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

ne SCI " ~ n, winds and waters should no. combine TO
rescue their shores from slavery, and Gen hove re-
should arrive in safety, we have hopes ne
will lie inspried TO come TO Boston and take eIo'.e1
drub hing: and must drub him soundly before the
"seepiered iyrant will learn we are not mere orues 20
crouch under his hand and kiss the rod with When &c
designs scourge And still again the same idea
AZ We might well expect finds expression IN The words OF
W,sbirg,on addressed TO BRYAN Fairfax: What is il,
what i. it we are contendng against l. against
paying the duty of three pence per pound on ,ea, De
.ause turdensome No is the night only 'ha' we
doubt ss TO the right which the Parliament Of Great
Britain had TO without consent, should most
heartily coincide with you in opinion Una. 20 p..on a9a
petition only is the proper method TO apply tor relief
because we should then be asking Il favor and me-
claiming right. which By the lar Of nature and oy our
Constitution in my opinion, indubsbiy entitled
to should even think il criminal to 90 further than
this under such idea; bat have none such ihinx
the Parliament of Great Britain have No more right to
put their hands into my pocket, without my consent
.thsn have 10 put my hands into yours. Applause.
How refreshing these strong bold words arewcrds that
mean somethlng-words That come pouring Gown
from those nights of patriotism upon our mean
politics and shifty staesmanshP, like cataract.
Renewed applause This the Idea Of the Revolution
as expressed in It's deepest thought And must be recc
ecte that was an Idea which fir reused our foreathers
10 action material acquisition Resistance for the
sake Of principle in the minds Of most OF them aIeast
preceded the no,ion of actual separation from Great
Britain end National Independence And that which was
pevadng Conception IN the thought and the writing OF
The time manifest in the very character and lives OF the
men of tie Revolution The men Of the REVOLUTION
those who left the standing and the pow midfurrow,
md seized the weapons with which they had fought against
Montcalm and Pontiac to battle for the cause OF freedom
Cl.efs Men Of elastic muscle and dauness bearing,
and motbeTwii As they rise up before US nothing strikes
US more mp,essvey than their ndviduaiism aud their
.ense OF personal independence These traits had been
ostered by every circumstance of early education and OF
ocsl position. Their religion threw them upon the basis
PERSONAL conscience their politics bad been trained in
meeting and in the field they fought on their own
hook Ii the of this class whose ruling pas
zion" as Bancroft says, was 20 be freebooter,
and who coveted the enjoyment OF perfect personal free
. onsti in of
royal mandates the errors Of border warfare could not
shut him from the wilderness and from that life Of ad-
venture in which seconscousness and selfrellance are
specially developed. In the primeva forest ne learned
great first principles and contempt OF mere convention
alites while the march of individual enterprise and
ACHE, proclaimed in the sound OF his ak and
the crack Of his rife from the woods Of Penobscot to the
valley Of the Mississippi Cheers Such then, were
the period the Revolution. Therefore not sur
pr sed that length this Idea OF personal WORTH OF nd
vidua freedom, eliminated and blazed in that bold dis
c sentence which this day has been read in your ears
We hold these truths TO be seevdent that all men are
created equal. and endowed by their Crea-
tor with certain inaionabe rights. Nor do we wonder
that this Idea triumIhed as II DID, IN the result OF nS Kew
call it The Americaa Idea, and yet have said that
ii is idea. | call il = the American ldee IN the
or the cotton gin American deai meaning thereby
not only pns.le' but Rrinc'Pe v e%Oo iO@h
around in this Crystal Palace and select the most
modern or original invention you can find, you may
trace IN il fdmens Of thought that are Older than
the pyramids; and, perhaps, some working principle
that was known 10 Tuba Cain. Applause Yet you
will accord the honors of invention 10 whonsoeVer nus
disentangled great idea and embodied 1t in more
Efficient FORM has djusted work!Dg-princpe as to
make II produce its results Now liberty itself an Old
fact has had its heroes aud its martyrs in almost e'ery
age As look back through the vista OF centuries can
see no end of the ranks those who have toed and sui
fcred in cause and who wear upon their breasts ITS
stars of the Legion of Honor. Applause. There was
Gr,can Liberty, and there Roman Llberty-Grecian
and Roman Republcanism. And certainly there was
tranrork Of Liberty But everybody knows that ancient
freedom not like our modern not like our American
freedom II freedom of cities; not OF huge masses
and territories 1t the freedom Of the citizen rather
than OF the individual Then Christianity into the
world and that grand rorng PriRcPeot liberty
which have Just enuncated-the doctrine Of individual
spiritual wort-whch beyond the barriers OF and
finds deeper foundation than the standards of ethnoogy
lGreat applause do not then, that the American
Idea gDa either presenting the first form OF organ
lied liberty, abstract working principle Norsso
merely The combination Of that principle with an organ
lied TO nothing of Others great deaf TO
England and let grudge the confession Letus
thankful for OF our hbes that have grown out OF
its heart of OAK for many of household associations
which Graded within its seabea,en walls Land of
Shakspere end of Milton whose Inspirations make
g. cd Of thought in the reservoir Of lie consttu
ton willingly recognize also, head-springs of our
common freedom. Applause. Ii was natural that we
should spurn the hand that oppressed us-t was quite
family TRAIT 1t legitimate blood that mounted TO
check and eye when the statues of King George were
melted into bullets and tea boxes oaed in Boston harbor
Great sppause They were ancestral tones thai mingled
ii
Monmouth. When think of Morgans rihemen and
Starks Green Mountain boys, readily think, also, of
Cromwells ITonsdes and willing that Elliott, and
Pym, and Russell, and Hampdeu, and Sydney, should
stand in iustrous comPaDonshp with the great men who
signed our Charter and bled upon fields.
But fellow. citizens, il is the man who makes the best
application Of working principle who is entitled to the
hoIors ofnvention. And our claim that have made
better application OF the great principle of Lib
ery than England has. In order to do THE had new
broad field clear Of all feudal rubbish We had the adj
vantage Of experience We had the best results Of the old
civilization 10 incorporate III the The rpest seeds OF
European freedom shaken by the hand Of oppression and
varied by Le OF persecution, borne TO these
shores, and furnished material And so, in constructing
new NATIONAL System gave more prominence TO THIS
ncple OF individual worth and right. As has been well
observed 1--WE incline less the historical element than
the Engh do, and more TO the dbstract We conceive
Of the rights of the citizen more as attributes Of has hu.
'mdHuy." Now, fellow. citizens, lno the great Crystal
Paac. Of Industry whose contributions consist Of facts and
principles bring this machine Of ours-I bring il into
the Exhibition Of the Industry of all Nations, patented
b. John Hancock and the undersigned stamped with thr
the AMERICAS IDEA ICheers. Here it stands, and
this great of History it will stand in the front
rspk. and forever. lRenewed spplausel
But justify this claim, must not merely describe
the machine but what il produces. ] mean what il
oue h. TO producewhat il meant to produce-what it
inevitably r produce when it is in good working order
Or TO drop the metaphor which this place naturally
suggests let proceedt consider what legtimate
cut Of the American Idea.
IN the first place then il is evident that Of il grow
the best forms Of PERSONAL freedom, culture and pouer
One of these is universally of political privileges pos
session by every Of the sacred rights of citizenship
because Of the hight Of his station the weight of his
purse but by virtue Of his intrinsic manhood For
pg TO this idea the mechanism of the State merely
for classes OF for property but for the great interests of
whole and the true interests Of the individual That which
weighs in one mans hand just much ia another's
which concentrates the humbest expression of opinion
ard axes it felt in Cabinets ard Senaes is the Ballot
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