American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-07-12
F0rihe Lancaster Gazette.

If there be on earth one nation or coun.
try greater than another, whose inStitu.
tons are spread throughout the vast do,
main, and which must draw their lise-blood
from the individual purity Of its citizens,
that nation is our own. Rulers by divine
right, and mobiles by hereditary succession,
may perhaps tolerate with impunity those
depraving :ndulgences which tend to keep
the great mass abject; but in our country.
our own native land, where every man,
however humble, bears 10 the omnipotenl
ballot-box his full proportion Of the soye-
rcignty. whore at regular periods ministers
of authority went forth to rule, return to
be ruled, and lay down their dignities at
the feet Of the monarch multitude. where
the President, replaced BY Kings in other
countries, does not, like them, govern the
people tyrannically, but is in his turn rath-
er governed by them,--where, in short,
public sentiment is the absolute lever thai
moves the political world. and the purity
of its citizens is the rock of its political
safety. This is cur country, our own dear
native land--"The home Of the free, the
land Of the braye;" ours transmitted by
our forefathers, the Patriots of America
and American liberty; ours to preserve,
ours to transmit as pure and unpolluted as
4 it was when we received it; and shall We
continue 10 go on increasing and united as
by the Ties of bro!herly love and affection,
or shall we add another to the list of Re-
publics which have preceded us, and which
in time bid fair to become exalted as it were
above earth, but which have fallen the vic
tins Of their own follies and dissensions.
No. we will not disgrfce the h0nored
names of a Washington, an Adams, JEFF
ferson, and many others who fought both
publicly and privately for the freedom we
now enjoy, and whose names win always
be remembered by every American as the
patriots of the age, the greatest of the
world Let us beware the tide of foreign
emigration. Popery is on the alert. and
ere long, it is to be feared, will strive to
obtain the power-let US keep our institu.
tiOns unpolluted, our Offices cleascd from
The detilement of Dogmatcs and Catholics
who have for their object the overthrow o
this Union, and ill them with our OWL
freemcn, or. as Washington said, "Placc
none but Americans upon guard, ,"-let Us
fear for our own safety the Author Of oul
being, as did our forelathers, and we are
safe. No foreign foe then dare approach
or oppress us, and while this People is true
to itself and to its country, is example viii
exert lasting influence, which shall b.
remembered for ages, and its strength, i
need be, will defend it. Yes. there is loC
much patriotism in the bosoms Of Ameri
cans, too much interest taken by lis in thu
welfare of this loved land Of liberty, to b.
dormant in the slightest danger We hay
had great men, and still have men VIII
would be willing to die if it were necessa
Try, for this our country, for the preserva
ton Of the liberty we now enjoy.
We have had men,
II With more han mortal powers endowed, ..
How high thay SCARED above ihs crowd,
Theirs wasno common party race,
81 Jostling by intrigue Tor places
Like fLbled Gods, their mighty war
Shook realms aud nations in its jar;
, Ssek not for than a separate doom,
Whom fats mlds brothsrs in th1 tomb.
Bat search the land OF living men, -
Whers shall vs. nnd III Dir like again.
: Such were the men that every Ameri
can should be proud Of Such were til
men of the Revolution and of latter days
viz: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Web
ster, Clay, and many others, whose fam
c is sounded in every land j. K.