Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1851-04-03
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OUR COUNTRY.

Taking the track suggested last week by
our senior, we herewith present three brief
articles, from different sources, but all d.
rected to the same point: the prospective
greatness IF kc United States. The UNI
TED States, emphatically for upon the PER-
PHTUITY or THIS UNIoN-one Constitution,
one Government, one Nation-depends the
realization of these sublime visions. De-
siroy this unity, separate our vast country
into distinct sovereigntles, and the Western
continent shall simply be copy of the Eas-
tern-presenting a repetition, perhaps for
centuries to come, of the old history-of
the rise Of great nations upon the ruins of
petty states-ol their decline and fall
long succession of conflicts aud changes
OF growth and decline--of life aud death
Is such our destiny In all such reyolu-
tions, which compose the history of the past,
the world has on the whole advanced "God
is in history" He has visited nation after
nation with the Indignation of his anger,
and with the flame Of a devouring FIRE, with
scathng, aud tempest, and hailstones, -
yet these events, most unioward in their
day to human eyes, have but served to ac-
complish His vast aud benehcent designs.
The world has grown wiser for its severe
training. The earth has passed the eras Of
heathenism and arbitrary power-of philos-
ply and kng-crafl, and entered upon that
of christianity and civil liberty IN this E.
"a it Is the lot of our country to lead Shall
we doubt that our favored lot is OF divine
appointment Shall we rebel-and perish ?
Surely, if God is in history-if we are to
acknowledge the hand Of God in those
great men, or IN those mighty nations which
arlse-come forth, as 1t were, from the dust
of the earth, and give new impulse, new
form, or a new destiny to human affairs, -
is It irreyerent or impossible TO believe, that
Gods hand was IN that great historical act,
the Federal UNION in that deyelopement
of new aud marvellous political powers-of
attraction and cOheSiOn-drawing state after
state, and binding all to a common centre
aud into a stupendous whole, as complete,
as harmonious, and in lis way as beautiful
aud bene6cent, as the sublime pattern from
which it was deryedl And is it irreverent
or unreasonable to hope, that in the preser-
walton Of this system of goyernment-in the
unity, peace, progress aud substantial glory
Of our country is TO he found the heaven
appointed DAY-sPaING OF Il better destiny
FOR the troubled earh-the contamination
Of its highest glory, until the new heaven
aud the new earth"l Ours is the system
of government founded upon the liberty and
equality of manufacturing all its powers
from the consent Of the governed where
shall be found better sysIem-where
higher or safer power than that Of the will
of civilized and ohristianized men,-untl
we ascend to the dlyine--the periect--the
last and the eternai eral
Ours, IN an important sense, we love to
think, is the land Of promise. The
greatness and glory, within our own grasp,
and the immeasurabe good that can be ac-
complished for millions grooming in bond
age and signing and longing for delyerance
these are considerations that appeal 10
every American citizen to stand by his
country IN every emergency, to pledge un-
yielding fidelity TO the Federal Union
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