The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-28
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| ing corn. Nay there are spfeituai results
alSb, FOR THE absence bftId6stitnlion
marks the absence of much temptation
and in this respect our land in its
s98a6tnT Abundance o1 sTssa f PSssssss %sp sSspy
county there Wflf be yfleness and
violence. Lheft and lust. and possibly
this has as much OF these as any other.
I'wilinot say that New York, lin pro-
portion TO its size, is any Epurer than
Paris, ior our Villages hthan those OF
England, but I have no hesitation in
saying that there Is among us, no such
compnlsion of circumstances towards
sin. With our wide, fat lands, with our
Abundant Opportunities OF honest WORK
the mouth may be fed and the back
may be clothed without resorting to
ofime.S Nay more, whatever zest for
life or hearIiness in labor may be got
from legitimate ambition, toiWhaieyer
extent itdOes man good to be encOnr-
aged in his hope of rising from a lower
mode of work TO q higher ~ 10 an ex-
tent, found in no other country,) fur
nished by the United States. And for
such things we have tothank not mere
ly. institutions devised by human
minds, good as they are, but NO less,
and perhaps more, the rich heritage of
without scarceness, SO that industry
lacks not apything ii 1t. tlP
But forther, We have tot bless the
Holy Name for the inestimable favor
of peace, a benefit whieh NJ is to
be hoped we shall the more eager
~ strive TO retain for ~, having
been once so fearfuliy! withdtRwn.-
All occasions OF course are Divine OPP
pottunities war as we'll as peace sure.
ly not equally 80, but peace more than
war Under peace the land rejpices In
the hum of cheerful labor, beneficence
hasl leisure to organize her schemes. and
practice her ambitions, science has op.
portunity 10 extend the bounds of
knowledge and add strenth to meme
hands, opening innumerable resources
in the earth and revealing new haEmo-
nies in. the skies. Art is elevated since
her more. spiritual conceptions are I'M
contradicted her meditations undistufb-
ed her and work uniuterrupted and
while the three gHaces have their ap-
peace that faith Is most disseminated,
hope most encouraged, and charity un-
checked by alarms flows among men
in the largest stream. So liuIszl.1l;a3
Wetouch- politics sufficiently, to, say
that this condition Is the aim of all
very attRtnRble under our own system.
It's true the very ,delicacy and nicely
OF our political structure gives much
opportunity for political disease, but we
have had lRtely SO severe q course of
treatment, that we may now hope un-
der God for long glcontInuance OF
peaceful heAlth.g .4aus2 sugI lo4iilsf
= Further we have to praise him for the
benefit of liberty, not OF course liberty
without conditions but liberty whosel
permRnence Is assured 10 us by its hay
lug boundaries of law. In the abstract,
liberty is Ciishonorab1e thing and be-
longs to the lower creatures, for you
find that Con fairly thinking of it'l You
Know the ant and the bee Yorking as
they do;unde of law, much
more than you do.the freer fish and
butterfly. The civilized man differs
from the Savagein having not less law
but more. Abstractly the power and
glory of all creatures consists
In their 6bedieneeS The dead leaf has
much liberty, the stars In the heavens
have none. The dust Of which your
bodies are formed, has at present no
liberty, liberty, 10 every particle of.it
will indeed come, but then twill only
come with corruption. Even In heaven
which is the communication OF right
liberty, it is noticeable that the very
praises of God in whom liberty utters
itself are sounded notsinF the fWRtiton-
ness of abstract freedom, but In that
form of beauty. which is beautiful, be-
cause most fullUofl orderi and law,
Namely the measured Iharmonies OF
music. No I MOI We ask not abstract
liberty, but we do ask for, and praise
God for having received SO much oft as
il good and cheerful aud will encour-
age a man tollve and work. Praise the
Holy Name for theiliberty of the United
States, and pray that it be not so viola
ted by our sins that ~ be on. their ac-
count withdrawn 8nr tHAa1al Ia d.
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