Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-10-26

or is directed and their affections which clung 10 Il with
dor begin to suffer aensioa, which a. natural = i
likely to be fatal, unless be arrested The Government
must regain their confdencs BY poisng itself upon the basis
Of the constitution and by giving the country an Admins
aton national In its aim and spirit Our political system Is
complex one 1t blends the elements of popular power
with the vgor Of stable government In the States Of
Greece the principle for the first time recognised that the
Government established for the good Of the community
In the language Of celebrated Engish writer Greece
from ths earliest times II not the monarch but the
State that called forth the virtue OF devotion and inspired
| the enthusiasm Of loyalty"
Asia had produced only despotisms, not relieved by sin
gs provision for the protection of human liberty The power
Of the monarch supported the expense of popular
rights The systems met in conflict at Saamis and at
Pases The triumph Of Greece complete and the strug-
gle of opinion on the soil Of Europe in behalf of the rights
of mankind has been maintained since Reverses have
crushed it, The weight of the most powerful throne
has never completely overwhelmed it. has asserted its
vigo and is to-day bringing every Govern
ment beneath the heavens under its sway Our system
upon those which took their Greece It
longer the State whose glory to be enhanced by the
sacrifice of individual rights but it the happiness of the
people who compose the State which is to be secured The
pendor or power Of the Government be advanced
the expense Of the rights of the citizen. The representative
principle principle which belongs to modern systemsse-
cures the rights of individual and the strength the State
Gan this system be maintained 1t can't will bet
be With all its faults guided It sometimes is by un-
copnse it is the nobest political structure which the
world saw and practical liberty
kid than every other existing Government Let It be ad
ministered in the spirit in which conceived and il will
stand through the expanding cycles of the future know
sr that in own country pronounce il failure and
be that desire tooyehT0w it. Its complex char
acter blending the powers Of General Government with
those Of the several States, exposes it to danger from its
action The dangers result from an occasional tendency to
centrazaon-om assumption of powers by the General
Government not granted in the constitution.
This will always give rise to dissatisfaction in the States
interest is to resist any encroachment upon their
rights.
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which he presided, seThs leans" Those who
ne entrusted with the administration of the Government
houd interpret its grant Of powers in the spirit neither
nargng limiting them; and this be adhered
the Union of these States will ouve the predictions Of
tmid friends and the mpotent struggles Of its enemies
The extent of our domain cannot impair its strength the
i'm povements of modern civilization will enable us to plant
sefsustainng institutions firmly upon the shores of
the Pacific they seated upon those of the Atlantic.
there be those in any part Of widespread limits
No tn South, who striving to divide this growing
ps who seek to magnify rather than the
sagreement who utter unceasng complaints against the
Gov nment for the abuse of its powers and yet reject all
msa of redress have sympathy with them The
repc visibility Of pepeuaing the existence of the Government
rests mainly the North. II holds the destiny Of the
try 10 its hands appeal to gentlemen from that section Of
the non to up this critical hour when the eyes Of
the on are turned upon with mingled anxiety and hope
and dust the unhappy controversy which has so long dis
turbcd councils 4
Tbs crusade which has been carried on against the nsitu
tons o the South must be abandoned If persisted n will
pecpt ate US into struggles which may end in the destruction
Of the epublic. aI \
The Lober feelings which sometimes appealed to in the
fierce rfare directed against will only beay misguided
people in 10 acts Of hostility which will involve all in com
ruin Those who follow you will then hold you respon
sible for caames which longer be averted Then
took the sk Of leading them the perous enterprise upon
which they enengto YOU placed where you could see
all the and all the dange-reproach you in the Ian
suage Of thu great dramatist-
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WI len spake darkly wiatI purposed,
Or, turned an eye of doubt upon my face"
Mr. Spea Ser have permitted myself to look to
obstruction the Government remedy for existing evils
have not sought to explore the dark and peous future
which lies be yond the hour Of separation between these States
bound togeth by many ties. have sincere desire to
preserve the UNIox. Its disrupon would involve the North
and the SOUL IN common ruin. Rival States with standing
armies and rtresses bDg with guns erected upon
flowing in peace between kindred States conflicting
tegess heavy commercial regulations lettering trade
all this would replace the wide Of prospe
W and happ mess which saues the eye as the
whole extent of our country
Nor would this be all Rival States would soon become
bcgeren Sta tes and armies would be employed to decide
the supremacy between them The flag that floats to-day
every part OF our wide domain from the banks of hsS Law
renee, in full view Of the British possessions the
the Pacific, where meets the eyeof the navgaor returning
from Asia, and upon ships which bear upon all the
waters OF the earth is known the ensign Of
great and powerful republic il is associated with all the glo
ries of our past hcy its folds glitter this before
the eyes Of mankind the sign Of hope and
dom and trust that it will forever fy with undimnished
spendor above fee independent and kindred States not
divided into petty Prncpaies feeble leagues bt united
rs they now under Government the mghes the frees
and the happest upon which the SON looks down.
II the glorious system under which live goesdown,
leaves the world not single example of free and great
ton. The nobes the grandes the most successful Of all
human experiments in behalf Of constitutional liberty will have
failed, and the world hope reconstruct stable
powerful and enduring political system for the protection Of
popular rights Put out the light which streams from
institutions upon the world, and it is e1tingusheforexer
81 know not where is that Promethean heat,
That can thy light relhne."
ALABAMA MINERALS III
Marb-Sixeen varieties among them rare black white
and blue black with white stripes white with black and
blue stripes white with pink cloud; dove coorsd beaui
full shell marble and great many varegated iinds inclut
ing every shade and color
Stone.Soap. grind and whetsone, hone, and several
kinds of granite. Also two specimens of hographc stone
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