Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-07-14
Rufus Choate's speechs--Eiequent hI'
tracts.

| Rufus Chonte's speee
tracts.
Hon. Rufus Choate, of Massachusetts, on
the 9Th instant, delivered an GRAFTON before
the National men," of Boston, to comnen-
crate the anniversary of American indepen-
deuce. The fJrt is highly praiscd--both III
the patriotic and intellectual views. "e
mako some further extracts:
CREED OF LIBERTY.
This creed SO grand, 30 brOad--n its gen.
e.al and duly qualified meaning. 80 true
planted the colonies, led them through the de-.
sert and the sea of an.i-re7olutionary life.
rallied them all together to resist the attacks
of king and q minister, sbarpened and
noin,ed the bayonets Of all their battles,
burs. forth from million lips, beamed In
million eyes, burned in million bosoms,
sounded out in their revolutionary eloquence
OF fire and in the Declaration, swoxe the
thunders and cleaned in the lightning OF the
deathless words of OILS, Henry. and Adams;
was graved forever on the general mind by
the pen of Jefferson aod Paine as by steel
roiut on q great rock sun-lgbted; survived
the excitements of war and the necessities OF
order: penetrated and tinged ell our consti.
tutionsi composition and policy, and all onr
party organizations and nomenclature, and
stands to-day radiant, defiant, jocund, uptoe
on the summit OF our greatness, one author'
tatiys and loud proclamation to humanity
by Freedom, the guardian and the sVergsr.
STATE RIGHTS.
In the theories OF all pubicists and all
speculatists they were retained. and they
were valued for it, to hinder and to disarm
tina, Capitalization which had been found to
be the danger and the weakness OF federal
liberty. And then when you bear in mind
that they are sovereignties quasi, but sover.
eighties still; that one OF the most dread ana
trunsceDdent prerogatises OF soverelgntles,
the prerogstive to take life and liberty tor
crime, is theirs without dispute; that in the
theories OF some schools they may claim TO
be parties 20 the great compact, and as
such may, aud that any one of them may, Sc
! cede from that compEc. when by their cor
porate judgment they deem it % be broken
! fundamentally by the others, and that from
| such judgment there is no appeal to com
mon peaceful umpire; that 10 the theories OF
some schools they may call out their young
men and their old men under the pain of
death 10 defy the sword-point of the Federal
arm; that they can pour around even the gal
| lows and the tomb ofhim who died for treas
on to the Union, honor, opinion, tears, and
thus sustain the last untimely hour aud soothe
the disembodied mplainipg shade; that ev-
ery one, by name. by liue Of boundary, BY
| urisc ction, is distinct from every other, and
every one from the nation; that within their
nvi5late borders lie our farms, our homes,
our meeting houses, our graves; that their
! laws, their courts, their militia, their police,
10 50 vast an extent protect our persons from
violence and our houses from plunder; that
their heaven ripeus our harvests; their schools
| form our children's mental and moral nature;
| their charities or their taxes feed our poor;
their hospitals cure or shelter our insane;
that their image, their opinions, their liters-
ature, their morality are around US ever, O
| presence, q monument, an atmosphere-whe
you consider this you feel how practicable and
! how inevitable is tbstantagonism to single
national life and how trne ID is that we buy
| all our blessings at price.
sECTIoSALIsM.
1t lifted its shrek sometimes even above
| the silver clarion tone that called millions to
unite for Independence. 1t resisted the NOM
inatiou of Washington to command our ar
mies; made his new levies hate one another;
| assisted the caballipgs OF Gates end Conway;
| Knocked bis retreats and threw its damp pas
sing cloud for q moment over his exceeding
glory; opposed the adoption of any Copstltu
| tiOn and perverted by construction and de-
nouuced as covenant with hell the actual
constitution when it was adopted; brought
into our vocabulary and discussion the hate
full and ill.omened words North aud South,
Atlantic ard Western, which the grave warn.
| in O. of the farewell address pose and re-
buse; transformed the floor of Congress into
battle field OF contending local policy; con-
vened its conventions at Abbeville and Hart |
| ford; rent asunder conferences and syuod,; |
turned seated assemblies of grave clergymen
and grave lsymen into shows Of glsdiators or |
OF the beasts Of g!adiators; checked the holy /
efforts Of missions aud set back the shadow |
on the dial Of q certain ameliorstion aud ul- |
innate probable emancipation, many de- |
grees. Some might say it eliminated later |
10 an enterprise even more daring still; but |
others might deny it. The ashes upon that |
fire are not yet cold aud we will not tread !
upon them. But all will unite in prayer TO |
Almighty God that we may never see. nor |
our children, nor their children to the thous- |
andth generation, may ever seeit Gu Eliminate 10 |
y geographical party banded TO elect geo.
graphical President and inaugurate geo.
graphical policy.
NATIONALITY.
Think Of il first as q state Of consciousness,
as q spring of feeling, as motive to exertion,
as blessing to your country, and as reactiDg |
on you. Think Of it as it fills your
mind and quickens the heart Of millions
around you, born, unborn, dead, living al |
though dead. Instantly, under such an To-
fuehce, you ascend above the smoke and stir |
Of this small local strife; you tread upon the |
high places of the earth and Of history; you |
think and feel as an American for America |
her power, her emiDence, her consider alton, |
her honor are yours; your competitors, like |
hers, are kings; your home, like hers, is the |
world your path, like hers, is on the high |
way of empires; our charge, Der charge, is OF |
generations and eger; your record her re-
cord, is OF treaties, battles, voyages, beneath |
all tue consultations; her image, one inmor-
tai, golden, rises on your eye as our Western !
star at evening rises on the traveller from his |
bone; no lowering cloud, no angry river, 10 |
lip1n-ur srripu m tr1E crarasca ipundo- |