Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-07-26

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him as if the spot had been devoted to Druid
ical worship, and here he performs the ap-
pointed duty of the day.
And now fellow citizens, if this vision were
a reality-if Washington actually were now
amongst us-and if he could draw around him
the shades of the great public men of his own
and warriors, orators and
were to address us in their
presence, would he not say to us-'Ye men
Of this generation, rejoice and thank God
for being able to see that our labors, and tolls
and sacrifices, were not in vain. You are
prosperous-you are happy-you are CRATE
ful. The fire of liberty burns brightly and
steadily in your hearts, while duty and the
law restrain it from bursting forth in wild and
destructive contlagration. Cherish liberty as
you love i!-cherish its securities, as you wish
to preserve it. Maintain the Constitution
which we labored so painfully to establish, and
which has been to you such source of ines
timable blessings. Preserve the union of the
States, cemented as it was by our prayers,
our tears, and our blood. Be true to God,
your country, and your duty. So shall the
whole Eastern world follow the morning sun,
to contemplate you as nation; SO shall all
succeeding generations honor you as they
honor us; and so shall that Almighty Power
which SO graciously protected us, and which
now protects you, shower its everlasting bless
ings upon you and your posterity.'
Great father of your country we heed your
words, we feel their force as if you now utter
ed them with lips of flesh and blood Your
example teaches us; your affectionate address
es teach us; your public life teaches US your
cor of tho volr,a Nf he hl,.c,,,~o r..
on. Those blessings our fathers have tasted,
and we have tasted, and still taste. Nor do
we intend that those who come after us shall
be denied the same high fruition. Our honor
as we'll as our happiness is concerned. We
cannot. we dare not, we will not betray our
sacred trust. We will not flch from posteri-
ty the treasure placed in our hands to be
transmitted to other generations. The bow
that gilds the clouds in the heavens, the pill
lars that uphold the armament, may disap-
pear and fall away in the hour appointed by
the will of God but until that day comes, or
so long as our lives may last, no ruthless hand
shall undermine that bright arch of Union and
Liberty which spans the continent from Wash
ington to California.
Fellow citizens we must sometimes be tol
Grant to folly, and patient at the sight of the
extreme waywardness of men; but 1 confess
that when | reflect on the renown of our past
history, on our present prosperity and great
ness, and on what the future hath yet to un-
fold; and when / see that there are men who
can find in all this nothing good, nothing val
liable, nothing truly glorious. l feel that all
their reason has fled away from them, and
left the entire control over their judgment and
their actions to insane folly and fanaticism (;
and, more than all, fellow citizens, if the pur-
poses of fanatics and disunionists should be
accomplished, the patriotic and intelligent of
our generation would seek to hide themselves
from the scorn of the world, and go about to
find dishonorable graves
Fellow citizens, take courage; be Of good
cheer. We shall come to no such ignoble
end We shall live, and not die. During the
period allotted to our several lives we shall
continue to rejoice in the return of this ami
versary. The ill-omened sounds of fanaticism
will be hushed; the ghastly spectres of tSeces-
sion and Disunion will disappear, and the en-
emies of United Constitutional liberty, if their
hatred cannot be appeased, may prepare to
sere their eyeballs as they behold the steady
flight of the american Eagle, on his burnish-
ed wings, for years and years to come.
President Fillmore: 1t is your singularly
good fortune to perform an act such as that
which the earliest of your predecessors per
formed ffty-eight years ago. You stand where
he stood. You lay your hand on the corner
stone of building designed greatly to extend
that whose corner stone he laid Changed,
changed, is everything around The sun, in
deed, shone upon his head which now shines
Tho hrnod rOlla1
at his feet and bathes his last resting place,
that now rolls at yours. But the site of this
city was then mainly an open field. Streets
and avenues have since been laid out and
compIeted-squares and public grounds en-.
closed and ornamented until the city which
bears his name, although comparatively incon,
siderable in numbers and wealth, has become
quite fit to be the Seat of Government of g
great and united people. Sir, may the conse
quenees of the duty which you perform SC
auspiciously to-day, equal those which flowed
from his act Nor this only. May the prin
ciples of your administration, and the wisdom
of your political conduct be such as that the
world of the present day, and all history here
after, may be at no loss to perceive what ex
ample you have made your study.
Fellow citizens-I now bring this addres:
to close, by expressing to you, in the words
of the great Roman orator, the deepest wisl
of my heart and which l know deeply pene
trates the hearts of all who hear me:
-"Duo naodo h9ec OPTIC; unatna ut morien
populem Romanmn li6erms rSlinquan': ho
mihi najus adiis inamaortalibus dari niha po
test: uIteruna, ut ita cuique eUeniat, ut de re
publica qaisque mercdtur.
And now, fellow citizens, with hearts voit
of hatred, envy, and malice toward our coun
trymen, or any of them, or towards the sub
iects or citizens of other governments, or to
wards any member of the greatfamly Of man
but exulting, nevertheless, in our own peace
security and happiness. in the grateful recol
lection of the past and the glorious hopes @
the future, let US return to our homes, AM
with all humility and devotion offer our thank
to the father of all our mercies-political, SC
cial, and religious,
ENORMOUS HEAD.-On the 4th inst. W
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