Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1858-08-07

, essence, and so far il Is on Intellectual cor
Z. eeptlon;, and you may call II 4 feeling to
wards the Daiion thus contemplated an,
50 TAR u Is ap emotion. In the intellectual
J exercise It contemplates the nation as it i
one, and as il is distinguished from ali othe
nat. ons, and in the emotional exercise Il
loves il and is proud Of Il as thus il il con
templated. This you may call It's ultimate
analysis. Bot how much more is included
in i How much flows from it How
cold and inadequate Is such description 4
we leave it there ! Think Of 1t FIRST az a
state OF consciousness, as a spring Of feel
ing, as motive to exertion, as blessing
yonr country, and as reaching on you.--
Ihnk OF It as It fills your mind and ouick-
ems your heart, and as il fills the mind and
! quickens the heart Of millions around Won.
born, unborn, dead, living although dead.
Instantly, under such an influence. vou as
cend above the smoke and stir of this small
local strife; you tread upon the high places
Of earth and Of history; you think aud feel
as an American for America; her power.
her eminence, her consideration her honor.
are yours; your competitors, like hers, are
kings; your home, like hers, is the world;
your path, like hers, is on the highway of
empires; your charge, her charge is Of gene
ratlons and ages; your record, her record. IS
oil treaties, battles, voyages, beneath all the
considerations; her image, one, immortal
golden. rises on your eye as our western star at
evening rises on the traveller from this home.
no lowering cloud, no angry river, no lin
gering spring, no broken eregasse, no inun-
dated city OF plantation, no tracts of sand.
arid and burning, on that surface, bat ali
blended and softened into one beam of
kindred rays, the image, haFhinger and
promise OF life, hope and brighter day
Think of it next as an active virtue. Is
not all history recital of the achievements
OF nationality, and an exponent Of It's his
torical and imperial nature Even under
systems far less perfect, and influences far
less anspicious than ours, has it not lifted
itself up for time above all things mean
er, vindicating itself by action, bv the
snblinity Of brave daring, successful or
unsuccessful, by tue subIimity of a work
ing hope How loose, for examplc and
how perfidious was that union Of the States
OF Greece in all tines How distinct were
The nations of Attiea, of Lacouia. of
1hessaly, OF B@otia, and how utterly In
suihclent the oracle, the Amphyctionic As
sembly, the games, the great first epic. TO
refrain Athens and Sparta. and Thebes
from contending. by diplomacy. by fraud
by battle, for the mastery ! And yet even
N the historical age, when the storm of
Eastern invasion swept that bloc sea. and
those laughing islands, and iron-bound coast
over, above, graRder and more useful than
the fear aud policy which couuseled tempo-
rary union, were there not some were
there not many. on whose perturbcd and
towering motives came the thought Of that
great, common Greek name. that race kin
drcd at last, though policy, though mines
OF marble, though ages have parted them.
that golden, ancient, polished speech.
that inherited ancestral glory, that nation |
al Olympus, that insiolated, sterile and !
separate earth-that fame of camps--fhat |
hire of camps which put out the ancient |
life OF Troy; and was it not such memories |
as these that bGrn and revel in the pages of
HERoDorUsY Did not Sparta and Athens
hate one another, and fight one another
habitually, and yet, when those Laceda.
monian leyies gazed so steadfastly on the
faces OF the fallen at Marathon did
they not give Greek tears to Athens and
Greek curses to Persia, aud In the hour of
Plat9a did they not stand together against
Jhe barbarian What else formed the Sc
eret OF the brief spell of RIESzIs power.
md burned and sparkled in the poetry and
'hetoric Of his friend PEraARcff. and sooth.
d the dark hour of the grander soul cf
MAcHIAyEL. loathing that Italy. and recall
ng that other day when eight hundred
'housand men sprang to arms at the. ru-
nor of Gallo invasion 2" Is not Prus-
'ia afraid of Austria, and Saxony of Ba-
1aria, and Frankfort jealous of Dresdea.
Ind so through the twenty-seFen or eight
'r thirty States, great and small; and vet
he dear common fatherland, the old Ger
nan tongue, the legend of Hermann, the
latiye and tltular Rhine flowing rapid.
ieep and majestic, like the life Of a hero
'f antiquity-do not these spectacles and
bese traditions sometimes wake the ma
'onality Of Germany to action, as well as
% life and hope?
But if you would contemplate nationality !
rs an active virtue, look around you. Is
rot our own history one witness and one re-
cord of what it can do? This dag and
lll which it stands for-did not give us
these This glory of the fields Of that
var, this eloquehce of that revolution, this
wide one sheet Of fame which wrapped !
-yrants and tyranny and swept all that es-
capped from il away, forever and forever:
The courage 10 fight, TO retreat, 10 rally
10 advance, to guard the young Gag by the
Touug arm, aud the young hearts blood.
% hold up and hold on till the magnificent
crowned the work-wcre not
hese all impaired or inspired BY this i'm
'erial sentiment Has il not here begun ,
be master-work Of man, the creatiou OF ,
atlonal life Did il not call out that :
'rodigious Development Of wisdom, the
wisdom of constructiVeness which illustra-
ed the years after the war, ard the franz
NC and adopting of the Constitution -
Has it not. in the general, contributed 10
he administering Of that government wise
y and well sincel Look at Il! Ii has
Iindled Us to no aims Of conquest. 1t has
ngolved Us in no entanglng alliances. It'll
as kept our neutrality dignifed and just /,
The victories OF peace have been our priced !
ict0ries. But the larger and truer gran