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

quent period, but before the Declaration of
Inderpence, the Bishop of st. Asaph publish
ed discourse in which the following remark
able passages we're found:
1t is difficult for man to look into the desti-
ny of future ages; the designs of Providence
are too vast and complicated and our powers
are too narrow, to admit of much satisfaction
to our curiosity. But when we see many
great and powerful causes constantly at work,
we cannot doubt of their producing proper
tionable effects.
The colonies in North America have not
only taken root and acquired strength, but
seem Fastening, with accelerated progress, to
such powerful state as may introduce a new
and important change in human affairs. De-
scended from ancestors of the most improved
and enlightened part of the old world. they
received as it were by inheritance, all the i'm
proyements and discoveries of their mother
country; and it happens fortunately for them
to commence their fiourishing State, at time
when the human understanding has attained
to the free use of its powers, and has learned
to act with v!gor and certainty.
They may avail themselves not only of the
experience and industry, but even of the err
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considered, for how many ages a great part
of the world appears not to have thought at
all; how many more they have been busted
in forming systems and conjectures, while rea-
son has been lost in labyrinth of words, and
they never seem to have suspected on what
frivolous matters their minds were employed.
And let it be we'll understood what rapid
improvements, what important discoveries
have been made in few years by a few coun-
tries, with our own at their head, which have
at last discovered the right method of using
their faculties.
May we not reasonably expect that num-
Der of provinces, possessessed of these advant-
ages, and quickened by mutual emulation.
with only the common progress of the human
mind, should very considerably enlarge the
boundaries of science?
The vast continent itself, over which they
are gradually spreading, may be considered
} as treasure yet untouched, of natural pro-
ductons, that shall hereafter afford ample mat
ter for commerce and contemplation. And il
} we reflect what stock of knowledge may be
: accumulated by the constant progress of in
: dustry and observation, fed with fresh sup
plies from the stores of nature, assisted some.
times by those happy strokes of chance, which
mock all the powers of invention, and some
, times by those superior characters which arise
occasionally to enlighten and instruct the world
it is difficult even to imagine to what heigh
of improvement their discoveries may extend
And perhaps they may make as considera
BILE advances in the arts of civil government
and the conduct of life. We have reason Il
be proud and even jealous of an excellen
constitution; but those equitable principle.
on which 1t was formed, an equal representa-
tion, 1.-THE best discovery of political wisdom,
6 and ajust and commodious distribution of pow
er, which, with us, were the price of civil wars
and the reward of the virtues and suffering
, of our ancestors, descend to them as natura
inheritance, without toll or pain.
But must they rest here, as in the utmos
effort of human genius? Can chance ant
time, the wisdom and experience of public
men, suggest no new remedy against the evil
= their vices and ambition are perpetually ap
: to cause? May they not hope without pre-
r sumption, to preserve greater zeal for piet
Y and public sdevotion than we have done p
= For, sure, it can hardly happen to them as
e has to US, than when religion is best under
IS stood and rendered most pure and reasonable
that then should be the precise time whe
u,
d in general become most Indifferent to it. Ma
= they not possibly be more successful than thei
e mother country has been, in preserving tha
e reverence and authority which is due TO til
r laws-to those who make; and to those VIII
e execute them.
s. May not a method be invented of procurin
r some tolerable share of the comforts of life /
those inferior, useful ranks of men, to who's
IS industry we are indebted for the whole 2
n, Time and discipline may discover some meal
W to correct the extreme inequalities of condtiu
Il, between the rich and the poor, SO dangerol
a. to the innocence and happiness of both. The
to may fortunately be led; by habit and choic
t. to despise that luxury which is considere
al with us the true enjoyment of wealth. The
m may have little relish for that ceaseIess hurl
e. of amusements which is pursued in this cou
- try without pleasure, exercise, or employment
N. and, perhaps, after trying some of our folli
W, and caprices, and rejecting the rest, they mt
be be led, by reason and experiment. to that o
of simplicity which was first pointed out by n
lis ture; and has produced those models whit
lg we still admire in arts; eloquence and manner
n The diversity of new scenes and situation
which so NANNY growing States must nece
Y :: sarily pass through, may introduce changes
the fuctuating opinions and manners of me
which we can form no conception of; but Il
visible preparation of causes, seems to int
m cate strong tendencies towards a general ii
b, provement:"
~ Fellow -citzens:-On the Fourth of Ju
nj l776, the Representatives of the United Stat
at of America, in Congress assembled, declar
o' that these United Colonies are and of rig
~ ought to be Free and Independent States.
This declaration, made by most patriotic a
it resolute men, trusting in the justice of tn
ma cause, and the protection of Providence
ms yet not without deep solicitude and anxiety
bv has now stood for seventy-fve years and S
IIg Is stands. 1t was sealed III blood: 1t has ii
,tu dangers and overcome them; it has had I
,od tractors, and it has abashed them all; it |
he had doubling friends, but it has cleared
doubts away; and now, today raising its
nd gust fortn higher than the clouds. twenty n
rst lions of peple contemplate it with halloW