The daily union., 1854-11-17
From the Portland Argus.
Z PLURIBUs UNUM.


PLURIBUS UNUM
The American motto proclams a American fact "Ds-
unc as the biows but the sea- has been beaut
fuiiy spoken concerning republic Many States, but
one government many people but one Union many sep
arae political organizations, but all banded together by
common interests, sympahies a common history
and a common destiny This is our country; TO every
other nation unit at home collection of separate
ereignes But this is not all II is from many in the
character OF its population What nation on the face of
the earth is not represented here Two centuries
ago the founders of this people the of Amer
lea feeble band of foreigners They thanked God for
free home, even in the wilderness and went to work
They were joined soon by other foreigners and yet Others
and in process of time the settlements became thry
ing colonies Great Britain amazed at their growth
and feared they would set up for themselves 1t sought
to hold them in leadingstrngs and this end what did
IL do II loaded their trade with taxes and attempted
to limit their increase by restraining emigration their
territories from the Old World This policy produced
Its natural fruit and the revolution led to the indie
pendence The colonies became States and legislaed in
their own right Then, when they had perfected their
Union they sought TO make il popuou and strong They
turned to the Old World and invited the oppressed and
heavily-iaden of its people to the New World
and make themselves and prosperous homes
Here they said children Of misfortune and lovers Of free
dom you will find plenty of land to be possessed plenty
of fields to be subdued and virgin nature be wooed
and Won Here you will find equal laws and generous
Among VIII meet needless restrictions
no intolerance of opinion etters for conscience
gion Of the State Your children and our children will
grow up together brethren and generation will
not be overcurious concerning the navities of their
cestors And the invitation accepted From all climes
the immigrants came-from every naon-of all religions.
Their joint efforts have contributed make our country
what it is They foreigners but their children became
natives They intermarred and shared the same nurture
of American institutions and from many were constituted
The races rapidly assmiated and blended and har
monized "a magnificent sanctuary of freedom has been
built by their joint abors Not this claim the
merit Of its vast rotundo and swelling for
millionsnor that its uplfed aars where the nobest
ministry of earthly citizenship swings high the censer fill
ed with the fragrant offerings of glad and grateful peo
pie But in Solomons temple that adorned the brow of
Morah there gifts from all climes and treasures
from all ands the Syrian gave his purple aud the Ca
naanite his toll; Lebanon yielded its CEDAR Ophr
its gold honor the abode of the Majesty of the universe
here amidst the grandeur of reserved continent the
elect minds Of the nobest nations have erected temple in
which patriotism may nourh its hopes and philanthropy
advance to meet the future leaning upon the of Je
hovah"
Such Union ours--so providentially created and
blended and strengthenedwas earth before
extends ITSELF in its power and its usefulness only
by receiving constant tide of immigration from abroad
but by sending from its older settlements swarm of
pioneers who make settlements in distant regions and
subdue fresh fields to American culture But all classes
and all still minge together in the Territories in
the States Peudices disappear before the attrition of
familiar intercourse Enemies become friends by knowing
each other better The North and the South the East and
the West they share harshp and feel the bene
fits aid forget that they dsunited and
from many become About oneourth is said of the
American people leave the States Of their birth and settle
in other parts of the Union All these migrating compa-
take with them habits and sentiments
peculiar their own homes But they rapidly fuse to-
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interests and the presence in them all of the same
American ideas New States thus succeed each other
still leave others in progress behind them The old
States and the then stretch to each other their
numerous of intercourse and trade Canals are
dug and railroads built The Union is still banded to-
pether and still remains one. Il Pribus Unump 1--WE
borrow the words of Iarper edor dis the moral of our
life 1t is written every battlefield of our heroic age
1t is written every page Of national records 1t
written every monument that its white shaft to
departed worth Heaven has set it broadly and brightly
before e Pluribus Unun is the memorial-motto of
the past the prophetic of the future If this zenith
star in It's high sphere and radiant with the focal
spendors Of hrtyone revolving orbs shall continue it's
undimmed brightness to vision shall our foot
steps be dark for the want of guidance our hearts sad
for an anthem of thanksgiving"
In these days of sectional violence of religious intoer-
ance and of pretended nativs these facts of American
history ought to be freshly remembered The American
Is no uhOt saHe rBHS OF conscience TO
other men that he claims for himself Neither aoes hc
value o man for his birth place than for himself
Benedict Arnold was BORN in New England and Albert
Gaatin born in Europe yet he knows that Gal
latin proved himself faithful American while Arnold
became nfmou. a traitor, TO be American implies
something more than to be born ii. 'oHi anu ne Is
not an American who false American princlpes ia
American history, and to the American future Above
all the American has instructive love for the American
Union His morning and his evening prayer is brcabed
for its perpetuy And he would make it perpetual by
making all its citizens share in its blessings and feel alike
its value His mission is of conciIaion and not of -
vision He would break down walls Of separation but he
would never build up He would preach unity, but
dscord and while he recognises various sections
and opinions and sympahies and wants and interests he
would ntertwine and combine them as to
rather than weaken, the government The genn-
e American holds fast to the spirit of the American mot
to-" + PLuRInus UNUM."
From the ppian
THE WAY THE KNOW NOTHINGS COUNT THEIR
VICTORIES.--THE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION
We asonished to see a despatch going the rounds.
claiming the election of Mott the democratic can
didate for canal commissioner in Pennsylvani know
nothing" victory Even the Washington Union through
nadvertence certainly permits such barefaced mposure
TO be inserted in its column of telegraphc intelligence
Mott who is elected by overwhelming vote, was the
regular candidate of the democratic party and ran upon
platform directly antagonstic to the ntoeran and anti
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