The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-03-09

ton of individuals, with highly
intellectual organization; that We
ran see and feel moral distinctions,
and have such organizations that
moral law and moral forces must be
felt, these are our hope" This may
be new doctrine to those who never
soar above the shibboleth of a party
but 1T is in accordance with all the
outcome of human experience, and
when we find man thus dealing
with the vital issues of the day we
can the more readily join with him
IN the optimism which leads him to
say that "the humanity of all ma
tons IS in the American Union"
The lessons which The history of
nature teaches he applies to the
needs of our people. That history is
"amelioralion, ineessant advance
from less to more, from rude to finer
organization, thus inspiring the prin
ciple Of undying hope in man." And
the insensibility to moral law that
he deplores is the great barrier which
prevents us from progressing more
rapidly. Once let us begin t" I'M
derstand what rightly constitutes the
strength ola State and be impressed
with the belief that no matter how
massive the pillars supporting our
Constitution may be, constant truck.
ling and time serving, pandering to
ignorance, cultivating prejudice and
encouraging demagOgism will weak
Ell them, and we haye taken an inn
portant step towards making charac-
ter go hand in hand with office. The
manner in which we lately succeed
ed in freeing ourselves from the
threatened approach of sociai anarchy
and disorder and the attempt to
array class against class has often
been pointed out as an evidence of
the vitality of our institutions. But
W. cannot expect that their power of
resistance will always remain as
strong, especially if, as Mr.. Emerson
says, the individual man exists for
his own sake, and not to add to the
welfare Of the State.
One of the arguments used by him
in drawing his picture of the future
Of the Republic is that ours is a
country of poor men. Here is practi
cal democracy; here is the human
race poured out over the continent
to do itself justice; here is all man
kind in its shirt sleeves, not going
under false colors like poor rich men
in cities who pretend to be rich, but
ready and willing for hard work
when labor is sure to be paid" So
far as the question of true dignity is
concerned in his apotheosis of labor
We eau readily admit that it has adj
ded lustre to the Republic. But there
is another light in which it can b
viewed, namely that in our haste to
be rich we are apt to look too much
at material prosperity, no matter
from what source it is derived. We
affect contempt for aristocracy and
for pride. in Il long lineage, but it
would sometimes be better if we had
this love of name and ancestry to
keep us in hepath of honor and lead
us to think less Of gold and more of
our nobility.
True hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood"
And they will each conduce more
tG the welfare of the nation and to the
future which we hope it will attain
to than mere grOvelling after wealth
and the absence OF the nDblest affec-
tions and the purest religion-things
which ought to find their abiding
in our institution. -BdltineOre Amer
lean. ...