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

respect and inspire fear equally among the
semi-barbarians of Asia and the mo polite and
powerful nations Of; Europe. have often
thought that could lift myself up to the con-
ceptien Of the greatness Of this Republic of
ours by taking stand on the terrace Of the
Capitol at Washington, and contemplated the
concentration of, the political power of the
American people, and then followed out in my
imagination the dispatches by which that will,
after being modified by the Executive and Leg
islative departments, went forth in Laws, and
Edicts, and Ordinances for the government and
direction Of a great people. But after all nei-
ther of these places are equal to that 1 now oc-
cupy. seem to myself to stand here on this
eminence as the traveller who climbs tho 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 vota-
ries below who vainlytry by pouring DER beads
and rituals, to study out and infuencet the mind
Of the Eternal Standing hero and looking far
off into the North West, see the Russian, as
he busily occupies himself in establishing sea-
ports and towns and Notifications, on the verge
Of this continent, as the outposts of St. Peters
burg, and can say s'Go on and build up your
outposts all along the coast up even to the Arc
tic Ocean-they will yet become the outposts
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 of Hud-
sons Bay, and am able to say it is very we'll;
you are building excellent States to be hcreaf-
ter admitted into the American Union. Tap
plause.] can look southwest and see amid
all the conyulsions that are breaking the Span
ish American Republics, and in their rapid
decay, and dissolution, the. preparatory stage
for their reorganization in free, equal and self
America. III the same high range Of vision
can look down on the States and, the people of
the Atlantic coast of Maine and Massachusetts,,
of New York and Pennsylvania, of Virginia.
and the Carolinas,5 and Georgia, and Louisiana
and Texas, and round by the Pacific coast to
California and Oregon. I can hear their dis
putes, their fretfu1 controversies, their threats
that If their own seperate interests are not
grati6ed and consulted by the Federal Govern
nent they will separate from this Union.
am able to say: ''peace be STILL" These sub
jects of contention and dispute that SO irritate
and anger and provoke and ALLEVIATE you, are
but temporary and ephemeral. These institu.
tions which you SO much desire to conserve,
and for which you think you would sacrifice
the welfare of the people of the continent, are
almost as ephemeral as yourselves, The man
is born to day who will live to see the Ameri-
can Union, the American people, coming into
the harmonious understanding, that this is the
land for the white man, and that whatever ele-
ments there are to disturb its present peace or
irritate the passions Of it's possessors, will in
the end, and that end will come before long,
pass away Intellectual in any way to disturb the
harmony of, or endanger the. stability Of this
great Union: CApplause.] ar .r.:.; ,,....;
Fellow citizens, it is under the influence Of
reflections like these that thank God here to-
day, more feryently than ever, that live in SO
great country as; this, and that my lot has
been cast in it: not before the period when po-
litical society was to be organized, nor yet in
that distant period when it is to collapse and
fall into ruin, but that I live in the very day
and hour when political society is to be effect
ually organized throughout the entire CONT
nent. We seem here and now for the first time
to be conscious Of that high necessity which
compels every State in the Union to be not
separate and isolated, but one part Of the
American Republic. We see and feel more
than ever, when; we come up here, that fervent
heat of love and attachment to the region In
which our lot is cast, that will not suffer the
citizens Of Maine, the citizens of South Carroll
ma, the citizens of Texas, or the citizens Of
Wisconsin or Minnesota to be aliens to, Of en-
emies Of, each; other, but which, on the other
hand, compels them all to be members of one
great political family. Aye; and we see now
how it is that while. society is, convulsed with
riyalries aud rjealousies between native. and
foreign born ii our Atlantic cities and on our
Pacific coast, and tormented with the rivalries
and jealousies produced by difference of birth,
of language, and Of religion, here, in the cen
tral point of the Republic, the German, and the
Irishman, and the itali5h, and the Frenchman,
the Hollander and the Norwegian, becomes ii
spite of himself, almost completely in his own
day. and entirely in his own children an
American citizen: [Applause. ]c -... .,..i;,,.-
We see the unity, in other words that consti.
tutes, and <compels us to constitute, not many
nations and many peoples but one nation aln5 an
one people only: [Applause:] Valitudinarii
seeking the many skies Of the South to restore
| their wasting frames under consumption ant
invalids of the South have been accustomed Il
! seek the skies Of Italy for, the same relief
j Now you see the Vslitudinarians Of the who'll
continent, from the frozen North and the burn
ing South, resortsto thsgsources} of: the Miasis
/ sippi tor On atmosphere which shall restor
them to health: Atplause: DO you not Sc
and feel here that this atmosph hasEanotl1e
/ Carolina, aha from Mississippi, and from Ne
4 Hampshire, and from England; sand Ireland
and Scotland, and from Germany, and; fEom Eoqqmq q
i other portions 81 the world come up here, til
atmospheric becomes the atmosphere not onl
i nf hoo1< h,,fo r Ar
plause:1 Do, We We not feel when We cc;me ! !
here, that We have not only found the temnpp1
and the, shrine tefafFeedam,s bbpt< thetgEe he's
come into The actual living presence Of the goe
dess Of fresdonf herself9 u LIQUID applause. J.
Once in hdnU UpTesepces We SEE thattlo aess g.
pacious temple could bs. fl; for the worslhni
, that is her due. i With m1Y fellow citizen
that al py sassoei ates IN public life could con
Iup here with me, and learn by experience,
'hsve done, The ofevstion and serenity " 10,
which pervades the people tef Aks4sresE Nsstl
\ West II in tho 0nlv reaion of the Unite