, 1863-10-31

L44JoIJys
The day is one on which men talk much
of liberty, and on which they are accus-
toned to claim that the world derived the
grandest aid it ever received in the cause Of
free institutions. Let US then understand
plainly what we mean by liberty. 1t is not
license. It is not freedom to do as we
please 1t does not mean the absence of re-
straint. 1t does not mean the equality Of
man to every other man in everything 1t
means in general the restraint which is i'm
posed on governments and individuals, pre-
Fenting tlre one or the other from doing
wrong to the citizen Or subject Liberty
must be bkn Of restraint-must consist Of
restrain
Observe bow small indeed is the license
which the free American has. He is not
free to go where he pleases for in all of the
millions Of acres of land spreading around
him there are only few narrow strips, called
roads, over which he is at liberty to walk.
He cannot go as he pleases, for over these
roads he must move with deferential res
pect to the equal rights in them which 9TH
ers have; and he must not use his right so
as to iniure his neighbors right He is not
at liberty TO act as he pleases, for he must
not throw a stone in the air if it's fall will
harm another individual in person and prop
erty. lie is not at liberty to speak as he
pleases, for he may injure his neighbor by
his speech he must be cautious or be may
offend the moral sense of the community by
his language, and therefore he must bride
has tongue,
We might continue these illustrations at
length. But these suffice. Men prate a
great deal about liberty who understand
very little about it. Liberty is the creature
Of law, not the enemy of law, as some seem
to imagine. The hour when we see perfect
liberty on earth will be the hour when the
human passions are under the greatest res
traint and when no injury is done by man,
not because every man is free to do as he
pleases, but because every man will be gov
erned by a sense Of the duty which imposes
on him the seYerest bonds
We are all bondsmen. In spite of the
boasts Of freedom we are all under sharp
laws, under strong restraints. Yet we are a
free people-free because we agree among
ourselves as to those restraints, and bear
them cheerfully because they are our own
imposing.-N T. Journal Of Commerce.
We clip the following from an article in
the Marysville "Express" of the third inst j:
"THE COMING MAN.0-Judge Kelly,
Abolition member Of Congress from Phila-
delphia, made a speech recently before tn
loyal % League Of that city, which was pub
lished in Forney's Press This notorious
parsonage in the radical organization has
come out openly in favor of bestowing the
highest honors upon "Amercan citizens Of
African descent" That is the present Alb
clifton arrangement, and Kelly speaks for
his party. We take the following extract
from his speech:
"The coming man" to deliver our country
is not Butler, nor Fremont, nor Banks, nor
Rosecrans, nor Grant, nor Hooker, nor
Meade, he is a colored man.
He then goes to show that his influence
will throw him upon the topmost wave,
making him a power second to none in
moulding the destinies Of this people.
We would not be surprised if Fred Doug
las, the negro infdel, and stump orator, was
the Republican candidate Tor the next Pres
idency. If the Republicans love the poor
African half as much as they profess, he is
the "coming man" as Judge Kelly would
have you believe, for political preferment.-
Poor Ben Butler, poor Fremont, Of Rocky
Mountain Mariposa Emancipation fame,
poor Hooker, Of military renown, poor Burn
side, Of fredericksburg and Dayton note,
you are not the men to deliver our country.
0, no, it must be ''colored Individual" led
on by men who sing
"From Africa the negro came,
Arise 0 Congress bless his name,
Stand up good Lovejoy bless the day,
The Negro came from Africa.
He is the object Of our care,
For him we preach for him we pray,
For him we meet from day to day,
That colored cuss from Africa"