Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-02
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
LETTERS FROM DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMEN
Try THE GREENvILLE (s. CO. CELEBRATION.
Hom Professor Lieber.

LETTERS FROM DISTINGUISHED GENrLEmEN
n, THE GREENvILLE e. CO. CELEBRATION.
From Professor Lisber.
CoIUxsrA, Is. C.) JULr, 1851
arrrtrxxs Much ss have wished to be with you on
n. ou,b Of JuIv find that shall be obliged deny my
be Measure Of minglng with you that day. douby
,oemp % every lover Of his country the present year Boz.
vo invitation to join the crowding citizens the suspicious
d.v !, your breezy mountain village, requests The invited
fowcitsen "to give his views in writing length, should
4 nat Be convenient for him go Greenve Ioby your
.ummops Not chat could vsiny hope to say any thing
ned on the great subject which occupies all our minds and
MI Our souls or that could urge any arguments which have
not already occurred you the question OF Union or Dis
uuionuy debated and amply written upon as Il has been
now yese eighteen simply to contribute my mite
however small Il may be, to which consider Of the
,st mpor,ance to Carons America, to oil mankind and
!, and Won one more bought will be simple branch, but
Il ha bs fresh and geenfor the festive wreaths which you
vii; 81 weaving for this important Fourth Of July. Accept
,hen kindly the following words not according 10 their in
tnsc value but measuring them BY the spirit in which they
are offered.
am with great regard gentlemen, your very obedient,
FRANCIS LIEBER.
Fxrrow. Crr1zxss: This is the Fourth Of July There
i aarance about the month Of July delightful and refresh
nv n every friend of freedom was on the SIKH day Of
his month that Leonidas and his martyr band, faithful "t0
th lucs of their country unto DEATH sacrificed them
lyes NOT 70 obtain vctorythey knew that that be-
,ond hsir reachbu to do leave their State and
hsr conntry and to every succeve generation Of patriots
10 the end ime the memory Of men that could obey the
and prepare themselves for certain death for their
country a. for joyful wedding feast 1t the ninth
d.y Of this month that the Swiss peasants dared make stand
4 Sempach against Austria Then, now, the chain
Of tie chariot Of advancing Europe memorable day when
Arnold Winkeied seeing that his companions hesated be-
fore the firm rampant Of ances leyelled against them by The
Aus.n kpieh.s cried out 'sFnsnds I'll make lane for
Won Think Of my dearest wife and children y grssped
he was man Of great strength, whole bundle Of the
mys pixies buried them in his breast and made breach
that over him and tie knights whom be had dragged down
with him his brethren could enter the hostile ranks and with
them victory for Switzerland and liberty and Anods
css msneed and todden down, became the conerone Of
the Helyec Republic It the fourteenth day of this
month that the French swoken from ethargy, into which
infamous dssposm had dugged thsm sornsd and conquer
ed that castle Of tyranny the ominous keys OF which Lafay
ete sent 10 Washington who sacredy kept them to the
las. day Of bis life that every vser could heM the
choicest offered to him 70 whom we much
Of our liberty and of the existence Of our great Common
wealth. And il was on this day that forefathers
signed that Declaration of Independence which many them
sealed with their blood and which the Others not permitted
to die for their cause after raised to great historca
reality BY the bodest conceponby engrafng for the first
time n the history Of our kind representative and complete
vet with an expansive and assimilative vitality.
These are solemn ecoectons As the pious christian
counts the sacrifices and the victories Of his church. with burn
ing gratitude and renewed pledges 10 live worthy Of hem 80
does the patriot remember these Deeds with rekindled
affections md resolutions prove unworthy Of such
ampes and unmndul Of great Inheritance but the
contrary do whatever In him lies 10 transmit the talent he
has received from his fathers undimnshed and, God per-
mts increased, to his successors.
Ys, there are those in this country who dangy pretend
make light Of the great boon received from fatheso
this by far the greatest act Of hsoryof that act by
which stand forth among the nations Of the earththe
Union. There have been patriots as devoted as ourhee
have been republics besides ousthere have been spreading
nations like oustherc have been bold advenures pressing
into distant regions before oushere have been confede
racies in antiquity and modern times besides oubut there
has been Union of free States like ours cemened by
united representation of the single States and Of the people
at large woven together into true Government like ous
leaving separate what ought to be separated and yet uniting
the whol. w uuuucss - adp-i .hanana
with the CHANGING population, that We cannot fall into
dire Peoponesan war which Athens and Sparta struggled
for the leadership that nternene into which all other
coufederaciss have fallen, and in which they have buried
themselves under their ruins. unless they had slowly
rIded into submission 10 Holland Ausa or one
Berne Many ederaons indeed have had 10 bear the
part Of both the evils.
Thsre are those who pretend to make light Of the Union
there are those who wuy shut their eyes TO the many posi-
tive blessings she has bestowed upon and who
FORGET that the good which the Unon with her Supreme
Court or any other and lasting institution bestows upon
u,en consists much in preventing evils % in showerng be-
ncs into our ps There those who will not hear
Germany, for ns,ance,has living, yet bleeding, silng
vrithDg humbled commentator on disunion. Ah fellow
citizens you but fear, and Justly fear that Of dsunion
which knotc With you the evils Of disunon happily
but matter Of apprehension with me- unnappy, matter Of
living knowledge am like man who knows the plague,
because be has been the east where be witnessed ito
ravaaos; YOU only know it from description, and easily
may il be understood why shudder when hear persons