Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1857-08-01
SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1857.
ssE pIuribus Unun.,

, our national motto and the truest symbo
: OF our national character. BY ore of thos'
} strange condolences which the great guild
ing Hand that directs the universe, delights
to exhibit in its management, that LITTLE
phrase Sc aptly chosen by our forefathers. t
rate States in one, such as mankind hat
never before witnessed, was also overrulet
by experimenting Providence to symbol
ize different, deeper and more sign;fican
union, on which was to be based nationa
character and consequently national des
tiny, far stronger and far nightier in its re-
suits, than the outward and more palpablt
union which that motto was originally in.
tended to signify. The fathers of the early
settlement of this co ontinent and of the rev
olution were the pioneers of a grand ''people
wandering" as the Germans fitly term it.
which was to be one of those mighty land
marks of ages, by which the worlds pro-
gress is marked, and which stand in awful
prominence, like the pyramids of the desert.
at long intervals of centuries along its path
way. Like all the other movements Of its
kind, this flowing of the people from the old
world to the new, could not be understood
in all its far-reaching consequences and deep
significance, by the men who lived in its
commencement, nor yet by those Of the next
age nor the next nor is it likely that its
| whole drift and meaning will be understood
| by any age until the whole movement shall
have been accomplished and the last step in
its completion taken. But yet, asst has pro-
| gressed farther and farther towards its end,
and the great outlines of the stupcndous de-
signs have began to assume shape, newer and
truer conceptions of it's design, extent, and
nature, have dawncd upon the minds of men
! and more healthful and practical notions of
their true part in this work have been adop-
ted.
Our forcfathers Of the revolution, knew
that they were contending for the cnfran-
chisement of new nation, and they were
permitted to finish their course, happy in
| the consciousness Of having achieved that
glorious work. But they did not foresee
nor was it necessary that they should, in
what that nations nationality should con-
sist, but with d -tini consciousness OF the
uncertainty Of the national character to
which they were giving birth, they christcn
ed it with none Of the old names then APP
propriated by other nationalities, but gave
1t the most indefinite che they could apply;
they appropriated the name Of the whole con-
tincnt, from north to south They called it
not English, OF German, or French, or Span
ish, nor tianie coined from all Of these but
they called it American. A name to which
they all could lay equal claim, and which
was deeply significant Of the nationality
which was to be educed from combination
of all the old races Of Europe. SO that as
s'E pluribus unum" signifed originally the
the union of several states Under one GOV
ernment, so it symbolizes still more proper
lv, the union of all the formerly distinct
and sometimes hostile races of Europe into
one new, wonderful, strong and potent ma
tionality, having for its home continent,
for its boundaries two oceans, for its work
the free and unrestraihed exemplifcation of
civil and religious liberty and the sovereign
ty of the people, before the eyes of all other
nations. ---g..s <.st..1. ..stl .
| And now, who can look over the wide
and swelling prairies of Iowa and the West,
and watch the emigrant hosts of this great
''people wandering" still fling onward and
coming in, marching to the North and the
South; the East and the West and posting
themselves everywhere upon these plains as
the vanguard Of liberty, without feeling his
: heartswelf with pride and strong eniotidn2
They come. Equals and partners in the Ainer-
ican nationalifi Gkicll is to be evolved from
their un;ou They COME; hating
oppression re "a monarchy, and l0v=
ing liberty, "a ~ and republicanism:-
They como bitterly opposed to the rule of a
privileged aristocracy over the masses, and as
such prepared to resist to the last the domi-
| neering demands of a slaveholding aristocra-
! cy, who have got the masses of the South
under their power and are plotting to sub
ject the masses Of the North in like manner.
They come as brothers and freemen; and as
such we welcome them. to take part in the
great struggle now waging between slavery
and freedom, the wrong and the right.
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/ REGULAToRs.. s..-The citizens of Hardin
County have formed themselves into "Mu-
tual Prot ection Association" against the
depredations Of horse thieves, &c. The Sen
tinel of that county, speaking Of the associa-
tion says: ''We would not counsel any very
harsh means, unless under aggravated cir
cumstances.'i 1t is such connivance as this
by the press, and persons of influence, that
has led to sath scenes Of Violence and blood
shed as have disgraced our State recently
$50 long as the local press shall give i'm
/ piled countehance TO violations of the law,
so long will men be found and associations
formed that will take the law into their own
hands. = @e ArAi osa1
4 z Us t.fta ,fsst}5-
/ "A LONG TRIP The steamer Twilight,
which left the port of St. Louis on the 2lst
\ Of May, laden with government stores and
Indian goods for the'mouth of the river A ue
! Tramble, q distance of two thousand five
hundred and twenty miles, reached her des-
tination on the 7th inst, and returned to ST
Louis on Tuesday afternoon, making a round