Daily American telegraph., 1852-02-02

morality; for national as well as individual mo-
ralty is founded on faith, and faith is founded
on the Bible. For ] am very much Of the opinion
that when the masses have become corrupt in a
free government, there remains no hope When
our voters become corrupt-their religious feel
ing not being properly explained, butguided only
by impulse and passion--we may not hope long
to be guided by an intelligent action of the free
will.
Upon this principle, which we have thus hastily
discussed nation must be progressive in its inn
provement. But in aristocratical and monarchical
governments, this progress may be secured only
to certain point, and at that point all progress
ceases. They fix limit to the point of improve
ment beyond which there is no progress; and
when that point is reached either the people must
be contented, or their government must be over
turned. The citizen must address the ruler in
the language of the celebrated Black Hawk to
the President of the United States: g l am one
man, you are another" Invested with free will,
people properly instructed in the Bible, and be-
ing thus restrained, will assert their liberty by
every means which may be pointed out to them
by the hand of Divine Providence. 1t is not SO in
republic; because, under such government,
unwise and oppressive laws may be peaceably re-
pealed, and wise and polite laws substituted
This is the case in our own government; and this
is the groundwork of the stability of our govern
ment. And what is our government? 1t is the
result of centuries of wisdom have sometimes
been amused with the opinions of great men in
Europe, when they have gravely affirmed that
the government of young America is expert
ment. Our government is not an experiment.
Our government is the consummation of the ex-
periments of others. The experiment was not
made by u.s. but by England Especially since
the times of Luther and of Henry the Eighth,
England has been laying the foundations upon
which America has built We have avaied our
selves of all the experiments and improvements of
the English government, since the time when
Henry the Eighth struck almost as heavy blow
against spiritual despotism in England as Luther
did in Germany. 1t is an absurd idea, then, to
suppose that England could continue partially
free, and her children in this country remain in
bondage. No: inspired by the principles of our
English fathers, we were resolved ourselves to
assume the right of self government; and then
those institutions which were regarded as CORE
spending with the free will of man in England
were adopted by our fathers, and those which
were found not to be sufficiently broad and deep
to meet our wants improved upon, and the re-
suit was our general end State constitutions
He proceeded then to point out the superiority
in all matters of improvement which had marked
the progress of all Protestant countries over
those which have remained under the control of
the Pope; and, by occasion, he referred to the
duty of Protestant Christendom in regard to the
great question of the worlds evangelization and
redemption.
| By reference to church history, and particu-
larly to the Councils of Nice and Antioch, COM
posed of representatives from all the churches in
| Christendom, he demonstrated that the idea of
free representative government was derived,
through the church, from the Bible; for it was
not until the thirteenth or fourteenth century
| that the representative form of government was
| adopted by the nations of the earth.
| He affirmed, also, that the principles of the
gospel were traceable in the principles of the
governments of modern Europe, and that time
was all that was required for this seed to spring
up in that vast moral wilderness
He then proceeded to affirm that the ancient
governments of Europe were nearly all of them
| 10 ne aScrlDeu W the Ten l0SU u1DeS OF Israel.
All the modern governments of Europe Che said)
are founded upon the ancient forms which they
| have overturned; and in all their ancient forms
| of government there was recognised the demo-
cratic principle-the principle of the power of
| the people. / use words in no partisan sense.
| | am no partisan. / never was, and | never
| expect to be. Indeed / do not know what
| my political principles are. All / affirm here
| respects what | believe to be the principles
| of the gospel and their influence upon human
| government | proceed to show, then, that
democratic principles were incorporated into all
| the ancient European governments-irst, from
the practice of elections by the people; secondly
from the fact that the divisions of the civil gov
| ernment were founded upon the democratic sys-
| TEN thirdly, from the feudal system, which still
exists fourthly, from the crusades; filthy, from
their language; sixthly, from their poetry and
music; and lastly, from their proper names.
All these heads he elaborated in discourse of
much interest on account of the learning and
research displayed in the brief hour which
was occupied in its delivery quoting from
the prophecies of Scripture, and alleging that the
Saxons and Normans and Hungarians were de-
scended from the ancient Hebrews that their
descendants were amongst us; that we ourselves
were part of them and that the Bible prophe-
cies were every day fulfilling in our case.
The Fire Last Night.
The fire last night consumed several buildings
on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 10Th
street.
The corner house, the property of Mr.. Corcoran,
was occupied by Mr.. Bishop, as periodical