The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-07-11
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esque Image OF usmoCfAtC energy ana fute the great
American republic
Ihe name Of Commonwealth Is past and gone j
Ssr tn, the snss !as.'as q The sro.si sss globe
Yst rsars her crest anconquered and sublime,
Nl Above the Ear Atlantic -
Aye and not 'above the far Atlantic alone, but now,
also above the far Pacific She the 'vesta of unr-
fled Independence always and still throned by the
West" but with foot advanced towards that utter West
which in the ccling earth joins the orient East Be
hold her thus say, with the olive branch of peace
in hand and the image Of victory in the other she
stands her lons grit with the and white bands Of
the sky and her head dademed with the consolidated
orbs of heaven That is oountryto be loved hon
ored, and worshpped at all tmes-but this day
peciay to be incensed with offerings of alteration
and of devotion by the universal acclaim of all who bear
on deserve TO bear, the name of American -H ! '
Wonderful most wonderful is the providence Of God
Generations upon generations Of men had lived and died
century after century In Asia, Africa and Europe great
empires had up, and iourished, and passed away
Ignorance and wisdom, barbarism and art joy and
row, love and hate, peace and war, had alternately
swayed the hour the tides of human passion ebbed
and flowed China india Assyria Egypt Persia Greece
Rome had successfully trod the empyean paths Of great
ness and had transmitted to modern Europe, their
accumulated thoughts aud arte, some their ruined tenn
PIES palaces and masolea, only the faint shadow
of name, magr iebya All these great
of men, these mighty empires, bad come and gone like
figures the stage Of colsean amphitheatre but with
the earth Its scene nations its actors and the universe
its spectators. So was it in the Old World.
Meanwhile, here another and yet unknown world
the predesned theatre of Times last and greatest
The waters of the broad Atlantic, daily hourly
nentry for ages uncounted made their voyage hither
from the shores Of Europe and their ceaseless broke
in vain along the rock bound coast OF Massachusetts, by
the Narrows Of Nsagansett Manhattan In tho ordy
bays Of the Chesapeake the sands Of Pamlico and Ala
tanaha. Mighty rivers like the Mississippi the Ala
bama the Potomac the SusQuehanna the Delaware the
Hudson, the Merrimac, the Kenncbec the Penobscot
the great inland of Superior, Michigan Huron Erie
Ontario poured their waters useless into the treasure
decps of the ocean snow-crowed mountains held their
everlasting watch the silent valleys of the Katah
din, Winnpiseogee Adirondac, or Allegheny In the
deep forests of the Monongahea the Kanawha the Ohio
and the Wisconsinby the green gades of the Wabash
the Kentucky and the Tennesseeby the fertile prai
iies Of the Missouri the Illinois, the Iowa. and the Min
ncsota-along the sunny banks of the Catawba, the
santee the Coosa the Apaachicola and the Arkansas
in all these richest and ovelies regions of the hababe
globe, constituting Sc "a
'i'- Natures whole wealth yea more.
Heaven on EARTH,
in all this world of promise there no human life
that of the untamable and scattered wild of
the woods it was the all bouneous work Of the Creator
but the imperfect work. it were of his apprentice
hand, for the Adam and Eve of the creation were
not yet come to occupy that Eden of God.
say again wonderful most wonderful was that
Divine Providence which bad thus prepared and held in
reservation, it were, this paradise of the New World
to be- not the asylum only Of the wroDged but the field
of fame also of the adventurous of the Of the old
world which, at epoch of the ntensest material and
lnteectual ACTIVITY OF modern EUROPE unOlded TO It's
people the tbua Of America which to write fresh
lessons of political and social wisdom and which, out
of the downfall of dynastes and the agitaons of eli-
gious enthusiasm, and the fermentation of nations,
evolved that greatest of the works of social organization
yet devised by manthe constitutional government of
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Thereupon commenced event or q series of events
unsurpassed in Importance by any in the whole history of
the human racean event still in progress-the early
stages of which only perceptble to and of which
ourselves do not yet unhesitatngy accept and
quesce in the consequence and resultsI the
dus Of Europe to America. Armed emigratons OF mo-
madc nations have occurred far back beyond tho date
authentic history in Asia and Europe similar events mp
pear at the dawn of modern history in the countries of
the Mediterranean and at yet recent period of
time the movements and conference.-the of the ma
tons of Europe and Asia produced accompanied the
dissolution Of the empires of Rome and Consantinope
But the movement of Europe towards America has been
of individuals than of nations sometimes aided
or favored by governments but quite often checked
and obstructed by them and depending for its action
private, not national Inducements and impulses.
Even Columbus had but permission to discover Amer
ica and neither Cotez Pizarro had permission
to undertake the colonization of Mexico and Peru And
thus it was yet emphatically in the Of the
foundation of the United States. Virginia, New York.
Massachusetts, the Caroinas Maryland, Pennsylvania
each and all Of them though colonizcd by the nominal
authority of corporations proprietary grantees in Eu
rope, yet not colonizcd by governments and each
Of the great colonies assumed to ITSELF almost Mt
and by revolutionary act the functions of local govern.
ent half severng in the very outset their colonial de-
pcndence the mother country 1t is the inspiration OF
individual impulse from the beginning to this day it Ii
the idea of Independence and segovemment it is the
democratic principle, which it animated the infant
colonies, 1t prompted the revolutionary war, cstab
shed the Union. and has ceased to inform direct
and mpcl onward the people of the United States in
their march of colonization and of conquest from the
Atlantic to the Pacific shores of America.
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