Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1860-07-11

| suggest the possbity 10 candid minds that tht
nest generation nay do US the like jsstice. Will
reference % more recent coptrolessics.1 -.
n Thus fsilow-ctisons. hssesedeavursd. With
out vain glosying with respect1o oafsslvss. orbit
teriisss tossfds others. but In spirit Of candoF
and patriotism, to rspsl tie sIEisier insimssion,
that . fatal dsgeneracy 10 stsaling over the cesn
try: and to show that the eiehty-fourtb snnver-
sary fnds the United States In the fu lfllment vi
the glowing anticipatons with which. in the self
same instrument, their IspEfssDsxcs Was inaugu-
| rated and their Union first proclaimed. No for
NAL act has as yet bound Thea, together; no plan
! of confederation has ever been proposed A COM
mon allegiance embraced them, - parts OF one
metropolitan empire; but when that tie was sun
dered they became grou p Of Insulated and feeble
eommunities. not politically contested With each
other. nor known 80 YET in the family Of nations.
| Driven by . Common necessity, ysarning tow ard
each other with a common sympathy Of trial and
| Of danger. piercing with wise and patriotic fore
| sight into the depths Of ages yet 10 come.-ed BY
| Divine Councia.-they elung with more than
| elective affinity, and declared the Independence
of the United states. North and Sonth. great
| and small Massachusetts and Virginia, the old
est end the largest; New York and Pennsylvania.
uncon .cous A. yet Of their dsstrsl balance; hods
Island and Delewar. raised by the Union 10 Q
noiitcsl equality with their powerful neighbOrs,
joined with their sister republics in the august
Declaration for themsalves and for the rapidly
multiplying family Of States. which they bsheld In
prophetic vision. This great charter Of indepen-
dence was The life ofths Revolution; the sword Of
attack, tho panoply Of defence. Under the c'nsam-
mate gudence Of Washington. IL sustained our
fathers under defeat, md guided them to victory.
l. gave rs the alliance with France. and her
auxiliary armies and navies. 1t give us the Con-
fedora lion and the Constitution. With successive
strides Of progress. it has crossed the Alleghancs
the Ohio. the Mississippi. and the Missouri has
stretched its living arms almost from the Arctic
circle to tho tepd waters of the Gulf; has belted
the continent with rising States; has unlocked
ito golden treasurer of the Sierra Made; and
flung cut the banners of the Republic to tho gentle
breezes of the Peaceful Sea- Not confined TO the
continent, the power Of the Union has conveyed
our comn,crae upon the broadcast oceans to the
furthest isles. has opened the gates Of the Morning
to our friendly intercourse; And,-sight unseen
before ia human history.-as. from the legendary
Cipango the rignsl object of the expedition Of
Columbus, brought their swarthy princes. on frien-
dly emhnssage, to the western shoresol the WORLD
dividing "cean.
Meantime tho gallant Frenchmen, who fought
the bat,los of-liberty on this continent, carried
back the generous cantag0n tn their own lair
land Would that they could have carried with it
the moderation and Wisdom that tempered our rev.
nlutlon. The great idea Of constitutional reform
in England, brighter jewel IN her crown than
that of which our fathers berlt it, IL coeyal with
the si,cesiu issue Of the American struggle. Tho
first appeal II revolutionary Greece, an appeal not
made IL vain. was for American symphaihy and
MD Tao s,llsn vice royalties Of Spain on this
continent asserted their Independence, in imita-
ton Of our example, though raiIy dth2ient IN
PREVIOUS training IN tho scho, oi regulated lib
rrty; mud now. at length. the fair "Niobe Of Ma
tons. accepting constitutional monarchy as an
instnmcnt of thel long deferred debt Of Freedom,
.sh- through all her liberated States for repre-
sentative confederation. and claims the title OF
the Italian Washington for her heroic Garibaldi.
Here then, fellow citizens, euse where began;
thn nnbe prediction 81 Adams IL fulfill. The
question decided eighty four years ago in padol-
lhIr 'cH the greatest question ever decided in
Americas; aud the event has shown that greater,
parI,,p-, never was will DO decided am ing
men. The great Declaration, with its liiagvlng
r:incr has, within that interval, excrted its
influence, from the central plains of America to
the eternal SHOWS o! the Cordilleras' from the
western shors of tho Atlantic to the farthest East,
crossed the earn und ocean; and circled the globe
Nor let fear that its furce is exhausted for its
principles are as broad ~ humanty,-as eternal
~ truth. And il tho visions Ut patriotic seers are
destined to he fulfilled; if it is the will of prov-
deu"c that tho land which now sits in darkness
shall the day; that the south and east OF Eu-
rope aud the west Of Asia shall be regenerated ;
and the Ancient aud MYSTERIOUS regions Of the
last the cradle of mankind. shall receive back in
these Latter DAYS from tho West the rich repay
,nen' of the carly debt Identification. and REFUGEE
| in tn" cheerful light Of constitutional freedom.
/ tim, light will 20 firth from Independence Hall
| in Philadelphia; that leason Of constitutional
freednm they will learn from this days Doclara-
! ton.
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