Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-07-23
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The scorn OF all who know the worth of mind and
But, in the meridian of our renown: in :
the full fruitiou fof national pros perity Il
the past and the present encircling us with
coronet of gloriess are there, no clondsSoff
portentious omen casting their shadows
upon the disk Of the future? The skillfuls
maTinefS detects. the coming gale in thes
calm breath of cloudless sky, and trims
his vessel to meet its fury. A sagacious
people should read the dangers which lurk
in their future in the fuli blazen of pros
perity. sand frame theiriactfon to avoid the
shock-sueiUps yllul Il tla .RdamG b tsew rs'inI
Those blessings which furnish the theme !
for our, liveliest admiration, and which, if
used frighttully, and made subservient to :
the liberties of the people, furnish solid
and enduring basis for government, contain
the poison which corrupted and destroyed l
the Republics now shattered and strewn7
upon the shores of time, While the early I,
Democracies were poor; with limited terri
tories; with but few foreign complications,
the fires of freedom burned brightly within
their borders; but as they turned their at
tention to commerce and annexation,a and
intrigue among their neighbors. and grew
opUlent and pregnant with conceit, arro-f
gance9 9supplanted. osimp plicity, and af'de-I
sire for a government powerful oande
brilliant too correspond T with their
altered circumstances smothered their
love for that mild, yd munificent and
unostentatious systemA -laws=-porah-s
safed to them by the Republic, and they
served as footstools from which ambitious
tyrants1eaped to kingly rule. But little
San Mariuo. with its eight thousand patriots
and five square miles of territory, has pre-.
served its simplicity, has not extended its
area, and is to-day the oldest and freest Re-
public, in the world. And Switzerland,
without the facilities for national or per-
sonal aggrandizement, confined within its
mountain fastnesses, has preserved its tree
dom while thrones have totte. ed and armies
have teen dashed and shattered againstits
ribs of rocks. .--
do not desire to inculcate the theory
that wealth and Republieanism are incom-
patible, but to admonish you that great ma
tiondl prosperity and udst accumulated acedlth
are the rocks upon which the Republics of
the past have been broken Wealth seeks
safety. and its ideas of security are bolts,
and bars, typified in Government by con-
solidated power, eXactirg laws and rigid
rule Let US watch, therefore, in the midst
of our rapidly increasing prosperity, this
element OF danger, and guard it and use
it within legitimate bounds and limits, re-
membering that Democracies protect the
poor man, though he hath not dime, is as
sacredIy shielded under the aegis of our
fundamental law as he who rides in gilded
chariots, and lives in palace consecrated by
the toll and sweat and broken constitutions
of the laboring millions. Give capital its
protection; make the rights Of property in
violate; but as you would guard your life,
as you would protect the honor OF your
household. as you love your freedom and
wish to transmit it to your children, resist
with the most Jealous efforts of your na-
ture any attempt of capital to become par
amount in the Government. and to fasten
its fangs upon the liberties of the people.
The Egyptians have towers erected along
the course of the Nile to indicate the hight
of the annual inundation. Our fathers
have given US the Constitution to guage the
floods of faction, and to mark the encrOach-
mentrof elements destructive of civil -liber-
ty. Let US carefully scrutiDize its indica-
tions, and when selfish Interests or infiamed
parties threaten to subnlefge it with their
furious spray, let the mighty voice of the
people commando s'Thus far shalt thou
come and no farther, and here shalt thy
proud waves be stay ed.'
Another source of danger to the Repub-
lie is the intense partyism of the masses.
We are rapidly being transformed from a
Government of the people to Govern
ment of parties. Instead of making hon.
esty, capacity and virtue the standard for
the selection of our rulers, and the happi-
ness of the people, and the best interests of
the country the objects of our DEVOTION we
are prone to set up party service and party
interests as superior to statesmanship and
national good. Mythology tells US that the
first created female was endowed by Venus
with great beauty, and by Jupiter present.
ed with casket containing many ills and
much virtue. BY mistake she let loose
the many ills upon the world and re-
tanned the virtue in the box. Parties
are endowed with great benefits for
society, and with inexhaustable re-
sources for mischief, but the excesses into
which they are being plunged, have loosed
a Multitude of misfortunes upon the coun-
try with but a porportionately small degree
of benefits. As aids to craftsmanship; as
sentinels upon the watch towers of liberty;
as watch dogs at the vaults of the public
treasury, parties are indispensable and in
valuable to a Republican Government; but
If they become engines of oppression; hot
houses to nurture corruption and pecula-
ton; employment of corporations to fur
nish sinecures for their members, and
leeches upon thevitals of the government
making the Republic and its interests
subservient to the success of faction, the
people should take them by the throat and
strangle them, as the priestess OF the sun
straneled the serpents that attached the
life of her vestal virgins. .irz o-a
| Parties should be the servants of the peo-
pie, and not the people the serfs of party.
They, should be used to advance the aims
OF justice Justice should not be prostituted d
to further the ends of faction. We want
more patriotism ard less partyism; more
harmony and less bitterness; more charity
and less suspicion; more faith in the peo-
pie, more OF that broad and enlightened
spirit of christianity, binr .su----a.
| Which knows the God-like glory of forgiving.
How large the power; how fixed the empire is
Which benefits confer on generous minds. cd
| Let our fealty be first to the Union an6
Constitution, and let US use parties to main
tain the one and defend the other. remem.
bering that we are all members of the
Great Brotherhood of Freedom, and join
heirs in the heritage bought with the blood
and the tears of the Fathers and Mother!
of the Revolution. The jewels of our lib
erty are all contained in the same casket
II tits broken, the gems will not be pre-
served to one party and lost to the other
Our interests are so inseparably interwo
ven that one faction of the people canno
i oppress the other without becoming
victim of the oppression. Upon the same
path must we travel down the shores o
time, and it cannot be rough for one anC
, smoothe for another. If it is margined by
flowers and beauty and springs of joy, Il
common we shall inhail the extatic fra
GRANGE and drink of the perennial waters
Z but if it leads through barren deserts anG
| over sterile crags, thirsty and weary, hand
| in hand, we shall faint AMI stumble alons
! its devious way.
, But these dangers will be parried.
great and Intelligent people who have eat
en- of the golden fruits of freedom will no
! so easily relinquish them. In our wisdom
we will build of the rocks over which 9th
: er Democracies have stumbled and beel
r broken an enduring foundation for tn
! greatest Republic of history. As the shad
Ows of the past have been borne away upol
: the sunbeams, so, even now, are the cloud
f lingering on the verge of our horizon sill
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