The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-07-09

substances have their chemists discovered ?
1 Who drinks of American glasses, or eats from
American plates, or wears American coats,
or sleeps on American blankets" 1t is not
forty years since these sneering questions
were fippantly propoundcd, and can we not
now point to galaxy of names whose light
is as clear as large, as bright, as strong, as
any of those which shine in the armament of
English Literature.
In the field of illustrious lexicography the
fame of Webster and Worcester more than
rival that of johnson, Walker or Sheridan.
In history Bancroft, Hildreth, Prescott,
Motley and Goodwin equal Hume, Lingard
and Macauley. BY the side of her states
men we may place Madison, Hamilton, CAL
houn, Hayne, Clay, Seward, Sumner, Ste
vens and Lincoln. AS lawyers our Frank
lin, Jay, Kent, Chase, and Story will COM
pare with Boyle, Hooker and Blackstone
In the sciences we have Silliman, Hare,
Morse, and Mitchell entitled to no ordi-
nary level in the niche of fame. In the sub
lime field of oratory we can point to Web
ster, Prentiss and Henry Clay-orators whose
eloquence was like the tornado that sweeps
the pine trees of continent. During the
last forty years we have achieved wonders
| in the arts and sciences.
Combining ourselves to that period we
would ask our transatlantic critics where
are the Grimkes, Emmetts, Bascoms, Maj
fits, Stocktons, Channings, Tyngs, Beechers,
Simspons, Chapins? Where their authors,
Bachs, Liebers, Fields, Morses, Agas-
sis ? Where their Whipples, Giles, Will
ses, Saxes, Reads, Careys, Longfellows,
Holmes, Bryants, Irvings, Coopers? Where
their Hughes, Purcels, Choates, Taylors,
Everetts, Summers, Chases2 Where their
| .l,,
where are their SCOTS, Grants, Sherlnans,
Sheridans, McClellans Towards. Rosecrans,
Hazens, Hookers, Osterhauses, FarEaguts,
Logans, Buffers, Hallecks, Burnsides, Thorn
asses, Meades, Sickles, Kilpatricks, or the
young and brilliant Miles, than whom
more accomplished and gallant officer the
regular army does not possess, and of whose
services the most martial and imperial ma
ton might well feel proud. Where, during
this forty years, is the boundess learning of
Luther Martin? Where the silver voice and
fervid genius of Wendell Phillips, pouring
itself along immense ore9 Where the ripe
and beautiful culture of George w. Curtis
Where Clay, with his electric fire and i'm
passioned eloquence? Where Webster,
calm, grand, majestic, sitting on the loftiest
peaks of Olympus, darting lightnings and
rolling thunders Where the splendid rhet-
oric and sparkling oratory of Thomas Fran
ces Meagher . Or their parallels to the
hundred other names that lave spread them
selves over the country and over the world,
blessing and delighting mankind by their
| works, inventions and examples! In so tar
as we know, there is such parallel to be
produced in the same time from the annals
of self-adulating England. The history of
Britain presents no parallel to the rapidity
with which our present Chief Magistrate
has gradually advanced from the humblest
calling to the occupancy of the first po-
sition in the world!
| EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
We commemorate today the abolition of
| the naOnstlOus crime Of american slauery.-
Thank God the great and guilty system of
slavery has persisted forever. Let it be bu-
ried with all its horrors and barbarities in
the grave! let it fade forever from the recol-
lection of man. The proclamation of liber-
ty to four million captives has rolled away
a great reproach from US, and withdrawn a
most serious obstacle to our progress. Let
| the world call it the extravaganza of chart
ty, or the romance of equity, it was mag
nificent spectacle. 1t was glorious day-a
day in which years of shame and oppression
were blotted out-a day in which long
despised and trampled race sprung into the
grand proportions of free men--a day in
which the armies of the Union halted on
their march, looked toward the White
House and blessed the beautiful prediction
of splendid era. That page of history can
never make us blush. That lofty deed can
never shame us. 1t was the resurrection of
the great nation founded by the fathers 1t
was the awful march of Justice-it was the
majestic front of philanthropy frowning
down oppression; it was the sublime EN-
bodment of Right treading down the plots
and schemes of the lords of the cotton bales
and rice swamps; it was Freedom clothing
herself anew with the robes Of 76, making her
stately march through the arms and banners
of gallant people to open the prison doors
of the enslayed and to consecrate free re-
public. No more will an English poet re-
buke us.
Omitted States your banner wears
Two emblems, one of fame-aas the other that
it bears reminds us OF your shame;
Your standard constellation types white freedom
by its stars,
But what is the meaning OF those stripes they
mean your negroes scars ~
A man may be serf in Russia, It peon in
Mexico, slave in Ireland, but here he is re-
deemed, dsenthralled and free! Banded
despots and kingly rufians were haunting us
that our power was laid low that our voicewas
to be heard no more in the hymn of nations.
The old empires were watching for the death
and had made ready mourning weed and
cypress wreath for the burial; they said that
our sun had set forever! But Abraham
Lincoln, the brightest of the bright and the
purest of the pure, obeying the advice of the
millions of the East and of the great North
west, lifting his head above the tempest,
wrote the immortal charter of universal
emancipation. The Bourses of Europe were
lost in wonder when they heard it. The
crowned monarchs shook, and they talked no
more of Columbias faded greatness and
PROSTATE might. Land of our fathers land
of benedictions victorious hast thou been in
battle; potential IN negotiation; fruitful IN
benevoence distinguished in art. But then
was thy ascendant! Thy palm lifted itself to
its tallest growth-thy glories eliminated in
that godlike act. The Edict Of Freedom has
resounded through all nations of the earth.
Millions have gazed upon it with devout joy
and rapture. 1t has shook the thronedoms of
tyranny, and has made the minions of slave
ry tremble. 1t has reverberated from empire
to empire, from continent to continent, from
hemisphere to hemisphere. The Laplander
has heard it amid the regions OF eternal