The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-03-09

nJNt.--covERNoR GEARYs MESSAGE.
The following letter from Judge largest
of Winchester, Va, to gentleman Il
Harrisburg, Pa, has been handed to u
for publication:
WINCHESTER, VA, Feb. 10, 1871.
Mn Dear Sr,-In your letter of Jan
uary 10th, you asked me what | though
of the annexation of San Domingo and
the removal of political disabilities IRON
all the participants in the late rebellion.
T am much pleased to see state Of
feeling arrived at by the President and the
Senate In reference to what now promises
to be matter of abiding interest to our
country, not only for ourselves, but for our
posterity, which places them in that &C.
cord, that is sure, when based upon patri-
otism, to evolve from strong common
sense pure and lasting wisdom.
OF course, it will require time for the
public mind to become satisfied with its
expediency, as well as for the varied cham
neIs of enterprise to develop the benefits
arising from the annexation Of San Do
mingo.
Manifest destiny, like an imperial mantle
dropped from the sky upon the shoulders
of our young giant among nations, marks
with its hem sweeping boundary, that
extends beyond those gems of the sea that
cluster around the Queen of the Antilles
and whose sceptre is free ballot, whose
chariot steeds, free institutions, and whose
crown, universal liberty, that shall invade,
conquer and rule the whole boundless con-
tinent.
There are two considerations endorsing
the propriety of this union; one, the bene-
fits that will enure to the Dominicans the
other, those that will accrue to us. And
whether we consider that order shall de-
throne anarchy, peace conquer war, energy
expel Lacquer, thriving prosperity gladden.
the seats of careless misery In that unhap-
py island or, that the products ola fruit
full soil, under genial cline, shall add to
the comforts, and conduce to the happiness,
and that this new field of enterprise shall
both feed aud stimulate the genius Of the
American people; and that the sisterhood
of States shall find still stronger bond in
the addition of yet another to their number
there seems to be peculiar fitness in
time, means and circumstance, in the con-
summation of this scheme, worthy of the
Presidents earnestness.
How meet it is, that that party which
cemented the loose bricks of our nation
al edifce, even with its blood, into one
grand, consistent, and, as we hope, perma-
nent monument of wisdom and patriotism
and has cleansed worse than Augeau sta
bles in the South--its own land safe
should turn the purifying stream, and in
fuse some Of its courage, purpose and
power into the decaying veins Of neigh
Dor, whose fallen fortunes deserve better
fate
Nor should we close our eyes to reasons
of more selfish cast.
The feudal monarchies of the old world,
and the kindred structures built of their
dismembered fragments, reel to-day from
the successful issue of our civil conflict.
A new volume of history has been OPEN
ed--a maxim of ancient political lore has
crumbled under the rays Of the nineteenth
century. Hitherto aristocracy was the
sum of wisdom, as despotism was of pow
er; and to the masses was flung the bone
of honesty. Yet in the annals of convul-
sions. dreadful by being intestine, doubt
full by being nearly even-handed, fierce as
between right and wrong--our own may
we'll claim the first place. And whether
we consider the nations poverty in the APP
planes Of war at the beginning of the
contest, the distraction of its counsels, the
dreadful unknown that threw its long and
gloomy shadow athwart every interest far
into the future, OR the general distrust that
seemed to close on every side the springs
of conference.-the test upon the fabric OF
theoretical self-government was severe,
searching and trump liant. And to-day
the millions of Europe, whose returned
sons and brothers helped to achieve our
success, are fast learning, from the demon
strations that we give by results, the theory
of republics amongst themselves.
Those people are longing for, and their
crowned heads are dreading, the Inaugural
ton of European family of republics.
They will attempt to hasten, these to delay,
this contamination. The former will cast
upon America loving eyes of confidence,
the latter, scowling frowns of hate and
fear. She will lend her moral assistance
to those, and must ever be ready with her
material power to repel these.
It is not likely that any monarchical
combination could be formed against the
United States the opportunity for that
closed perhaps with the expiring days of
the last half century. But ill-will there
must be, as there has been, either covert
or expressed; insidious at times, perchance
hereafter to become eruptive in acts. And
while we rejoice in the vigor Of our well
massed and growing strength, ordinary
prudence alone would make discreet, yet
ample provisions for the future, not only
of the probable. but also of the possible.
If America has any mission among ma
lions, it is no common one and the child
that to-day feels thrill of pride over the
record Of her glores hitherto, like the
dawn of his own youth, may have caught
but the first faint glimpse Of career
whose resplendency, glittering as the sun,
may linger in usefulness and power until
his work is done too.
This conception may possibly, owe
something to the enthusiasm of an Amer
leans pride for his land but | am sure
that something, not very unlike it, must
occur that is to say, America must. as
she does to-day---and with attitude each
hour more marked-stand between the
expressions of royalty and the rising and
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