Marshall County Republican., 1865-12-14

hemispheres. Since those times we have advan-
ced Inxesith and powers but We retain the same
parpose to leave the nations oi Europe to choose
their osn dynastices and form sheir own systems-
ofgovernment. Thi, consistent moderation may
Justly uemand corresponding moderations We
should regard it as great calamity to outselves,
to the cause of good government, and to the peace
of the world, should any European power chal-
lenge the American people, as it were, TO the.
defence of repubcanism against foreign interior.
ence. We cannot fo.escS ana are unwilling to
eonsfd!Sf what opportunities might present them
selves, what combinations might offer to protect
ourselves against designs inimical to our form of
government. The United States desire to act in
the future they have ever acted heretofore;
they never will be driven from that course but by
the aggression of European powers; and we rely
on the wisdom and justice of those Powers to res
pect the system of nou1intcrference which has sd
long been sanctioned by time, and which, by its
good results, has approved itself to both contin-
eutS. l-, -.
The correspondence between the United States
and France. in reference to questions which have
become subjects of discussion between the two
Governments, will al proper time. be laid before
Congress.
When, on tn C organization of our Government,
under the Constitution, the President Of the Uni
ted States delivered 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 govern
ment are Justly considered as deeply, perhaps as
finally staked ON the experiment entrusted to the
American people," And the House of Represen-
tatives answered Washington by the voice Of
Madison: 1--WE adore the invisible hand which
has led the American people, through so many
cherish n
the destiny of republican liberty" More than
seventy six years have glidcd away since these
words were spoken; the United States have passed
through trials than were loreseen; and now
at this new epoch in our existence as ole nation,
with our Union purified by sorrows, and strength
cned by conflict, and established by the virtue of
the people, the greatness of the occasion invites
US once more to repeat, with soemnity the pledges
of our fathers to hold ourselves cradle before
our fellow men for the success OF the republican
form OF government. Experience has proved its
suifciency in peace and in war: it has vindicated
its authority through dangers, and Affections, and
sudden and terrible emergencies, which would
have crushed any system that had been less firmly
I fixed in the heart of the people. a: the inaucu.
ration Of Washington the foreign relations of the
country were few, and its trade was repressed by
hostile regulations; now all the civilized nations
of the globe welcome our commerce. and their
Governments profess towards US amty. Then our
country felt its way hestisiDgly along an untried
path With States so little bound together - rapid
....eans of communication as to be hardly known
to one another, ana with historic traditions eIter-
ding OYER very few years; now intercourse be-
tw cen the States is swift and intimate; the expe-
rience of centuries has been crowded into few
generations, and has created an intense. indes-
tructible nationality. Then jurisdiction did
not reach beyond the inconvenient boundaries oi
the territory which had achieved INDEPENDENCE:
now, through cessons of lands, first colonized by
Spain aad France, the country has acquired more
complex character, and has for its natural limits
the chain Of Lakes. the Gulf Of Mexico. and or
she east and west the two great oceans. Other
nations were wastedby civil wars for ages before
they could establish for themselves the necessary
degree Of unity; the latent conviction that oul
form of government is the best ever known 10 the
world, has enabled Us TO emerge from a civil wal
within four years, with n complete vindication o.
the constitutional authority OF the General Gov
ernment, and with our local liberties and State
institutions unimpaired. The throngs Of emissnt
that crowd to our shores are Witnesses Of The
C influence OF all people in our permanence. Her,
is the great land of free labor, where industry il
blessed with unexampled rewards. aud the breae
OF the workngman is sweetened by the conscious
ness that the of the country sis his safe
ty, his own dignity" Here every one enjoys ths
free use of his faculties and the choice OF activity
Il
influence of fruitful soil. genial chimes, and hap
py institutions, population has increased 6fteeI
fold within century. Here through the cas-,
developement of boundless resources, wealth ha
increased with two fold greater rapidity than mum
bers, so that We have become secure against th
financial vcissitudes Of other countries, and, alk
in business and in opinion, sclf-certrcd an,
truly independent. Here more and more care
given tc provide education for every one born OF
our soil. Here religion, released from polit;ca
connect en- with The civil government, refuses &
subserve the craft Of statesmen, and becomes, IL
lis independence, the spin iual life of the people
Here toIe ration is extended to every opinion, il
the quiet certainty that truth needs only faI
field to secure the victory. Here the human min
goes forth unshackled in the pursuit OF science, n
collect stores OF knowledge and acquire an ever
Increasing mastery over the forces of nature
Here the national domain is offered and held i
millions Of separate freehods. so that our fellow
citizens, beyond the occupants Of any other part
the earth, constitute in reality people Her
exists the democratic form of government, and tha
form of government BY the confession Of Europea
statesmen, "gives a power of which no other forr
is capable. because il Incorporates every man wit
the State, and arcases every thing that belong
to the soul" -
Where, in past history. does parallel exist Z
the public happiness which is within the reach q
, the people Of the United States7 Where, in an
part of the globe, institutions be found 90 sui;
ed to their habits entitled 70 their love
their own free ConstiIution7 Every one OF then
then, in whatever part of the land he has h
home, must wish It's perpetuty. Who of ther
will not now acknowledge, in the words of Wasf
ington, that "evcry step by which the people {
the United States have advanced to the characts
of independent nation, seems to have bee
distinguished by some token OF Providential ager
Cyl" Who will not join With me in the praye
that the invisible hand which has led thretH,
the clouds that gloomed around our path, will $
guide US onward to perfect restoration of frats
nal affection, that we Of this day may be able
transmit our great inheritance, Of State Cove n
ments in oil their rights, Of the General Cover
ment in its whole constitutional vigor. to our po
tsrity, and they to theirs through countless gcner
tionsl
ANDREW JOHNSON.
! WASHINGTON, December 4, 1865.