The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-20

the OhLgeu otates Ras FURNISHED perfect !
system of government, free from the
dross of any of the states of the Old
World. The genius of Free America
coming forth from the fire as purified
monument to future generations Of the
virtue of that potent truth in the history
of free government, mans capacitv
for self-gOvernment being thus approved
BY time and the spirit of republican
institutions" Great Britain boasts of |
her triune constitutional forces; she |
speaks other monarchy, with itsstrenQth. |
her aFistocraCy with their wisdom, and |
her democracy with it's honesty; one TO |
create, the other to execute, and the |
latter to check, and says: " Did we
permit the exclusive rulings Of an aris-
tOcTacy, they would become licentious
did we allow the limitations of monarchy
to become despOtic, the endings would
become tyrannical or did we relax to
the excuses Of democracy, our system
would become anarchical. as in your free
America" This, from a British stand.
point, may be true; butt the diplomacy
of Great Britain remember that an
English democracy is not American
republicanism. American liberty has a
superstruGture of honesty, wisdom and
strength, compatible with the necessities
of each individual who, under the @gis
of American thought, forming a national
whole whose coping with the system of
the British government 1.-THE most perfect
known to European civilizatiOn), will
rebound to the glory and renown of
| American citizenship. Past ages, rObed
in their political habiliments Of the gold
en-, brazen, and iron eras, have shown the
inutility of force of fancy and of tyranny
in advancing the general good. It hav-
ing been left to the temperate present to
exhibit the fallacies of the systems en-
veloped in the crude ideas Of periods
entOmbed in the dissolved past, and by
educating the mind in free thought, and
thus express intelligence and achieve the
fruition of that hope. The study of
mankind for centuries has been to con-
serve not the majority, but the human
whole.
It is the American idea that is the
theme of American instruction. De
TOcuueville's conceptions of an American
democracy are not patent to the Ameri-
can of to-day. Blackstone, Young, and
others whose views Of policy were broad
and comprehensive, were not equal to The
occasions of to-day. Their vividimagin-
ations, their historic lore, added to their
astute and profound judgment, could
not weave a system equal to the pro-
gressive American theses. Principle:
50 grand, so simple, so instructive
that the past was not able to conceive
. the magnitude of the national in
terests and their effects upon the inter
national field; and in this failure o
conception the American of to-day
finds herself free from Cramping suggest
ions of wornout ideas, which lessons wer,
not adaptable to the original free though
of this New World of liberty ant
virtue. The sOlons of times had a wis
dom of concert that their age was to Al
! eternity of one-ideaism. They drew thei
. inspiratson from o retrospective well o
+ thought, and drenChed their follower
with ethecs for a generation. Their ap
prehension was confined to the actions o
decades at the farthest of generations
They did not legislate for centuries hid
den in the womb of futurity, as their ge
ogPsphical area was circumsCribed 8
was their philosophy when applied to pc
litiCal economy. A LyCurgus, an Aris
tides. a Cesar, an Alfred, Napoleon
! were wise in their COrelations of leI
scripta or lex non scripta; but these orig
, inals of law were cOdified in one sense, o
created in another, for selfish purposes
! that had in their genius the fact simply
legal arrangements to subordinate, henc
tranquilize, the people Of perisd, ant
generations uRbOrn TO be prepared for
Empires and monarchies have rise
and fallen, and not stone remains Q
Babylonish grandeur, nor is there sig
to tell the explorer orthe scientist wher
was once the glories of Nipevah. Crum
, bling dynasties, toppling thrones, an
e the decomposition that is rapidly destroy
, ing the decaying systems of the OIL
3 World, teach us in historic truths an
r memorial bequeathments, of the perishs
= BILE elements forming the despotisms &
} the past. The glories Of the Roman EN-
= pire, the splendOrs OF the the ottOmani
3 the sclavonic force and crimes of Iva
7 the terrible; the intelligence and rud
passion of Peter the great, gave physics
, grandeur to Russia. Napoleon stimulat
! ed success to a fruitiOn of ripening Q
! pOWer to instantaneous reaction of decay
, And history teaches that these theorie
| of force can alone retain their unity dul
f ing the healthfulness of the body polite
Let disease tasten but enCe upon the Of
: ganism of the despOtic system, and co
D lapse is but an immediate sequence. TIL
, different estates of society, from its earl
I est establishment, no matter the CON
I plexion of their polity or creed, hay
, never attained an eminence in their II
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