New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-04

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hluher prescription Of religion and hurn;.lii-
ty in tia, matter, and whether man could
betray fugitive and not afterwaTd feelhim-
self covered with shame and nluseated with
disgust at his own conduct.
And when they exalt the glorles OF the
Fugitive Slave Law remember that those
who invented and made 1t were afraid to
make jury trial one of is features. Re
fleet then. whether an American, on the an
piyersary Of independence, can cherish I
party respect for a law so coward,y and ty-
rannic.
Itisan in vain, Fellow Citizens; STA
very i, not Freedom, nor Freedom Slavery,
and all the tolls of all the sophists cannot
coufound the two.
You will also hear more or less about the
Union and the dangers whence 1t has been
extricated with great expense of patriotic
pains, and into which there Is an awful pos
sibility that it may fall again. As to the
past danger YOU will feel as much terror as
YOU can. But don't forget that this Union
was no chance product, that it grew out of
the nature of the case and the wants of the
intelligent. practical. sensible people who
concurred in its foundation and that had 1t
not been formed when it was. it would have
come afterward, possibly without any slave
~ compromise. Don't forget that they who
hold up to you the example of the South
American Republics by way of scare-crow
and bug-bear, talk the most desperate fun
merry, and also that a great deal Of the alarm
about the contingent downfall and decline OF
this country, put forth in words of gathered
gloom by great men and little men. is fun
merry likewise.
Fellow Citizens, this is 4 democratic
land, but it is only partially democratic.
Democracy is in our political, but not In our
social institutions. The former are on
new model, the latter too much copied from
the old aristocratc world But if demo-
cracy be what we believe. it must have
wider and more perfect application. 1t
must create q new social as we'll as new
political system 1t must reform the rela-
tons of labor, OF property and of social llie'
nor stop till all servitude, all castes, all IN
equality of privileges have disappeared 20
give place to integral liberty, justice and
fraternal cooperative relations. Such Is
the essential meaning of this anniversary.
Do YOU think this hard saying It may
be to those who have not learned that de-
mocracy signifies anything except on cleo
ton days.
But do you ask how this great change is
coming about, and what YOU can do to help
it Oh? 1t is coming in every way What
ever improves. strengthens and educates the
people whatever incites in them a higher
sense of manlness and of right; whatever
coniers on them new means of producing
wealth and of transportation and intercourse;
whatever breaks down the prejudlces of
thoughtless Conservatism and prompts to
mental activity and movement whatever
favors new ideas and Institutions all these
forward the peaceful revolution through
which the United States is passing, and
you, if you Will, may aid the work. But
whether YOU do or not, 1t will 90 on. 1t is
tie destiny of America. The signs are
all around you. You may rejoice or la
ment. but the fact YOU cannot elude. We
are going on rapidly toward Social De-
mocracy.
Finally, fellow citizens. word with
with you personally, whatever be your
opinions as to these things VIII YOU not
to-day do the utmost in your power to res
cue this beloved anniversary from the
drunkenness and brutality which so often
attend aud disgrace it