, 1856-07-18

Ladies and Gentlemen-Love Of country
Is virtue. He that loveth not his country
loVeth not his God. Man is social being.
He was made for society. From necessity
he associates with his fellow man, for mu.
tual help and protection. This is the spon-
taneous impulse of his being. To meet this
demand of human beings, governments
have been divinely instituted. Without
human governments society could not ex-
ist. The world would be dreary waste,
where every mans hand would be against
his neighbor. Blot out human govern
ments from among men, and the world
would be broken up. Mankind have new
CT been able to exist for any length of time
in o state Of anarchy. The most oppres
sive of human governments, is less cruel
and preferable to state Of anarchy.
,Butof all human Cover Iments, our coun,
try is blessed with the best, The Gerry best
A government where the people arc the
soVereigns, the rulers and the servants, to
administer their laws aud to regulate their
affairs of state; where the rulers, elevated
to Office at the will of the governed, are
founded in justice and humanity; where civ
i and religious liberty is most fully under
stood and secured, and freedom Of speech
and Of the press is UNIVERSAL govern.
ment which commends itself to the reason
Of men as being the wisest and most benev.
olent Of any on earth-which secures the
greatest freedom to the masses, while il
maintains the purposes of society. Here
that most absurd and contemplate doctrine
ofmillions made for one, can never have ut.
terance. Until the fundamental principles
Of our constitution shall be changed, nc
man can rise to the chair of chief magistra-
cy to govern for himself, to receive HON.
age, to roll in splendor, to riot in luxury,
as his pride, power or ambition might die
tate, at the expense Of the tolls aud suffer
ings of his fellow men.
A nation enjoying such government
ought to rejoice in its blessings, while il
guards with sleepless vigilance its cherished
institutions. Here patriotism is peculiarly
q virtue, and the want Of it q sin of mali9
nant dye. The man who would not love
such q country as ours, who would not per
petuate our free institutions, deserves to be
debased 10 the condition of savage. Tc
keep this patriotic fire burning on our
hearths, is the great object Of this nation
a jubilee-the anniversary Of our nations
birth. On this day we should remember
those civil blessings which distinguish us
as nation, and the toll and sufferings oI
those noble ancestors, from whom we have
received our Inheritance of freedom. That
they might deliver to US their descendants,
a form Of government the most rational
and the most consistent with the great
charter Of human righflAsfbcord of God
Our fathers resisted the encroachments Of
naughty foe that we might be free they
poured out their treasure and their blood
From then we have received the richest
legacy that ever children received from
their ancestors free government 1t wa;
their work to lay the broad foundations o.
this republic, it is ours to perpetuate and
hand it down to our posterity unsullied
Shall we do this, or despiSing the rich leg
acy, shall We suffer our free institutions to
be marrcd, and the tree Of liberty to witheI
and die?
Taking my stand to-day on an emiuence
which overloOks this vast republic, ! cou.