The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-02-04

cd 1fGm the prl clples OF the Declaration
of Independence, and substituted instead
Of the constituent power of the People an
assumed sovereignty OF each separate
State as the source Of all its authority.
7. That, as a primitive source of pow.
er, this separate sovereignty was not only
a departure from the principles of the
Declaration of Independence, but directly
contrary to, and utterly incompatible
with them.
8. That the tree was made known by
its fruits. That, after five years wasted
in its preparation, the coufederacy drag
gcd out a miserable existence Of eight
years more, and expired like candle in
the socket, having brought the Union it
self to the verge of dissolution.
8 That the Constitution Of the United
States was retarn to the principles Of
the Declaration Of Independence, and the
exclusive constituent power OF the Peo-
pie That it was the work Of the ONE
PEOPLE of the United States; and that
those United States, though double in
numbers. all constitute. as a nation, but
ONE PEOPLE.
TO- That this Constitution, making due
allowance for the impcrfcctions and err
rors incident to all human affairs, has,
under all the vicissitudes and changes of
war and pence, been administered upon
those same principles during career of
fifty years.
IL That its fruits have been, still ma
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more perfect Union, established justice,
domestic tranquility, provisions for the
common defense, promotion of the gen
eral welfare, and the enjoyment of the
blessings of liberty by the constituent
People, and their posterity to the present
day.
And now the future is all before US,
and Providence our guide.
When the children of Israel, after for
ty years Of wanderinos in the wilderness,
were about to enter upon the promised
land, their leader, Moses, who was not
permitted to cross the Jordan with them,
just before his removal from among them,
commanded that when the Lore their
God should have brought them into the
land, they should put the curse upon
Mount Ebal, and the blessing upon
Mount Gerizim. This injunction was
faithfully fulfilled by his successor, Josh
ua. Immediately after they had taken
possession of the land, Joshua built an
altar to the Lord, of whole stones, upon
Mount Ebal And there he wrote upon
the stones copy Of the law of Moses,
which he had written in the pre- encc of
t! children Of Israel; and all Israel, and
their elders and officers, and their judges,
stood on the two sides of the ark of the
covenant, borne by the priests and Lee
vites, six tribes over against Mount
Gerizim, and six over against Mount
Ebal Aud he read all the words of the
law, the blessings and cursings, accord
ing to all that was written in the book of
the law.
Fellow citizens, the ark of your cove
nant is the Declaration of Independence.
Your Mount Ebal is the contederacy of
separate State sovereigntics, and your
Mount Gerizim is the Constitution OF the
United States. In that scene of tremen-
dous aud awful solemni,y, narrated in
the Holy Scriptures, there is not curse
pronounced against the people upon
Mount Ebal, not a blessing promised
them upon Mount Gerizlm, which your
posteri,y may not suffer or enjoy, from
your and their adherence to or departure
from the principles cf the Declaration OF
Independence, practically interwoven
with the Constitution of the United
States. Lay up these principles, then,
in your hearts and in your souls; bind
them for signs upon your hands, that
they may be as frontlets between your
eyes; teach them to your children, speak
ing of them when sitting in your houses
when walking by the way, when lying
down and when rising up; write them
-ro- .h- aoo..p'"svo uf you' housee, "nu
upon your gates, cling to them as to the
issues of life; adhere to them as to the
cords Of eternal salvation. So may you
chiidren's children, at the next return o
this day of jubilee, after full centur.
Of experience under your national Con
stitu,ion, celebrate Il again, In the tul
enjoyment of all the blessings recognized
by YOU in the commemoration of thi
day, and of all the blessings promise d t
the children Of Israel upon Mount Geri
zm, as the reward Of obedience to th
law Of God.
INFLUENCE OF TEEpER ON HEALTH
Excessive labor, exposure to wet an
cold, dopriva,ions of sufficient quantitie
of necessary and wholesome food, habitu
al bad lod ging, sloth, and iutemperance
are all deadly enemies to human life, bu
they are none of them SO bad as violer
and ungovernable passion. Men an
women have survived all these, and ;
, last reached an extreme old age; but
} may be safely doubted whether sing
instance can be found ola man of violer
. and irrasciblc temper, habitual'y subje'
to storms Of ungovernable passion, VII
> has arrived at very advanced period
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