New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-07

| ce, eno our fears may make Us for moment turn
fron it. sea may spread before us, and waves see %
to hedge us up dark idolatries may alena.e some
hearts for a eess5n from hat worship; revolt rebel.
hcr may break out in the camp, and the waters cf
springs may bitter TO tie taste and mock il:
between "a and thst Canaan great rvsr may
10 be rolling but beneath that Ligh guidance xsy
Ia onward, ever onward those waters shall part, and
stand on etbsr haud u nesps; that ldolstry shall re-
Iett. that rebellion sbsll be crushed; that stream
thal be sweetened; thst overfowing river shall BE-
passed en- foot, dry shod III harvest time and from
that promised land o. iooks fecs, ten,s mouatains,
coas,s anG ships fIou North aud Souh sud Es.t aud
Wes there sIsi swsl ore cry yet, OF victory peice
enc thanks giving,
But We sere seekirZ the nature Of the spir. o. ns-
tionsty ard we pa's 10 ths inquiy from contras; to
ysis You may call it, subjsc,ivey regarded, ss
mCds Of clnten plaiIng the nation IN iis esssncs.
snd tsI It is e. Intellectual conception; and you
may cal it feeling toward tne ns.lon thus con,em.
plated aud 90 far It emotion lie the intellect
ua exercise it cottempstes the nation as IL is one,
ard i, is distinguished from eli other nations and
in The emotional exercise il loves it and proud OF It
thus it s contemplated. This you may call its llt
mate analysis. But how much more s incuiet 10
| Il How much flows frVm /. How cod snd made
| qgste Is such description If We leave it there
Think CT it fret as state OF CONSCIOUSNESS, as
| spring OF feeling as motive 70 eIeiton ss blessing
Your country and a. reaching you. Think of II as
il fills ycur mind srd quckeus your heart, aud as it
| fills the Minis and quckens the hesrts Of millions
around you, born, urbOrn, dead living although dead
Inftsntly cnder such an influence you ascend above
upon the high places OF earth aud OF hitoryi you
think and feel an American for America; her
power ler einence her consideration, her horor
yOuIs; your competitors Ike bers, sre king your
home ike hers, is the world your path, like ners is
tine hig wsy Of empires your cnarge her charge, of
generations and agesi your record her record Is OF
treaties, battles voyages, beneath all the consteLa-
tions her image immortal golden, rises on your
eve our star at evening rises on the traveller
from this home lowering cloud, angry river no
| lingering spring, no broken crsvasse, no Inundated
city or plantation no tracts OF ssnd, ard and ourh-
ing on tnat surface, but ali blendid and sotened into
one beam of kindred rays, the image, harblDger erd
| promise Of life, hope and brighter day
Think CT il Lext active virtue. IL not al his
| an exponent Of s historical and imperial nature
Even under sysems far lees perfect, and influences
far lees ausPicous than ours mas 1t moi hitea tse u
by action, by the sublmty OF brave dsring, sue
cessful or unsuccessful by the sublmity OF work
ing hope7 Hos loOse, for example, and how
Greece in all times How distinct were the
nalions Of Attcs, of Laconia, OF Thessaly, OF Beo-
tis, and how utterly Insufficient the oracle, the
Amply yotionic Assembly, the games, the great hrst
epic to restrain Athens and Sparta and Thebes from
cun.eLdipg, by diplomacy, by fraud, by battle iof
tie mastery Ana vet even in the hstosical age,
when tie storm Of Eastern invasion swept thst blue
sea- and those laughing sends, and lron-bosnd coast
over above grandeur and useful than tne fear
policy which eoueeled temporary unOn-were there
not many one whose perturbed and towering mohses
came the thought Of that great, common Grek
name, that race kindred at lsst, though poll
ey, trough mines Of marble, though ages have
parted them-tbat golden, ancient polisned
speech that inherited ancestral glory, that natlons
olympus, that involaed, sterile and separate earth
that fame Of csmpsthat fire Of camps which put out
tie ancient life Of Troy ard it not such memories
as these that burn and reve n the pages OF Herodo
tus Did not Sparta and Athens haze one another
ard fight one another hsbitusy, ana yet whsn nose
Lscecsmouisn evss gszed stesdfsstly en- the faces
of the fallen at M arathon did they not give Greek
tears TO Athens and Greek curses to Persia and IN the
bsrbsan What eiss to1me tue secret o. the brief
spell Of Rienzis power, ard burned ard sparked In
the poetry and rhetoric of his friend PslrsrSh snd
sooted tfs dark hour OF tire grander soul OF Macna
vel oatbipg that Italy and recalling that other Gay
when "eignt hundred thousand men sprang 70 arms
at the rumor of Gsllio invasion =, In not russia
afraid of AustIis and Ssxony OF Bavaria, and FRANK
fIrt ie6lous of Dreaden, and through the tTenty
seven or eight OF thirty Ststes, great aud email; aud
vet the dear common fstherand, the old Germsn
tongue, the legend OF Hermann me NAIVE snu e. I'o
Rnne ito wing rapid, deep and msJestic, IKE tne NE OF
hero of sptiquiiydo not these spectaces ana these
traditions sometimes wake the nationality of Germsny
TO action as well &c to life and nope -
But If you would contemplate Nationality a. an az
tive virtue look around you. IL not our own n.tory
ope witness and one record Of what II can DO Inis
day and all which il stands forIdld II nol give US
these This glory OF tEe telds oi thAt war, ls elo
ouepce Of that revolution this wide one sheet OF ane
which wrapped tyrants and tyranny and swept all
that esceped from it away, forever and forever the
courage TO fight, to retreat, to rsuy TO advance 70
quard the yourg flag by the young arm ana the
Sonno h.sfts blood to hold up and bod on TIL the
insenlfcent corsummston crowned the work-"ere
not theee all impaired or inspired oy thl' lmperiaI
sentiment Has it not here begun the master WORK
of msn tho creation Of a national HE D!d II nol
cali ost that prodgious development OF wisdom, the
wisoop of corstructveness which illustrated the
wears after the war and the framing and adopting OF
the Constitution Has 1t not 10 the general oen.toI,
ted 10 the administering Of that Goyeremeht Wisely
and we'll since Look at it. Ii has kinded US 10 no
aims of conquest. 1t mas involved us IN no ent anghng
alliances II bas kept our neutrality dlgulneo ana
Just. The victories Of peace nave peen our pti1ea @
victories But the larger and truer grandeur OF tne
nations for which they crested and for when they
must one day, before some tribunal, give acc9uht,
what a measure OF these II has enabled US aeaay u
fuf II has lifted US the throne and has set on our
brow the psue of the Great Republic. II mas taught
| US 10 demand nothing wrong; TO submit 10 nothing
wrorg; has made our diplomacy ssgaclous wary, ana
accomp hed il has opened the IRON gate oi the noun
tain and planted our ensign the great, tranquil sea-
has made the desert 10 bud ard blossom as toe rose
mas uuiCkeDed to life the giant broodC useti aus IL
has whlt.ued lake ard ocean with the saiis oi aas,
new and law iu trade 1t hiss extended to exes yng as
clouds the um ofour better liberty II nas kept us
al rest wi hin all borders it has rePressed without
blood the intemperence OF local nsuooIduation IL 1as
scattered the seeds of liberty under law ana u1der
order broadcast; II has seen and helped American
feeling to swell into fuller food from many held
and many deck, though it seeks not war, makes not
war and fears not war, it has borne tle raoadt nag
all unstaped it has opened our age OF ettered gioryi
it has opened and honOred the age OF the industry OF
the people. .;.
We bsve done with the nature OF American nstien'
atty with its CONT ssts, analysis ana Iuts. nave
less pleasure to remind you tnat has conditions Also
and ethics And what some OF those fns IS
urnext ccnsderstion. AID the inst OF them Is that
this natcpa existence is, 10 an extraordinary degee,
NOT grovth but a production that thus It has origin
in the will srd the reason but that the WI! and Ine
reason must keep it alive or it can bear no lie. 10
not forget that power above mans power, wlsdom
ana