The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-01-21

fear to The demands OF pride strengh- is the noble
fellowship OF equals OF brothers, striving to Guido each
other In acts Of kindness and affection,
The most sacred OF mysteries bur imperfectly ex
pressed In silence and secrecy the world formed
me earth turns IN her sphere, the seed springs up 10
bloom night follows upon day and harvests pen 10 The
san IL was the great wisdom of our fathers Mr. Pres.
dent, that they drew no line of definition between our
federal and State government lest in observing the LEI.
Ter OF compact should pass the aterpal iustee
mercy and love, in which consists the whole oi
political organization. These are essentials which
penetrate ils recess and Its remo,es limbs with
mighty pfue and so reduce the widest difference of ar.
rangemen into simple unity and power the States sun
porting the federal administrations and that adminisfa.
lion protecting then-a body invisible, Infused by one
spirit, and vital IN every part.
II Is true that European statesmen do not comprehend
this for this is something beyond their wisdom beyond
me principles arbitrary rule and government by the
sword. II IL the wisdom OF government established by
the people, administered by the people, responsible only
TO The people, and yet government over the people
Their code OF politics, like the humber branches OF
mathematics, deals with exact quantities, or, at least
fixed relations But the true science OF politics. like The
great laws OF Nature can be approximaled only results
iecty ained II deals with angles or rp hi lines
but with the trace OF beauty and OF life
Straight forward goes Il.
ne lshlnns PAM ana straight The fearful path
The road the HUMAN travels,
That fosd on which bessng comes and goes doth follow
rhs rivers course the ys,lley's playful wndags.
Honoring the holy bounds OF properly;
And thus SECURE, though late, leads 10 its end .
In this mystery of our Union, Mr. President. is en-.
shrned The palladium OF our safety and our free
dom. 10 him who inquiries with love aud reyer-
ence there will be craces which he cannot repeat
with his lips, but which will flow gratefully in,o
his heart. But TO him who inquiries curiouslv with
the words dlsunion" in his breath, no wisdom shall
| be vonchsafed; he will be insane with The echoes
o. judgments OF our reopledays Of disaster and OF
ioy-and but the shapes OF things darklv
as IN some terrible dream. There have been tines ana
not tar distant, when such wizards Of evil were permit
ted 10 nfame The passions and obscure the pain but The
happy era ol democratic administration has come once
more gladden. each patriotic heart TO silence turmoil 40
Ore to blot out all HE Of destruction Let u.s.
therefore beealm oar troubled spirs, and assure our
selves, with clear hope, with fresh Affection that the
trembling but feryent prayers the anxious deyotion ihe
heroc sacrifices, upon which fathers instituted his
conederacy, were foundation solid az The eierral
mountains Can il be- Mr. President, that the CHILDREN
| oil Westinghouse him whose glory came over The
world like the radiance OF SUM- bringing light ard
health ard Joy, 10 millions bowed in bondage and
despair--of him who achieved triumph for mankind
ana an example Tor every AEGEAN il be, sir that in the
contest OF little things, in the passion OF a day. in the
madness oil an hour. we should make a holocaust Of an
that we have and all that we can hope
NO, SIT, no The voice OF duty, The voice of love
The memory of the past, the glowing promises Of the u
ture-al-,af reilerate The sentiment proposed: OUs
FEDERAL UNION AND CONSTITUTION FOREVER!