The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-03-17

EARTH there to remain wreck, instead of a
cisa1el of worlds best hopes!
/ remain now in the opinion have uni
fssrTnlv expressed here and elsewhere. that
these has,y threats of Disunion are so un-
natural that they will End no hand TO exc
cute them We are of one race. language.
liberty. and faith; engaged. indeed, in varied
industry: but even that industry, so diver
sifi I'd. brings as into more intimate relation
with each other than any other people. how
ever homogeneous. aud though living under
a consolidated Government, ever maintain
ed. We languish throughout. if one joint
Of our Federal frame is smitten: while il is
certain that part discovered must perish.
You may refine as you please about the
structure of the Government. and say that
it is a compact. and that a breach, by one OF
the States or by Congress, or any one arti-
Gle. absolves all the members from al!egi-
ance. and that the States may separate when
they have, or fancy they have, cause for
war. But once try to subvert it. and you
will find that It is Government of the
whole people as individuals. as we'll as a
compact of States. that every individual
member of the body polite is conscious of
his interest and power i'm it. and know that
he will be helpless powerless. hopeless, when
it shall have gone down. Mankind have a
natural riyhr, natural Instinct. and ma
tural capacity fo- self government and
when, as here they are sufficiently ripened
bv rulture, they will and must have self
govern ent, and no other. The trainers of
our Con- titutinn. with wisdom that sur
passed all previous understanding among
men adapted it to these inherent elements of
human nature. He strangely. blIndly mis-
understands the anatomy of the great sys-
tenn, who thinks that its only bonds. or
even its strongest li.saments, are The written
compact or the multipiied and throughly
ramified roads and thoroughfaIes of trade,
commerce and social intercourse. These
are strong. indeed. but its chiefeSt instrn-
ments of cohesion-those which render IL
Iins+parable and indivisibe-are the millions
of tibars of millions Of conlented. happy
human hearts. birding by their affections,
their ambition and their best hopes. equally
the high and the low, the rich and the poor,
the wise and unwise, the learned and the un
tutored. even the good and the bad. to a
Government, the first, the last, and the only
such one that has ever existed, which takes
equal heed always of their opinions; and
appeals to them all. individually, once in
year, or in two years, or at least in four
years. for their expressed consent and re-
npwal, without which it must cease. M. go
where you will. and to what class you may,
with commissions for ycur fatal service In
one hand, and your bounty counted by the
hundred or the thousand pieces of silver in
the other. a thousand resisters will rise up
for every recruit you can engage. On the
banks equally OF the St. Lawrence and the
Rio Grande, ON the Atlantic and the Pacific
coasts, on the shores of the Gulfof NJ. xi:o,
and iii the dells of the Rocky Mountains,
among the fishermen of the banks of New
fnundland. the weavers and spinners of
Massach usetis. the stevedores of New York.
the miners of Pennsylvania, Pixies Peak
and California, the wheat growers of Indi-
ana. the cotton and the sugar planters on
the Mississippi, among the voluntary citi-
zens from every other land not less than
the native born. the CHRISTIAN and the Jew,
among the Indians on the pIairies. the con
tumacious Mnrmons in the Deseret, the At
cleans free. the Africans in bondage, the in :
mates of Hospitals and Almshouses. and
even the criminals in the PeniLentiaries, re-
hearse the story of your wrongs and their
own never so el"quently and never so mourn
fully. and appeal To them to rise. They
will ask you. rs this all % ''Are you
more just than Washington. 'swiser than
Hamilion. more human than Jefferson ?"
: What new form of Government of I'm
ion have ''you the power to establish, or
even the cunning to '.devise, that will be
more Just, more safe. more free more gen
tie, more bene6cent. or more glorious than
this ?" And by these simple in.erroga-
tories you will BE- silenced aud confounded.
Mr.. President, we are perpetually forget
a.. HI ,hGys..R
and natural. mechanism of our Conslilu
ton; and because we do forget it. we are
continually wondering how il is that Con-
/ federacy of 80 and more States. covering
regions so vast, and regulating interests SO
various of SO many millions of men, con-
stituted and conditioned so d'versely. works
right on. We are continually looking to
see it stop and stand still. and fall suddenly
into pieces. But, in truth, il will not stop:
it was made not To stop, but to keep in mo-
tion-in motion always. and without force.
/ For my own part. as this wonderful. ma
chine, when II had newly come from the
hands of its almost divine inventors, was
the admiration of my earlier years. although
it was then but imperfeetly known abroad.
SO now. when it forms the central figure in
1 the economy of the worlds civilization, and
the best sympathies of mankind favor lis
continuance. expect that it will stand and
work right an until men shall fear its failure
no more than we now appreheud that the
sun will cease to hold its eternal place in
the heavens. asH = ests1 l.'7ass ; he1s
Nevertheless. do not expect to see this
purely popular, though majestic. system
always working on unattended by the pres
ence and exhibition of human temper and hu-
man passion. That would be to expect to
enjoy rewards. benefits. and blessings with
out labor. care and watchfulness-an expec-
tation contrary to Divine appointment
These are the discipline of the American cit