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


capacity 10 combine IDEAS end great capaeiH
10 ovcfwork a single one. Not quite thR.-~
This that l.tie iu,ellecrcc and lil.le learning
which are ,lanreroua 1heso nre the chwaoter-
flics have rend which pave The way ior the
Aewnt,il &c States. not on which 4 long glory
ana long strength have lowered. These.
more than the 0cuerai Of MaoeGon gave the
poipon 70 DnnosrnsSrs in the Island Temple
These, not the tridmvirate alone, closed the elo-
suont Ems Of Cicrko. These, before the popu-
lous North had done IL spread beneath Gibral-
Ter to the Isybian sands IN the downward age;
those not Christianity, not Goth, not Lombard
nor Norman. rent that fair one Italy asundcr
und turned tae garden and the mistress Of the
earth inte q school, irto hidiug place Of as
sassinsa-Aof spies nom Austria. OF spies trom
France, with gold to bby and cars TO catch Rpd
punish the dreams Of liberty whispered in l4h
and shdtned the memories aad hopes Of MA.
cnfAvRr. and MAzziSI, aud gave for that Joy nnu
that beauty, mourning and heaviuess. ms y
not the intelligence or Constitution means
WAsHrSaroS meant and our country needs y
is Intelligence which. however II begins cnns
with belief with humility with obediencc, with
vencration, with admiration, With truthi Whleh
recognizes and then learns and then teaches the
duties OF compreheusive citizenship. which
hopes for future on earth and beyond earth
but turns habtually revcrenty' thougnunly 70
the old paths, the great men, the haliowed
grayes Of the fathers, which binds IN one bun
de Of lute the kindred and mighty legend OF
revolution and liberty; the life Of Christ IL The
Evangeliss. aud the Constltut'on 70 us pam
text: which can rcnd with Lord CHATHAM THv-
cynrpEs and the stories ot master states Of an
tiouity; vet holds with him that the papers OF
the Congress Of l776 were better; whose pat
riotism grows warm at Marathon. hut warmer
at Monmouth, at Yorktown, at Bunker Hill, at
Saratoga; which reforms by preserving serves
by standing aud waiting, fears God and honors
America.
/ had something to say more directly still on
the ethics OF nationality on the duty OF instruct
ing the conscience. on the crimes ef treason and
Islander. and fraud, that are committed around
as in is name, on the shallowness and stupidity
of the doctrine that the mere moral sentiments,
trained by mere moral discipline, may safely
guide the complex civil life; of the teachers
studies which they need to fit them for 50 pre-
cious, difficult and delicate o dominion; OF the
high place in the scale of duties, which. thus
fitted, they assign to nationality; Of the Judg-
ment which, thus fitted they would apply TO one
or two of the commoH-places and pFdctices OF
the time. But pass it all to say only that
these ctHtCS lcaCl biC ttNC SuOoiNiAh1oht nHN
the true reconciliation Of apparently inccmpat-
ible duties These only are the casuists, or the
safest casuists for MS Learn from them how to
adjust this conflict between patriotism and phi
lanthropy. To US indeed. there seems to be no
sach coufiet for we are philantlropists in pro-
portion as we are unionists. Our philanthropy,
we venture TO say, is a just philanthropy. That
is all. 1t loves oil men, it helps all men, II re-
snects all rights, keeps all compacts, recognizes
an dangers pities all suffering, ignores no fact,
master and slave it enfolds alike. II happens
thus that it contracts the sphere Of our duty
somewhat and changes not the nature but the
times, the places, the mode OF performing them.
II does not make Our love cold, but il makes II
sale; il natur lzes IT, il haptzes into our life, II
circumscribes it within our capacities and cur
necessities, it sets on it the great national public
seal. &c you say that thus our patriotism limits
our philanthropy, answer that ours IL Ameri-
can philanthropy. BE this the virtue we boast,
and this the uame by which we know it. IN
this name, in this quality, find the standard and
the utterance Of the virtue itself. By this, not
by broad phylacterics and chief seats; the keen
er hate, the gloomier fanatieism. the louder cry,
iudge compare, subordinate. Do they think
that no body is philanthropist but themselves?
We, too, look up the long vista and gaze wrapt
at the dazzling ascent we. too, see towers ris-
ing, crowned. imperial, and the tribes coming 10
bend in the opening Of latter day. But we
see peace, order reconciliation OF rights along
that Frightening future. We trace all along
that succession Of reform, the presiding instru-
mentalities of national life. We sec our moral
ity working itself clearer ard clearer; one his
torical and conventional right or wrong. after
another falling peacefully and still; We hear the
chain breaking but there is no blood on il, none
of his whom II bound, none Of his who put il
on him; we hear the swelling chorus Of the free.
but master and slave unite in that chorus aud
there is no discordant shrek above the harmo-
ny; we see and we hail the blending Of our own
glory with the eternal light Of God but we see,
too shapes Of love and beauty ascending and
descending there as in the old visionl
Hold fast this hope; distrust the philanthro-
DIV, disirust the ethics which would which must,
turn it into shame. Do uosevil that good may
come. Periounyour share, foryou have share,
in the abolition Of Slavery perform your share,
for you have share 10 the noble and generous
strife Of the sections but perform it by keeping,
by TRANSMITTING, a upited loving aud Christian
America.
But whY. at last, do / exbort, and why do
seem 10 fear on such day as this Is II not
the nations birtkdayg Is it.not this country
Of our love and hopes, which celebrat es il -
This music Of the glad march these banners OF
pride and beauty these memories so fragrant,
these resolutions Of patriotism, SO thoughtful
these hands pressed these congratulations and
huzzaings and tears, this great heart tlirobbing
audibly--are they not hers, and do they not as
sure US /? These forests Of masts, these singing
workshops Of labor. these fields and plantations
whitening for the harvest, this peace and plenty,
this sleeping thunder, these bolts in the closed.
strong talon, do they not all tell MS Of her health,
her strength and her future This shadow that
lits across our grasses and is gone, this shallow
ripple that darkens the surface Of our broad
and widening stream, and passes away, this lit
tie perturbation which our telescopes cannot
find and which our science can hardly find, but
which We know cannot change the course or
hasten the doom Of one star; have these any
terrors for us And he who slumbers not, nor
sleeps. who keeps watebfuily the city Of his love.
on whose will the lie Of nations is suspended,
and to whom all the shields Of the earth belong,
our fathers God. IS he not our God, and OF
whoR then, and Of what, shall we be afraid
FRAzER RIyER.-The chief Importance Of
the new discovery does not consist in the
yalue Of the mines. rich as they may be,
but in fact that they give the 6rst impulse
TO the speedy settlement Of large region