The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-04-24
NO. 81

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TO. be executed, the lst Of juno, l774, a day of
humiliation, fasting, and prayer-thus implor.
ing, with one voice, the protection and bless
ing Of Heaven upon youi and thus, through
a religious act, the ultimate one Of NATIONAL
distress. rousing up her people to the fullest
and most startling sense of the outrage and
| the peril which awaited you. She called up.
on you to stand up for your cause; that it was
the true cause.-the cause Of right. and free.
dom, and Justice; that, as such, she madeit
her own, and would fight it out with you !, blow
by blow. and, live or die, would give every fac
ulty that belonged to her Of soul and body and
estate, to make it good. Addressing her thro'
the justice of your and the agonies Of
your condition. you asked her for her heart.
She gave it: with scarce the reservation of
throb, she gave it freely and gave it all. You
called upon her for her blood. Sho took her
children from her bosom, and offered them to
supply it, With her spirit, with her apprccic.
ton of the great principles Of representative
and of popular government which your case
involved, and with her holy enthusiasm in
their support, Vagina would have been utter
ly recreant to hersclfif she had done anything
less than she did
But in all this she felt and knew that she
was more thun your political aiiy--rnore than
your political friend. She felt and knew that
she was your near, natural born relation-.such
in virtue Of your common descent, but such
far more still in virtue Of the higher attributes
Of congenial and kindred nature. Do not be
startled at The idea Of common qualities be-
tween the American cavilier and the Ameri-
can roundhead. [NoTE.--At this point Mr.,
McDowcIls hour having expired, he was about
to close his remarks, when he was called upon
from all parts Of the Hall, with strong empha.
sis, to Ego on''--"go on" To this request,
the committee giving its unanimous consent,
he proceeded:l Do not be startled, Mr.. Chair
main, at the idea Of close and near relation
s!i between the impctuous and naughty, bdt
courteous co,onist of Jamestown, with his in
tcosc point Of personal honor, and his devotion
to all that is stirring in the incidents Of life,
end the stern, solemn, elfdcnying, almost as
celtic pilgrim Of Plymouth. A proud but mis-
guided legality drives the defenders of the
Stulrts 10 the shores of the Chesapeake, that
there, in privation and in poverty, if need be-,
they might follow out the impulses Of their
own honor and their own free will, without let
or hndrance from human authority. pure,
exclusive uncompromisng spirit of religion.
that could not mingle with and that aoould not
be controlled by the corruptions of earth. drives
prosecuted but a precious people to the rocks
Of Nassa chusetts Bay, that there, whatever
else might betide them, they could pour out
their hearts as they pleased TO Him whom it
was the richest Of all their delights TO worship
and to serve. A heroic and unconquerab bic
will, differently directed, is the pervasive ard
master element in the character of both. Sec.
ondary dtferences-the differences of culture
"a culture which, in the one case, was direct
&c to trO in the heart fer all that CAV and
G lad and animating in life; and in the other, to
train it for subduod, chastentd, concent ated
spirtua:ltv--these have thrown around our
ancestors various costume, and have long ex.
hibited them to one another and to the world
in all the glare of pictured and dramatic con.
R,,f bat >r<,, 80 Ill,
claims the human will for itso!f which ndig.
nantly pulses every desire or effort to control
it, as an unWarrdnta bic and impious wrong
7 in tina trey wore thoroughly and indis: o!uby
, one. Inc same in this master qua ity, so con-
trolling in sc.r Of al others, it was impossible
for them 20 Gc otherwise than blended by it
f promptly, Unanimously, g,oriously, at the We.
~ dawn of our NATIONAL Gay. They were tho
t first, as cnn:oqucnce. TO proclaim and to re-
, sist the ages ions Of England, and never az
. ter, even III the fainting hours Of the struggle
= that followed, were they absent from the duty
or the spot where their vaior their counsels
, were required. Nourished by the same spirit,
sharing as tw in sisters in the struggle and the
heritage Of the same revolution, what is there
in any demand Of national faith of constitu.
f tlonal duty, or OF public morals, which should
separate them now? What is there il these
grounGs-ihc sound and the true grounds OF
| national conduct-that should induce Massa
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quality, disdain the reno 1strance, or scorn the
feelings and the honor Of her bsst, her strong
est, and her earliest friend2 What is there in
the possibilities CT sectional advantage 50 pre-
t cous as TO justify her, or any other, in risking,
for single mcut, the danger Of ncurablo IA
mily discord IN order to obtain it? 1t ia not for
us as people or as States, TO stay the march
r Of that unseen and ctcrna! cause which sweeps
: over the devices and the trophies of man, and
9 crowds whole ma tons, in melancholy process
z sion, to the tomb. But it IS for us, both, to
stay the very beginnings Of that family quar-.
S rel which never tails, whercsocver il occurs to
hurry onward and downward the destiny Of Il
people, and which so strips the destiny that it
hurr;es on Of every hope that could soothe,
and SO surrounds it with every element Of ut
tie" and appa ling woe, as to mark it out from
al mn,on curses for the h :ddering, the hor
, ror, and the admoniton of man. Shrinking
from lch Il fate as this. aid from the causes
that impel TO 1t. W. cherish with the deeper
. ferver the Just and the natural hope that here
. in this honored temple Of our common liberty,
Virg mia and Massachusetts, by whose hands
and whose wisdom in chief it was reared into
power, will sit and worship side by side for ev-
or; that here. in the peace Of Heaven and of
each other. with clean hands and pure hearts,
they will always minister in public things, do.
ing right to all, wrong to none; that here they
will carry on, to it's brightest contamination,
the llustrous career they have begun. COM
rorting, cheering, supporting one another thro'
all the conflicts Of the day, and mitigating,
should they ever come. the commissions of the
last hour by the soothngs of a list embrace:
thus testifyIng, for the honor of our nature, to
national fidelity, which there nothing
in the power Of temptation that could corrupt,
and nothing but the power Of death that could
destroy. .... '.-s.-sss
/ Concluded nert aceek.l
A SKErcu.--Mrs. Simpkins said she
would persist in saying that her children
were the prettiest, and the sweetest, and
the best hammered children in the land.
"Here, James, John, Mara," said she, /
want you TO go 10 bed, now, like pretty
dears. as you are"
eco to bed' exclaimed James; "well T
guess you must be sick to think we're
going to bed afore ten o'clock. III Phil.
r City Item. ea.>Esa
An Irishman, who was talking in rath-
err ambiguous terms about the sudden.
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