The Yazoo Democrat., 1851-09-17

the first battle under it (and who knows
we'll the light in which they regarded it)
There is the Bird of Jove; the monarch
Of his race, that wheels aloft with untiring
wing, and gazes on the MONDAY sun
with unblenching eye. Fit emblem of our
upward sweep, and onr daring in the pres
ence of glttering royalty. Prophstic
when designed; historic in our day.
lie bears in his grasp the Olive Branch
Of Peace, and the arrows Of War. These
arrows are collected but not quivered;
ready for flight undrawn. They are ali
equal in size and form and polish; their
points as nearly in the same line as their
arrangement would permit. indicating
! that his strength lies not in his own taoGs
but in borrowed shafts, which are never to
be sped, Tut in one dicecuoa, and against
a Common enemy.
| A shield covers his breast; its field ar
| gent aud ils,tuctures stripes each one sep
arate and dis inct, but all embraced with,
in the verge of the escutcheon. Symbol
ziug, that his safety lies in the clustered
anutvpes Of those stripes.
A halo encircles his crest. Whence
comes i and how formed! From thirteen
stars which over~arch it high, aud blaad a
few Of their radiant beams in corouet ,f
glory for the imperial BIRD. In that con-
stel alton there is no star of the second
magnitude, all of the first, and Hud!stin-
gushable in lustre.
lie bears a streamer III his beak, upon
which is inscribed a significant motto.
What is it?-Not Z. Muitis Uu:on-one
from the many-the ordinary aud common;
but L. Pluribus Union-one emahaing
from or formed by the slperIatiye many.
This is youe S.ar Spangled Banner, and
''Oh long may it wave,
Ger the land Of the free
And the home ofthe brave"
The land of the free; as understood by
those who first designed IL the home OF the
brave; as cherished by those who first un-
furled 1T. Aud be assured, that IL will long
wave DER the ,and of the free, when it shal.
cease to Aulter 0 'er the home Of the brave
Nor shall it ever cease to wave DER the
iand OF the free, while the smallest State
in the Union, a Delaware or Rhode Island,
reads rightly its emb!ems, and chershes
the spirit which suggested and adopted
them. Switzerland, bnl a sp0ck upon the
globe, and scarcely visible upon the map
OF the eastern world, locked in on all sides
by tremendous powo.S, maintained her in~
de pend5nce for centuries and commanded
the respect OF all Jy her Vaior alone. His
tory has yet TO fad the independent, res.
pee ed, cowardly nation.
Your national armorial was adopted un-
der the old Confederation, but 10y the unaE-
imous voice of Congress, believe it was,
tas late as 1879 declared to be equally
applicable to the new: and if every line OF
il does not bespeak the supremacy Of the
States, certainly not tint Of ii indicates
thei: inferiority. Ii would have been
strange if the creators had placed thenseI-
YES below their creatures-if the deposito-
ries of all power, save little put out upon
trust, for the common good, had placed
themselves in grade below the trustee.
Where the ultimate sovereignty of our
complex system OF government. abldes, is
question upon which o1r wisest aud best of
men have differed, and sill differ; some
contending that it is divided, and dwelIs
partly with the States, and partly with the
Central Government. These base their
opinions upon the express words of the
Federal Constitution; which declaEeq,
that, as to the powers reserved by the
States, they are of necessity supreme.
Others contendt that as beteen co-ordi-
na.e governments, a divided sovereignty,
aud two supremes, are contrad:ctIJn IN
terms; and that as between such govern
1nenis, where the power is deriyative on
the one hand, and inherent on the other,
the latter is supreme; and that consequently
the ultimate sovereignty of our government
in its entire, is in the States. Now, with
his dispute have nothing to do in this
place, farther than just to show you that
| The wise and candid of all parties admit
that the States have some sovereignty.
And vet the manifest tendency of public
opinion among the masses al least, is to
place the States in the relation to the Feds
! eral Government, which the counties bear
to the State Governments. And this ten
dency il has received, as verify believe.
| from the deep interest which our learned
men take iG everything which concerns
the one government, and the comparative
Indifference with which they regard things
that concern others. This Is the core OF
nearly all our political maladies, and. un-
LESS it be extracted, it is in vain TO hope for
relief from them; they will range mole and
more until we go off in convnlsions.)
Now T'would have you apply your skill
and power 10 the seat Of the disease, and
begin tlfe cure there; 'and, in order 20 in
sure success, see that you guard yourselves
/ from the infection by thorough and care
| ful self ablution. Where your treasure is,
there will your hearts be also; and where
YOUR hearts are. there will your devotion
be. BE it your endeavor, then, to enrich
your State with treasures thai shall win
upon your affections, and rlvet you to her
soil. Allow me TO enumerate few.
What would inspire you with lottler