The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-07

NOT an acre OF land has been sequestersl not an act II
thai time While the peaceful ssrss q our Presidents has
been going with the regularity OF the solar system.
France, Germany, Sweden Italy. Spain, Portugal have
death Of common feions Remember how, during that
career Of ma1pess and Of blood Remember the millions
Of men who during that time, have persisted In the bat
re % Ct Of S thai
husbandman has failed TO see his hArvests txsmpled
into the earth under the feet OF hostile ar
member the domestic wars which have,
during ihAt time, ravagsd Poland, Denmark, Germany,
gal, and that even England has MOI been without her
bloody struggles In Ireland Remember all this and then
complain you .ill,reproach your country and IL in.
or municipal ou,bresk In this that city Of the Union or
not less pesy ac Of opposition @ the government
distant wilds Of Kansas and Utah.
Shame on such complaints! Whom tested by the touch.
stSDs q fact Tie nervous tmio q msapprsseoson
pepc mans altar dinner dreams of rcpeton In all this
but startled BY the shadows which our own par
Did we. the people tho Cnited States, when We en-
barked the great adventure Of sovereignty, did We
expect sail along the surface Of smooth summer
seas with smiling skies over heed and fayoring breezes
to Gil capvsss-wth reefs shoals in our course
even drifting cloud on high 70 warn us Of he emer
gency OF some possible act Of manhood We did 30,
such be the temper Of the people OF the Uaited Satss
then we unfit rule and let u.s. the OF
America baVlo8---sot
mount from the horseback sest OF the command armies
let cess to handle the musket point the cannon,
let US cease presumpg to bold rap silence tho listening
OF senaes 10 demand the tumutuous OF
popular assemblies and let turn the eartha en-
pre 70 the dstas OF country, and soc they Will not
No. No his did Id he s' people Of tue Uaised
States conceive OF government They knew that
with power must DO perls and cares. cares, They fore
lions, nsurrecons, foreign wars, civil wars, might one
after the other come upon % upon al other govern
fairs And all such hazards have beeu prepared to
meet, as they should arrive and we Lave met and over
come with the spirit OF generous patriotism, as became
And So dangers imaginary and dangers real trials sp
pretended and trials endured have coma and gone to be
no remembered than bleak winter day, when 1t
has given place TO the gay promise OF spring. OF the
shock OF past combat the conqueror asceuds tho
disappeared IKE light clouds over the disc Of the sun
without leaving much tarnsh the bright face OF
the constitution Of the Union.
caly deny that the United ststes have derogaed from
the high standard Of the heroic age Of the Revolution In
the s0ened light OF the distance we see tue mon and the
deeds of that day In their gres. outne mperfecors
shaded off TO the eye; rests admriugiy the bright
and fair traits Of the scene willingly overooks the un
seemy ones and thus respect and revere, without
reserve, the times OF fshers Be that II Is we'll
that it should l would not have otherwise. Mean
WHILE let be just 10 ourselves to our cause and to our
duties and responsibilities living OF America
What Is ii nothing that Of the post revo luoasry
age have made Q. the experiment OF republican ana con-
is much easier than many seem TO suppose to write
constitution Of government France in sixty years, has
produced dozen Of toem each the assumed perfec
ton of human reason So the Mexican republic along
side OF makes a constitution every year two,
snd s nsxs Gay ns moi sell W sbs
people Of the United Sttes have not occupied ourselves
with the school boy folly OF uprootlne and replanting
constitutions; IS the closet wisdom OF theore-
teal constitution moDger but the practical wisdom or the
Senate and the prison. CT tho market place and the work
shop, engineer and the architect, which 70 the
paci
pensabe and equally high capacity OF executing, OF ad
mpis'erng ana Of preserving that which has been wen
and wisely devised and planned. II Is, indeed, as the
ancient lawgveis experienced, and as GALL history,
ancient and modern shows, fer more easy task 70
breathe vigorous life into the marbs statue
Of impart the silent words OF the dry parch
ment the eloquence truth and OF authority, make
cut OF charter sate-and to perpetuAte the peaceful
and beautiful action Of republican government
Is nothing ask sgaio, that We bave done this-tnst
have bad the for;tuae the virtue, the sedenia the
wisdom, and the courage 10 establish the Constitution
not in words only but in acts 10 nothing that We have
repeuished the old thirteen States with population wealth,
intelligence education, religion, arts cultivation.
merce manufactures, ships steamboats, ros1s railways,
edioces cites-m word with all which constitutes ADD
adorns the bghes; civilization OF Christendom Is
nothing thai from the exuberance OF our vitality no OF the
original thirteen States have created and peoped eleven
uuions Is Il nothing that we have acquired the vast
ditonal domain OF LOUISIANA, Fi,rida, CALIFORNIA, Nex
Mexico Oregon, and uphesyed with our surplus moral
the whole continent Of america like giant Eoce
lsous beneath the mess Of Ktnsy Ia II nothisg that
here in the New World we stretch our mighty
bulk from 10 ocean, with GIL imaginable
recources territorial, mineral, agricultural, CON
mercisi, within ourselves, aud with such limit
now and hereafter Whatever tsey may or desire
power Of Europe must count with tho colossal p'wer OF
tn United States
Hereafter aye In the long hereafter for who may pre-
tend that have reached zenth OF poSer9 We
have not derogaud rnat is 'esn; the worit s witness
we culmpsiedf Is the age OF our glory gomez Is that
light Of cur power which iose 80 brshty 70 blaze vita
supera.sye splendor brief tine only high aud 10
20 down, leaving but n memorial ray behind 70
us dissppesrsnce beyond the mountain tops OF deah
II must not and cannot be-.
do, Indeed, sometimes sar mon talk OF tho dssou-
ton OF tue Uulon ~ noisy ADD haf crazy agstors
the North toll thai the Union ought 10 ps dis
Solved because they cay tho constuton Of tbs unitet
states Is covenant win death and agree with
hell and bereupon tho echo Of their outcrss occasionally
returns to us In declaration from inc .. tnst vac
Of tnese wild Of ropbism and free love- and
womAns rights, and irieison, and socialism, and pine
table spruatD allowed - 60 at large In tue Sortn
such persoos, II Ia true, do exist among us; denau-
rallied women, unhappy that they are not mem dens
tiopslzed men, unworthy even 10 be women they Also
viii ssssmbIs somewhere To-Day Americans, but
lbeers ard vupers;Ors Of Americans-,o eesecraie
venerable church, OF drne some sfyaa shaie-yo
say hos much they love ali back men, aud how much
they drtest oil white oo.send 10 the profsoed name OF
berry 10 proclaim toerr unappc"sols eumiv 70 the
U.iop a. the constitution to the Bbe, 70 their country
. Wet be q so Whist, there net Americans eaough
IL heart vel ss Ia name, u preserve The integrity on
The Iniop In spite Of al ,hese rawlings OF uucosed Bed
LAM Aye ten twenty thirty millions Of such devoted
Americans devoted TO the Un5n ADD sho, " need wsrc,
could and ~oud, occasion requiring, devour and swal
los CD this hendful Of negropnilist Union hAters,
A. the boiling Whirlpool OF Niagara over~hslms
tho slight akIf &C same intoxicated Indian. Yes
We are strong enough in the light Of freedom and Ia
The vgor Of country 10 tolerate and 70 pity all such
impo'eut foes OF the Union. say tolerate and 70 PITY
them: witness their eoulions OF Wild wrath,
az they speak OF the Unon become sure that
Their ouls are writing with distracted and " tronbed
thoughts OF the fallen spirit EscD one Of them as he
gazes at OF the Union with desperate
passion 10 say
O tSou. that with surpsss.pR glory crowned
Iook'st from thy sole domnlon Ike the 0od
Ofthis new Worid-to thee call
with friendly and add thy nsme,
q sun. to .ell thee how hate thy beams
II sos Is not that true pictureS Well let them
Rate and They are, indeed, 70 US In the North
where they hold their annual convention orgies the
drunken Helois Of the comm0n~eath-useful 70 show
forth ugpess OF nddey and Of for the edit
cation adnonon OF the Ingenious youth OF oar Lsos
demon North
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