San Andreas independent., 1858-08-28

party broils and party spoils, for mean
contention, for wranglings, for pride and
ambition? No. A patriotism that shall
take them all in, and give to every one
that foundation that was given by our
Revolutionary struggle-liberty liberty!
This is that patriotism that shall save our
land. Fellow-citizens, / am not an i'll
omened prophet. | believe that God
will yet build his temple ON these west
ern shores, though it may be like building
great cathedrals and mighty temples, the
work may delay, and may be marred in
some parts, yet the capstone will be put
to it amid shouting of liberty.
Give US the freedom of thought, free
dom of political action, and whatever may
be the temporary restraints and hind
RANGES, this land will rise and shake of
oppression from her garment, as dust
that has settled there in her sleep, stand
forth the virgin daughter of God, blessed,
resplendent and blessing. One word
more and | will detain you no longer. 1t
has been suggested to me to mention that
the ladies of America are now engaged
in securing to the Nation the ground
where stands the tomb of Washington at
Mount Vernon, and with this happy sug-
gestion [ shall most ftly close these re-
marks. In America it is fit that woman
should rise up in the perturbed state OF
public feeling, and-as everywhere they
do-make for peace and sound knowledge;
peace of conscience with purity. You
will remember that when Christ had lain
in the tomb for three days, and men
thought the world was empty of him, it
was women who went to the sepulchre,
asking as they went, "Who shall roll
away the stone?" Behold when they
got there, it was rolled away, and an
Angel sat upon it +. And now the women
of America are going to the Tomb Of
Liberty, saying, !" "Who shall roll away
the stone?" God grant that when they
get there, taking possession of it in the
name of America, they may find the stone
rolled away, and the living spirit OF
Washington, which is the spirit of liber-
ty, sitting upon it, to hail, to cheer, and
to bless them
CLOSE OF RUFUS CHoATE's SPEECH.
But why, at last, do | ex-
hort, and why do | seem to fear on such
day as this? Is it not the nations birth
day? Is it not this country of our love
and hopes, which celebrates it? This mu
sic of the glad march, these banners o
pride and beauty, these memories so fra
grant, these resolutions of patriotism, S,
thoughtful, these hands pressed, thes
congratulations and huzzaings and tears
this great heart throbbing audibly-ar
they not hers, and do they not assure US
These forests of masts, these singin:
workshops of labor, these fields and plan
tations whitening for the harvest, this
peace and plenty, this sleeping thunder
these bolts in the closed, strong talon, dc
they not all tell US of her health, hel
strength, and her future? This shadow
that fits across our grasses and gone,
this shallow ripple that darkens the sur
face of our broad and widening stream,
and passes away, this little 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 watch
fully the city of his love, on whose will
the life of nations is suspended, and to
whom all the shields of the earth belong,
our fathers God, is he not our God, and
of whom then, and of what, shall we be
afraid