, 1870-07-03

general tax beyond its water rents Upon
q general review OF the whole Appropfla-
ton hill and OF its items, we caniot Int re-
peat that it WAS, in many respects, mn abuse
of tie power Of taxation, m exsraragant
use Of public money. and q deliberate vio-
lation Of the pledges Of reform aud re
trcnchuent which were made to tho people.
FOURTH oF JULY
Has anybody forgotten the childish rahe
with which he first discovered that santa
Clans was an llluAon+ pleasant III, apu
the seTons disappointment ne tel1 IN iea1n-
ing that the jolly itte candy-oafdenoo
saint WAS only transient 1npersonatlon OF
tho commonplace, nii-the-S eas-fouao anger,
parental love: And yet, now INFINITELY
more charming is the reality, the ABIDING
love Of parents for their children, than the
grotesque little imp Of generosity, which,
in our childish fancy, We had preferred to
it. II is quite possible that o similar llu- |
the saints who presided over the birth Of
our national independence. We have de-
termiued 10 canonize them into special he
roes- The Gifts of the hour, men of un-
e,ra1ted r;.tpo and never again to be rival
,441 Yet soch a view leaves us ia, poorer
tbsn If their natnres we're of a niece with
cnr own. and their de ads vete such az We
u,n1d have aono ourselves ns we'll as thew
- 70 ,,sd GOOD IN THAR n,aca A. not;,n tn
whom, heroism comes onl, by supernatural
1;.non,.,;on IL cc,,ainlv f,r ;nfar;or 10
ona IN rb;,h "A IL snontsncons
on,,,-o-xth ~ ,an;oa ona character and
r,,ssa o,orcisa nav bo counted m when.
a,ur tba occ,a;o,, sr,sas a. snrelv as heat
49, .-,oo,.5 f-,,,,, ,,,rn;n,, ,.,,i, The
| ,nrt >o,, rao-s h.ra ,,.,a H., n,n1t;tn.
a;nons y cron ~ ha.oas md f;eoera1s I,
adn,;t ,,f mr. fea];nc The sa,oo awful raver.
anca for the 1-7s s,v1e of natr;ot az we
nsea IN do. unless We nre clearly persuaded
there was so,no generic difference batwcsn
The Washington, Lee, Putnam, Greene,
Stark. Knox. and Marion of 111C-s3 and
Grant. Sherman. Thonns, Sheridan, and
Far7ngut of 1s6l-Gj. Especially nrs We
prone to think there must have Leen yas.
Legislative superiority in those who framed
the original constitution over those who
abolished slavery by the Thirteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments. All such notions
Of re,rograde tendencies in tho mental and
moral qualities OF race whose nchieye.
mcuts do not retrograde, hut are constantly
expanding in their magnitude, md invol-
! wing more and more largely tho welfare
and happiness of mankind must f'c
fuilacious- Those features Of our national
history which we most glorify, and which
arc especially dwelt upon in our oratotical
cornscations on the Fourth Of July, we're
either involuntary on the part Of their
actors or displayed, when truly analyzed,
oniy very prosalc order OF virtue. The
doctrine Of the equalitS Of MI men was the
only admissible ono in a country where
there were no large monopolista Of land, no
great military chieftains, no materials OF
which 10 mike an order of nobility, on the
one hand, or Of dependents, on tho other.
Now to declare that all men arc by nature
equal, in country in which they are, in
fact, 50, WIS only stating, in an nbstrac.
form, what NIL their surroundings presented
to them in the concrete. Had Great Brit,
ain taken pains TO establish in her Ameri,
, cnn colonies at the outset. hereditary no
bility, by sending hither the younger scion,
Of the English aristocratic families h.,
granting them vast estates, SO that four Oh
i've hundred families would have absorbet
the cntirc domain by erecting the chief
, Of thcse families into Dukes, Earls Wis
counts, Darons, knights, &c. hy establish
; ing Colonial Parliament with III aristp
, critic House of Peers, founded on ranl
a only; by maintaining the Law sf prinogen
l. i,urc, 80 as to prevent tho dispersion .
$ estates by converting the Colonial p.,rlia
mcnt at some central and fashionable caps
|, tal in manner that would afford room fo
g tho display OF social rank and influence
: then indeed it would havo required some
9 thing Of the iconoclastic spirit for "Cuu
4 tincnial Congress" TO rise to The dcclaratio.
that all men are created equal. But Grea
britain, having taken no stems to repca
the experiment Of an aristoc1atic sociot,
!. and government in her colonies. j, wu,,,,
J. have. teen wholly impossible for her states
!. men TO have proclai1uesl anr other ductrin
= thau human eou.]i,v in a country in wh;c]
# Ill men were. in fact. politically euual. No
Is r.u,d they. by INV feat of iecsuien,ai.,
n haxe ;,,,t;atea the Envais1, system. o