Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-02-09

| There is, without Justice, no wisdom on
earth. s.5..., ..s., $3.50. T.,
/ Liberty is the bliss of heaven and. the
| freedom of the earth, and it will yet be the
destiny of man. - ss.s,s e:-:.s,.s. q !,
I The protection OF God cannot, without
sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of ics,
tice and right. ..-..-r.- - -.
| Anything which an honest man would
do is, Of course, not to be considered as q
merit, but simply as duty.
| The freedom Of the Press, to be prac>
ticable one, must be common benefit 10
all; else it is no freedom, but privilege.
However the world may think Of it,
| should not think the man sound at heart
against whom the world, has not something
! to say. s5. ..---.
I consider that it is on instruction and
education. that the future security and d.
rection Of the destiny Of every nation chief.
ly and fundamentally rest.
What would become of this grand, nigh
ty complex Of your Republic, should it ever
be attacked in its consistency, by the fu-
rious hands Of the fanaticism Of language?
Gentlemen, would rather starye than
rely, for myself and family, on foreign aid;
but, for my country's freedom, would not
be ashamed to beg from door to door.
The cause of freedom is identified with
the destinies of humanity, and in whatever
part Of the world it gains ground, by and
by will be common gain 30 all those who
desire it. ;...-5...
1t is requisite to belong to people to
understand its whole life as nation, and
its geographical, political and social condi-
tion and relations, in order to say what
should be done for it.
love my native land, inexpressibly,
boundlessly, feryently. | love it more than
lille, more than happiness; | love it more
in its gloomy sufferings Than would in its
Proudest, happiest days.
1t was he himself, your great Washing
ton, who not only accepted, but asked,
again and again, foreign aid-foreign help,
for the support of that common law Of man.
| kind, in respect to your own independence.
Practical aid in accomplishing those
| wishes which had the honor yesterday to
| express, will be hospitality given TO the
| principles Of reedom-hospitality to my
down.trodden but not broken native land
hospitality given to Europe's oppressed ma,
| tions.
If that sovereign right Of nations were
no common public law Of mankind, then
your own independent existence would be
no matter Of right, but only a matter OF
fact, which might be subject 10 whatever
time, to whatever chances Of power and Of
| violence.
] beg you TO take to heart one maxim,
which for myself have eyer observed,
and ever shall: it is, never to say more
than is necessary. The unspoken word
| never does harm, but what is once uttered
cannot be recalled, and no man can foresee
its consequences.
% As there is no jumping in nature, equal
| ly there is no stop to it.
1t is in the garden Of Capitalization
where the yenomous plant Of ambition
| thrives.
/ Not Unity, but Union, will and must be-
come the waichword Of netional bodies.
There is an immense power in the idea
to be right, when this idea is sanctioned by
nation like yours.
The Cossack already rules, by Louis Ma
| poleon's usurpation, TO the very borders OF
the Atlantic Ocean.
Happy the land where the history Of the
past is the history Of thepeople, and not a
mere aattery to kings.
There is high political wisdom in the
custom yearly to revive the memory of
civic virtue and national glory inthe minds
of the living generation.
Europe is but an appendix to Russia! =
Alas! Europe can no more secure TO Eu.
rope fair play. Albion only remains, but
Albion casts sorrowful glance over the
waves. 3#'7Fs
A nation is really independent only
when it proves by fact to make good the
word of the poet: ssCome the three corners
of the world in arms, and we will shock
Them"
1t is, indeed, impossible for the youth to
be still child, or for the man not to be-
come man. He must, because he is;
and il, being man, he does not act as be-.
comes man TO act, well, then, he looses
the position of man. 1t is quite the same
with nations.
What is the meaning of that word power
oh eaftHt Inc meafllug oI IL is 10 nave
not only the power to give your own par.
ticular interest, but also to have vote in
the regulation Of the common interest of
humanity, of which you are an independ-
ent member.
Never had the impious wish to try to
entangle this great Republic into Difficult.
ties inconsistent with its own welfare, its
own security, its own interest. / rather
repeatedly and earnestly declared that a
war on this account by your country is VI.
terly impossible, and mere phantom.
While other nations, starting from
false point of a false principle, wavered in
their progress like the magnetic needle sur.
rounded by iron bars, you, starting from a.
true point, conscious Of your aim, advanc.
ed in strength to that aim, and there you
have arrived in short time where other
nations have failed to arrive in centuries,
consuming the strength of manhood in max.
ing their way. and growing old before they
got to the settled position Of the man. i
Happy your great country, sir, that il
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