The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1860-03-12

thirteen OF its columns ali at once These n,
standing now, the admiration OF mankind. Thei
succossors added twenty more even ~ Who IN
here now, have shaped and elevated three of thai
twenty, and al these % hrm and stsadfast !,
the 6St thirteen; and more win yet be necessary
| who's We shall have rested from Our hhofg. Donl
among NJ prefer for thcss columns aeompoadts mn.
tsriaIi otksrs tho pure white marble. Our fAEhsru
and our predecessors differed In the same way, and
on the ssme point. what execrations should VI
not oil unite In pronsuncing on any statesman who
1t being ovennled In his choice Of materials, for
any nsw column then 70 b quarrisd, should have
laid violent hands upon the imperfect structure,
and brought il down TO the earth, there to remain
wreck instead Of Aoitadel Of worlds best hopes
/ Iremaia now in the opinion ! have uniformly
expressed hare and elsewhere, that thsss hasty
threats Of disunien 20 unnatural that they viii
| Ind no hand to sxsoute them. We are Of one rass,
language, liberty and faith; engaged, indeed, III
varied industry but even that industry, diver
SIZED, brings us into more intimate relations with
each other than any other people, however homo
koneQps. and though living undsr coasolidAted
govsSnmsnt, ever maintained. We lanxuish
throughout, IL one joint OF our Federal frame 10
must perish. You may refine yon please about
the structure Of the Government and say that ii is
. compact, and that breach, by one Of the States
by Congress, Of any one article absoivss oil the
separate il they have fancy they have caass Tor
But onos try to subvsrt 1t, and you will ind
that itisA Government Of the whole peoples in
dividuals, Is we'll ~ . compact Of States; thst
every individual member Of the body polite il con-
ssious Of his interest and power II t, and knows
that he will Be helpless, powerless, hopssss, when
IL shall have gone down. Mankind have 3 natural
right, natural instinct, and natural capacity for
sslfgovsrnmeny and when, - here, they are sun
GENTLY ripsneA BY culture, they will and must
have self governmsnt, and no other. The trainers
OF our Constitution, with wisdom that surpassed
oil previous understanding among men, adapted IL
to these inherent elements OF human nature. He
strangely, blindly misunderstands the anatomy OF
the great system, who thinks that is only bonds
its strongest lgamsns, ars tho written COM
pact or the multiplied and thoroughly ramihed
roads and thoroughfsrss OF trade, commerce and
social intercourse. These are strong, indeed, but
it's chiefest instruments Of cohesion-tboss which
render itinseparsble and indivsible-are the mil
lions Of Aires Of millions Of centsntsd, happy hui
man hearts, binding by their affections their ambi-
ton and their best hopes, equally the high and the
learned and the untutorsd, even the good and the
bad 20 government the Arst the last, and III only
such that existed, which takes equal heed
always Of their wants, wishes and opinions, and
appeals to them ALI individually, once ina year,
In two years, or 1t least In four years, for their
expressed consent and renewal, without which II
must No. 70 where you will and 70 what GLASS
you may, with commissions for your fatal ssrvics
In one hand, and your bounty counted BY the hun
drsd or the thousand pieces Of silver In the other
thousand resisters wilrse up for every recruit
can engage. On the hanks equally Of the ST. Law
renee and the Rio Grands, on the Atlantic and the
Pacific coasts, the shores Of the Gulf Of McKee,
and in the dells Of the Rocky Mountains, among
| the fishermen Of the banks Of Newfoundland, the
weavers and spinners Of Massschusetts, the steve
dorss Of New York, the miners Of Pennsylvania,
Pixies Peak and California, tho wheas growers Of
Indiana, the cotton and sugar planters On the Mis-
H. a.
other land not less than the native born, the
Christian and the Jew, among the Indians on the
prairies, the contumAsiou Mormons In the Desert,
the Africans free and the Africans in BONDAGE the
inmates Of hospitals and AEsho uses, and even the
criminals In the Psnitendaries, rehsArse the story
OF your wrongs and their own never 70 eloquently
and never 90 mournfully, and appeal TO them to
rise They will ask yos. ais this alll" "Are
| you more just than Washington, wiser than Ham
ilton, more humsne than Jeferson f'' "What
new form Of Government or Of Union have you
the power to establish, or even the cunning to
devise, that will be more just, more safe, more
free, gentle, more benefosnt, glorious
| than thisf' And by these simple interrogatories
you will be silenced and confoundcd.
Mr.. President, We are perpetualIy1 forgetting
this subtle and complex, yet obvious and natural
mechanism Of our Constitution and because We
do forget 1t, We are continually wondering how 1t
is that confederacy Of thirty and more States,
covering regions 80 vast, and regulating interests
30 various Of so many millions Of mon, constitu-
ted and conditioned diversely, works night on.-
We continually looking to il stop and stand
still, and fall suddenly into pieces But In truth,
1t will not stop; it cannot stop; ii made not
to stop, but to keep in motion--in motion always
and without force. For my own part, O. this Won
| derful machine, when il bad newly come from the
hands Of its almost divine inYeut0rs. was the ad-
miration of my early years, although liz was then
but impsrfectly known abroad, so now, when 1t
| forms the central figure in the economy Of the
| worlds civilization, and the bsst sympathiss Of
mankind favor its continuance, expect that it
will stand and work right on until men shall fear
its failure no more than we now spprehend that
the win to hold its eternal place In the
heavens.
| Nevertheless, I do not expect to see this purely
| popular, though majestic system always working
human temper and human passions. That would
be to expect 70 enjoy rewards and benefits without
labor, care, and watchfulnsss-au expectation con-
| trary to Divine appointment. These are the dis
cipline Of the American dtisen, and hs must inure
| himself to it.. Whom, - now, great policy, fast
ened upon thecountry through it, doubts and fears,
confirmed BY its habits, and strengthened BY per-
sonal interests and billions, 10 to be relaxed and
changed, in order that the nation may have it just,
| and natural, and free DEVELOPMENTS then, indeed,
All the winds OF controversy sre Jet loose upon
from AL points Of the political compass W see oh
jscts and men only through pelttesl hasss, misfs,
and doubtful and lurd ghts The sarth seems to be
heaying under our feet and the pillars Of the noble
fabric that protects rs to be trembling before our
eyes. But the appointed end OF MI this agitation
GENES at last and always by the tumults Of
the people subsidc; tho country becomes calm once
more; and then We find that only our senses have
been disturbed, and that they have betrayed us.--
The earth 10 firm - always before, and the won
dsrful structure, for whose safety we have feared
80 anxiously, now more firmly fxsd than ever still
| stands unmoved, enduring, and immovab
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| the Second Ward, J. NJ. ANDERSON will be . cam