The republic., 1851-08-16
THE REPUBLIC.

born and last hope Of freedom, Of liberty regulated
by law-the cynosure Of all eyes-the wonder of
an admiring world-without which the American
Revolution had been political abortion, a stupen-
dous failure, and instead of the greatest and most
glorious event ever recorded in human annals, bat
the beginning Of wild anarchy and civil strife, to
terminate in regal or imperial despotism-was the
work, the matchless handiwork of revolutionary
wisdom and virtue, and revolutionary patriotism,
guided by spirit of moderation and forbearance,
and mutual concession and compromise By such
nstrumentaities only could it ever have achieved,
and by such alone can it be preserved and perpet-
uatcd. A Union which, once discovered, and its
broken columns and shattered fragments scattered
like the books Of the Sybil, no second Washington
will ever be vouchsafed by an offended Heaven to
an ungratefu people to gather up the discordant
materials of the melancholy ruin, and reconstruct
another temple Of human liberty-a city of refuge
to the oppressed of every clime which, once razed
TO its foundations can never be rebuilt-a light
house to the tempest-t tost mariner and fugitive
from despotism, whose beacon-light of freedom
once extinguished-
"Thcre is no Promethean spark that can its lamp
relume."
See to it. them as far as in you lies, that the orig
inal compromises ofhe Constitution and the Adjust
ment measures of the last session of Congress are
observed and carried out in good faith and Virgil
ma, who was the first and foremost to propose it,
and who has the honor Of being most instrumental
in its formation will be the last to "shoot madly
from her sphere" and commit an act of such stu
pendous folly and madness, and the objectionable
sin against American liberty, and the liberties Of
the human race, staked upon the issue of our ex-
pertinent, as TO consent TO its dissolution. On the
contrary, she will cherish it with sacred devotion
watdA over it with vestal vigilance, and defend it
with her giants strength, her hearts blood and
her treasure, against every enemy, whether for
eign or domestic; and especially will shc visit with
a traitors doom, and consign to an infamy more
deep and damning and immortal than his who fred
the E2hesian dome, the vile factionist and domestic
incendiary who would sacrilegiously apply the
torch TO the arest temple ever erected to the God
dess of Liberty by human hands, or dedicated and
consecrated to freedom and human happiness by
human hearts.
conclude, Mr.. President, by again rendering
you, and the distinguished companions and ascot
ates of your tour of health and needful recreation
hearty welcome, and the simple but cordial hos
pitaites of our town and county, and beg you
TO accept them in the spirit in which they are
intended, as tokens of our high regard and testi-
monlals oil our sincere respect, by consenting to
become our guest during your soiourn here. And
last, though not the least, we welcome our distn-
gushed friend, the Secretary of the Interior, with
an afiectionate greeting, and we congratulate him
upon an opportunity and an occasion of revisiting
his home, his kindred, his old friends and neigh
bors and admiring fellow citizens, under circum-
stances so fiattering to him and so grateful to u.s.
We honor you for honoring him, because distinc-
ton conferred the reward of merit is twice hon
credit honors him who bestows and him who re-
ceives.