Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-11-27
VOL. vi.

offend the eve in other lands; and 1t has
spread its thrifty branches to the limits of the
continent.
! said that at each remove of our race from
its birthplace, its condition was improved
that from the beginning of its exile it had been
slowly regaining some Of the precious things
lost by the grand shipwreck of Adam. Mod
ern science has revealed another fact; we now
know that in our progress westward we have
been in fact on the ROAD long andweary one
it has been-but we have actually been on the
road to the east. And now, from the borders
Of the western sea, the children of Washington
extend to the southern or Pacific and Just be-
yond the Pacific is the east, the starting point.
We have arrived in view of our first abode -
we have made the circuit Of the earth in exile,
and are now approaching the parental hearth,
redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled.-
Happy and proud, erect and hopeful, the chill
dren of Adam gaze across the Pacific, upon the
scenes of their fathers glory and disgrace
and with free limbs, and renovated hearts, and
joyful recollections of perils past, of dangers
overcome, and crimes expatiated, hail the old
ancestral home. Nature there still glows in
all her ancient glories; there are still the gol-
den skies, the spicy groves and the unfading
flowers of paradise. But brooding curse in
fects the air the flowers still bear the stain Of
Abel's blood. And they who have fingered
there are still branded with the marks of Cain
death, moral death, still hovers over and about
them, and the dreadful doom pronounced on
the first SHINING man and woman has, with ag-
gravated horrors, been their constant portion.
But now, from the east of them, light has
dawned upon them; from them the light of
Christianity has dawned upon their long, long
night of gloom. And with the name of Christ
and the Christians hope comes new name
and is whispered in the dungeons and castles,
in the dens Of wretchedness and the palaces of
pride. 1t kindles an unwonted glow in the
withered heart Of philanthropy; it strings
the nerveless arm of patriotism, and awak-
ems new song on the lips of the eastern
| bards.
| Like the shadow Of great rock in a weary
land, it is a refuge and comfort; and they
who have heard it, look out and are amazed.
| They see silent coast become suddenly alive
with new and noisy and bus,liug race of peo-
pie, building cities, covering the waters with
travelling palaces, founding great states, and
administering justice and keeping order with
out the aid of armies or of soldiers. And they
see among these people men, with something
of the erect bearing and majestic presence of
Adam, and woman in whose faces shine glimp-
ses of that spiritual light, of those morn
ing hues which graced the first mistress of
Eden.
These are the people who cherish that name
which has awakened hope in the east, the peo-
pie in whose hearts is engraved the great name
of Washington In the centre of their coun-
try stands the city called for him; and from it,
to the remotest extremes Of that extended
country, radiate law and justice. protecting,
governing and supporting all the vast null
iitudes of people who cover that wide coun-
try with all the improvements, the comforts,
convcniences, and ornaments of arts and sci
ence
And over them floats meteor flag which
none dare insult or touch with irreverent hands !;
flag which on the Andes and Himalayah
mountains, in the deserts of Arabia, and in the
polar wastes, renders secure from the hostile or
plundering hand of man, savage or civilized,
all who repose beneath it. 1t is charmed
flag on its starry folds is fixed charm more
powerful than ever adhered to sacred stone or
relic, to letters or frmans or passports of kings
and potentates. 1t is the word which made
US free it is also the word which has led US
to glory and to power--it is the ever-blessed,
the all-powerful, the all-conquering word,
UNION ..-sa1 iat.a.a
E. P,uribus U,un,, that is its motto one
out Of many, that is the talismanic sentence
which protects the American citizen, the citi-
zen of the United States. in all quarters of the
earth. He is never alone, he is never unguar-
ded; like great monarch, protecting hosts
march by his side, hosts that are better than
I the guards of kings, for they are hosts of his
brethren. And on he goes, whthersoever his
interest or his inclination leads him; he push
es his researches in all the corners, and hooks,
and holes of this planet; he plants himself and
his customs, and takes his comfort, and follows
his desires, a free, vigorous, inventing, man.
aging, cheerful man, sovereign and inde-
pendent in all zones and all latitudes,
all fearing, respecting and giving precedence
to him over whose head is emblazoned that
warning sentence, E Pluribus Unum, Harm
him not, for he is one Of many brethren! Tha,
is the language which our banner speaks tina,
is the language which the divided and fra,ici-
dal tribes of the east look on with wonder and
delight. With hands red with the blood Of
brethren, with detected mien and scowling ia
ces, our ancestors started on their exile west
ward from the pleasant site of g the garden o
the Lord" with bands of music and Cheerful
songs, and majestic stride, they approach agair
their paternal hearhstone, while upon the;
Haunting banners fash the words, " Liberty
and Union, one and inseparable, now and for
: ever :" 'f% oai Fd aas'ag I'D afl %; rei
5tf lsiaa.