The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-08-02
The United States Their Place And
Use Among The Nations.

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kind in this world, be more reticent than
the preacher7 When his belief IS fixed
that God ru es the nations, ought he to
conceal this central doctrine of all true
politics and political economy, because,
haply, it is not the common habit of poll.
ticians and economists to refer to the
Creator in their speech and WRIT
ings2 For ourselves, we decline to leave
| this highest and grandest truth, apart
/ from which no fact in world-hlstory can
! be understood OF iterpreted, solely to the
/ pulpit God guides humanity to its
| destined END, and, therefore, amid all
| the perplexities of the passing day, we
are without fear. When we regard the
/ great problem that is being worked out
IN the United States, we find assurance
and strength in this article of faith. A
new life for mankind has been begun
| here. The world has had experience of
republics more 10 name than in sub
stance. These so-called republics were,
by turns, nligarchies and military des-
potisms. The few were the rulers the
many were ruled. 1t is not for a mo-
ment to be denied that we are yet long
way from the perfection of our theory
Progress is slow. That perfect round of
which the poet speaks is long in the
molding. We admit that there is much
in our practice that is contrary to repub-
lican simplicity, and that tt ere Is corrup-
ton in high places; but, on the other
hand, there is real freedom Ia the nation,
and the power IN the people to govern
themselves as they will There is abnnd-
anee of bred also, and on such abund~
ance all other possible material good
| POUNDS
Thus we perceive manifest destiny"
IN our State, more to be desired than
anything which is built upon sword con.
quests. 1t is part of that destiny, a
condition of our national life, that we
should undergo an APPARENTLY chaotic
period, in order that the elements Of
society may be fused to a elasticity that
will take the highest form. The land is
open, and we should not close its ports
against those who come to US. We get
many good men from the old countries
of Europe, but it is evident that we can
not obtain even fair proportion of the
best The States are an asylum for the
oppressed, and not merely for those who
are oppressed Ia their political condition
but for those who feel the sting in their
social relations. The majority of men
cling to the place of their birth, and,
except under cOmpulsiOn, they viii not
unloose their moorings. 1t is the bust
ness IF man to cOnqueF the earth and
make it fertile, and, therefore, the nee
! essary compulsion to duty is in the
natural order The result to as is this =:
+ Most of those who come hitherward have
; felt the evil all their lives; and they are
the children of fathers who, for genera
tons, have been impoverished and Bru~
talized. We are not stating the facts
too strongly. The doctrine of selection is
true within certain limits, and it applies
with as much force TO mankind as to the
lower animals. Bad food, insufhcie Mt
clothing, and inadequate lodging degrade
man, These causes have been at work
for centuries in Europe, pressing down
the workman lower AMI lower toward
the brute form.
1t is not a hundred and fifty years
since there were slaves of the soil in
Scotland-men and women in slavery as
absolute as ever it was in the Southern
States Manufactures, which have given
wealth to EnglrAd, in their beginnings
intensified the misery of the working
man; and quarter of a century ago the
| life of the .laborer in England was most
terrible in its priYations. 1t was worse
in Ireland; but though, since those days
there has commenced a beneficial reYo-
luton in the social state of the British
/ Islands, oD the Continent of Europe the
worker is still Systematically oppressed
. Ofsuch men are many of the immigrants
into the States. We welcome them, and
viii find places for them; but let US un~
, derstand the truth. They cannot be Of
F, US at the commencement of their new
life IN America There is disruption
rather than cohesion in their tendencies
! Those who have struggled for politca
E and social freedom 10 the old world, have
struggled in a wild way which comportt
not with the American idea. They often
/ abuse their newly acquired freedom. and
i the fact need not cause surprise. There
: is always a flow for the tide after az
: ebb; and when the restraints which have
unnaturally limited the advance of the
human tide are removed, it rushes faster
, and further than those whose life course
t has been calm, equable and approved
}, | The uDdisciplined immigrant has to bt
crystallized upon our form before he car
become worthy citizen of the United
States. This work is done here with al
who have a sense of mauliness in theii
souls. We believe that men are borT
free and equal and the idea of master
Y ship-by which we mean something
? different from due ubordination-is re
pugnant to humanity.
If, then, the natural state of man bt
2, that of freedom and equality, his happi
n ness can consist in nothing less. The
o American is that of freedom for the iHdi-
vidual. Our nation, therefore, is based
: on the truth, and the republic, as here
4 established, must prevail over all lower
i methods of government The mixed
elements which now constitute our socic'
ty will one day-and that not a distan
one-concrete into consistent whole
aud, by virtue Of our example, mani
sister republics will arise in the world
fit were not so, there would be no hops
for mankind, and the promised millennium
would be dream of the poet. If Their
were no republic in this New World
: then must despotism be the rule of tht
:. Old, and even the constitutionalism o
:. England would be IN danger. We tax
!, our sister natien Of the Anglo>Saxon o.
: AnglO-Scsndinayia race, as setting fOrtl
: the best possibilities of free govern men
=, in Europe. But there is something cor
> rupting in monarchy. Uuder the rule o
kings social status counts for more thar
> worth. This is inevitable It's also In
!. evitable that men will strive for tina
: which bears the highest value Ezposet
o to temptations OF this kind, liberals fal
) away from the faith, political Indifferent
!. ism grows apace. and the ranks of tory
4 ism are recruited by the sons of reform
ers- IF it were not for the stimulus {
Il continued effort which English liberal
= derive hence. evil days might return t
England They take their inspiration
" from America, as we'll as from their oW1
Is record, even while they are loyal to th Ell
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