The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1855-02-01

Whlcn thes Playeo the game olloFeiSn Poi-
itics.
Atlength the reaction and the rescue
came. It's history is an exalted evidence
of the fitness of the American people, for
the most trying exigencies Of selt-govern-
ment. No son Of the soil can regard it,
and its proof of American Intelligence, pa
triotism and virtue, without pride and ex-
ultstion. 1t borrowed no aid, it knew no
leader, sought no counsel. The move
ment burst Ike bolbfrom the overcharg-
ed cloud of American wrongs-sudden,
spontaneous and universal; it knew no pa
rent but the old and ever true American
heart. hhad, and it needed, no organ,
mo orator, no oracle; no leader, no aid
The American people, North and South,
East and west, finding the cupof foreign
arrogance and usurpation overrunning, quiz
ely stepped forth by myriads from their
homes and recorded the decree. 1t can
never be revoked. 1t can never be regret
ted. Hereafter it will be pointed TO as
the noblest evidence of American intelli-
gence, patriotism & independence; & when
so remembered, Delaware, will not be for
gotten as the foremost to impress upon
the cause the broad seal of the Common
wealth sanction.
That triumph, should it prove to be ma
tional, will impose many and majestic du-
ties. The first will be to surround, as
with wall of ere, which no pollution can
invade, that Holy of Holies--the ballot
box; aud closely succeeding will rise the
duty of regulating migration; of closing
the avenues which have communicated
with the prisons and lAzar-houses Of Eu-
rope; Of defeating the ungenerous policyby
which foreign princes force us 10 receive
the moral ahomiDstions which their over
cloyed country vomits forth, constraining
us to support their paupers, and to expose
!, the property and lives Of our people to the
rufiian skill end desperation of their trans
ported felons. As tax and peril the
heaviest and worst, as wanton wrong
d outrage, it should be redressed in the first
hours of realized national American victo-
! ry.
But the more pervading and vital tri-
umphs of the second American revolution,
, will be those which will establish. as the
settled policy, foreign and domestic Of the
nation, the saving principle of American
; Independence, as applied, not only to the
{ right of suffrage, but to the privileges, sa
: cred and inestimable, Of our honest hard
t handed home labor. The policy by which
D our country has been, in its trade, its cur
e rency, its varied industrial pursuits, agri
. cultural, mechanical, and otherwise, ant
/ in its social habits Of expenditure and lux
k ury, thrust into and made part of Europe
: is treason against American honor ant
Q American interests. tbs arcpudiation O
r all the peculiar advantages bestowed, By
r Providence in requital of the virtues of ou
e fathers, upon our young and then unbur
/. thened country. We have 10 CRAFTY th
n schemes Of politicians, and to glut tn
It greediness of money -changers, invited ant
l. drawn upon our country common ant
10 almost an equal share of the evils whicl
n attend, as their parasite and clnging ours
d es, tho wasting vices and crimes of Eu
@ rope. Our true independence, real happi
IS ness and secure policy are TO be realized
Is only by fostering our own American home
20 their industry, mutual relations and mu
4 tual self-relanco.
Ie In regard to every political virtue an
- hope, to all of pride and confidence asso
If ciated with that American liberty which
l. AS the earthquake shakes and the TEN
s. pest oyershadows all else of the civilize
D. world-grows brighter and dearer to III
rs it is apparent that the time has arrive
le when our county must separate her pol
te cy from tho intrigues and Vaccinations I
IN Europe--from the strategy ana corruptic
n by which European councils and lii .eres
ii boastfully betrayed tho independence
IN American industry and made our Ian
1t tributary as it now unhapily is, to Englan
n, and France; forced upon us, with the
D. luxuros, their vices; and added to til
b. usurraton tho heavy imposition of MOI
l. strous and perpetual0 0ebt--a debt share
- by every American; debt which drair
W our country of its specie, and which sui
jects it, throughout every fibre Of j
ly gi~ht frame, to the agony Of such fnar
IA cial cenvulsion as that which now aiIlc
t. us. Vain will be the patriotic throbbin
u- of the great American heart. and val
IS tho vigor of the American arm TO r,
lg achieve American Independence, until OF
lr land shall have been made independent
,e that from which all power has its sourt
I'd her industry.
ID Then, and only then, will she cease
i be European colony; then will she be Il
Is America of our fathers--truly indepent
H. ent--rch in her own escources-secul
ls in her own strength, and happy in her ow
c. freedom. The crimes and oppression
cs the wrongs and wars Of Europe may To-
to rify and torture their own world, but n,
of ripple of the storm will break upon o,
ID shores. Till that consummation sha
cs have been effected, our duty will be unfu
h. filled, and our triumph--howeve gloriou
n incomplete; the oracles of our Americs
,e patrarchs d prophets will remain empty,
ID the real mission, holy, calm, beneiicient,
our American destiny unachieved.
TO In tho federal Union, the general an
ur State governments, revolving in their a
A. propriate orbs. neither unite, nor clasl
,st their mutual influence, induces mutu
to interest. and the individual States watt
,al with anxiety the disk, darkened or lu
on trous, as her councils determine--
ey the central orb. The history of Del
ch ware, in her relations with the gener
ed government has always been interestir
and conspicuous; and in every crisis it HI
me beer her fortuna Ia nro,,a &c H. 49,,