The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-11-20
.CoLUMBIA CoUNTfSpAs THURSDAY, NoVEnIBERs2 90 1851

gress westward we have been in fact on the
road-a long and weary one it has BEEN
but we have actually been on the road tt
the east And now, from the borders of the
western sea, the children of Washington ex
tend TO the Southern or Pacific and just be-
yond this Pacific is the east, the starting
point. WEI have arrived in view of this oul
first abode; we have made the circuit of the
earth in exile, and are now sapproaching the
paternal hearth, redeemed, regenerated, and
disenthraled. Happy. and pround, erect and
hopeful, The children 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
oil periis past, or dangers overcome, and
crimes expatiated, hail the old ancestral
home. Nature there ~ glows in all hel
ancient glories; there are still the golden
skies, the spicy groves and the unfading
flowers of paradise. Buta brooding curse
inficts the air the flowers still bear the
stain oil AbePs blood. And they who have
fingered there are still branded with the
marks of Cain death moral death, still hov.
ers over and about them, and the dreadful
doom pronounced on the first SHINING man
and woman has, with aggravated 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 oil
gloom. And with the name of Christ and
the Christians hope comes new name and
it is whispered in the dungeons and castles,
in The dens of wretchedness and the places
OF pride. II kindles an unwonted glow in
withered heart of philanthropy it strings
the nerveless arm OF patriotism, and ava
kens new song. on the lips of eastern
bards. r
Like the shadow o: great sock in wea-
ry land it is a refuge and a comfort and
they who have heard il, look out and are a.
mazed. They see silent coast become
suddenly alive with new and noisy and
busting race of people, building cities, cov-
ering the waters with travelling palaces,
founding great states, and administering JUS
tice and keeping order without the aid of ar
mics or of soldiers. And they see among
these people men, with something of the e.
rect bearing and majestic presence of Adam
and women in whose faces shine glimpses
OF that spiritual light of those morning hues
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which graced the first mistress of Eden.
These are the people who cherish that
name which has awakened hope in the east
tho people in wheSs stsss.s b engraved fhe
great name of Washington. In the centre
oil their country stands he city called for
him and from it, 10 the remolest extremes
OF that extended country, radiate law and
justice, protecting, governing, and support
ing all the vast mulitudes of people who
cover that wide country with the improve
ments, the comforts, conveniences, and or
uaments of art and science.
And over them floats a meteor flag which
none dare insult or tonch with irreyerent
hands; flag which on the Andes and Him
malayah mountains, in the deserts of Ara
bia, and IN the polar wastes, renders secure
from the hostile or plundering hand of ma i,
savage or civilized all who repose beneath
it. Ii is charmed flag; ; on its starry Iolds
IS fixed charm more powerful than ever
adhered TO sacred stone or relic, to lette RS or
firmans or passports of kings and potentates.
1t is word which made us free il is the
word which has led us to glory and 10 pow
er-it is the ever-blessed, the all-powerful,
the all-conquering word, UNION.
E. Plnibus Uiaum, that is its motto ons
out of many, that is the talismanic sentence
which protects the American citizen, the
citizen of the United States, in all quarters OF
the earth. He is never alone, he is never
unguarded; like great monarch, protect
ting hosts march by his side, hosts that are
better than the guards of kings, for they are
hosts of his brethren. And on he goes
wi,hersoever his interest or hts inclina,ions
lead him he pushes 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 de-
sires, free, vigorous, inventing, managing,
cheerful man, sovreign and independent 10
all zones and all latitudes, all fearing, re-
specting, and giving precedence to him over
whose head is emblazoned that warning SEN
tence, e. Pluribus Unum Harm him not,
for he is one Of n,any breihereai That is the
language which our banner speaks that is
the language which the divided and fratric-
idal tribes of the east look on with wonder
and delight With hands red with the blood
of brethren, with detected mien and scow.
ling faces, our ancestors srarted on their ex-
lie westward from the pleasant site of ''the
garden OF the Lord = with bands of music,
and cheerful songs, and majestic stride, they
approach again their paternal hearthsione,
while upon their Haunting banners flash the
words "Liberty and Union, one and insepa.
rable, now and forever!n
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