The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1865-12-14
and which, BY its good results has ap-

proved Itself TO both continents.
The correspondence between the
United States and France, in reference
to questions which have become subjects
of discussion between the two govern
ments, will, at a proper time, be laid
before Congress.
When, on the organization of our
Government, under the Constitution,
the President of the United States de-
livered his inaugural address to the two
Houses, of Congress, he said to them,
and through them to the country and
to mankind, that "the preservation of
the sacred fire of liberty and the
destiny of the republican model
of government are justly considered as
deeply, perhaps as finally staked on the
experiment intrusted to the American
people" And the House of Represen-
tatiyes answered Washington by the
voice Of Madison I've adore the In
visible hand which has led the Ameri-
can people through SO many difficulties,
to cherish a conscious responsibility
for the destiny of republican liberty
More than seventy six years have gil
ded away since these words were spo-
ken: the United States have passed
through severer trials than were fore
seen and now, at this new epoch in
our existence as one nation, with our
Union purified by sorrows, and strength
ened by conflict, and established by the
virtue of the people, the greatness Oh
the occasion invites us once more to re-
peat with solemnity, the pledges of our
fathers to hold ourselves answerable be.
fore our fellow-men for the success soi
the republican form of governments
Experience has proved its suficiency in
peace and in war, it has viudicated its
authority through dangers, and attic.
tions, and sudden and terrible ,emergen.
cies, which would have crushed any
system that had been less firmly fixed
in the heart of the people. At the in.
auguration of Washington the foreign
relations of the country were few, and
its trade was repressed by hostile regu-
lations now all the civilized nations OF
the globe welcome our commerce, and
their governments profess towards us
amity. Then our country felt its way
hesitatingly along an untried path, with
States so little bound together by rapid
means Of communication as to be hardly
known to one another, and with historic
traditions extending over very few
years; now intercourse between the
States is swift and intimate the expe-
rience of centuries has been crowded
into few generations, and has created
an intense indestructible nationality
Then our jurisdiction did not reach be-
yond the inconvenient boundaries of
the territory which had achieved indie
now, through cessions of
lands, first colonized by Spain and
France, the country has acquired more
complex character, and has for it's nat
ural limits the chain of lakes, the Guh'
of Mexico, and on the east and the west
the two great oceans. Other nations
were wasted by civil war for ages before
they could establish for themselves the
necessary degree of unity; the latent
conviction that our form of government
is the best ever known to the world, has
enabled us to emerge from civil war
within four years, with a complete vim
dication of the constitutional authority
OF the general government, and with
our local liberties and State institutions
unimpaired. The throngs of emigrants
that crowd to our shores are witnesses
OF the confidence of all peoples in our
permanencc. Here is the great land of
free labor, where industry is blessed
with unexamplcd rewards, and the bread
Of the workingman is sweetened by the
thatthe cause of the coun
try lis his own cause, his own safety.
his own dignity" Here every one en-.
Joys the free use of his faculties and the
choice of activity as a natural right.
Here, under the combined influence
Of fruitful soil, genial chimes, and hap
py institutions, population has increased
htteen-fold within a century. Here,
through the easy developmentof bound
less resources, wealth has increased with
5wo-told greater rapidity than numbers;
so that We have become secure against
The financial yicissitudes of other coun-
tries, and alike in business and in opin-
on, are self-centred and truly indepen-
dent. Here more and more care is given
% provide education for every one born
IN our soil. Here religion, released
rom political connection with the civil
government, refuses to subserve the
craft of statesmen, and becomes, in its
Independence, the spiritual life of the
people. Here federation is extended to
every opinion, in the quiet certainty that
ruth needs only fair field to secure
he victory. Here the human mind
soes forth unshackled in the pursuit of
science, to collect stores Of knowledge
md acquire an ever increasing mastery
'yer the forces of nature. Here the
domain is offered and held in
Millions of separate freeholds, so that
'ur fellow-citizens, beyond the occupants
# any other part of the earth, consti-
ute in reality people. Here exists
he democratic form of government
md that form of government, by the
confession of European statesmen, ''gives
power ofwhich no other form is capa-
lie, because it Incorporates every man
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