The daily gazette., 1879-11-28
rnIDAY, xovEMBER -. ls7s.
rNTEREp AT WILMINGTON POST
OFFICE
A sECOND CLASS NATTER

NOM AILliONo theA n WV
N trade v here thousands did genera
tlon hack. The strides in population In
tAls country has surprised the world
but even greater is the surprise OF the
monled aristocracies Of Europe at the
strides We have individually made In the
investment and transfer Of vast sums
and the management Of money. At the
end Of the first century Of this govern
ment and in the third century since the
settlements by our English ancestry, the
people of the United States are found to
be more numerous than the inhabitants
Of the islands Of the United Kingdom
or Of France where cities and towns ex-
listed in the days of the Caesars and the
wealth Of the world during several Pc
riods ID known to have been concentrat-
cd - . centre anterior to the birth Of
the new nation of the Western Hemi-
sphere. While Europe was the theatre
Of war, and the nations rose and fell as
the tide Of success varied from side to
eide, the people of the United States
made up from the most civilized nations
q the Caucasian race, escaping from
the expressions of the tryannies Of hu-
man frailties and human passions, have
been endeavoring to found . govern
ment and to sustain 1t, based upon the
right Of self-government. That the
forms Of government that have so far
carried us to such eminent success are
the most appropriate to the govern
ment of the human family known in
modern days, the success which has fol-
lowed our people is Of itself a proof
that should be convincing.
If this success only evinced itself in
massing Of great sums Of money, and
our land was the abode of numerous
such Is Cresus, we should Lot say so I;
II our success was only in the massing
Of great armies and marching invinci-
BILE forces whithersoever we pleased, as
the great conquerors made Greece,
Rome and Egypt famous, We should not
say so; il our success was only in hew-
ing down the once wilderness of coun-
try which we possess and peopling il
with Q mass of rude cultivators of the
soil, and even every one Of them owned
his farm, we should not say that the
political practices and institutions be
queathed to us by our fathers had been
proven the best yet devised by human
Ingenuity for the benefit of man. But
when we find in this new country the
rude people of Europe being in few
generations transformed into the most
independent, the most wealthy, the most
learned and polished, and ingenious, ant
the most generous, the most civilized
peaceful, and in word the most piou.
and religious and therefore the mos
grand and enobling-the great bosom o
civilization-we are drawn to the con
clusion that our FERNS of government
municipal, State and confederate, are jus
what until within decade we had al
united IN calling them collectively, 9Th
best government the world ever saw.
The people, the laborlng masses-fo
we were all laborers until after the day
of Polk and Taylor and Clayton
made this country great under their wei
understood forms. viii they now ALLOW
them to be changed to please the grea
capitalists who WELD millisns as readil
~ they only thirty years ago transferre
thousandsP We hope not. We hop
the people will conclude that the indt
pendent sovereignties the political sy,
TEN, that could make in so short
period Republic Of such wealth an
magnitude, welding vaster strength o
sea and land than any nation of tb
world, ancient or modern, and at IL
same time cultivate the intellectual ca
pacities and rear great cities, and cor
struct vast works of art surprising
utility some of the "wonders of IL
world" should never be parted wit
while they are able to hold rights. This
not the first government the people ha,
rsared-the worlds history records Sc,
eral instances-but it proves also that
the hold of the people was loosened, Il
grasp Of the centralizing decaying tyra
ny cramped, strangled and destroye
Let us hold on to our forms, and as
have practiced them successfully,
mand the restoration of such as ha
been taken from us by usurping enat
Ments,
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