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evolve principles, and produce and
develope characters which illustrate
the cause and effect of human action
in natural sense, from which sue
ceeding generations. if thoughtful
and prudent, may learn lessons of
wisdom in political and social philos-
ophy, which will guide them along
the pathway of life, and conduct
them safely therein.
The mariner with the assistance of
nautical astronomy, has learned to
traverse the ocean, and with the aid
OF mechanical skill and experience,
to meet the storm and the pillows,
and to ride in security through the
combined force of these angry ele-
ments, and amidst the darkest storms
he has the unerring compass. What
the science of navigation is to the
mariner, so has, and Will be, if skill
fully used, the chart of history to the
statesman, the author, the practical
citizen, to the men in office, and to
those out of office; to the great body
polite, which embraces the whole
population of the United States.
BY the chart of history, do not
mean printed map like that which
accompanied many of our school
books, with dates and events dotted
here and there over its molly sur
face; but the knowledge of those
principles and their application with
an application of those wise and vir-
tuous characters, who amidst trial
and suffering, and with sacrifices that
adorn and make useful the anti-selfish
men Of our race, as they arise super
ior to the storms of adversity, and
make for themselves an honest and
honorable and useful fame which
shines along the shores of time,
bright and lasting lighthouses for
all who act in the great drama of
human affairs; and there are zone SO
humble that have not their allotted
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man without purpose nor created
a human being free from duties and
obligations.
By philosophy of history, l mean
more than series of remarks upon
history, or on any connected events
in history, it embraces the general
results and connection of all past
transactions in the history of the
hnman race, and the material. moral
social and religious effects OF those
events. There are also series of
events in the history of a nation
which taken consecutively lead to GER
tain results, in every way affecting
the physical, the moral, the political,
the social progress of nation.
The Hebrews, the Assyrians, the
Greeks, the Romans, the English, and
the various nations of Europe in mod
ern times have all their special
history. Yet there is a combined in
fuence and connection binding in one
vast volume the philosophy of histo-
ry, as their seperate series of events
make its many chapters. In the in
vestigation of this endless subject we
have all the elements of physical geog-
raphy, climate, haoits, culture, edu-
cation, and every distinguishing char
acteristic of man, for study, for ev-
en- nature herself has her mute but
universal language and immeasurabIe
symbolical writings. But it is only
Of the philosophy of American histo-
ry that l would now briefly speak
The Fouth day of July, 1776, is an
historic day in North America. A
comparatively small portion of North
America had been for many years
mostly settled by English colonists,
For many years they were loyal, du-
tiful subjects of the mother country.
This mother country had not been un-
kind to her children according to the
well established doctrines at that
day, OF political rights and of iuris-
prudence, as known and acknowledg
ed throughout Europe. A distant
government could not appreciate the
wants and necessities Of a people with
whose intere.ts they were not ac-
quainted; while distance itself, re-
moteness from home interests, depel-
oped selfishness in the mother coun-
try calculated to chill the love of the
neglected offspring. This was natur-
al and the Fourth day of July, 1776,
gave rise to an action on the part of