Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-02-05

people will impress their laws and
civilization upon the continent and
make their influence felt in the con
duet OF the worlds affairs.
We have adopted form of gov.
eminent the best eyer devised
for the security OF personal
freedom and the display OF human
energy and with an inherent strength
to withstand shocks, as evinced in
the late Rebe lion, under which any
other government would have crum.
bled.
with such elements of national
power and future greatness let us
hope that the virtue and intelligence
OF the people will advance with
equal pace"
The great distinction of a country
is that it produces superior men.
Liberty is OF value only as far as it
favoTs the growth of man. What is
liberty? The removal of restraint
from human powers. Its benefit is
that it opens new fields for action and
wider range for the mind. The
only freedom worth possessing is
that which gives enlargement to
peoples energy, intellect and vir-
tues. The savage makes his boast
of freedom, but what is it worth !?
He continues for ages in the same
ignorance and leads the same com
fortress life and the same uhbroken
wilderness surrounds him. Progress,
the growth of power, is the end and
boon Of liberty, and without this peo-
pie may have the name but want the
substance and spirit of freedom.
Our form of government is develop
ing and giving new impulses to the
human mind aud developing a
broader civil cation.
The human face is carried forward
by impulses which originate in few
minds and in this way the most in
teresting relations and dependencies
of llfo are formed. When a great
truth is to be revealed it does not
flash at once on the race but dawns
and brightens on a superior under
standing, from which il is to emanate
and ilume future ages. Ia our sur
vey OF our own and other nations a
great question which comes to US is
this: Where and under what institu-
tons are men most likely to advance?
Where are the soundest minds and
purest hearts formed2 What nation
possesses in its history,its traditions,
its government, its religion, its man
ners, its pursuits. its relation to 9th
er communities, and especially in its
private and public means of ed
ucation, the instruments and pledge
OF more resolute virtue and devo
ton to truth than we witness in our
own nation, in our native land which
ranks first among tho lights and ben.
efactors of the human race? Great
minds have been formed among us
minds that have been felt afar.
and through which we act upon the
world. We want the human intellect
to do lie utmost here. We want the
people to obtain claim on the graf.
itude of the human race by adding
strength to the foundation and fall.
ness and splendor to the development
of moral truth, by originality Of
thought, by discoveries of science
and by contributions to the refining
pleasures of taste and imagination.
Do we not lead all other nations in
discoveries and inventions? Most
emphatically. yes. In the higher de-
yelopment OF the Anglo Saxon char
acter there is spirit of propogand.
ism that overcomes all obstacles. In
hundred years from now the An.
Clio Saxon tongue will be spoken by
eight hundred millions of people in
America, England. India, Australia,
and Southern Africa 1t will then
command the seas and it's ptilanthro-
pists and statesmen will settle the
worlds disputes by arbitration.
VIII not that be a glorious era for
the human race? J. A CURTIS.
Patch Grove. January 81, 1880.