New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-11-25

out the past year, and continue to enjoy 1T.
With FIVE thousand miles Of frontier, mostly
savage end unguarded, and many tribes ofwsr-
Ike barbarians located in our territory, no hos
tile collision of moment has stained our an
mails during 1852. How long this calm may last
is now doubtful; but it will probably be broken,
vheneyerit shall be, through our own rapacity
and lust, and not through those Of our neigh
bors. God gives US peace, for which may we
be duly grateful: var viii come, when it does
come, through the criminal ambition OF men
2. The year now closing has been one ofvery
general Good Health. There have been local
epidemics and other forms of pestiience, but no
general sccurge Ike that which overspread the
land only three years ago. Hence the per
centace Of mortality has been light, and the
population Of our country viii probably have
increased by larger aggregate in 1852 than in
any former year.
3. The present year has been one Of Gene
raj Plenty That many have suffered from
want, is quite true but none have so suffered
because the earth has been niggard in the dis
pensation of her annual bounties Those who
suffer ere the victims either Of their own i'm
providence, Of miseducatiOn, or Of social an
archy. There are bread and work for all, if all
were but rightly trained and rightly placed.
Be it the study Of those who this day give
thanks for the abundance Of their own blessings
to devise and perfect the means whereby such
blessings shall be secured TO all
4. We have great reason to be thankful for
our Political ard Religious Freedom. Liberty
may he, and often is, abused, and the forms OF
popular institutions can never be relied on as
safeguards Gin themselves) of Equal Rights
for AL What man needs is government Of
Uniform and benefeent Law, not of blind or
selfish Force-not of brute Numbers, nor yet
of unprincpled Cunning. A people may be
thoroughly enslayed while preserving all the
forms OF Freedom. To be truly Free, peo-
pie should be brave, upright, intelligent, unset
fsh-keen-eyed for the detection OF shams and
Of the abuses of party machinery to the cstab-
lisLmont Of virtual DospotiSm IN the outraged
name of Liberty Republican Institutions can
never preserve n nation Of towards and sensu-
alists from falling under the yoke Of tyranny;
but with a fair share of Intelligence aud virtue
a Republic affords opportunities for redrossng
Wrongs and correcting abuses which no other
form of government can equal Its Elections
onI got ify caparal y.oliotr a.,
nearer right than that of the best monarchy
Republic is the natural ally and hope Of the
depressed, the defender of the weak, the up
raiser of the lovly; it may come short Of its
duties and still be far in advance ofany form of
Despotsm. Liberty, often grossly abused, is
still che bOunteous sod wherein all noble quail
ties terminate and flourish. Let us be crate
full, this day, that we live in land of imper-
feet, but relatively unusual, freedom.
5. Let us give thanks that light is spread
ing, that darkness is vanishing, that Justice
and Truth, though often Knocked and defeated,
do yet more and more bear sway over the
hearts and the dealings of men--that Inteul-
perance and Vice are less general and more
disreputable than formerly-thet Honor and
Virtue, though they may not secure the suf-
frages of majority at the polls, do yet COM
mand tic respect and esteem Of the commun-
ty, and are cherished and priced long after the
transient notabilities, who rise ON the froth
of popular eferesccnce. have sunk into last
inc oblivion
And thus, having given thanks for the good
we have received and the evils from which We
have been Dyinely shielded, let US arise With
renewed strength, and calmly confront the du-
ties and perls--the hopes and rey,rses-oithe
coming time
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