Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1866-01-06

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the world, should any European
Power challenge tho American poo.
pie, M it were, To the defence Of re-
publicanism against foreign inter
ference. We cannot ioreseo and
are unwilling to consider what OPP
portunities might present them
solves, what combinations might
offer, to protect ourselves against
designs inimcal to our form OF gov
eminent. Tho United States desire
to act in the future rs they have cv-
or acted heretofore; they never will
be driven from that course but by
the aggression Of European Powers;
and we rely on the wisdom aud JUS
tice of those Powers to respect the
systcm of non. interference which
has so long been sanctioned by time,
and which, by its good results, has
approved itself to both continents,
The correspondence between the
United States and France, in refer
cnce to questions which have be-
come subjects Of discussion between
the two Governments, will, ut q
proper time, be laid before Con-
gress,
Whom, on the organization Of cur
Government, under the Constitu-
ton, the President of the United
States delivered his Inaugural ad-
dress to the two Houses Of Con-
gress, he said to them, and through
them to the country and to man
kind, that ''the preservation Of the
sacrcdIfre of liberty and the desti-
ny of the republican model of gov
eminent are justly considered "a
deeply, perhaps as finally staked
on the experiment intrusted to the
American people" And the House
of Representatives answered Wash
ington by the voice Of Madison -
1--WE adore the invisible hand which
has led the American people,
through so many difficulties, to
cherish conscious responsibility
for the destiny Of republican libcr-
ty." More than seventy-six years
have glided away since these words
were spoken; the United States
have passed through severer trials
than were foreseen; and now, at
this new epoch in our existence as
one nation, with our Union purified
by sorrows, and strengthened by
conflict, and established by the vir-
tue of the people, the greatness Of
the occasion invites us once more to
repeat, with solemnity, the pledges
Of our fathers to hold ourselves an
swerable before our fellow men for
the success Of the republican form
Of government. Experience has
proved it's sufficiency in peace and
in war; it has vindicated its au-
thority through dangers, and Attic
tons, and sudden and terrible emer-
gencies, which would have crushed
any system that had been less firm
ly fixed in the heart Of the people.
AT the Inauguration Of Washing
ton 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 amity. Then our country felt
its way hesitatingly along an I'M
tried 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 in
innate: the experience of centuries
has been crowded into few gene
rations, and has created an intense
indestructlble nationality. Then
our jurisdiction did not reach be-
vond the inconvenient boundaries
of the territory which had achieved
independence; now, through cess
ions of lands, first colonized by
Spain and France, the country has
acquired q more complex character,
and has for its natural limits the
chain of Lakes, the Gulf Of Mexico,
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
government is the best ever known
to the world, has enabled US to
emerge from civil war within four
years, with a complete vindication
of the constitutional authority OF
the General Government, and with
our local liberties and State instltu-
tons unimpaired.
The throngs of emigrants that
crowd to our shores are witnesses
of the confidence of all people in
; our permanence. Here is the great
land of free labor, where industry
is blessed with unexampled rewards
and the bread of the workingman
; is sweetened by the consciousness
that the cause Of the country sis his
own cause, his own safety, his own
: dignity" Here every one enjoys