The national whig., 1847-07-03
GRATITUDE TO GOD.
The Day Of independence.

VIGIL w bC iiNS "'SA
This act of these brethren we reproduce on this
occasion. II was the act OF weak people 10
their lilleness but the God Of right stood by
Them, and gave them power to put down the
foreign oppressor. That good God did moi
refuse liberty TO the white race that battled for
il, because the institution Of negro slavery sat
in frowniDg blackness in our midst. Nor will
he permit us to lose the liberty our forelahers
stitutions to rid ourselves Of that curse. The
great evil of foreign oppression that over
whelmed the energies OF three millions OF peo
pie in l775, we were enabled, by the grace Of
God. TO overcome and drive away from these
shores but all the lesser evils which then en-
tered into the basis Of society were permitted
by an all-wise Providence, who foreknew that
the course of his Word would in time eradi
cate all of them, without resort to force, and
the consequent production Of worse evils.
Since the declaration Of our independence,
hall of the original slave States Of the Confed-
eracy have rid themselves Of the evil Of slave
ry. In seventy -one years more. il let alone, il
is not too much TO say, that the curse Of slave
ry will not brood over an inch of territory on
this continent. II seems as though the men
who declared our freedom, who fought for il
and established it, aud who made our present
institutions, were guided by the hand Of God
to adhere to the federal system Of Independent,
sovereign'ies, for one Of the express purposes
of leaving the question of human slavery to
be disposed Of by each society according 10 its
supreme pleasure, without interfering with the
rights OF any other society," God has blessed
our Union, not cursed il because of slavery.
Who is he, then, who dares uplIfl his voice
against The ever-blesoed Union, because slavery
exists in it? Let him devote the day follow
ing tomorrow to reflection in the vein we
have endea vored feebIy TO strike, and our word
FOR il he will rise from the subject better and
an humber man.
We now number twenty millions Of men
Has not God been with us Does any man
dare assert the con'Iary9 Let US praise Him
for his mercies, for they endure forever. Lei
US praise Him with full heart and a loud
perils, in our hours of prosperity-that He
guided the feet of the freemen who threw TO
an astonished world the burning declaration OF
human rights, printed today on another page
Of our journai--,hat He led them and their
brethren, our forefathers, Though the FIRE o.
war and The desolalion Of It's hot breath, and
gave them wisdom TO frame the charter Of oul
libcrles-hat he smiled upon the infant Re
public while horrible war was convulsing al
Europe, and Apollyon, the slayer Of the hu
man race, was scourging the European nations
that lie rescued us from the murderou>
grasp of an unnatural parent in second wal
with the terrible giant, that He has given Us
strength and extended our borders even TO the
uttermost parts Of the contincnt-thal He has
permitted our mercful yaIor to overrun the
fair lands of the despoiled Aztec Empire with
out suffering even a reverse, that He has
through series Of seventy one winters raised
up in the hear, Of the nation, men whose in
tGllPCIS are ueolUtu " llHUShSC thS oSll-
erations Of the race, by pure, exalted, and true
sentiments of human right,--that He made
these United States the leader in the van o
abolishing the traffic in human flesh among the
nations of the earh,-and OF leading the black
race back 10 the burning sands of their ioreta
| thels that He has always interpoSed his
mighty hand and turned away the ruin tina
often in our short history has threatened The
dissolution OF our Union, that He has even
now raised up mighty man out Of the wal
which we are now wa2lng,-a second Wash
ina,on- to sit in the chair once occupied b,
tha, sage May the sbadowing wings of His
mercy never iorsake u.s.
The New York Commercial Advertiser ridi
cules the idea that Gen. Taylor is the autho
OF the letter bearing his name and published
in the g Signal" and says that General Tay
lor is not the man we take him for, if he is th'
writer Of that letter under such circumstances.
There seems to be studied design, on th
part Of the independent Democratic press, I
falsily Gen. Taylor's political opinions. Tn
Cincinnati Signal, one Of this class, publishe
a forged letter from him, declaring what ar
his political sentiments. The New Orlean
Delta, another Of this class, says that the OIL
Hero has written a letter TO Louisiana Demo
cra,, in which he declares he will not be a can
didate for the Presidency unless he is the spoi
taneous choice Of all parties, and can be elecle
" untrammeled by party politics obligations.