The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-05-20

annie. The Girarls. Cooper. peabodys.
IIopkinses, have been until now ito pecu.
liar basis and soil Of American nniionali-
~. American history, from the Declare.
ton of Independence TO the last rebellion
| Of tho shareholders, iustirAtcd and tos
| tered by Europenn national uowers. IS n
speaking monument Of the sacrifices of A
! freedom loving people fer their national
integrity.
The treason Of nm Arnold ia every Amer
loan school history, branded with inihmy.
and In the patriotic anthems of the last
civil war the death Of heroes under the
national banner Is rulnciaed as warmly
"a the treason of the traitors 10 the nation
IL cxccralcd, "Down with the traitor
aud IN with the stars GA the g2d CT
February last a great demonstration took
| place at tho Academy of Music in Pnim-
delphia. The result of subscription for
the celebration of the one hundredth ami,
yersary Of the American nation in 1876
/ was announced The private subsorip.
lions in Philadelphia alone amounted to
| S731,30O The railroads subscribed 5000,
600, the city council also appropriated
| 100000. Thus the whole amount sub
| seribcd reached the grand total of ST.,
| FAC, 900.
After tho meeting adjourned 100000
more was subscribed by private iudiyid-
uals. The announcement that Penusyl
yania would contribute four millions was
fully justified. In this VIC discern no high
sounding, hollow phrases, An TINT took
place was prac ical TO the point and nj
the same time patriotic. and bore the i'm,
press of profound interest, in the great mn
tonal affair. All the proceedings were
animated by he same spirit, that the ill.,
biec in Philadelphia should prove The
strong cement Of indestructiblc union and
harmony, and that the sovereignty o: tho
people cannot exist without the virtue of
the citizen. Eye.witnesses reported this
and much more like il, but polwithstsnd.
ing such evidence the great critic of the
| "llfe of Jesus sees in America no nation
ality, and therefore neither any national
character nor any soul.
Mr., StrAnss is evidently more at home
in Palestine than in the New World, and
in grooming over the Psalms md the Prov.
cribs of Solomon has not found the time TO
trouble himself about "Home, Sweet
Home "lhe Star Sraupled Banner.n "Aly
Country. Right or Wrong and other sim.
liar American trinrs, Therefore. il il
easy TO understand how the preiudiccs of
his New Faitb" caused him 10 oyerlool,
the plain ruth. and nisled him to conolu.
sions TINT are net IN accord with the .aots
lie puts in the plaCe of the cold beliet' in
religion. the new belief in the pation
and substitutes national for religions in.
tsrests. md poes back TO his new na,ionnl
stapd-poiut into the old theolsgcal excu.
siycncss. and religions Intolerance
AS The Old religious faith not only re-
iecls the foreign religion as false
nnrlchteous anl psryerted but denies il
the essence of religion in general. which
il only possesses. so the new material
taith Of Mr.. Strauss hastily condemns
FOREIGN nationalities. tecause he nat AMY
rcpnIJs Them as cenducIye of ruin I'M, as
in the case of the American he can recoo-
ulyr in them no nntionSl cbaracter
Mr. Strauss politicsl belief is monarch.
ism. and if in accorlauce with il in Amer.
len. the common interest in the STATE
aoes not posstss the strength TO raise Tho
individual fran ths narrow range of sal.
hsbuess and avorioe in nancy eating IN
onv ideal exertiou /. il not IN re cbar,ed
10 any lack of national character. as he
means il. hut is the Anlt of tina same scrt
of n stale in which he nrot,sses to believe
MIR. Strauss has only expre,scd tina Jren
of the old and the republ,canis,u of ,ho
new world stand slravtd pps,,,stpucho ,h.
er. His words contai. n hitler d.nnncia.
,i,n At tbes. fras >,at,a and ,ba i,tor.o,o
of freedom snd cyerythino ONT, ito ormon
arcl ,c,l institutions ia renernI II !, in
no WAY astonishing Thai be in nj. ,tnsw
h,l;er cronplrntes III, Lnarr, NJ u.,,,,n
arcLical poyern,nrut of S,atas suruor,.J
nv nobility and s,,nd,r, o,mi.s nnl nmt.
il in The Mace of his d, sIuisscd heavenly
kinpdom win ,,s q,venppn, and orn,ie..
and Their. would be no further obiec,ion i,
betore tho ir;bpnoI which this onsw fni,l
comedians rsclees os wetIins ,boeo oron
other wnv of thinkipr in Amp,,icn wouII
not fare So badly
In ordar to obviote opy r;sn,dsrs,o,d
inc from orv op,,,or i, r.oard 10 ,ho
yieTs OF The writer nnop the Snrions M.
tiopnlilies. in their reloIions "a rho Amer.
lean nation the uation of tbe uew worlJ
he will in conclrsion ,nnorJ fo,y w~rtp
of his which frst annearad in nm rrscono
of A Rnoss Essay m r,licion in is6s.
"lhc peculiarity of The enltnrs when we
are here called unon IN ran,e,on, cnus;.'.
in nm pou,llv conscion,ions and imno,,;aI
oriticism in thai moraI ,n,erns, in ,rmIh
which IN theory anI nron,;ro nlnnas ~.
cultvre of rrasan ahova cyerv char crssd
II "a our nrov,nco 70 nreserSs ,h,s necni,.