Daily American telegraph., 1852-07-14

is sworn to the stars and stripes. Stand we now
upon the shore OF the ocean. The emigraut ship
approaches, with hundreds Of exiles crowding her
decks. You have seen the beginning and wit
messed the end of this moral conquest-tearess,
bloodess, glorious. But our government has
been pre- eminently recommended to the nations
of the world, in the cultivation of transcendant
| genius-genus in eloquence and poetry, in sci
ence and art, and in sculpture and painting.
Unroll the record of the past, and the land Of
| Washington successfully completes for the prize
II greatest prosperity in the career of youthful
nation.
But shall we be told that the early doctrines
of our fathers were only applicable to nations
infancy, and should be rejected by giant re-
public?
Absurdity never uttered more evident fall
lacy, nor falsehood proved its parentage by a
boldcr libel. Whenever ignorance may usurp the
place Of nteligence-vice be substituted for
virtue--the jargon of discord for the bond OF
union and brotherly affection-and mission of
foreign punder for the arts of peace and national
prosperity, and not till then, can the doc
trines Of Christian republicanism be blotted from
our creed. But we are no giant republic. True,
compared with the rocking governments Of Eu.
rope, the despotisms of Asia and barbarisms Of
Africa, we occupy an enyiable position. But we.
stand revealed in helpless infancy when con
trasted with that vision of national glory which
arises majestcally in the far off future when our
world d-careering eagle shall have returned to re-
port no more lands for purchase or conquest,
and experience and art have impoverished their
resources that every acre of our vast domain
may be able to support its teeming population.
With great propriety and precision Washington
enforced the duty of obedience to the constituted
authority. ......... .@. ....
| There is in this blessed land an omnipresent ge-
MUS, with an eye that never sleeps, and beneyo
lence that encircles every citizen. Go where you
WILL by night or by day. your property and person,
your rights and reputation, are sacred in its
sight. Your person assailed, it commands the
peace; your property injured, it leads in the
search; unjustly in prison, it bids you come
forth, and with an angels voice vindicates char
acter at the altar of justice. The statue needs
no inscription on the pedestal, for the genius of
Constitutional Law looms up magnifcently before
you
In the person of the officers of the law is seen
the embodied manifestation of this sacred genius /;
and whenever they are assailed or obstructed in
their mission, the heart Of liberty feels the vibra
tions of the shock. Shall profession of duty or
humanity, therefore, vindicate the man from the
avenging sword of justice who hurls defiance at
his government, and leads the van in the ranks
Of treason Never never! While based on the
public will, the majesty of the law should always
triumph, though massacre should surfeit, and
death take fright at seas of blood.
/ In this connexion, the question of our action
relative to the union of the States cannot be
disregarded And whose heart does not throb
with emotions of gratitude when he remembers
that in every instance of danger to the Union the
President has been equal to the emergency, hon
oring the principles of Washington by browning
Indignantly upon the first dawnipg' of dissolu-
ton? In 1882 q State unfurled the flag of re-
belion, beat to arms her soldiery, and bade def.
ance to the laws Of the Union. The world looked
on with an intense interest, and freedom trembled
throughout the globe. The Executive proclama-
tion smote upon the ear of disaffection in the
astounding language, 90 Disunion by armed force
lis treason" 1t lifted the pail from every battle
ground of the Revolution-summoned before the
State the shades of her revolutionary martyrs
pointed to her high position in the sisterhood of re
| pubics-approache her in the tender language Of
son, and appealed in prayer to the God ofthe uni
verse Her citizens were addressed as individually
responsible--as being above the manifestoes of
conventions-as having an interest in the de-
cisions of posterity, and worthy of the highest
renown that could attach to noble deeds; while
| the demagogue who had plotted their ruin were
painted as demons from perdition to disturb the
repose of the American Eden. One paragraph
may suffice as specimen of the remarkable pro-
duction:
Snatch from the archives of your State the
disorganizing edict of its convention bid its
members reassemble and promulgate the decided
expressions Of your will to remain in the path
which alone can conduct you to safety, prosperi
ty, and honor; tell them that, compared to dis
union, all other evils are light because that
brings with it an accumulation of all declare
that you will never take the field unless the star
spanged banner of your country shall float over
you that you will not be stigmatized when dead,
| ond dishonnrad and scorned while Won live
the authors of the first attack the constitution
of your country. Its destroyers you cannot be-
The laws Of the United States must be executed" 5"
Thus spoke the soul of Jackson. With de-
| cision that knew no wavering, his position was
taken and the success was as brilliant as the
victory Of Orleans.
| Years rolled away, and again the demon of
disunion reared its bloody head for the work Of
desoation. To it there was nothing attractive
in the temple of liberty-nothing desirable in
the monuments of our national glory-nothing Of
eloquence in prose, or poetry in verse, where
Union was the theme of the orator or bard The
wisdom of the past was folly, its experience a
fiction, its principles the deductions of fancy and
in its staid and undying devotion to truth and
justice was seen an argument for its rejection
and q reason for its nfamy.
Again the hour had come for action, and again
| the eyes Of the nation were turned to the chair
Of state. A venerable old man uncovered his
head before all the people, and uttered the SEN
timents of loyal heart: "For more than half q
century, during which kingdoms and empires
have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken The
patriots who formed it have long since descended
to the grave yet still'it remains the proudest
monument to their memory, and the object of
affection and admiration with every one worthy
to bear the American name. In my judgment
its dissolution would be the greatest Of caiami-
ties; and to avert that, should be the study OF
every American. Upon its preservation must de-
pend our own happiness and that of countless