New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-09
THE GREAT CONSPIRACY AND EN.
GLANDS NEUTRALITY.

EXTRACTS FROM mr. JOHN JAYS ADDRESS,
On the Fourth Of July ct Mount Kico weschester County
New.YoIk
MY FELLow-CoUSTRYMES: We have assembled to
celebrate the eghtyixth birthday Of American indie
pendence, and we together under circumstances
that make contemporaries and coacto, as il
were with fathers of the Revolution. The crsis
which they met and which their heroism decided after
a seven years war with Great Britain, again meets
face to face. The early scenes of their struggle for
constitutional liberty have found in recent expert
historical parallel of even chronological exact
ness.
The blood of Massachusetts,, shed at Lexington on
the 18th of April, l775 not shed more gIorously
than that of the SONS of the old Commonwealth,
who marching by national highway, to the defense
of our common Capital were slain at Baltimore on the
18th of April 1861.
The midnight ride Of Paul Revere, famed in history
and song, rousng the seepers he passed to hasten
TO defend their country, created no deeper emotion
among the colonsts of that day than did our electric
wires flashing far and wide the Of tie assault
Sumter and the massacre at Baltimore, and thrilling
with simultaneous burst Of sympathy tie loyal heart
Of the American people.
On the lth of July, l776, the Congress that met in
the State-House at Philadelphia approved the solemn
instrument ttat declared tho lnuepenutnce OF Tue
Anne rican Colonies aud announced to the world the
birth of a nation. Eighty.fve years have rolled by
tie actors in that evenu have long since gone
TO their graves; their names belong to history Their
CONS have grown 70 manhood and age, and have iol
lowed them TO the unseen world; and OF the third
and fourth generation occupy the stage they trod, and
represent the nationality which then was born.
Egbty wears of almost uninterrupted prosperity
and unezampled growth Eighty-fve years Of culture
and experience in a century Of progress such as the
world has never seen before eighty-fve years OF
thoughtful reflection the character OF the men VINO
laid the foundation of national glory aud OF the
broad principles of right on which they based the edl
hcc OF American freedOml
those years have passed; their results are written
on the map Of America, on the page OF history, ana
to-day the 4th OF July 1861 the Amen an Congress
again at tie cs Of the President at the Cap
| al bearing the name Of Washington, to meet the
question: whether the Republic IL to be maintaiOed In
its integrity with the Constitution procl lined by
Wasbins ton based the will Of the majority, or
whether it il 10 he sundeed and shattered by defeat
ed faction that sets defiance the will of the people,
and would trample the Constitution in the dust
If the spirits Of the departed are permitted to
revisit the they loved, and hover hike angels
around tue steps Of their successors we may suppose rat
Hancock end The Adamses Sherman AID Wtlcot,
Carroll and Livingston Jefferson and Franklin Robert
and Lewis Morris, Wilson and Rush, and all their no
bic comp eu, look down from Heaven In this hour
upon the Congress at Washington; and God grant that
tie sturdy spirit which inspired tie nrs congress may
equally inspire the last
;" Whatever may be our fate" said John Adams,
with prophetic vision, after the ADOPTION Of the Declare
ton be assured that this Declaration will stand IL
may cost treasure and 1t may cOst blood, but 1t Will
richly compensate for both Through the thick gloom
Of the present see the brightness OF the future the
sun In heaven We shall make this glorious, an i'm
mortal day. When we are in our graves our children
will honor it. They will celebrate IT with thanksgiY-
ing with festivities with bonhres, with iumDations
Ga s annual return they will shed tears, not OF sub
lection and Slavery not Of agony and distress bot OF
exualion of gratitude, and of joy. Sir before God,
believe the hour is come: all that have, all that
am ali that l hope fer in this Life, am now ready
here to stake upon it, and leave off as began, that
live or die link swin survive perish, aIn for
the Declaration. Ii is my living sentiment, and By the
blessing OF God it shall be my dying sentiment-Inde-
rendenCe now, and Independence forever u
Tie integrity and independence of our country are
again in peril and to-day the issue is with We
together now, not as in past years. TO rejoice over
q na Onal domain boundless In extent. peopled by
cOuntrymen differing, II may be In their views and in
stitution. but united in oysy and Affection at peace
in their own borders, and with the great arm OF the
Union protecting Its citizens alike on or land, At
home or in foreign climes. But we meet in sadness
TO overlook divided nation, and to listen to the tramp
of martial forces larger than before tred the soil
Of America; the army bearing proudly aloit the
stars and stripes and keeping step to the music Of the
Union the other grsspng the banner OF rebellion and
the black flag of piracy procaimng death TO tue Con-
sttuton and the Union and ruin TO the commerce Of
the Republic
To meet the rebel force arrayed against the Capital,
President Lincoln has called upon The loyal States,
aud at the word fresh from the plow, the LOOM and
the workshop fresh from college and the pro-
lessor chair from the bar, the pulpit and the count
inghouse, frefh from every department of American
INDUSTRY the army of the Union IL in the field and the
world awaits the impending crisis. Europe looks on
with undisguised and wondering interest, aud while
France and Germany seem nsinctively TO appreciate
our situation the British Cabinet and the British press
have strangely blundered, and have muttered some
thing We do not understand about "Tights Of bel.
EgefeDts," ga wicked war" aud the "bursting OF
the bubble Of democracy"
Such, in brief, is our position at home and abroad
and this day is destined 10 be memorablepcrhsps
memorable in history as that which we have met to
celebrate. The action OF the Congress now assembled
will decide whether the national independence estsb
shed against the united strength Of the Bfth Empire
in 76 is To fall ignominously before the attacks Of
rebel minority OF our own countrymen In oil.
Ii Is to decioe the question whether in the neXt
ury our descendants shall refer TO the Fourth of July
as the forgotten birthday of extinct republic, or
whether, when we shall sleep with our fathers and
children shall slumber by SIDE their grandsOns
shall meet as we do this day to bless memories
we bless those of Revolutionary sires: 10 spread
TO the breeze from the Atlantic 10 the Pacific every
hillfde and in every valley, the flag of Union, the
Stars and Stripes that weso proudly love- and jontheir
voices ia swelling the cry Of Adams, Independence
now, and independence foreverl'
While the great ISSUE the failure Of the
American experiment, the continuance OF our Union or
it's dsntegration, rests Immediately with the Predent
and with Congress, it rests in almost equal degree
upon each Of us. The American people at
citizens and sovereignstbe fountain and source OF the
supreme authority Of the land, and to US the people,
will our servants in Congress naturally and properly
look guidance in this extremity. Already have you
seen how airy honest Executive represents the
timents Of the majority Of bis countrymen, ayiling
himself Of their counses gathering strength from their
energy and determination, and 30 directing the Gov
erument that its action keeps time to the beating of the
national pulse Already in response TO the nations