The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-12-04

toms, usages and faith as this nation
whose first centennial era is now rapidly
dawning. God by His creative power, has
having stored the intellect with the forces
adequate to the developments we have
made. He caused mind to answer back to
mind, thought to analyze thought, force to
strive with force, new principles to be
weighed by the great balances of equity
justice and equality, and an interser love for
the race to arise out of the doctrine of a
common brotherhood in man. Instead of
accident, the order has been reversed
Man is fact, government an accident.
Man stands forth moulded into shapeliness
and comelness, not from the old forms of
caste, and ancestry and blood, but from
those of public virtue, and private honor
The State does not make men but men
make the State; law is borne on the should
ers of stalwart firm stepping, intrepid
yeomanry. whose iron sinews snatch from
power and place, the miscreant and sordid
wretch who makes self more important
than the whole body polite; mutual rights
are mutually respected, and toier-l.. ~
tenn of civil social, and religious liberty is
the brthright privilege of all the people.
1t has required thousands of years. for the
human mind to work up to, and evolve this
problem; but God created man with these
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dtions Of human existence that he might
bring it forth, led him along from one type
of character to another, suffered thousands
of generations to go down into the dust,
old types to fade away from the world, in
a succession of national births and deaths,
yet preserving amid the decay of ages that
seed of power, and expansion which began
to terminate in the day He breathed into
mans nostrils the breath of life, and man
became living soul.
Let not vain glorious spirit, however,
take possession of us, who are permitted
to represent this fairest form of true gov
ernment. That which our ancestors gave
us, and their sons have developed, was
possible to nations that existed thousands
of years ago. Babylon, or Chaldea, or
Egypt, or PhTnicia, or China, or Greece,
or Germany might have had it. Some of
them have Appropriated to it; and we may
yet go down to posterity cursed with the
infamy of having despsed our gifts and
upon us which an Apostle spake of old and
we be compelled to say "That which do
| allow not; for what l would, that | do
not: but what would not that do.
| find law that when l would do good,
evil is present with me. o wretched man
that l am, who shall deliver me from the
body of this death?'
This brings me to the second point, that
history reveals
III. Gods patience and goodness-grant-
ing TO each nation the time and opportunity
for Developing its peculiar character.-
Here we can only generalize, and suggest
thoughts, to the mind, which it may please
you to trace in other moments of leisure.
We set out with this general principle, that
national character is based on the operation
of two universally prevailing requirements,
namely, 1st that which is best for the pres
ent life, and end, that which is best for the
life of the future. Every nation, there
fore, in its civilization sets forth the two
essential features of law and religion
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based upon the manner of the combining
of the two. On this still unsettled qucs-
ton, the nations Of the earth may be
divided into four great classes The first
includes all who may be grouped under the
division of those who hold, that the gov
eminent of the world ought to be entrusted
solely to the church. This is the dictum
Of Rome, and of every so called Catholic
government of the world. The second
embraces those nations who hold that
church and State are CO ordinate powers,
the government Of both being alike in the
hands of the secular prince. This is the
theory of the British Crown. A third,
holds the doctrine that the State is supreme.
and the church is subordinate, this is the
position of the German government. The
fourth class embraces those who hold that
church and State are, and of right ought
to be, essentially separate and distinct:
that the State ought not to legislate for
any separate form of ecclesiastcism as
such, and the church ought not to dictate
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our own national character largely founded.
According to the first theory, wherever
the church is, there is the government.
Applied to Roman character, it is, the Pope
carries his government wherever his church
is established. Hence his assumptions of
Vicar of Christ, and Vice gerent Of God.
Consciously or unconsciously, every CathO
lie under every government owes allegiance
to the head Of the Roman Church, above
that of any government under which he
may be living. For more than 400 years,
God has been permitting the Roman Church
to develop this theory. Sometimes it has
gained such ascendancy as to fill the nations
with CONSERVATION. Inundated princes,
have made costly expeditions to suppicate
the cemency Of their indignant spiritual
father, and the resources of Kingdoms have
been drained to pay the penalties and for
FIXTURES Of non-submission. 1nquisiteral
processes have been instituted to enable the
Pope's agents to strike in the dai k male
dictions, anathemas, and cursings, have
been hurled against the rebellious, and
stricken the hearts of the cIedulous, until
the papacy has become as profane as hell
itself The decaying dust of an insignifi-
cant man has been denied sepulture in the
grounds of his fathers, for six years, and
when the State, yawning as it arises from
it's long slumber, buries a Gubord, with
drawn sword and glistening bayonet, a
poor bishop and tool of Rome, curses the
ground wherein the bones are deposited.
Interested friends go before legislatures
and municipal authorities to beg millions
of money for charities under papal manage
ment and control, and at the same time a
ceaseless and persistent line of attack is
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