The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-14

We sfe eos6 Iat 10 editor, = r. = y oyef III
exchonscs CON day y 81, ean kil 6elsiee
humber o. irrelesant Issues which ars'cverA
where pus forward - really psslinent % -
gosernmental policy, These ne III dessiid
- havs ! very brief existence. The younger
class n OR teaders can perhaps hardly conceive
dat atoac tinse II orr history, The question Of
The pog;sa and Tendencies of Free Masonry was
The pIvo. on which nationsl elections turned.
Foreign really 70 The true questions involved IN
our career Is nation, il passed away, never TO
be revived except on the silent page of the his
terian. Ii has been SO with hundred others
So in lis turn will fall to tn. ground tie no,
dispute about the Maine Liquor law In like
manner will be silenced the pickering, the
elimination and recrimination now going in
some parts of our Union between the defenders
anu the opposers Of the Catholic faith. These
the Age leaves them far behind in its onward
march. In all of these matters, for they all
have touch Of kindred, neither party appears
to have any idea of distinction between our
obligations State, and our duties as private
individuals. If we believe that our religion is
good and true, il is our highest duty as individ-
uals to follow to the last the path it points
But State, it is most certainly very far
from our duty to coerce others 10 our belief or
our course of life and practice And all ques.
tons which depend for their vitality on the pre-
scription of any society or class of men, nee
only to be left to Time, who will soon render
them worthless and " Of none account"
| Our Government, is complicated piece OF
machinery, in which, as in all things of human
continuance, the god is fused and interviewer
with sometimes much of evil And it requires
a cautious hand, and no mean talent i'm the way
of striking general averages, 10 apply remedies
or correctlves to these evils 1t calls for calcu-
lation-least of all, for a one-eyed aud one
ldeaed' enthusiasm. The Statesman must take
general, not special view, if he wishes ia
combine the fitness and proportion of the Union
with the greatest freedom from evils. Our pro-
gress forward can be but little aided by any
one wheeled carriage-by any society that
magnihes its one object, and which, with the
natural fundness of parents for their only child
places it lot only before every other, but before
all others combined. We do not mean now t.
transgress the humorous proverb which bids u.
to "never dispute with an enthusiast or ar
lrishman," but we can at least set it down a.
an absolute certainty, verified by all the pas,
that it will be of little use to look 10 anu socie
ty, or faction, or party, united by an advocac,
of an idea or principle which is unit, 10 aid il
the Advancement or the prosperity of the Union
No combination whose sole object is either fo
or against Masonry, Native Americanism, Sla
very, Temperance, Catholicism, or Protestant
ism' has ever left its mark, and none, we are
justified in saying, ever will Based on the
passions and prejudices of the moment, the,
sleep well after brief and ftful fever. But t,
the great party Of the Democracy, misled by nc
partial views, pursuing comprehensive polio,
which is just to all and neglectfu of none
giving to each principle of action its due i'm
Portance at home and abroad, with a PRESTIGE O.
triumphant prosperity which has been we'll wor
from by-gone days-it is to its victorious fsa
now 81 full high advanced, its arms and trophe,
streaming in their original lustre,'' that We
must look alone for State and National pros
perity and honor.