Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-08-07
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I end lawfnl trade; it has extended ~ Sriles
r Tying as clouds, the asylum Of our befsa,
I liberty; it has kept rs at rest within ali
! our borders; i has reprcssed without blood
.he lntcmpcFance Of local INSTRUMENTATION:
7 y mas scattered the seeds Of liberty uader
Jaw ana under order, broadcast: It has
: seen ana neiped American feeling to swell
INTO iulier Hood; from many Geld and
many deck, though it seeks 90 war. makes
Dot war, and fears not war, it has learneti
the radiant flag all unstained; it has opened
and honored the age Of the industry Of the
people
We have done With the nature OF Amo-
rican nationality, with its. contrasts. analy.
SIS and fruits. have less pleasure 10 re,
mind you that 1t has conditions also ana
ethics. And what are some of theso -
This is cur next consideration. And the
first OF them is that this natiopal existcncc
| i, TO au extraordinary degreenct a growth.
hnt production; that tbusit has origin IN
the will and the reason, but that TIE viii
and the reason must keep it alive. or it can
bear no life. ! do not forget that povrr
above mans power, O wisdom above fna4,'s
wisdom, reason above mans reason NAV
be traced without the presumptousueSs Il
tanaticism in the fortunes Of Amerira +
do not forget that God has been in our
history. Beyond thatdozzlng progress Of
art, society, thought which IS Of His or
Gaining, although it may seem to be false
phllosophy,a fatal and inevitable now nm
uer law--beyoDd this | do not forget that
there have been, and there may be again
interpretations, proTideatal, exceptional. and
direct OF the Supreme Agency. withont
which no sparrow falltth. That. condition
OF mind and of opinion ia Enrope. ana
more than anywhere else, Ia Enelaad
which marked the period Of emigration
and bore flower. fruit and seed after lis
kind in the new world; that, conflict and
uphcaval and fermenting ia the a1e al
CHARLES the First, and the long Parlianant'
and CROMWELL, and MILrox. violated M,
ture asserting herself; that disappearanre
OF the old races here wasting SO myster,
lously and SO seasonqbly--that drear death
giving place as IN nature to a better life!
that long colonial growth in shade aud
storm and neglect. sheltered imper9ectly By
our relations 70 the mother country, and
not yet exposed to the tempest aud light.
nlng OF the high places Of political inde-
pendence; burthened the poor, tut yet
evolving, germinant, prophetic; that insane
common attack of one tyranny on SO many
Charters; that succession Of incompetent Eng
lsh commanders, and English tactics agaifst
as in the war; that one soul breathing
~ moment, into a continent; the Declare
ton SO timely, aud so full Of tone; the name.
the services, the influence Of WAsH1xeroN
these are "parts Of his ways,r and we
may understand and adore them. ,
do not forget either that in the, great
first step we had to take--that dificuItE IL
stupendous, Of beginning to monld the
colonies into nation, to overcome the nre-
JUDGES OF habit aud Ignorance. fhe pettg
cavIls OF the petty TIE envy, the jealousy.
the ambition, the fears of great and Iittie
meni to take away partition walls rolf
away provincial flags, and. hash pro-
vinclal drums, and give to the young Re
public E Pi3ribus LEmnm. to set ont on.
ward and upward on her Zodiac path, do
not forget that in this, too, there we're
helps Of circumstances for which no philoso-
ply, and no pride Gan make rs unthankfuL
Take one. Have YOU ever considered,
speculating on the mysteries of our nation.
al being, how providentiaIly the colonial
Life itself, in one. respect, qualified for I'm
ion, and how proyidentiaily It came To bass
that independence and nationality were
born in one day2 Suppose that from the
times when they were planted respectively.
these colonies had been independent Of one
an9ther, and of every onc---suppose this
had been so tor one hundred and fifty YRS.
for one hundred and seventy years; that
10 the eye of public law they had through
oil that time ranked with England. MA
France; that through all that time they
had made war, concluded peace negotiated
treaties of commerce and Of alliance. re-
ceired and sent ministers, eoined money.
trade, done all other fhf1&s
which independent States of fiwht NAV
do;' and then that single foreign towar
had sought to reduce them. do not sat
that that power would have reduced them
do not say that necessity. that prudenes
which is civil necessity, would not hnte
Taught them TO assist one another and
EAat II one seAse, and that Just ode: tsieg
would have fought and tFiumphed together.
But when that victory was won and tbc
cloud rolled of seward, would these Sic-
tors nave hoYn into a eommoa embrace aud
0eeorne a single people This long ante.
cedeat several independence; this long an
tecedent national llfe--w0uld it not have
inSorated them and separated them -
These old high actions and high passions
flowing diverse, these opposed banIefs Of
old fields, this music of hostile mafchas
these memories OF an anshared past, this
history of glory ID which one oaly had
part-do yon think they could have been
melted, softened and beaten quite 10 uasilv
nto the unity of common life Might
lot the world have seen there Instead
another Attica and Achaia and Lacede-
nonia, and Messiaa, and Naples and Flor
snce and Saxony7 Did not that colonial
life, in its nature. that long Winter aud
lingering Spring discipline aud prepare men
ior the future OF their civil life, as an Apru
snow enriches tile earth Il seeas to bury
Did it not keep back tho growths which
night otherwise have shot uD into lmprac.
,icable ranknesscs and dIversiliesf Did Il
rot divert men from themselves to one
Massachusetts aha Virginia
md New York, 10 the fosni1e 3f the pos.
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