Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-03-21
Sneech OF sfr. Bancroft,

IN NEW YORK CITY, FEB. 22p, 1862.
We copy below the oration delivered be-
fore the New York City Government at
the Cooper Institute, on Saturday, by Hon.
George Bancroft, the Historian, on the oc-
casion of the celebration Of the anniversary
of Washinston's birthday:
Men of Neu York AS the organ of
the City Of New York on this occasion, it
is my first duty to remind you that we owe
thanks to Almighty God for patriots who
achieved the independence of the United
! States, and who formed "the unity of Gov
ernment which constitutes us one people"
/ To-day we declare TO peoples and to princes
that that union is complete and shall not be
impaired, is dear TO US and shall be pre-
served. The wise and the good in each
hemisphere desire us to continue one; ev-
erv fibre Of the sensitive heart of the indi-
visible France, in spite of some appear
ances, throbs in favor Of our existence as a
nation the people of England l shall be-
lieve are with us, so long as there are mer
among them like Bright and Stuart Mill
the most wonderful career Of improvement
in the history of the race is the witness tina
we are nation Italy has learned from u
to adhere to her passion for bringing to-
gether the parts which the selfshness o
oppression had dismembered, and the i'll
cemented fragments Of Germany deriv'
from us hope of better reunion. Now
in the day of our tribulation, the peopl
have proved that they are inspired with hi
iy the grandest spectacle the world eve
witnessed, in their uprising in the majest,
of undivided conviction, concentrated powe'
and determined purpose in their unrepin
ing resignation to suffering and privatior
their sublime patience under strange di;
comftures and weary delays and long COZ
tinued inactivity, from inability and pc
plexty, or from judgment and choice +,
their outspoken joy when the spell WI
broken of the seeming paralysis OF the
- gigantic preparations; in the heartiness
their response to Major General Gia
= when he proposed "to move immediate
on tbe enemy's works" Now the rulers
the earth will come to know that under ii
Constitution which makes us one peop
g there exists no authority that can aliena
single inch Of the territory of the Unit
States; that while we claim tor each nc
yidual the right of emigration, there is
- possible conspiracy, combination or conve
- ton that can discharge any one citizen fro
=. his allegiance so long as he remains on o
!. soil. though each one may for himself d
- ;, solve that allegiance by self-exile and fiigl
These many and everincreasing Unit
States are one, now and for coming ages.
he Principles Of the Government.
nd The only ground cf hope for the Pc
in netu;tv of our unity, you will find, men
ust New York, in the words of Washingtc
ity spoken in this city. When, in the presen
the Of your fathers, Washington, standing U
led der the canopy of the sky, took the oath
lie. support the Constitution, he returned II
,ri- The Senate Chamber, to interpret 10 the
, of Congress the principles of our great CHI
re. ter. and the fit policy for the nation to r
.ac- sue. Then it was that he laid down
his their rule the pure and immutab'e Prir
of niles of private morality and 8 the eier
re. rules Of order and right which Heaven IL
ure has ordained.7 And the House of rep
A, sen,atives, using the pen of Madison
no frame its answer, accepted his enlighteI
maxims, and owned the oblisaiicn to ''sd