Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1847-07-22

e ana intelligence. NO splendid pomp o.
= royalty, or brilliant equipage of naughty no.
bility, arrest the attention. But the freeman
Tor whom all governments were made, is
e here unawed by the presence of priv
] legged powers; and wearing upon his brow
the stamp of independence, the busy hum Of
industry is heard bringing to the ear none
of the associates Of misery and lfe-destroy-
ing toll which attends the same sounds in
: some of the countries of Europe. Should
the stranger wonder at the insignifcence OF
f our Capitol, we can show him how needless
would be gilded court for government
like ours. We can point him to our mighty
population, and tell him there is the gov
e eminent OF America-the proudest execu-
2 tive the world ever saw. And the concu-
sion from all this must be that in our own
republic the intention of all governments
is best carried out
Let US look at some of the princi Piles
which cause this happy result. One of the
! fundamental ideas of the whole system is
expressed in the first clause Of that noble in
strument, which declares chat all men are
created equal" Strange, very strange that
it has required SO many centuries to a.
waken man to proper appreciation of his
own nature, aside from the empty trappings
in the gift of an earthly potenta,e. Strange
that the same being, when within the walls
of a church in the presence of his Creator,
knew himself the equal of the proudest no.
BILE, should crouch down before the same
noble when in the presence of the world
But such prejudices were not to last forever.
They are vanishing from the earth, and have
long since fled from our own happy nation.
We have here no naughty aristocracy care
fully secuding themselves from the common
gaze, but all are bound together by common
tie OF interest and obligation. |, has seemed
best to our Maker that there should be diff
terent circumstances of fortune, talent and
knowledge allotted to men, but bitter
hatred with which these distinctions are ac-
companled in other countries, is here Who'll
~ wanting. Our poorer classes, conscious
that they are caEAdLc---.-a-rre1cc require
no standing army to restrain them, but form
powerful element in the constitution of o
happy nation. Ia fact, no American car
! need ha Tho A-4---L- c -ll--f-...fa-
ton is open to all, and honest industry can
not fail to secure for its possession comfort
and responsibility, if not fame and af1luence
The names of Franklin and The host Of kin
dred worthless, who have blessed their day
and generation, will prove that it is to this
emulatory principle of equality that we owe
our greatest men. Proof sufficient is by no
means wanting in our own commonwealth,
from the many selt-made meu who are an
honor 10 our country. That government UNI
der which the same sun shines through the
thick curtains of wealth upon the birth of a
self-styled lord, and through the coarse g lass
of the hut upon the birth of one doomed by
his lineage to ausere poverty, represses all
the spontaneous gifts bestowed by nature
upon the poor as we'll as the rich, and thus
we are deprived of much of our native tai
ent. On this point we should be especial
: ly careful that none of the old barbarisms
ofprejudices creep in and dare division line
between the rich and the poor-between
him who by patient industry and profitable
speculation has scraped together little OF
gilded earth, and him who circumstances
, have denied such an acquisition. He who
/. would use such means as these for the at
! tainment of any object, should gaze at the
horoscope of the past, and then would flash
before his eyes scenes of blood, originating
in such division, which would make him
trembe. But let the freeman 60 forth into
the world, proud in the reflection that God
t made man in his own image, and that such
3 being requires no patent from an earthly
!. court 10 make him noble. Growing out OF
e this acknowledged equality, came the lead
e ing idea that man can govern himself. How
e has this idea, though occasionally bursting
f forth with transient briliancy, been OBJ
t scured by the prejudices of the feudal ages
t until men have considered themselves the
K mere creatures of their sovereign, only al
lowed the blessings of fire and water at hi:
good pleasure! The time has been when ;
n monarch could sa with impunily, II an
d the State.'' Then was there needed re
# volution to show him the emptiness o
/ his boast. And Europe has seen such re
e volulions; yet many field must be ferll
n lied with blood before the seal of haught..
$ aristocracy shall be put to this .Magn
y Charta of liberty. In America this princl
l. pie was, as it were, indigenous. 1t was tn
leading idea which the Pilgrims came to il
e. lustrate and to live. They had seen suhicien
IS of that ruling, which, originating in cor
Sc rupt or ignorant court, looked only to tn
W interest of the minority and neglected tn
u more humble majority Of the body polite
ID They were determined to have rulers, who
10 going forth from the midst of the people
ly and amenable to them, should be impregna
If ted with their own interests. In olhe
" words, they were determined to do the
" own ruling, and they have succeeded. o.
,ir Capitol instead of being the source frol
re which all the executive mandates are issue
ty to trembling nation, is distinguished onl
n as the focus towards which all the govern
= ing powers, eminating in the people, radia