The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-10-11
Whole Number, 1889
e. From the Wheeling Intelligeneer.
Ehc Congress of the. :: Peoples
Acissue" TO the American PcOnIc.

AeHSWe" TO the American PcOnIc, |
Herr US once more. You have listened to the |
appeals of bleeding Europe, poured forth in tones
such as the world will never hear again We do
not offer to relterate those efforts what thev coud
not accomplish is upon that field, beyond the
sphere Of human powers.
They have not succeeded as we had hoped |
The fact is too clear befor 10 be unperceved an
we disdain to shrink from lis Acknowledgements |
But with men in whom purpose has become ab-
sorDing one tuilure is but harvest OF experience
for future efforts. We have searched the causes
of defeat, to make them means of victory; and we
baye found them.
Your synlpathies were Chilled at the outset by !
want of uniform, settled, and tangible purpose,
in the action of Tie European republicans with |
whom you worc asked to co-operate. The hope
less confusion Of jarring interests, the din of DIS
coriant traditions, and the clang of warning theo-
ries, presented contrast to the calm starry revo-
u.ions of your political system, which could not
but repel ysu.
There was another obstacle for which we have
been disposed to blame you; unjustly, more ma
ture reflection has convinced US. The ''pursuit OF
hnppiness' is recognized as tho legitimate purpose
of an American. Wealth is the material element
of happiness; and the American pursues wealth as
such. The proofs are abundant that he is ever
| ready to apply that wealth to the attainment of
the worthier objects of life, and the welfare of his
species; but the objects so favored must be those
legtimately wi hn the sphere of his purposes,
those which, interviewer and combined, form
unity Of his aims and objects. In his giving and
his taking his unity of purpose is forgotten:
Political purposes, above all others, are the recipi-
ents of your endownents; but TO be SO, they must
fall within the sphere of your political synpathies;
and the poiitiea! sympothies Of .4merica, COR
fined TO The neissias Of tie American Republic.
Ii we have been disposed to make this cause
of complaint, we have done you wrong. We
could not rightfully ask you TO transfer your sym
pathies TO the far distani steppes of the Thess and
the Danube. SO long as we had not roared the
bridge On which the American mind could eusily
traverse the void between Your destiny is vast
enough, and comprehensive enough for the ener-
gies of any people. We do not require you to go
beyond it. But we do ask as we are entitled to
ask, that you should embrace your whole mission
and fulfil it.
| What is the mission of the American Union
In the year 1877 thirteen free States upoa this
continent found themselves suffering for want of
common commercial legislation, united post office,
equal coins, weights and measures, uniform copy
right and patent law, security against national
bankruptcy, an irreyocable g!.:ance for peace and
war, the abolition of hereditary offices and stand
ing armies, the exradition of criminals the ovent-
} ual recognition of matters Of record, sutable
guarantee of republican institutions. 1t was then
that Alexander Hamilton told them that it was
left for the people fthese States decide whether
governments were destined forever to be the re-
suits of force and accident, or whether mon were
capable of forming States upon reflection and
choice.
They executed the task; and at the head of their
abors they inscribed the motto e pluribus unum
They say that as the ends of government are COM
mon to humanity, so should there be unity of
government among 10 obtain those ends; they
saw that multiplicity of states dividing society,
which is single whole, is tho result of imperfect
civilizations and that it is the task of rational pro-
gress to displace it by a unity of the state.
Under this motto the American Union has ad-
vanced, unconciously at times, but ever irre4sti
bly,. In the acquisition of Louisiana the father Of
our independence Was compelled to set his seal
upon it. Texas and California followed the same
q inevitable bent. Cuba and Canada are conscious
of the impending necessity. In Mexico we OBJ
the formation of an ecclesiastical party de-
e srous of annexation 10 the Holy Alliance, and q
similar organization, eager TO obtain admission into
the American Union. Even the Islands of the
Pacific, in the awakening dawn of their politica
life, manifest the same attractions 1.-The cont.
ne9t is ours" is fast becoming recognized princi-
pie of our policy.
n But what has principle to do with continents !
Il Principles are universal.
Il America is now more intricately connected with
the European world, than were, at the time of the
=, formation of the Union, the American Safe:
e among themselves. The lightning is not yet The
n connecting medium of thought; but already The
number cf letters forwarded between The divided
woilIs has become incredible. Postal arrange
ments have scarcely time to be ratified, before
u new ones are necessary. Tho commercial rela
J. tions becoming more and more complicated
ID the rival products driving each other from the
market. Tho casbing laws of copyright and pat
euts are becoming moro and more unjust in tllei
No operation. the n'punity of crinlinnls is GROWN;
more flagraut and more dangerous from duy to day
The emigration of few short years is equal to tn,
- population Of all the Suites that formed the Union
10 Every laboring family in Gefinanic Europe is re
s. presented in America.
ALL THE GLASSES OF EUROPE THAT sUrFEl
H. FROM THE PAST AND PRESENT HAVE SET THEl
20 HOPES OF THE FUTURE ON AMERICA.
i, kassuth was their great plenpotentiary.
~ 1t is becoming daily more apparent, that tn
!, monarchs, having learned TO look upon trade as
conductor of ideas, resolved to close tho terri
~ tory they cucumber against American trade. Ih'
ne internal commerce of America exceeds the exter
r nal by proportion which hardly leaves TO the lat
ter figure in the scale. \ ct the European
Is Staros are inhabited by pooplo infinitely more
- numerous more scantily supplied, and equally
willing, if able, to return labor for Nlerehandize
y with any in tho Western continent. Tho whole