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

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tlona.ify itseff
40 rot deuy TOO, that some things 30
b0rdlnate and executofy are little easier
Than at 3rst; that the friction Of the ma-
chine . lees somewhat, that mere admin
iaifatlon has grown simpler; organizations
have bceu effected which may move OF
themselves; that depa,menis have been
xfcnscd aud set going which can 80 alone;
that tbo Constitution has been construed
anthorilaiirely; that q coarse. routine.
has been established in which tllngs--some
thfngs--snay 60 ca as now, without your
thought o. rnue. Bold he Ia moreover
| admit, not wise, who would undertake
% determine what chance or what Provi-
dcnce, mar do, and what man may 60 in
she snstenlion Of national life. Bot re-
member. that Is a falxe philosophy, and
that Is no religion which absolves from du-
y. That Is inlpiety which boasts Of
win Of God, aud forgets The business Of
man. Wild and reason created, will and
reason must keep. Every day still, we
in committe cf The whole, en- the ques-
fion Of the Constitution or no Constitution.
Eternal vigilance is the condition Of union,
as they say il is OF liberty have heard
that II the same Omnipotence which FORM
ed the universe at first should suspend its
care for a day, primeval chaos were come
again. Dare we risk such a speculation in
politics. and act on il Consider how new
Is this America Of yours ! Some there are
yet living who saw this infant rocked ia
the craddle. Some there are yet alive who
beheld the FIRST Inauguration OF WAsHISe-
TON, many that felt how the tidings Of his
death smote on the general heart. Some
now alive saw the deep broad trench first
excavated, the stones drawn from the
monntaia-slde, the mortar mingled, cyclo-
pean foundation laid, the tears, the anthems,
the thanksgiving Of the dedication day
That unknown, therefore magniGed, there
fore magnificent original, that august ira
dition Of q mixed human and Divine, that
hidden fountain, the loug half hidden How
glancing uncertain and unfrequent through
the opening Of the old forest, spreading out
at last, after leagues, after centuries, into
Che clear daylight Of history, the authori-
tatiye prescription; 5lie "awfsal hear OF in-
Vulnerable ages" the legend, the fable, the
tones Of uncertain harps, the acquiescence
Of generations, rising IN long line as TO a
gift-where for us are they
On all this architecture OF Utility and
reason. where has Time laid q finger p
What angularity has it reunded what
stone has covered it with moss on what
salient or what pendant coigue Of vantage
has it built its nest on what deformity
has It's moonlight and twilight fallen p
What enables as then TO withhold for a
moment the sustaining hand The coun-
sci Of philosophy aud history, Of CIoERo. Of
MrcHIAvELs Of MoNTEsouEIEu to turn to
the fast principles, to reproduce aud recon-
struct the ancient freedom, the masculine
virtues, the plain wisdom Of heeriginal--it
is mot seasonable counsel eminently for your
Remember, your reasoR, your Will may keep,
must keep what reaseR and viii bailded.-
Yours is the responsibility, yours, to coun-
try, to man. unsaared, unconcealed.
4 do not know that l need to say next
that such spirit Of nationality reposing on
will and reason, or however produced, not
spontaneous, and therefore to some extent
artificial, demands specific culture to de-
velop it and to make it intense, sure and
constant. need not say this, because it
is so plain but it is important as well as
plain There is love of country which
cones uaeafled for, one kRows not how
1t co0aes in with the very air, the eye, the
ear, the instincts, the first taste of the
mothers milk, the FIRST beatings of the
heart. Tins faces of brothers and sisters.
and the loved father and mother,--the
laugh Of playmates, the old willow-tree,
and well, and schoolhouse, the bees at work
in the Spring, the note Of the robin at eve
ming, the lullaby, the cows coming home,
the singing book, the Catechism, the visits
Of neighbors, tue general training, AL
things which make childhood happy, begin
it and then as the age of passion and
the age Of the reason draw on, and love
and the sense of home and of security aud
Of property under las. come TO life and
as the story goes round, aud as the book or
the newspaper relates the less favored lot Of
other lands, aad the public and the private
sense Of man is forming and formed, there
is type of patriotism already. Thus they
had imbibed it who stood that charge at
Concord, and that they threw up the hasty q
imperfect redout on Bunker Hill by night,
ses on it the blood red provincial flag, and
passed so calmly with PREscoTF and PUT-
HAM aud WARREs through the experiences
Of the first fire. But now to direct this
spontaneous sentiment Of hearts 90 the
Union, to raise il high, to make it broad
and deep. to instruct it, to educate it, is 10
some thiags harder. some things easier; but
il may be dene; il must be done She, too,
has her spectacles; she, too, has her names;
she, too, has her food for patriotism, for
childhood, for man. Americans" said an
orator Of France, "begin with the infant in
the cradle. Let the first lisps be VASE
TSoros7 Hang on his neck on that BIRTH
day, and that day Of his death at Mount
Vernon. the Medal Of Congress, by its dark
ribbon; ten him the story Of the Dag as it
passes glittering along the road; bid him
listen to that plain. old-fashioned. stirring
music Of the Union; lead him when school
is ont at evening to the grave Of his great
grandfather, the old soldier of the war; bid
hin, like HANsIBAL, al Rine years old, la,
the little hand on that Constitution ant
SWEAR reFerently 20 observe it lift him ~
"a the height Of American feeling opei
to lin. and think for yourselves, on the re
Iatioa Of America 70 the States shoV
hln uDon the map the area 10 which shl
has extended herself tho climates thw
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