New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-06

and that, poised on the AXIS OF pc , 80 La 49,.
limited by nothing but the curve OF mora
only TO God Tremendous applause was ms -. az
the cost and struggle to consummase syse IL S,a
primarily the does not exist for the SAKE ., 'ae
bn, the state for the sake OF the man- And, marx
how by virtue OF this characteristic, .es'h hnh
Amere an differs from all other systems; pesPo's, Don
ancient and modern regards the individual man as ee
u;epsi All the sacredness of humanity flowers III ic
monarch. The soldiers of Xerxes army were no more
than his bridge of boats. LOUIS the Fourteenth
Nicholas is The State. In the ancient kepuohcS, asain
the indvida only fragment OF the STATE ana
had no personal completeness And, although IN Engiand
the individual is respected he respected only ACCORDING
to his cas as though Il was actually made out
blue clay end the other OF pophyry instead OF ooh
from the common dust Applause We sometimes Ell, see
lean Renewed applause. The fathers OF our REVOLUTION
with q clear perception Of the great iac' "nicn 1
affirm the true nobility they rejected the OUT
ward patent and took up the inward oisim 'ney
detected the right divine not in the eoronet ou,
in the bran-tbe heradry OF honor not IN the CRIMSON
hand but the dgen; palm and rated man BY the guam
THY of his virtue and his greatness, not by his position on
some old genealogical tree stuck into the body OF William
the Corqueror with blood az the roots, and go1 IN me
bres and idocy the top unless recuperaed by pebean
sap. Great applause and laughter Benjamin Franklin
the appropriate Court dress ever h ard o. A
the Court of Versailles says Madame Campdn ne ap-
reared in the dress Of American farmer. His strait
" unvowdered hair, his round hat. his brown cloth coa
&" formed singular contrast with the lAced ana EN-,
brodered coats and powdered and perflmet heads All
around him. What did he need OF Court dress whose
patent of nobility written for hun by lightning on the
clouds
clause in the Declaration which lies at the foundation OF all
am now saving could have been read, just after was
perned some old sanctuary ofdead kings and scapured
barons and dropping boadges It would almost have made
tie uda dust and the arstocrac bones shake and rattle
in the tombs hear this Gospel of new order in which
man be recognized apart from his accidents and
he Id his titles not by Inheritance but by achievement
Applause This the legitimate growth Of the Amer
csn Idea which, in word recognizes the iact that he
richest stock and product OF nation is It's stock AM pro-
duet Of manhood and that man, as msn, Is sacred.
Nbateye runs TO this is Legitimate Whatever
sets up something fictitious instead OF tin the shape OF
cres;s and household veres-is fantastic heresy. what
ever argument goes show that Jeersons words dont
mean what they seem is sophsca, aud not the
truth For the OF the Revolution answered the grea'
question Of politics. just as the poet has answered.
so hsh rsised ba i eia aent aud ato'sd mound
Not cite. proud win spires and ure's crowusd
Not hay and bread armed ports
x Were, iSas s is'n ~ dc , s,' f''
Where Low -bIosed baseness watts perfumes 10 PRIDE
No Men hish minded Meu
Men VII their duties Anow,
Eat know their righis- and knowing. dare maintain
lIusmsnse applause
But if men like these DO " constitute State, then,
obviously true mdyidualsm : not adverse bur favor
abb. 70 true nationality. In developing the springs OF
personal worth and dignity, we develop the springs OF al
pubic greatness Therefore, the doctrine nVoVe1 IN inc
American Idea is not doctrine OF disintesraon but OF
upty For IN the place every man ~ wO-t0id II MS
nattic He is both Individual and social The necessity
Of State j. embodied IN and grows OUT o; ne very cond
tions of his being On The other land, the iuness and
richness bis individual nature caunot be developed ox
oept through the organism Of society lie never can he
rorccted in isOaiiou-n solitary scoNsence This Is
he abstract truth. II Is practically demonstrated
by Il fact that the greatest nations always have been
those in which there existed the greatest amount OF
uenona freedom and consideration. That + the grandest
history which contains the most blOgraphles-whlch Is
crowded with the specalities Of individual men W hue,
on the other hard Desposm furnishes bu. dall study
II is lazy succession of dynasiies. OGt of rs m2no,3-
nous waste Use only the Of bloody and vouQtn9l
kings But pass into the Of free land, and wha;
variety and interest, IN senate ana port ana citadel 70
en-, t,tnIisf 4 Ia limb MS had oft
from the trunk of Europe, but . how thronged wtb
achievements whose symphony rolls through the march Of
ages What monam ennl ploces1,"19t Immortal names
Leuctra and ThermOFy@ and Marathon - Homer,
Pb,dias, Demosihenes, Pericles, Pia.o What ~
SEPARATION from the springs of freedom, making the
history of a nation finer than poem, and .rausfg-
intellectual worship. IApplause There's Russia
huge anc mysterious muiiled destiny, creeping down
the map OF Europe But its not NatdOAlts Ncso,4si
Ard of What avail viii be its ponderous and shaggy power
in the world compared with that Of q Republic in Which
every nan is electric nationality, with brhry IN
his band free-schOol in his brain, and declaration %
indepeldeDoe in his heart. ltreat applause OH depend
upon it, feow.ctizcns the ruest patriotism xs.s with
TIE development OF personality and where one feels
acria force in nation life 10 has something "a strive
fer something to love, something to sustain then, though
bis private possession lie but hat among the Alps
patch of the Penobscot, merely single ballot
charged with his free will and shot from his rgh;
hand Ii his country for it enlarges and enrche' bis
own life and so when the drum rates along the heavns
lives the burra peals from the slippery deck for lis
country, he is even proud to die. Cheers And what
his private station in his country life, lac recognizes
sentiment Of those truly great men to whose abos we owe
the Erie Canal. No time said they. is fixed 10 the
existence OF State, and the first wish OF patriot heart
lis that his may be immortal" Renewed applause
think you will acknowledge, then that another result,
growing legitmately of the American Idea National
UnOa believe that il s the tendency Of our history
the tendency OF the principles involved IN the Revolutions
~ srugge-to deyelope great Nationality believe
that the wort Union has broader meaning, and sgn
fees something resting upon deeper sanction than many
who ore very yoceros in the ue Of it seem to suspect
The American Union nreess heritage Jusl 10 Propo
ton a. il serves the interests of humantY JUS hoer ~
strength the mere web of party VI 'he
bands of traffic but personal independence intelligence,
SD virtue. IAppause.l Whatever, demoralzes the
man ard the citizen, whatever violates the dictates
OF conscience lowers the standard OF rectitude |
in his soul, inacts a dangerous wound |
upon the Constitution and shakes the fabric Of our
.lonaly more than any, open treason Applause.l L
ties in our country | do from uDfathfGlness TO !
the American Idea. Senators and statesmen do more
damage to the public veal by moral disloyay and depre
citation Of the eternal right than they do good by Bun
combe rhetoric and delrlua remens of Indignant pat.
riotism Great applause. The basis OF all public law
pri,at virtue The anchorage OF national Union is
personal rectude and II it holds by any
thing shallow than this il is unsafe; and they who
fout individual conscience and the moral law in the soul
do violence to the strongest guarantees of all order and
all law.
But believe that our national life with its organism
OF national Union is healthy at the detect tokens
of this health wherever find free labor intelligence and
enterprise. II no insignificant sign, perhaps tina. the
circumference OF journalism is almost incacuabe aud the
center OF oeferdom about nowhereevnced by the fact
that the demand for paper ahead Of the supply rags
lApplsuse Then there these great public works
concerning which there is such respectful article in the
last number Of old Tory Backwoodtheir veins and snews
that stretch far away and the lines Of locality
and quick the pulses Of reciprocal interest The shuttle
o. enterprise weaving phys,eal web Of union around
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