy much they please and hold safely long they
please, when the lazy share will with the INDUSTRIOUS the fool
deadened but the organization of society broken
The reputation of of the States by which they appo
the anirene and the increasing disposition subject the
prices Of the popular will of ndicatue the n
y and independence which depend intimately the rermanenc
and security of rights of property all omnous signs of this dis
organizing spirit
and which political elevation emoument derived from
the of the people, always the voice of Go be prolific
in demagogues Acuated by selfish and corrupt motives they
pie at their ends they excite and feed the worst
passions of the peoples they the lust for sudden wealth
mna against the laws, the bad against the good they deue the
people matters them what may be the real character of
measure provided object of hatred Of dread
As the Genie in the Arabian lights spread like mist and
duay assumed gigantic and terrible form eyes the
hed fisherman and then sun back the little caske from which
he had emerged every made by
shape before the people, only dwndle back its
nsigncance when their object attained and they safely
fixed like so many flesh flies, upon the body polite.
Again. country has long been the home of the ard the
refuge OF the oppressed But the admits alike the deserv-
and , worthless is the receptacle of the of Eu
rope The paup population Europe vomled by thousands
annually upon shores Suddenly free from grinding oppres
country knowledge of part
history haowed recolectons the Revolution ready
instruments the hands of any party however unprnccd and
scrupuous.
These and elements Of work among Fostered
widest doctrines both religion and politics spring up like noHous
be great -grouhd opinions. Here lists open
with Justice. Here InGeity and Romanism
of the Divine Redeemer. Here Agrariansm and Abolonism aud
Anarchy individual happiness
and TO public good.
tell Perhaps the making the great
Universe will youcsa Every form OF government
every trial has resulted misery IF the elements
evil country destined ovepower the good perchauce
the may sleG by the trump of the Arcbag and the fair
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