Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1862-11-14

-" '"''-"t' puIo HOtiNeci Is tne teaypn
OF its weakness. And neither Of its own
power, nor Of any aid derived from peace.
tuI or armed Intervention, can it succeed
The logic of truth
"dives mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before"
Men change, but principles are eternal
Truth and tllschool are so well defined,
and the characteristics of each so plainly
traced as to be beyond tho power Of casu-
istry TO contound or oblterate. What
was false when the Athenians gathered
in the Acropois, is false in Faneuil Hall
to-day. Time wears no changes on the
azure front of truth The weakness of
man may surround it with the dust OF
false ob>ervanees, may bury it from sight
beneath heavy mould of desire, but like
the undisclosci fires, burning deep in the
earth, ever and anon it bursts forth to
sight for the guidance of all who seek to
worship by its light. Magma est reriias
The eternal years of God are hers" cx-
claims poet of our native land. The
happiness and prosperity of the race de-
pend upon the tultilment of the demands
Of truth. Its requirements cannot be
avoided, without ineurring individual So
cial aud national ruin. No private en-
terprjse and no system Of government can
be permanently secured that rests upon
unrxaet immoral ounaations.
The distinction between justice and It's
contrary must be observed III forming the
social condition and in enacting VS. for
it; the problems of Euclid may be disrc.
gardea but those Of humanity must be
solved by the principles Of actual justice,
or Woe to the Safe and the political
mathematiaians- The history of our own
much may b. the prote.; for justice, and
how little may b. done to secure its cm-
pirc. The De.arAtiou of American ln-
dependence set out with the affirmation
that al, men are created equal AMI en-
dowcl by their Creator with certain ia-
a.enab.e rights, among which are life
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
l. Mr. ] fiipfsons draft of the Decla
ration. the vor!s "inherent and preceded
the words "iutienab.e rights" hut the IN
,t5amant aS finally alnPtei left them ont
Il pronounced thc endowed i.ats to b
certainly Of divine origin AMI Incapable
If a,ical,ilu. am couteHt with this,
because. if foeriy he the gift Of God, It
j. an laa"rea: rilht in man. aud ii, in-
ahenabaiy j, necessary coEoIiary.-
Cheers
In the short spaee of twelve years al
ter the grand charter had been gwen to
the world, aul while yet Inscriptions Of
praise AMI thank, for 1t were rising from
the hearts ami .ips OF universal manhood
while men wre folding the writing
anon, tn, lca}e- ot their Biblcs-the
same people on whose behalf the Dtcla-
ration w, mld-, nj five of the samr
persons who to il> support pledged their
lives, tac;r turtauc, AMI thetr sacred hon
or. ala,t,I AMI subscribed the Constita-
ton OF H. the iaarth section of which
doomed 10 helpless, hopeless seryItuis,
7Up. 600 human b.n.,, and their wrc,ched
Increase to all time. From that hour
forward the dragon teeth OF slavery mul-
tiplcl themselves, AMI spread into all
the Ia i; aHi a. it. last AMI legitimate
frat. come, this war and blool>hei which
uoa de.o.atr our once peaceful aud pros
porous land
Il could Ho, be otherwise Effects fol-
low thelr cau,.s a, certainly as night the
,ity, OF the seasons their course. The
Law Of compensation adjusts itsel' to
every condition of man, aud each viola
tion Of truth Is followed by a correspond
ius rctributiou,
/ know, sir, the people are impatient of
criticism when the acts OF our revolution,
ary f,tatr, are unlcr consideration, -
Ncncratiau Is a national instinct, and the
+ least return Americans can make to their
ancestry aetuated by pure motives, i to
accord to their conduct an unqualified
honesty of purpose. Neneration, how
ever. sometimes assumes the form OF SUI
pcrstitiou, reverence, and blights progress
by toreelo,ins inquiry. Respect for the
past is very well in its place aud dtsfce,
AMI while | yield TO no man living in al
fcttion and respect for the founders oil
this Government, cannot resign TO this
f feeling the exercise OF my reason, the
convictions of my intelligence, or the
teaching. Of my conscience. prolonged
applause.l
Butvi is b1licr than theory, more con-
lent than the UNDERSTANDING older and
more imperative than speculative science
existing from eternity and recognized IN
its biulns force from the norninsot ere
alton.
am entirely persuaded that in form,
inr the Constitution, if the friends aud
advocates Of free institutions had rest
le,sly met aud formally denied the claims
of the pro.siayery leaders OF that day,
South Carolina would not only have joined
the Union, but would not have enacted
the notification ordinance OF le52, or as
sailed Fort Sumter in 1861.
A recognition of mans right to hold
his fellow man in seryile bondage to make
merchandise of human blood and bone to
violate every principle of justice, to make
the Declaration of Independence "tlnE-
t ling symbol and the nation seorh-iS
the scource of the attack made in the con
stitution itself by the slave oliglrchlsts OF
our day and their conduct illustrates the
theory that the laws Of compensation ana
retribution are increasingly IN operation
/ do not attack the intentions OF men VINO