The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-24
IS Are we a Nation p,

Are we Nation 30
We are under obligations to Hon. Charles
Sumner for pamphlet copy of his Address,
delivered before the New York Young
Mems Republican Union, on the subject
Are zoe q NatiOn?' We have read this
able and spcn,iid Address with great pleas
ure. We regret we have not room to Law
the whole of it before our readers, but we
give the concluding part of it, as follows ::
Il conclude as began. The late Rebeliom
against the Nation was in the name of State,
Rights; therefore State Rights in their de
| natlonailzlng pretensions must he over
| thrown. 1t proceeded from hostility to tbs
sacred principles of the Declaration of indie.
pendence therefore, these sacred principles
must be indicated in spirit and in letter. &c.
that hereafter they shall he supreme law.
co equal with the Constitution, in whose i'll
Elimination the Constitution must lie reach.
and they shall supply the final definition oil
Republic for our guidance at home and fo,s
an example to mankind
In this great change we follow nature ana
, obey her mandate By an irresistible law>-
water everywhere seeks its level and fipSe
it: and SO, by a law as irresistible mann
seeks the level of every other man in RICH Il
and will find It, Human passions and hs1,
man institutions ale unavailing to arrest it
as nature is stronger than man. and tkfe
Creator is mightier than the creature. Tks-
recognition of this law is essential TO the r.,,
tlonal cause for so you will work with pe.-
ture rather than against it, and at the sane
time In harmony with the Declaration eli
lndepence. Here l borrow a word frorl
Locke, who in his essay ON the Human Un=
Outstanding says that, in dealing with prop
nSIt al,
BOTTOM Now in dealing with the Rebel
lion, we find that though in the name of
State Rights, it ''bottomed" on opposition,
to the nature and an open denial of the self
evident truths declared by our Fathers, es-
pecially of that central truth of all, which
Abraham Lincoln, at Gettysburg, in the most
touching speech of all history TINS announ-.
ces: FourscOre and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth on this continent a..
New Nation, conceived in Liberty, and tleta-
Gated to the proposition that all men are cre.-
ated equal" Slavery was bottomed" Dn
the direct opposite; and so was the Reb.lA
lion, from beginning to end. Therefore yeus
must encounter this denial. You do not esk-
tlnguish Slavery; you do not trampe out
the Rebellion, until the vital truth declsr.eh
by our fathers is established and nature aa
her law obeyed. TO compile the good work
this must be done. Liberty has been won.
Equality must be won also. In England,
there is Liberty without Equality in Fran &c,
without Liberty. The two toere,:ls-
er must be ours. This final victory will ta.,
the greatest of the war; it will be the cors-
of all other victories. Here we
plant the National standard To this cham
pionship l now summon yon. Go forth,
victors in so many fields, and gather now
the highest palm of ALL The victory of ideas,
is grander far than any victory of blood
What battle ever did so much for Humanity
as the sermon on Mars Hill? What battle
ever did so much us the Declaration of indie
pendence7 But sermon and Declaration are
one, and it is your glorious part to assure
the National Unity on lthls adamantine
BASE {
All hail to the Republic, redeemed and re. 4
generated, one and indivisibe. Nulifca- ?
ion and secession are already like the ex
,inct monsters of a former geological period
to be seen only in the museum of history.
With their extinction must disappear that
;aptious. litigious and disturbing spirit en-
yendered by State Rights. The whole coun-
Try will be transformed. There will be con-
ord for discord: smiles for frowns. There
will be new consciousness of national life
With corresponding glow. The soul will
lialate with the assured Unity of the Repub-
ic, and all will feel the glory of its cltizen-
hip. Since that of Rome Iothing has been
o commanding. Local jealousies and geo.
,raphical distinctions will be lost in the at
FACTIONS of common country. Then, in
Iced, there will be no North, no South, no
last, no West; but there will be One Ma
ion. No single point of the compass. but
he whole horizon will receive our regard
Tot the Southern cross flaming with beau
!; not even the north star, SO long the ;
uide of the mariner and the refuge to the
ying bondman, but the whole star-spread
rmanent will be our worship and delight. I
AS the Nation stands confessed in undivi-
ed sovereignty, the States will not cease
D perform their appropriate functions. In
erlaced, interlocked and harmonized, they
ill be congenIal parts Of the mighty whole.
'hile Liberty and Equality will be the re-
ognized birthright of all, and no local pre-
snsion can interfere against the universal
aw. There will be a sphere alike for the
tates and Nation. Local self-government,
'hich is the pride of our institutions will
e reconciled with the National supremacy
a the maintenance of Human Rights, and
he two together will be the elemental prin-
iples of the Republic. The States will ex-
rcise minute Jurisdiction required for the
Convenience of all the Nation will exercise
hat other paramount Jurisdiction required
DR. the protection of all. The reconcilia-
ion-God bless the word thus begun
Tili embrace the people, who, forgetting
asst differences, will feel more than ever
hat they are one, and it will invigorate the
till growing Republic, whose original root
las little more than an acorn, so that it will
nd new strength to resist the shock of
.mpest Or time, while it overarches the con- !
nent with its generous shade Such at