The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08

bling dynasties, topping thrones, and
the decomposition that is rapidly destroy.
ing the decaying systems of the Old
World, teach us in historic truths and
memorial bequeathments, of the perisha-
BILE elements forming the despotisms OF
the past. The glories of the Roman en-
pire, the splendors of the the ottomans
the sclavonic force and crimes of Ivan
the terrible; the intelligence and rude
passion of Peter the great, gave physical
grandeur to Russia. Napoleon stimulat-
cd success to fruition OF ripening OF
power to instantaneous reaction of decay
And history teaches that these theories
of force can alone retain their unity dur
ing the healthfulness of the body polite.
Let disease tasten but once upon the or
ganism of the despotic system, and col
lapse is but an immediate sequence. The
different estates of society, from its earli-
est establishment, no matter the COM
plexion of their polity or creed, have
never attained an eminence in their re-
spective conditions, only when individual
ideas were rendered subordinate to the
thought of the general COED, this good to
be based upon the widest theory of per
sonal liberty. Cincinnatus left the pillow
and saved Rome. Recalled, he became
enveloped in the teachings of despotism,
and was cruel and vindictive, and per
ished. All despotic theories may at
tain pre-eminence of force, but as powers
by accretion through centripetal action
rapidly enlarge, so the counter revolu-
tions, through centrifugal movement,
dissipate the elements thus created with
equal rapidity.
Thousands of examples can be cited
of the destruction of individuals, when
Propatria was submerged in gross,
selfish ambition. The personal may,
for while jeopardize the virtue of the
state, but no sphere or celestial body
moves with more certainty, than will
be the certain doom and final de-
struction of the man, and the re-invigor-
alton of the principles they have en-
deavored to corrupt and make subordi,
nate to their base desire and greed for
selfaggrandizement. The glorious herit-
age bequeathed to posterity by the
fathers of 1776, is no personal legacy-ac-
quried by lust for power; it is codi-
Gil of principles imperishable. The wis
dom, so-called, of the aristocratic past,
assisted in their career of licentiousness
by fragrant violaters of the virtue of So
ciety, whose crowns and sceptres 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 a prerOgative. We
are the Lords Amounted but, the citi-
zen of the United States, true to the in
stincts of his republican education, stands
al Dc fl,a ,f hot :.
wallOwed in by the effete 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 profligate despotisms.
The true American is a spectacle of gen.
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,
the 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
upon 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 valor, their sufferings and
their patriotism, be guiding stars for the
youth of the union to follow to future of
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.
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, will soon be in the
hands of the youth of to-day. What a
stimulating thought to youthful ambi-
ton, to be brave, honest, steadfast,
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