Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1854-07-20

Their feet are unlcttcred their hands un-
bound the strings of their tongues are
looscnrd, and they can nor say and do any
thing, and all things they please, this side
Connecting themselves with the aristo-
cratic ass.nnblages Of 4" Stafford House"
stimulating public opinion and in
flaming private passions, they will now
cndca,ar Ia sting the south to mortify
tl,eir pride, injure their position in the
civilized world, and excite them 10 resent
inent aud resistance.
Everything Of cyil may arise from this
new apple OF discord; the flame 80 wan
tonly kinLlod can burn, but no possible
elements OF good, seem likely to spring
up, to check or %eAtinguish its devouring
raNagcs.
Yet not for this, will I for one, recede
an inch from my allegiance to the Nation,
or my steadtast duty to its constitution
aud government. Not for Kansas, not Tor
Nebraska No. not for all the wi ter
ritory between the ella the Rio Grande
and the Gulf Stream, would l giycup this
glorious Union which alone has iuade us
respectable and respected rich, proud,
prosperous Uliu IoNcIlui'
Your canvass literally whitcns every sea.
Your commerce comes nom :, full irdught,
with the rewards of your industry from
every nation under the sun:
tFrom farthest south Syyne: u
From Asian Kings and Parthian among these;
From India, and the golden ChersOnese,
And utmost Indian isle Taprobane;
From Gallia, Gldcs and the British west
Germans and Scythians and Sarinatians, north,
Beyond DanubiuS, TO the laurie pool"
And in what strong contrast do We this
day stand, by the hi ,ssing OF Heaven, with
those who are at this very moment, assem-
blcd on Danubc's banks, and the shores Of
the sea Of Azov, the poets laurie pool.
We, in peaceful security are assembled
here to olicr up our homage 20 the Coz OF
Battles, who protected our country in the
day of its utmost peril, and with his own
right hand, so divided the stormy waters
of Revolution, that u fathers passed ov-
err in final safety. They saw the cloud by
day and the pillar of fire by night, and
never dcspaired, while gazing on those
celestial omons. But there, upon the
banks of the Danube, the son of nearly
all the great Kingdoms Of the earth are
come together in battle array. and hostile
defiance and we may safely say in tho
words of Milton
"Such forces met not, nor so wide II camp,
When Agrican with all his n0rthcrn powers
Besieged Albracca."
There may you sec
The flower and choice
OF many provinces from bound to bound.
From Arachosia, from Capdaor east
And Margiaia to the Hyrcanian cliffs
Of Caucasus and dark lbcrian dalcs."
There stand
"Light armed troops
In coats of mail and military PRIDE
And there
''Cuirassiers all in steel for standing fight"
And there of laboring pioneers a multitude,
with spades and axes arm'd,
To lay hills plain fell woods, or valleys fill or
Oycrlay
With bridges, rivers proud, as with n yoke"
And why are these distant nations 30
assembled, and for what purpose are all
these warlike hosts thus congrcgatcd -
Have the cliffs of albion been again seal
cd by Julius Caesar, or the fair fields Of
france az in invaded by the Saraccn, to
be driven back by some modern Charles
Martell No, not to defend their fircsides
and homes, as your brave fathers did,
have these armies been brought together
on the battle field but to solve a question
of political power, and preserve it's bal
ance. We stand up in the sight of these
puissant kings, rs II nation challenging
their respect, and whose alliance each hos
tile IN march would gladly court. And
whence comes this lofty and commanding
atti udei 10 what cause is our national res
portability and power to be traced What
are its sources They arc to be found in
the AMERICAN USIoS ALONE Not in the
union of the North against the South not
in the union Of the East against the West,
nor in the union Of the free States against
the slave States but in the union Of ALL,
under ono common banner the union Of
the North AM the South, of the East AND
the West, Of the free States AND the slave
holding States Of the land of Hancock and
Franklin and ADAMS, with the land OF Rut-
ledge aud Henry and Washington. All,
all these combined, were necessary to eX-
tort at last, and that too, in recent days,
from the reluctant lips Of British states
IN n, even on the floor of Parliament, the
confession that there is indeed II great Re-
public beyond the Atlantic! "A great
Republic beyond the Atlantic !" And
,Cheye is that nation to he found! Is it in
the six States Of New England Do Del
aware ana Pennsylvania, and New Jersey
and New York, rich, proud and powerful
us they are, answer the description! DO
rice plantations and fields of tobacco, of
sugar and cotton, stand out by themselves
on the map, as the place where the nation
described in Parliament is to be found =
No my fellow citizens, NO! No segment,
no sec ton, no portions discovered to be
rc-assembled in feebleness no North, mo
South, no East, no West, gil up the can
vass Which this picture requires. But
the Great Republic is to be found in the
whole outstrotched country, from river
to river and from sea to sea.
The eagle upon your standard is not
double headed like that ofRussia and our
fathers rejected the rattlesnake, which
was proposed as an emblem for their ban
ncr. We are tire bundle of arrows tied
together by the ancient king, and will
never suffer ourselves to degenerate into
the worthless sticks, which those arrows
became, when unbound and disunited.
The experience Of the State of Rhode Is
land is significant upon this subject. She
declined at first to adopt the constitution.
1t was not free ~eaough,--not republican
enough for those who had lived under the
charter of King Charles, and they attempt
cd to get On with their affairs, in their
own way, without concert with the
other States. For domestic security
AMI happiness, this was found to do
very well, and for a single year the exper-
imcnt was endured. And what think you
bought Rhod Island to its scnsesl lean
tell you in a word; as it was told to me by
u merchant who owned ships in those