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

age bequeathed to pOsterIty BY the
fathers Of 1776, is nOpersonal legacy-ac-
CURED by lust for power; it is a codi
Gil of principles impsFishable. The Wis
dom. so .calfed, of the aristOcratiC past,
assisted in their career of licentiOusness
by fragrant violators of the virtue Of so
ciety, whose crowns and sceptTes were
symbolic of strength In vice, rather than
protectors or instructors Of society, and
who have alone been held at bay by the
honest front Of a virtuous community. !
In America, the wise are not always the
titled, nor is our strength founded upon
the staff and crown whose chief conceit |
is their assumption of q prerogative. We
are the Lords Amounted but, the citi- |
zen Of the United States, true to the in
stincts Of his republican education, stands |
aloof from the pool Of corruption, that Is
wallowed in by the efete circles Of the |
Old World, and erect in his individual
freedom; honest, strong and courageous,
conciliatOry, compromising, but unyield-
ing to the demands of error or the behests
of lecherOus or pTOfigate despOtisms.
The true American is spectacle of gem
uine nobility, who has no prototype,
and the world marvels at his establish
ment, development and progress, during
| the hundred years of his career upon the
soil of the New World, until to-day, the
proud position is reached, of front rank
| In the International field. Let us on this,
| che anniversary of the natal day of the
republic, recur to those days when, ris-
ing from the lap Of the abOrigines, this
magnificent domain was saved from the
ignorance and superstition entailed upon
the red man, thus rescued from the OPP
preston of despotism; and disenthralled
the American citizen has emerged into
the glories of free government, pledged
to ''trusts, to liberty, to law"
How can the citizen of to-day dwell
upon the recollectiOns of our struggle
with the mother country, without feel
ings of the deepest gratitude to those be-
ings whose figures fill the pictures of the
heroic past, the soldiers of the revolution,
gallant, honest, self-immOlating patriots
1pOn the altar of constitutional rights.
Let each American heart swell with emo
ton while contemplating the sacrifices OF
the early defenders of our liberties, and let
their deeds of yalOr, their sufieFings and
their patriotism, be guiding stars for the
youth of the union to follow to future OF
y
peace and prosperity, ever a sequence OF
manly. honest effort in defense of the
right. 1t is to our youth we are to look
for the security Of the future of America.
They are to take the field while genera
ton of their fathers pass away, leaving
them custodians of our liberties, The
varied departments of the government
national and state, executive, admins
: trative and judicial, win soon be in the
f hands of the youth of to-day. What
, stimulating thought to youthful ambi
ton, to be brave, honest, steadtast
. liberal and prudent. The reins vii
/ soon be handed you, drive with mod
! Grafton, use not q partisan lash
: and let the car be one of principle
, thus avoiding the symbolism that I
p religious fanaticism would exhibit in thu
f car of Jugarnaut, or an imperiOus flag
: gelant urging on his flying chariot. 1
!. il the people who are driven, and wheI
f indiscretion blinds passion, or demOnisn
holds the bite, no wonder that the!
|. chafe, and so sften break from the un
: safe guidance, and in laundering tone
n and carnage, with their drivers blO0t
: upon their hoOfs, madly PUSHES the pax
!. horse--a dOwn-trOdden people. Gu
youth viii accept this installation, it
, fervid, but truthfully illustrative
;. Would the youth of the United States
r who will ere long be its political arbri
tiers, hope to see the perpetu1ty OF thes
= states sealed to them and their pOsterity
= let them comprehend: First. that tn
4 people are the determineTs of the necessi
!, ties of the political condition of fire.
n country, that it is the people who rule
& and that, rather than diplomacy, shOult
: NAV the role of dominant diCtatiOn,
q were more iudiCious and eminentl,
: wiser, that concessions should be mad
i to those who, upon even that accepte'
;. maxim of America, the greatest good t
A the greatest number, are the real beniti
4 Charles on the one hand or sufferers o.
: the other, but, drawing our deduction
e from q whole, it is the safest policy +
! let the people lead, then their c0nciu
, siops which the world admits are honest
: will call for system and arrangement +
= aid them. This, the youth who aspir
4 To be leaders, must prepare to do, as tn
y fortunes of the union viii coon be eT
4 trusted to their care.
;. MEN AMI MEASURES.
y enclosures, not men, has been th
+ syren song that has invoked th
}. party spirit of the country to do its tu
r measures of force in elevating TO Otic
/ men who as partisans were but the ii
Q struments Of design, and were as puppet
/ 10 the wires held by their masters, who's
i manipulations served to hoodwink th
e people of the country with their sloga
D Of measures while the clOven foot /
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