St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-10-04

semi-barbarians of Asia and them ostpolitsiand
powerful AAtions Of, Europe:3s1 have often
thonghts that could lift myself up to the CON-
ceptien Of the greatness Of this Republic Of
ours by taking stand on the terrace 81 the
Capitol At .Washington,s and contemplated the
concentration, Of, the political power Of the
American people, and then followed out in my
imaginationthe dispatches by which thstwill,
after being modified by the Executive and Leg
islative departments, went forth in Laws, and
Edicts, and Ordinances for the government and
direction of aIgreat people But after all nei-
Their Of these places are equal to that I now &C,
cupy. Iseemsto myself to stand here on this
eminence asthe traveller, who climbs the dome
Of St. Peters in Rome. There through the
opening Of that dome he seems to himself to be
in almost direct and immediate communication
with the Almighty Power that directs and con-
trolls the actions and the wills of men, and he
looks down with pity ON the priests and ivota-
ries below who vainlyt by pouring DER beads
and rituals, to study out and inauenee tlie mind
Of the Eternal. Standing here and looking far
of into the North West,r see the Russian, as
he busily occupies himself in establishing sea-
ports and towns and Notifications, On the verge
Of this continent, Is the outposta of st. Peters,
burg, and can say GO on and build up your
outposts all along the coast up even to the Arc
y
Of my own country--monuments. Of the civil
zation Of the United States in the North West: y
So L look off on Prince Rupert's Land and
Canada, and: see there an ingenious, enterrris-
ing and ambitious people, occupied with bridg-
ing rivers and constructing canals, railroads
and telegraphs, to organize and preserve great
British provinces North Of the great lakes, the
St. Lawrence, and around the shores ct Hud-
sons Bay, and, am able 70 say tits very we'll;
you are building excellent States to be hereaf-
ter admitted into the American Union. Tap!
planse.] lean look southwest and see samid
oil the conYulsions that are breaking the Span,
ISL American Republics, and in their. rapid
decay and dissolution, the aprepafatory stage
for their reorganization in free, equal and self
governing members Of the United States Of
America. III the same high,rang ea Of vision /
can look down on the States AND, the people of
the Atlantic coast Of Maine and Massachusetts,
of New York and Pennsylvania. s33of Virginia,
and the Carolinas; and George, and Louisiana
and Texas, and round By, tie Pacific coast. to
California and Oregon. I can hear their dis
putes, theh fretfuI controv ersies; their threats
that if their own seperatec interests are not
igrstifsd and consulted by the Federal Govern
nie a they will separate from this Union. I
am able TO say: ''peace be still. ., These sub
;jects of contention and dispute that So irritate
1Au "neeF aHU ProsCAe auu Al1eu0to you, dre
Contemporary and ephemerAl: These institu.
!tlone, which cyou !so5mach desire to conserve,
and fol-, which you think you would sacrifice
the welfare of the people Of the. continent, are
almost as ephemeral as yourselves, The man
iis tbornto day Who will live to see the Ameri-
toan Uniony the American people, coming into
the harmonious understandingt thet this il the
land for the white man, and. that whatever, ele-
|ments there are to disturb its present peace Or
iirritate the passions 81 its :possessors, will IN
the end and that. end VIII come before long,
pass away Intellectual in any way to disturb the
harmony Of. &of endanger the stability Of this
Egffat ;unlon;. lAPPla:nae:3o oSe9ty1i 7a.I}rGI.
Fellow citizens, i isi under the influence of
!rehectlons ike these that 1 thank God here to-
day, more teryentiy than ever, that live lnSs
es sG eses s n. ana
Elitical society was to be organized, nor yet in
fea' 6s'a1i S5}Sa S xsep e iSaRss dna
and hour when political society IL to he effect
tua1ly organized thronghout the entire conti-
nent- We seem here and now 1.-THE first time
to be conscious Of that high necessity which
compels every State, s. the Union to be not
separate and Isolated but one part IF the
American Republic. We see 6hdf fsel more
thar g eyer, when We come Up here, shat feryent
heat OF love an D. attachment t9 the region IN
which our ioti cast: that viii not Suffer the
clt1zens Of Maine, tAe citizens ct South. carali-
e e sa;i 6 sss s.sas 8
emiess Of eaeh' other, but which, on the other
$ SSSRs thS$ e 4 e s%ss; 6
hDw ito is that while society is. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
rlYal1ies, aud jsaloqsies between A native and
foreign born Id Dur Atlantic cities and Oh our
Pacifca coast md setdoented with tAd 1i1alties
and ieelousies produced b. difference # birth it
point e. t aae e asaa sss IN if6
the hoitander and the Norwegian; becohsb' II
spite of himself, almost completely in his OWE
tiay' and entirely an 4histbwh 4children, : an
American Gitzen LAppl9uses ae +,Yr t,es.,,,-
We see tie unity, il other words that coonlas,ti
tntes' andEconpelseus 10 oonstit9te, mot man,