Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07

msSpends IN course sensuaty a home the outfit given
him with foreign appointment withoutever going abroad
with the furnished to supply himself with the ma
teras universal in other countries Of polite and practical
convivalty by which treaties are suggested and hosi
ties prevented. ss
After these desultory chances at functional reform
proceed to the organic recurring with much more graft
to the burning but vvyng sunshine Of our orb
whose reatice happiness, according to Jeeons patri
otto optimism, whatever there may be to regret ia so
much greater than that Of any other country that the
American, unconscious Of it, is without constant enjoy
ment; for green liberty vergng to is infinitely
preferable to hoary tyranny and progress wild with
less reform, to purifying stagnation. The whole world
is in motion America may methodze, but cannot pre-
vent the movement.
Our felicity is begin untrammelled with antique him
ORANGES, to start with traditional liberty incomparaby
more rational and desirable than revolutionary and by
distance impregnably fortified free avoid chronic dis
tempers of the DID, yet adopt all their healthy impulses
The legitimate parent of national happiness, power
and dignity, mother earth is the natural and guar
dian OF the largest portion Of population More land
lords in proportion to other classes than in any other
country, the rmest of oil buwarks forfy the SOIL from
the remote borders of domains the gardens which
surround towns Some of their agriculture equals the
most finished of Europe and horticulture is rapidly i'm
proving with profusion of vegetable abundance mostly
unknown elsewhere Societies and science daily show
that oil the products Of the earth improve much as
man by cultivation. Sefmade potatoes and peaches are
very inferior to the webrought up. Unlike the farms
Of some OF the bestcutvaed regions of Europe where
tenantres till the EARTH here it enjoys for itself and its
husbandry the inestmabe advantage Of being wrought
by its owners. All around Philadelphia fine farms are
managed by landlords whose fathers and grandfathers
owned the same farms before their descendants race
OF more educated and enterprsng landlords of whom
there have always been many SOUTH and others are
ginning north OF us, extensive homesteads and
with more perfect cultures superaddng ingenious science
to Flooding experience and plentiful capital productive
abor beginning the establishment Of farms prota
BILE professions for educated men, thus uniting with the
yoemanry rural equestrian ORDER altogether the surest
reliance for conservative freedom individual indepen
dence and national protection.
And what magnificent distances they master! With
ample verge and enough from the Atlantic to the
Pacific multiplying landlords, natural noblemen, with
natural parks forests and game preserves far SURPRISING
those Of artificial noblemen in artificial enclosures in
creasing almost geomericay All will speak one mother
tongue, oil inherit the same regulated freedom Great
Britain France Germany, and Italy, each nation COM
pacted of heterogeneous congomeraton Of conquered
kingdoms welded into political amalgamation, by which
every one of them speaks languages uninteigble to
other provinces of the compulsion. On this broad
continent OF ours liberty fuses dialect eevates
hood Therefore, the destiny of such country to ag-
grandzement is manifest because it is natural if not
unavoidable Shorsghted prejudice deprecates union of
the whole American continent by spontaneous
in one entire and perfect commonwealth for free and
peaoeabe intercourse political, commercial, social and
Kindred such Suy says Henry the Great proposed for
all Europe two hundred years ago.
Not foot Of actual confederation came by force or
fraud but every inch by fair purchase and consent
Louisiana, Florida Oregon undeniably and Texas too
though much beed Mexican aggression forced HOSTILE
and every day demonstrates that would have been much
better for Mexico and for mankind if had never re-
nqushed what was as humanity triumphantly sub
dued While ever it continues the result Of natural and
PACING influences, North American governmental
sion is more natural than dposesson of the aboriginal
Indian landlords of the whoesoil Liberty tranquility
and prosperity, bestowed ilgoverned benighted dis
contened and warning regions proclaim the nvarable
territorial reform and who should deprecate such pro-
gress? |
One Of the mighest incentives to such annexation
that most precious and undervaued sovereign privilege
never tried till by this country ventured the right of
which endows him with universal suffrage if criminal
or pauper Three millions of bold sovereigns uniting ON
the same day, thousands of miles apart without commo-
ton or moestaton, in patriotic concerand three times
three, and many more, will unite, man. in one
great union, in good English, f little tnctured first
with Irish German, that melts into the mother
tongue Of Shakespeare and Milton, and Locketo desig
nate their chief magistrate is political subimy
magnificent than all the romantic beauties of American
mountains lakes, gigantic waterfalls, and ocean rivers
Disfranchsed European and Asiatc yearn be
mixed with such American Not only the poor
serf hind and pauper but yeomen artisans tradesmen
anxious to give work, skill and wealth for popular
ege Though streak of wild and dsorganizng revolu
ton may be in the arriving crowd yet the main is
full accreon to orderly population, without whom there
would be too few with Ttanvgor to till the fields build
the cities, construct the railroads. equip and man the
ships, and settle the boundless public lands Of these
United States
Endowed with universal suffrage when has that privi
lege disappointed those who trust it? All crowds are
apt to be tumutuous oil sovereign powers prone to be
arbitrary selfish, violent, blind, deaf and stupid But
that is human nature not the right Of to Co
vernment itself is necessary evil and most people
slider all but their own absurd and clumsy infection
Bat that multudes of sovereigns nation less
given to injustice than single monarchs is the
verdict of all history which, for wrong by people,
is little more than tissue of the recorded msdeeds
potentates
Within the last twentyayears Great Britain by extern
sion of popular suffrage has added much the pow
err wealth. happiness, and stability Of that great nation
that its further increase is proposed by her statesmen
Again and again within the last five years the landlord
peasanty Of France patriotic of law and
order peace and property, uneducated but honest land
prouder though richer propretors be Of their broad
acres their workshops and their palaces rebuked
fragrant frenzies of red republicansm and crushed
European outbreak of universal disorgaAizaton. The
quiet and good temper of British elections far
passed by those of France and obviously because all
voted at the latter instead of many excluded, while e
gal any undue influences disorders less opera
tive in France than in either Great Britain this
country.
That republican practices have not always real
lied the republican principles Of their American foun-
if surviving they would not deprecate Of the super
fetal progress that may endanger their fundamental
FORMS The dutful and conservative practice in politics
Of exemplary parsonage who, though politician,
did his political duty deserves to be commemorated
general and easy imitation That parsonage, indeed,
of the earliest graduates Of this University and the
first whom it conferred the degree Of Doctor Of D
vnity, by his admirable life, is model which rising
generations may study for excellence in piey and morals
as well politics and general department. Religious,
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