The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-07-19

uency OF the immigration OF the last
few years has been to collect in our
larger cities and from a distinctive
element not in harmony with free
institutions.
b. Emancipation has left its dan
gers too. If the same immortal hand
that inscribed emancipation as with
sunbeam, upon the iron bands of
slavery, could at the same time have
swept away its consequences, it would
have been we'll for us to-day.
We are accustomed to say that time
will right these things, but it requires
more than time. more than simple
laws and methods Of reconstruction to
reverse old class distinctions, to edu-
cate the slave, black or white, up to
the dignity Of citizenship, and more
craftsmanship than has yet been ex-
hibited at the White House, to pre-
vent the fatal tendencies, that might
yet make it possible for some future
American to walk about the Capitol
at Washington, and listen, and dream,
as Virgil did OH the mournful plains
Of Philippi. This danger can only be
averted by citizen n-education diffused
amoung the masses, lifting them above
the distinctions of cast class, into
the moral manhood that asserts equal
ity of rights before the law, for every
son and daughter within our broad
domain.
c. Capitalization is in part due to
our rapid progress. Art draws on her
magic mittens, and hands a message
from New York to San Francisco in
moment Of time. Trade steps into
her seven leagued boots and glides
across the continent within a week;
thus bringing remote cities near to
each other, and actually joining the
a-boards of the hemisphere. And
the same facilities connect the States
together, and transmit authority along
our telegraph and railway lines; put
ting power into a nucleus; influence
into cluster; making combination
against trade, making a combination
against the people possible; organic.
ing State legislatures in the interest of
monopoly, and subsidizing q venal
press to cover the designs of danger"
with specious pretences of public ne
cessity.
3. But if these perils are guarded
against in their tendencies, by sturdy
indiVidatGI manhood and intelligent
citizen education, then for the future of
this people, there is no benefit or bless.
ing Of which we may not be either in
possession or expectancy; and the
more runded and complete these ac-
quirements become, the more speedily
and surely will the grand ideals of the
race be realized. Our material pro.
gress, so freed from tendencies to de-
cay, will work out new wonders in
science, art and government. Our flag,
spread like an Argus, over every ocean,
lake and river, will cover and protect
our.commerce as it belts the globe.
1t was because our institutions were
to endure that our moral manhood rose
equal to the tasks of war and peace
that the example of America freed the
Russian serfs, fs,-inspired the iron duke
of Germany against the interference
of church with state-made France a
republic-sent the genius of Emanci-
patton into Italy, dethroned the Pope;
within the last sixty days, struck
from his throne the Turkish Sultan,
who violated the rights of the people I;
and as the cr0wning result of her
transforming influence upon the world,
has diffused the spirit of tranquility
among the peoples of the earth. And
now that the nations are indeed
Stretching out their hands to one
another" and calling over to each
other, the words of grand old Paul,
"the nations shall be fellow heirs"
come to us with a sweeter meaning
and clearer ring of prophecy; unfold
ing to us the apocalypse Of millennial
glory, with its seven angels, represent
ing the seven divisions of land Of the
globe, flying through the air, and car
rying their messages of "peace and
good will'' to the uttermost parts of
the earth.
No matter what the dangers that
menace now, the horizon is clearer t. .
day than it was decade ago; brighter
far than when the minute.men Of Con
cord leaped into the Thermopyl@ of
the centuries, and held the pass of civ
ilization against the tory; for the
morning red Of universal peace is
breaking upon the world: And while
it was noble for the citizen of the past
to die for his country, it will be. next
to that nobility for the citizen of the
present and the future, to live for its
glory and aggrandizement in the