Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-08-07

Z ."ei "H"Bv, eheh opinions, their literature
! their morality, are around us ever. mr.,
: sence, monument, an atmosphere. Whet
you consider this, you feel how practjca
aud how inevitable is that autagonism 10
single natiOual life, and how true Il 4 tbol
we buy all our blessings at price.
Bat there is another antagonism 10 snel
national life, less constant, less legitimate
less compensated, more terrible, to which
must reter-not for reprobation, not fo
warning, not even for grief, bnt that W,
may know by contrast, nationality itself
and that is, the element of sections This
too, is old, Older than the States. old n,
the colonies, old as the churches that plant
ed them, old as jamestown, old as Ply
mouth. A thousand forms disguise aud ex.
press il, and in all Of them il is hideons. -
CdadsduR sen HigrRm hoc tW Romano Garcia
Black or white, as you are Americans
dread it, shun it. Springing from many
causes aud fed by many stimnlants. snrine.
ing from that diversity Of climate, business.
institutions, accomplishment and morality.
which comes Of our greatness, and compels
and should constitute our order and our
agreement, but which only makes their diff
4 fculty and their merit; from that self-loye
and selfprcference which are their own
standard, exclusive, intolerant, and censo-
rious, of what is wise and holy; from the
fear Of Ignorance, the Jealousy Of Ignorance.
the narrowness of ignorance; from inca
pacity to abstract, combine and grasp n
complex and various object, and thus rise
to the dignity Of concession and forbear-
ance and compromise; from the frame of
our civil polity, the necessities Of our pub
lie life and the nature Of our ambition
which forces all men not great mcn,-the
minister in his parish, the politician on the
stump on election day, the editor Of the
party newspaper-to take his rise or his
patronage from intense local opinion and
therefore to do his best to create or rein
force it; from our federative Governments;
from our good traits, bad traits, and fool
lsh traits; from that vain and vulgar
hankering for European reputation and re-
spect for European opinion, which forgets
that one may know Aristophanes. and Ge-
ography, and the Cosmical Unity and Tel
luric Influences, and the smaller morals of
life and all the sounding pretentions of phi
anthropy, and yet not know America:
from that philosophy. falsely so-called,
which boasts emptiIy of progress, reueances
traditions, denies God and worships itself:
from an arrogant and aashy literature which
mistakes a new phrase for new thought
and old nonsense for new truth, and is glad
to exchange for the fame of drawing-rooms
and parlor windows, and the side-light Of
car in motion, the approval Of time and
the world; from philanthropy which is
short-sighted, impatient and spasmodic, and
cannot be made to appreciate that its grand
est and surest agent in bis eve whose life
time is eternity, and whose periods are ages.
is nation and sober public opinion and
q safe and silent advancement, reforming |
by time; from that spirit which would rue |
or ruin, and would reign in hell rather than
serve in heaven; springing from these
causes aud stimulated thus, there is an ele- |
ment of regions antagonis:ic to nationality. |
Always, have said, there vas one; always
there will be- It lifted its shrek some
times even above the silver clarion tone that
called millions 10 unite for independence.
1t resisted the nomination Of WAsHINeroN
to command our armies; made his new
levies hate one another; assisted the ca
balings OF GATES and CONWAY; mocked his
retreats and threw its damp passing cloud
for moment over his exceeding glory:
opposed the.adoption of any Constitutions;
aud perverted by construction and de-
as a covenant with hell the actual
when itwas adopted; brought
into our vocabulary and discussions the
hateful and ili-omened words North and
South, Atlantic and Western; which the
grave warnings Of the farewell address ex-
pose and rebuke; transformed the floor of
Congress into a battlefield of contendiug
ocal policy; convened its conventions at
Abbeyille and Hartford; rent asunder con-
erences and synods; turned stated assem-
Dlies of grave clergymen and grave Iaymen
nto shows Of gladators or of the beasts of
yladiators, checked the holy effort of mis-
lions, and set back the shadow Of the dial
plate of certain ameioration and ultimate
probable emancipation, many degrees -
Some might say if eliminated later in an
even more daring still; but 9th
,rs might deny it. The ashes upon that
ire are not yet cold, and we will not tread
lpon them. But all viii unite in prayer to
God that we nay never see, nor
our children, nor their children to the
housandth generation, may ever see it cuI-
innate in geographical party banded to
,lect a geographical President, and inaug-
rate geographical policy.
~Taks any shape but that. and thou art welcome p
But now, by the side Of this and all an
higher than they, stronger than
hey, there rises colossal the fine sweet
spirit of nationality, the nationalityof
America See there the pillar of fire
which God has kindled and lifted aud
moved for our hosss aud our ages. Gaze
Oh that, worship that, worship the high !
ost in that. Between that light and
our eye cloud for time may seem to |
gather; ehariots, armed men on foot, the l
troops Of kings may march on MS, and our
ears may make US for moment turn from
Z; sea may spread before us, and waves |
eem to hedge US up; dark idolatrios may
llienate some hearts for season from that
Worship; revolt, rebellion, may break out
n the camp, aud the waters of our springs
nay run bitter 10 the taste aud mock il:
rs and that Canaan a great river !
nay ssem to be rolling; but beneath that J
ligh guidance our way is onward, ever on !