The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-12-13

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tY-six years have glided away srnoe these
words Eers spaken;. the United States have
passed through seYerer trials than were fore
resni and now, At thus new epoch in our ex-
istenos ~ one nation, with our Union pdTi-
flsi by sotuowr AMI srengthened By con-
LEA; and established BY the virtue of the
psopk, tha sratnass OF the occasion invites
vs. o1Ss l,Ee TO repeal with solemnIiy, the
.Yklgss ef our hthsrs 10 bold ourselves an
Svsrabls before our tellOw-meh for the sue
eess Of the repubbcaR form Of government
EEerIenee has proven its sufheiency in
pesee and N war II has vindlcated It's au-
Ihority through dangers, and affections, and
wouh have crushed any system that had
been less firmly fixed in the heart of the
people. At the Inauguration Of Washing
ton the foreign relations of the country we're
few, and lis trade was represSed by hostile
regulations; now all the civilized nations of
the globe welcome our commerce, aud their
Governments profess towards US amity.-
Then our country felt its way hesitatingly
nlong an untried path, with States SO little
bound together by rapid means Of communi
cation as TO be hardly known TO one anoth
CT, and with historic traditions extending
over very few years; now Intercourse be-
tween the States is swift and intimate; the
experience of centuries has been crowded ir
To u few generations, and has created an in
teuse, indestructible nationality. Then our
jurisdiction did not extend beyond the incon-,
venient boundaries of the territory which
had achieved independence; now, through
cessions oFlands, first colonized by Spain
and France, the country has acquired more
complex character, and has for its natural
limits the chain Of Lakes the Gulf of Mexi-
%, and ON the east and west the two great
oceans. Other nations were wasted by civil
wars for ages before they could establish for
themselves the necessary degree of unity,
the latent conviction that our form of gov
ernment is the best every known to the
world, has enabled US to emerge from civil
war within tour year with a complete vindi-
cation of the constitutional authority of the
General Government, and with our local
liberties and State institutions unimpair-
cd ra-
The throngs of emigrauts that crowd to
our shores are witnesses Of the confidence
ot all peoples in our Perlnanence. Here is
the great land of free labor, where industry
is blessed with unexampled rewards and the
bread of the working man is swectencd by
the consciousness that the cause of the
SIuutIy Is MS oWu Causc, ms OWL safety, |
his own dignity, Here every one enjoys
the free use cf hisfaculties and the choice |
81 activity asa natural right, Here, under |
the combined influence Of u fruitful soil,
genial chimes, and happy institutions popu-
iation has Increased fltceu fold within a
eentEysr Here, through the easy develop /
InentsQf boandless resources, wealth has in
CREASED with two-foll greater rapility than I
numbers, 80 that we have hecorae secure !
&gailist the financial vicissitu,les OF other I
countries, ail, alike in business and III
Qp;nion, are sclf:centre1 and truly iudepcnl |
dent. Here more and ,noie care is given to |
provide education tor every one born on our
soil. Here religion, released from political |
with the civil government, re-
f.ikes TO suhservc the craft of statesmen,
ansi becomes, in its independence. the spir- |
itgal life Of the people, Here liberation is
extended to every opinion, in the quiet GER
taiuty that truth needs only fair field to
secure the victary. Here the huuan mind |
@,es forth uilshacklcl in the pursuit of /
science, to collect stores of knowledge, and
acquire an ever increasing mastery over the
toyues Of nature Here the natioual domain
ia offered and held in millions of separate
t'recholds, 50 that our fellnw-ctizens, bpyoud
tie occupants of any other part Of the
earth, constitute in reality II people. Here
exists the democratic form Of government;
and that form Of government, hy the con
fesSion Of European statesmen, gives a
eower' of which no other form is capable,
because it Incorporates every man with the
State, and orouses everything that belongs
10 the soul. y
Where, in past history, does parallel
exist to the public happiness which is with
il the reach of the people Of the United
'f>:ates? Who're, in any part Of the globe.
t,n institutions he found 50 suited to their
habits or 20 cAttled to their lore as their
o*u free Constitution? Every one Of them.
then, in whatever part Of the land he has
his home, muft wisl, its rerpetuty. Who
of Them will not now acknowledge. in the
wnrds Of WmhiDgtcn. thnt every step by
Ets:ch the people Of the United SFstcs have
L iyanaed to the character of IL, independent
III tiDn, seems to have been distinguished by
s.lne toklnof Providcntial agency" Who
will nnt join with me ia the prayer, that the
hand which has led Us through the
clouds that gloomed around our path, will
80 gn:ds us onward to Il perfect restoration
ot fratcrnal affection, tina. we of this cay
may be able to transmit onr great inheri-
tlHce, Of State Governments IN all their
rishts Of the General Government in its
whole constitutional vigor to eur posterity
ana thoy to theirs through countless gener-
,trlonSt ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 4. 1865.