Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1854-11-24
The KneIl Sounds.

tion.-N. /. Recorder a reIiglOus papeI.)
The Kne1l Sounds.
On every breeze, north, south, east and
west, come the death tones. The old po-
litical parties are dead-dead beyond hope
beyond resurrection.
A new party is springing into life. A
party still in its cradle, and yet as strong
as an infant Hercules. A party born on
American soil, glowing with American
blood, and strenuous with an American
spirit. A party that as it grows in stat
ure, and knits its energies, is destined to
become the delivcrer of our country from
evil times, and to serve thereafter as its
noblest defender. A party which in its
very youth, at the altar Of the fathers of
the Republic, swears allegiance to Ameri
can principles. A party schooled in all
the politica, maxims of the great Washing
TONS Farewell Address, aud which have
taken into their inmost heart the most ear
nest of his lessons that g Foreign influence
is one Of the most baneful foes of Repub-
lican government" A party that believe
in country that put value upon na-
tionality; that love their " own, their ma
tive land" that cherish her early renowD;
that think it not vain thing to inherit
the blood of noble sircs. A party that
have ancestral graves to lock upon; that,
in institutions Of government and institu-
tions of religion, have an ancestral inheri-
tauce to glory in as well as apresent bless
ing to be enjoyed ; that have an ancestral
spirit to be inspired with, ancestral precepts
to respect, ancestral examples to initiate.
A party that believe in popular enligh.en-
ment and in national Justice-in order and
law, in religion and morality-that atjure
flibusterism and all forms of unlawful ag-
gression-that neither seek to interfere
with the concerns Of other nations, nor
will pcrusit other nations to interfere with
our concerns-that look upon the Federal
Constitution as the bond Of the Union,
and will unwaveringly hold fast to its in
tegrity; that recognize sanctity in plight
cd faith and abide by public compromises;
that upon the great subject of slavery pre-
tend not to be wiser than their fathers,
but keep equally clear from the ul,raism
on the one side that sees in the institution
the corner stone of every political and So
cial blessing, and from the fanaticism on
the other, that would upheave it in spite
of every constitutional barrier, and in dis
regard Of all consequences A party that
hate violence, and put moral influence far
above material means; that repose their
hope for the duration of our system Of
government, in the diffusion of general
knowledge and good and virtuous senti-
ments; that recognize undoubted right and
the bounden duty Of government to pro-
vide for the instruction of al youth, and
hold that Christian instruction is neces-
sary element in all republican education;
that the Bible is not sectarian book and
should not be prescribed in our public
schools; that believe in the liberty of con-
science, but none the less believe in the
right of conscience; that while they would
admit every man to the freest enjoyment
of whatever spiritual allegiance he may
see it to adopt, would permit the exercise
of no temporal dominion of hierarchy,
direct or indirect, by whatever name called,
whether seated on this side of the Atlantic
or the other; that gladly welcome to our
shores the poor and the oppressed of every |
land, would faithfullysecurefor them the ex-
ecrcise of all their natural rights, land would
receive them with the hospitality becoming
a great and generous people, yet do not
feel called upon to confer on them franch-
ises which they are not qualified to exer-
CIccs Ouu ClOluC WIN po"Nh thN
know not how to use party in fine who
believe that human liberty is yet obliged
to reposc its principal hopes on the intel
ligence and the vigor of the Saxon race,
whose spirit is the spirit of American In
dependence, whose genius is the genius of
the everything Washington.
The old political parties have for years
been carrying within themselves the seeds
of their own dissolution. The opposing
principles of conservatism and radicalism
have been struggling in each for the mast
cry, ard have waged an interneclne strife.
Conservative Democracy could never effec-
tually unite with Conservative Whiggery
as such, nor Conservative Whiggery Sith
Conservative Democracy and yet both
might enter into third organization and
work together most harmoniously andsuc-
cessfully. Thus we have just seen in our