Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-09


&c what class You may, with commissions for
your fatal service in one hand, and your
bounty counted by the hundred or the thous-
and pieces of silver in the other, a thousand
registers will rise up for every recruit you
can engage. On the bands equally Of the
St Lawrence and of the Rio Grande. on the
Atlantic and the Pacific coasts. on the shores
of the Gulf Of Mexico and in the dclls Of the
Rocky Mountains, among the fishermen on
the banks Of Newfoundland. the wcayors and
spinncrs of Massachusetts. the stevcdoros Of
New York, the miners Of Pennsylvania
Pixies Peak and California, the wheat-gro
ers OF Indiana, the cotton and sugar planters
or The Mississippi, among the voluntary citi-
4cns from every other lard not less than the
native born, the Christian and the jew,
among the Indians on the ptsiries, the contu-
macious Mormons in Desorot, the Africans in
bondage, the inmates Of hospitals and aims
houses, and even The criminals in the peni-
tentiarics rchcsrso the story Of your wrongs
and their own never so cloqucntly and never
so moutnlully, and appeal to them to rise.
They viii ask you, as this all ?" "Aro you
more Just than Washington. wiser than Ham
now form of government or Of union have
you the power to establish, or even the cum
ming to devise, that will be more Just. more
safe, more free. more gentle, more bonifccnt
OF more glorious than this ?" And by these
simple intorrogatories you will be silcnccd
and COMPOUNDED.
Mr. President, we are perpetually forget
ting this subtle and complex, yet obvious and
natural mi. Of, Il
because we do forget it, we are continually
wondering how it is that a Confcderacy of
thirty aud more States, covering regions so
vast, and regulating interests so various Of
so many millions of men, constituted and
conditioned SO diversely, works right on.
We aic continually looking to sec it stop and
stand still, or fall suddenly into pieces. But,
in truth, IL will not stop it cannot stop it
was made not to stop, but to keep in motion
in motion always, and without force. For
my own part, as this wonderful machine
when it had newly come from the hands Of
its almost divine inventors, was the admira-
ton Of my earlier years, although it was then
but impcrlectly known abroad, so now when
it forms the central figure in the economy of
the worlds civilization, and the best sympa-
thies Of mankind favor its continuance. ox-
I'll men shall fear its failure no more than we
now apprchend that the sun will cease to
hold its eternal place in the heavens.
DISCIPLINE or THE AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Nevertheless. / do not expect to see this
purely popular, though majestic. system al
ways working on unattended by the presence
and exhibition Of human temper and human
passions That would be 10 expect to enjoy
rewards, benefits and blessings, without la
Dor, care and watchfulness, AN expectation
contrary to divine appointment. These are
the discipline Of the American citizen. and he
must inuro himself TO it. When, as now,
great policy fastened upon the country through
its doubts and fears confirmed by it's habits
and strengthened by personal interests and
ambitions, is to be relaxed and changed, in
order that the nation may have its Just and
natural and free developments, then, indeed
all the winds of controversy are let loose up
on us from all points Of the political compass,
we sec objects and men only through hazes,
mists, and doubtful and lurid lights.
PERoRArGoN.
The earth seems to be heaving under our
feet, and the pillars of the noble fabric that
protects us to be trembling before our eyes.
But the appointed end Of all this agitation
comes at last, and always seasonably the
tumults of the people subsido the country
becomes calm once more; and then we find
that only our senses have been disturbed, and
that they have betrayed us. Tho earth is
firm as always before, and the wonderful
structure, for whose safety we have feared so
anxously, now more firmly fixed than over,
still stands unmoved, enduring, and immov-
able.