New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-07-05

minated and made rubfical the lire and blood Of the
following war.
When tine Emperor Ferdinand visited Innsbruck-that
beautiful town of the Austrian Tyrou 1888, IL Is said
that the inhabitants wrote his name in immense OoniTcs
along the sides OF the PERCEPTIONS hills which shelter the
town over space four five miles extended that
colossal illumination. till the heavens seemed on IRE III
tho farrcflcctcd. up-streamns glow. The rght oil
people separated from others. to it, own institutions
our father, wrote this In lines 30 vivid and large that
the whole world could them and they followed that
writing with the consuming thunder, of so many cannon
that even the lands the Atlantic were shaken and
filed with tue long reyerbcrailon
XII.
REVOLT AGAINST DIVINE RIGHT.
The doctrine had OF in every state It's t"oiod
internal application well its front against external
powers on the hand it swept with destroying force
AGAINST the notion so long maintained of tho right OF
certain families in tho world. called Hupsburs, Bour
bon Stuart or whatever, TO the rest and wher
ever II WAS received IL made the imagined Divine Ri-nt
Of Kings an obsolete and contemplate 1ctiOn On Tue
other hand it smoo with equal energy against the pTc
tensions of any minority within tine state, whether
banded together by the ties Of descent or OF ncshOor
hood in location, of comnoI opinion or supposed
common interest govern the rest or even To impair
the established and paramount government OF the rest
by separating thom5glyos OrGInicalJ from H.
II was never the doctrine OF the fathers that ia people
of Kent Cornwall or Lincoln might sever themselves
from the rest OF England and while they had tcr voice
and yne in the public council, might assert the right to
govern the whole under threat of withdrawal II thelr
minor vote were not suffered to control Taey were not
seeking 10 initiate anarchy, ana to make enceorth
respectable IN world by support o. their sfiaSes
They recognized the fact that tie state exists 10 meet per
maucnt needs the ordinance Of God ~ wen "a the
family and that lie has determined the bounds OF mems
habitaton by rycrs and mountain chains Shaping
countries rs well as coBtiont5 into physical Conference
Il, maj %
noes another on the south. the eraccd bd. X OF
the Rhine another in English meadow or upland. Ihey
saw ha, a common and liked ha6ita;ion' IN country
thus physically defined, especially when combined WIN
community OF descent. Of permanent public interest anu
OF the language which thought il !ncrchansed-that
these make people and such a people true and
adding bodypotc, they affirmed had reht to shape MS
government. iolbdding others to ntermedde.
Bat II must be the general mind OF tAc people which
determined the questions thus involved; not "e''hS
class within the state. whether known rs peers or as'O
catcl commoncrs. whether scattered widely, a. one
among several political parties. or grouped together IN
some one section. and having special interest 6" Gu
courage The decision of the genera. public nnnd, a de-
Hbcrlicly reached and auhentcl" declared that must
be the end OF dehItc and the Right Of resistance or the
ght o. division after that, " such rG, exist II Is not
10 be indicated from their Declaration. Any one who
thought sufi government by the whole miocrthc To
him WAS always athbcry to oxpitltc himself aud iind
elsewhere such other institutions rs lac might prefer.
Bui ho could tiIry aud SIN not submit lie IVES not
a monarch without TIE crown, before whose contrary
Judgment and will the public councils mus be dumb
While dwelling IN the land aud having The sam" oppor-
nifty with Others 10 scck tho amendment of what he dis
approved. the will 0f the whole WIS binding upon him
and that obligation ho could not vacate by REFUSING to
accept H. n could not neither could ten, nor hun
dr a million. vino st remained minority OF the
whole.
To allow such right wou have been 10 make govern
mil Dr. an
only but cudn les townships school districts. ncighhor-
hoods. must have the right: and each individual
with hs own vail for hs Gna law, mus, bc the complete
ultimate State.
II We no such disastrous folly which the fathers Of our
Republic affirmed They ruled ont kings. princes. peers.
from any control the people aud they dd not gave
to a transient minority. wherever i might appear. On
whatever question, greater pryilcs g. because less de-
lacd haa which they jca,ou'ly withheld nom thesc
classes. such tyranny OF irresponsible OCCASIONAL mt
nort,s would have seemed 10 thcm Only more no!eTI-
Die than that Of classes organized, permanent aud lin
tied by law. And when it affirmed by some, and
silently feared by many others that IN orr Late immense
civil war the states which adhered 10 the ola Consu
tioa Lad forgotten discarded the principles
Of the earlier Declaration. those assertions ana
fears were alike without reason The people which
ldoptcd the Declaration when distributed into
colonies vas the people which aftcrwari established the
Confederation OF 1851. imperfect enough but whose
in, rcrOwn IT that under IT the was ended II
WAS the same people which framed the Constitution
vucn compaccd intp states 1--WE the people Of the
United States" do Orain and establish the following
Constitution, the majestic and vital instrument
II contains provisions for its CmeDdatiOn. When
the people will thcy may oct II aside and pat in place OF
Il one wholly different and Other nation can inter-
ytnc. i;ut while IL continues II and the laws made
normally under Il not subject 10 resistance by por-
ton OF the people c0nspng to dirc, Hit tie rest.
And whatsoever any preteuson ike this shall appear,
II ever asaiu II does appear it viii undoubtedly rs IN
santy appear that in the past so in the fu,ure
the people whose TIE Government is, aud whose COM
pcte and ma lcent domain God Ia, marked out FOR IL
will subduc resistance, compel Submission, forbid sec's
sion though again, It cost before, fonryclIs Of
war. with treasure uncodnted and incstimablc hie
The right Of people upon it, own territory, rs equally
agan3t any classes within 1t or any external powers,
this Is thu doctrine OF Declaration. We know how it
here applied. and how settled il is upon these
shores for the time Wo hn0w, too, something
Of what impression it instantly made upon the minds OF
other peoples. ana how they srs 10 greet and accept
it, In the inc image OF Bancroft, 1.-The ason'shcd,
naions ~ they read tAat all men created equal,
started OF their ethargJ. like those who have been
oyilc5 from childhood, when they suddenly hear the
dIniyIcmembered accents Of their mother tongue
Kill
AMERICAS INFLUENCE on HISTORY.
Tbr theory " scholars was become the maxim OF
state. The difised Intellectual ncbulou light had got
itself concentrated into orb and the radiance of 1t,
prn trqt aud hot shoue afar You know how France
responded it, with passionate speed seeking u be rid
OF the terrible establishments in Church and State which