New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-09

cause We have done every thing mean to do, or
ought to have dore; not because BIT among the
rpened sheayes of the harvest but because God has
given rs so glorious work to do. aud so fair land
and so kindly hope ard promise to do ii in. When
the robin and the blue bird sing in early Spring there
NAV be leaves upon the trees but all the Summer is
in their song, and az OF flowers and froit
as if held them in hands; and so what people
holds in Its heart If it had already grasped
it in its policy Hope is our blrthrght. Faith is our
duty The man who despsirs Of this country despairs
of human nature.
But to-day we give to memory. To-day the bugles
of party sound truce and tell the truth brothers,
not az partisans. However we may differ, speak
here and Row with unanimous reverence Of tue men
end the principles which have made lhs day eonspcu-
ous in history In the old Egyptian fable il ia related
that Queen Berenice fulfilled a vow by laying her
lusrous hair upon the altar Of goddess whence Ju-
pter snstched it. and set IT, flaming constellation, IN
the heavens Even our fathers laid their glowing
lives upon the altar of human liberty, and God sets
their memory shining il mems hearts forever.
"By fairy hsnds their knel is rungi
BY forms unseen their diIge is sung;
To bes l,d the ,a T that ~RPs thsi clay
And freedom shall awhile repair,
TIE dwell weeping hermit there
And the great truth that Freedom viii perceive.
as she muses. there, is this: That the American
Revolution was radical; that it was not change OF
COVER ment only but practical philosophy OF the
principles of government and That s leaders perfectly
understood and plainiy expressed those principles,
meaning every thing they SAID, as they SAID IT.
The lesson of the day, then, is THE FAITH OF THE
FATHF s; and in honestly stating it, we honor them
most uously and teach ourselves the most timely and
useful lesson. When the question was fairly put TO
them as il was by the Tory Daniel Leonard IN New
England and The ''Westchester Farmer in New York
What right have you TO disturb the peace OF the en-
pire because everything does not precisely eut you
hon vour TneF M
fortabe-wben your population has doubled In twenty
FIVE years and cities schools AID colleges are every
where springDg up-when even james Otis admits the
authority of PaTame nt-when Great Britain Is re-
solved TO msinain its power-when all rebels will be
cut down in the field and hung upon glbbet they
escape the swOrd-when you have no army, nor gem
erals nor money nor stores nor dlscPline|wheh me
British navy viii imme diately possess Itself OF the
whole line Of your sea-Coast with all commerce. fish
cries and naveation-and the Brtish army Will rouse
the Canadians and sayages IN your rear In TINS STATE
OF things, will you plead impolicy ss an excuse Tor
aparcbyl How can you justify TO God or man the re-
sistance you eHpate and the blood that VIII be
shed Why are you lot all rebels? Why Is not your
leader, who has taken up arms against his lawful
king, traitor
10 this question there could be but answer, and
the leaders knew aud gave it. We will not be taxed
they said because we are not represented AND that
objection rests upon the ground that the Government
desgned for all should be the work OF all; and that
claim is founded upon principle which Is not 10 be
discussed because Ii nstlIcye-the principle OF the
1t was substantially the answer that solitary men had
given in the old db ys OF Greece and Rome. IL Was
the answer justified by the Cross Of common human
ity on Calvary. Tue answer which inspired msrln
Iutber in his protest and Hubert Languet, and the
republicans Of the Reformation: which tue pugrlds
soiemnly intoned re they embarked upon Winter sea-
and mace their Mayt1ower constitution; the answer
which had already wrought Two reVQiuu9n5 III Fog
land-the "old cause which had inspired Hampton
for which AlgernOn Sidney noby spoke aud bravely
died the ansU er which God has written upon the hui
man SOUL and which Algerasn Sidney expressed Tor
ali tine in cav ing If nature does not make one man
lord over his brethren, he never come to he their
lord unless they make him so, or he snb0ue them. III
he subdue them il il act of violence, contrary 10
right which NAV consequently be recovered. II they
make him lord It's for their OWL sakes, not tor MS
and he must seek their good not his own"
The leaoers Of our Revolution were men OF whom
the ample truth is the highest praise OF every con-
dltion in life they siDguAry sagac0us, SOBER
and thoughtful Lord Chatham spoke only the truth
when he said TO Franklin, Of the men who eoaPcsed
the frat Colonial Congress: " The Congress Is the
most honorable assembly OF statesmen slncs those Oh
the ancient Greeks and Romans In the NEST vlrtuous
tmesU Given 10 grave reflection, they were neithef
Jreeers nor Wal naries and they were much too ear
rest 10 be Theorcians Ii IS curious fact, tat they
were generally men OF so cain temper sun. .nol
Lived 10 extreme age. With the exception OF IatrcA
| Henry and Samuel Adams, they were Hoet VI Iieln
nrofonnd scbolars and studied the history OF mankind
| ihattbev might know men. They were 80 iainillar
with the lives and thoughts oil the WlSes' anu VesI
Ind cft he rs
rrtngs and their speech and they were proiou idiy
| convinced of what atesmen always know ano lhe
adroitest mere politicians never peroeiVe-'ha'
are the life of "a peOpe-tbat the conscience, NOT 'o
nocket ~ the real citadel OF natloE ano tnt "uen
I'm have debauehed and demoraized that conscience
Nv Teaching that there are natural rights, ana tnere
Tore that ii ere is no moral right wrong III pchlc,
action you have poisoned the wells ana nave Io..eu
the crops in tie ground Inc three grea'es' LIE
stote- uer of Epgaud knew this also-Edmund burke
| Lnew IL and Charles James Fox, and Wllnam fn',
| Farl of Chatham But they did not speak lot the
| King or Parlianent, OF the English nation. Loru
Gov or sn Ike for them when he said IN farnahhene'
81 The Americans talk about their naturai anu VI
- ,igbtsi their rights az men and cltlzens' theI
,iyIts IRON God and natuTe all FOR enforcing Shese
| r;easues" Ny lord was eonemptuOusy anu Tue
King hired the Hessans, but the truth re maneu ue
INC Fsbers saw the scarlet soldiers swarmng er Inc
aa lint more steadily they that national progree,
had been secure only in the degree tnat tne p'huca
| svstem had conformed TO natural justice. insy AneM
the coming wreck OF properly ana .I@o.' 40 rc5 y
/ lnexv more surely that Rome was never 80 ren ~
| when size was dying, and, on the other hanui tl'
| Netherlands never 80 powerful a. when they "er'
poorest Farther away, they READ the NAMES " 49, As
| syria Greece, Egypt. Ihey Lao ART oPu Nj tn,
dor Corn enough grew in the valley OF the Nile ln'
| syrian sword was az sharp as any They were ner
liant pri1ees and The clouds in the SKY were r'aet
Lx tLeir sails upon the sea. They were soicierS an'
their ffown frightened the world Soui nA &c ' IN
eas tbose Empires said languid with excess oil iuA
! nrv and life Yes but you remember the hlng "n'
lad built his Tandest palace aud was 70 oceuP! y,
| Tho morrow but when tue morrow came t,e Rt io
was a pie Of ruins. Woe Is me cliou sAo
"Vbo l. ouilty of this crime" There If no CRIME,
| rsrl;ed the sage at his side; "but the mortar wa
ade of ssnd and water only, and the builders ioBo
-, rt IN ,be lime" SO fell the old empires, becans
The governors forgot 10 put justice into then govern
TJ,sss things our fathers saw and pondered DO no
mean thai when the Writs Of Assistance were lssueG
or The Stamp Act proposed or ths TOT pm ghao