The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-12-15

whose devotion to the Union can never be
doubted, has given renewed yisor to oul
institutions, and restored sense of repose
and security to the public mind through.
out the confederacy. That this repose is
to suffer no shock during my official term
If have power to avert it, those who
placed me here may be assured. The
wisdom of men. who knew what indepen-
denee cost,-who had put all at stake up
on the issue of the revolutionary strug.
gle,--disposed of the subject to which
refer, in the onl way consistent with the
union of these States, and with the march
of power and prosperity which has made
us what we are. 1t is significant fact
that from the adoption of the constitution
until the officers and soldiers of the reyo
luton has passed to their graves, or, thro
the inirmities of age and wounds, and
ceased to participate actively in public az
fairs, there was not merely quiet acqui.
essence in, bus a prompt vindication of the
constitutional rights of the States. The
reserved powers were scrupulously re.
spected. ~
No statesman put forth the narrow views
of casuists to justify interference and ag.
itation, but the spirit of the compact was
regarded as sacred in the eye of honor
and indispensable for the great experimen
of civil liberty, which, enyironed by in
herent difficulties was yet borne forward
IN apparent weakness by power superi
or to all obstacles. Where is no condem
nation, which the voice of freedom will no
pronounce upon US should we prove faith
less to his great trust While men in
hablting different parts of this vast con
tinent can no more be expected to holc
the same opinions, or entertain the same
sentiments, than every variety of climat,
Or soil can be expected to furnish tn,
same agricultural products, they can unite
in common object and sustain common
principles essential to the maintenance 0
that object. The gallant men of the
South and North could stand together du
ring the struggle Of the Revolution; the.
could stand together in the more tryins
period which succeed the changer o
arms.
AS their united yalor was adequte to al
the trials of the camp and dangers of tht
field, SO their united wisdom proved
equal to the greater task of found
ing, upon deep and broad basis, institu
tons, which it has been our priyiledge to
enjoy, and will ever be our most sacred
duties to sustain. It is but the feeble ex
preston of faith strong and universal
to say that there sons, who mingled sc
often upon the same field, during the wal
1912, and who have more recently borne
in triumph the flag of the country upor
a foreign soil, will never permit aliena-
ton of feeling to awaken the power o.
their united efforts, nor internal dissen-
tions to paralyze the great arm of free.
dom, uplifted for the yindication of self
government.
I have thus briefly presented such sug.
gestions as seem to me especially worthy
of your consideration. In providing fol
the present, you can hardly fail to avail
yourselves of the light, which the expe.
rience Of the past casts upon the future
The growth of our population has now
brought us, in the destined career of oul
national history, to a point at which i
we'll behooves us expand our vision ovel
the vast prospective.
The successive decennial returns of the
census since the adoption of the constitu
ton have revealed law of steady pro
gressive develorement, which may be
stated, in general terms, as duplication
every quarter century. Carried forward
from the point already reached, for only
a short period of time as applicable to tht
existence of anation, this law of progress
if unchecked, will bring us to almos
increditable results. A large allow
ance for a diminished proportiona
effect of emigration would not very ma
terially reduce the estimate, while the in
creased average of human life, known t,
have already resulted from the scientif
and hygienic improvements of the pas
fifty years, will tend to keep up through
the next fifty years, or perhaps hundred
the same ratio of growth, which has beel
thus revealed in our past progress; an,
to the influence of these causes may b
added the influx of laboring masses from
eastern Asia to the Pacific side of GU
possessions, together with the probabl
accession of the populations already exis
ting in other parts of our hemisphere