Washington telegraph., 1855-12-05

throb Of heart capacious of our whole
| America1
The deep. full. burning tide of American
feeling, so hard to counterfeit, so hard to
chill. does it once gladden. and glorifv this
Inauguration oratory and these inauguration
ceremonies. Is not the keynote of it all,
that the Shareholders of the South are an
aristocracy to be '-abhorred'' and avoided
that they are insidious and dangerous, that
they are undermining, our republic, and are
at all hazards TO be resisted Do they not
inaugurate the new party on the basis OF re-
I clprocal hate and reciprocal fear of section
to section? Hear this sharp and stern logic
of one of the orators: "Aristocracy, through
all hazards is to be abhorred and avoided.
But privileged cless are sure to become,
nay. are an aristocracy already The local
Southern law, and the national constitution
make the shareholders privileged class
They are therefore an aristocracy to be ab-
| horred and avoided" Such is the piercing
keynote of his speech. To this he sets his
whole music of diseord. To this he would
set the whole music of the next Presidential
canvass To this the tens of thousands of
the free States are to march. "Abhor" and
avoid the aristocracy of the South Organ
ize to do it the better They are insidious
and dangerous. They are undermining re-
publican liberty. March to defend it, Ave,
march. were it over the burning mass or by
the light which the tossing wave OF the lake
casts pale and dreadful
Il might show. the same orator proceeds,
''that the constitution is wrong in thus con-
ceding to a privileged class. might show,
q 7'riori. that such class would be danger
Gus. [ choose, rather to teach you so to
read the history Of America. that you shall
find its one great lesson viii be hatred and
dread of the aristocracy of the South. for its
conduct even more than for It's privileges
And SO be unrolls the map and opens the
record. He traces the miraculous story; he
traces the miraculous growth; from the birth
day Of the constitution and from the straight
ened margin of the old thirteen States.
through all the series of expansion, the &C
QUESTION of Louisiana. the adoption Of that
State into the Union; the successive adop-
ton. also. of Kentucky. Tennessee, Mssis-
sippi. Alabama and Missouri; the annexa-
tion of Florida and Texas, and California.
Grown in fifty years from narrow herit-
the spring heads of the Connecticut and the
mouth of the St Mary's in Georgia-to the
dimensions of Roman, of Russian, of Asiatic
boundlessness. This he traces across the
Alleghanies across the imperial valley and
the Father of Rivers, through the opened
portals of the Rocky Mountains, to the shores
of the great tranquil sea-aye, and beyond
these shores to richer dominions over the
commerce of the EaSt-to which it opens a
new and nearer way; this majestic series
over glory. over shame, he runs over: the
one single lesson he gathers and breaches
from 1t Is. that the arIStocracy of the South
is as insidiOus and dangerous and undermin-
ing in practice as ii is threatening, priori,-
that we sEould 'abLoI' and ''avo;d" it, for
what it has done, as well az for what the
constitution and the laws secure to it; this is
the lesson of the history of America
As he studies the map and reads the his
tory so is the new party to do it; so are the
fathers and so are the children of the free
States all to read it; it is to teach them all
one dull lesson, and to sound in their ears
one single dreary and monotonous warning.
The annexation of Louisiana. the master
work of Jefferson. unless you say the Declar-
alton of Independence is his master-wcrll;;
the annexation Of Florida by treaty, for
which John Quincy Adams acquired so just
fame, and which stipulates for the incor-
poratior Of It's inhabitants into the Union;
the victories of Palo Alto. Monterey, Beuna
Vista and COn.reras, which crowned the
arms of America with lustre imperishable,
although they could not vindicate to justice
and history, the Administration, or the poll
ties which brought on the war; nor the Free
Soilers of New York, whose tactics caused
the election of that Administration ex-
pansiOn. so stupendous; this motion, silent
and resist!ess-of all the currents Of nation
ality being towards the setting sun-like that
of our astronomical system itself. towards
the distant constellation--thi hour is to
kindle no emotion. to inspire no duty, to in
culcate no truth, but to ''abhor'' and avoid
the aristocracy. whose rapacious use or in,
sidious fabrication Of opportunity. 50 strik
ingly illustrates the body OF the constitution.
Oh, how soothing and elevating to turn
from this to the meridian brightness; the
descending orb, the whole clear day of our
immortal Webster, How sweet, how in
structive to hang again on the lips now mute,
still speaking. whose eloquence, whose wis
! dom. were all given ever to his whole Amer
/ lea. How grand TO feel again the beat Of
the great heart which could enfold Us ALL
He saw too, and he deplored the spread of
slavery. He marked, and he resisted the
frenzy of the politics by which an admins
tration gave it so vast an impulse by annex
ing Texas and making war with Mexico
He had surveyed. no man had so deeply
done it, the growth of his country from the
rock of Plymouth, and the river jamestown
to the western sea- But did he think it
just to trace it ali to the aggressive spirit of
the aristocracy who held slaves2 Could his