The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-07-08

same time, bound with her sisters into perfec;
union around the Federal Government by the
compact OF the Constitution OF the United
States.
The inference of dismemberment from terri
tor:ai expansion, springs from the error Of con-
founding our representative republic with pure
and primitive democ racI es, and applying the
r'asonlngs drawn from one TO The other. The
true distinction is, as Mr.. Madison said, that in
a radical democracy the people meet aud ex-
ercise the government in person-In repre-
sentative republic by their agents. It follows,
! that the territorial limit OF pure democracy
! is that distance form common centre which
/ ~iIl barely allow the most remote citizens, as
often public exigencies demand, to come to the
seat OF government; and that of representa-
tive republic, that distance which will permit
the representative Of the people TO come TO the
central point as often as necessary without de-
trment to he public service.
The application of the agency OF steam TO
transit on land and water, and t: g employment
of the lightning for the transmission OF intelli-
gencP, have endowed government, man, and
the human mind, with kind OF earthly ubiqui-
ty, which, in point OF time and practical effect,
have brought the utmost borders Of this whole
continent nearer 10 ITS common centre than were
the limits of the old thirteen States TO the seat
of government in the dayq of the confederation.
Our double system of government, State and
Federal, in the practical influence and expan-
sibility CT its machinery, is capable OF adjusting
iselfa as well 10 the whole as to any Of its seq
ments. Whether such at extension ought ever
/ TO take place, and the time and methods by
which il shalt be accomplished, if ever, are far
different questlons-questions which must be
decided By you in your day and generation,
under a high sense Of national justice, honor,
! ann morality, when they shall arise.
DESCRIBING, however immature, all social dis
/ .nctions spEinglng from the accidents Of birth
and fortune, and founded on the intrinsic Dig
nifty OF man as man, our institutions know no
arislocracy but that of virtue and Of Intellect
| The equality Of civil and religious privileges
and the great diffusion of political power "a
mong The people at large, by which every free
, man of the white race becomes an element in
our State and national soqeIeignties, has brought
the patronage OF the Government aad the ca
pacitIsS OF the people into contact and furnished
motives for high attainHlents IN science, law,
and political economy, unknown 10 the monar-
chies and desPotsms of the other hemisphere,
founded as they are upon the interest of the
/ few. And, in consequence OF the indefinite
numbers TO whom the high honors and dazzling
rewards Of our free country make their mighty
depths Of appeal, and whom they stir to mem
taI activity in their preparations for our ever
/ returning "Olvmpcs," cur country IS soon to
I be the ''brightest spot'' on the planet we in
habit, and in the empire OF the mind, OF letters,
and Of c!oGuence, the frst ii the civilized
world.
Garry forward your minds, then, TO that
country which rises Oh the prophetic future
Consider the immensity OF her outline, itself
boundltss image OF liberty; crowded with a
dense and mighty people; beItrd with every
degree Of climate, reposlng in the midst of the
great oceans, and watered by a thousand rivers
running 10 the seas. Behold her fields spotted
with hOcks and herds, and crowned with pur-
! pie harvests checkerpd with electric wires and
| public parks; studded with towns and cities,
and ruled by the wispst government the world
! ever saw. Turn the radiant eye Of contempla-
ton 10 her beautiful seats of art, where the
genius of sculpture F'pours life and soul and
passion" into the breathing marble, and the
painter dfuSes the beauty OF the "face divine"
on the living canvas. Look at her academies,
colleges, and universities, thick as the stars,
lighting the intelects of millions at their redun
dant fountains. Gaze on her sacred judicial
tribunals, graced with learned bench and
eloquent bar; presenting, in the language OF
Chancellor Kent, the image ofthe Sanctity OF
Temples. Contemplate her parliamentary
bodies, in which eloquence,
',All head to COUNSEL aud all heart to feel"
rules her "wllderness of free minds" with IN
bounded authority. Figure TO yourselves her
countless churches, the beautiful architectural
creations ofChristian ingenuity and opnIent de-
voti0n whose exquisite spires are lifting the
hopes of their immortal focks 10 The worship Of
the unseen Shepherd in the realms of immensi-
ty while their choirs and organs are pouring
forth, through all her valleys, tide OF choral
harmony, which, in the swell OF its grand
diapason, caught by the ''ppndent heavens is
echoed through eternity
In contemplation behold through the vista
of unmeasurrd years that mighty Republic, lord
OF the ascendant 10 the armament OF the ma
tions; the iayorte habitaton Of human liberty,
and of the principles of a generous humanity;
by its inherent and Fenovating influence iocali-
zine all faction and fanaticsm into speCks upon
its disk; in he integrity OF It's federation and
the immutabiity OF It's sphere above the con-
vulsons Of the s'rolling ages" 1t shall ultimates
| ly shed the beams of freedom on the darkest
regions of the earth, and expand the circle Of
human bene6cence and Christian charity 10 the
horizon of the world.
Ut The young lady who refused 10 60 into
the rifle mandatory because some OF the guns
bad no breeches, is spending few days at
/ Sandy Hook Ioakia0 ont for A shin that is said