The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-10-23

cOuliuOn-ldW. AfHeEfS1 ls the efUc8J DORM
Of England's children, and has attained to
the greatest glory and prosperity. The
yeomen Of America refused 10 allow arbi-
trary governors to infringe upon their
rights and privileges. Our Revolution was
exceptionally one Of principle and in de-
fence OF distinctions. The surrender at
Yorktown introduced us into the
FAMILY or NATIONS.
A democratic, representative, federal re-
public was formed, with written consti-
tuition. Much was borrowed from the SID
neys, Hampdens, Millions; but these were
new applications Of old truths, Stricter
limitations upon power, and the clear an
nouncement that government derives all
power from the consent OF the governed.
A distinguishing principle OF the American
system is the seli-goyeInment OF separate,
local communities. The central govern
mCnt, with power to prevent dissolution, Z,
looks after international relations and SONS
duties not safely leit 10 local communities;
but the citizens look 70 states 81 protect in
all the obligations and rights Tint grow orc
OF the relations Of husband midwife, pa
rent and child, guardian aud ward, teacher
and pupil, employer and employed. Ua-
der local self-goyernment advances have
virtue, seli-mastery, education in civic dr,-
ties, production and training OF men as
legislators and magistrates, are evolved.
ANOTHER oUTGRowTH
Of Yorktown IS the development OF the in
diyidual man in equality Of personal rights
and privileges. The Government is OF the
people, and by the people, and for The peo-
pie. Liberty and law do not antagonlze.
The spontaneous, undisciplined clamoT OF
the populace is not the VIII OF the people,
for their will finds expression and becomes
authoritative only when uttered and ascer-
tanned in strictest accordance with pre-
ordained forms and methods. The viii OF
the majority, fairly, legally expressed, is
the will Of the people rs an organized COM.
munity. An officer thus chosen Is AZ much
the officer OF the whole people as is every
man in the Union had voted for him. III
any man can say that the officer not voted
for is not his officer, the law not approved
Is not his law, then We have the code Of
Booth and Guiteau, the ethics Of Nihilism,
the snnihilation OF law, and the enthronC-
ment OF anarchy.
THE BASAL IDEA
Of our free. representative institutions Is
the supremacy Of man as man over the
accidents OF birth, race, or fortune. We
have no class distinctions, no hereditary
privileges. The divine right OF beings
and OF "thc better-bOrnN TO govern Is re-
pudiated. We know no subjects. All are
citizens equal i'm the eye Of the law. The
ttle-deeds t0 freedom come from Jehovah.
Justice and liberty have neither birth nor
race.
Separate State governments and absolute
> III
tinctions OF our institutions. The United
States is the only Government I'm the world
where soul-freedonf is guaranteed in It's ab-
.outeness, without tithes, without aid to
any sect, without ecclesiastical discrimina-
ton. This is our mdlsputed and un-
shared contribution TO the science Of poll
tics, and il has done much for purity and
spirituality OF religion, for intellectual and
moral awakening and advancement.
The speaker made some
STRIKING STATEMENTS
az to our unparalleled advancement in the
last one hundred years. lie had convincing
statistics to show enlargement OF area and
growth ia material industries, and in IN
Yentons, education, &C., which we have
not space to give. The abolition OF slavery
was cited as 8 stupendous social and poiti-
cal revelation, and the speaker atifmed
that every man and woman in the vast au-
dience gathered in front OF the statue of
stOnewall Jackson and in the very shadow
Of the building where the COnfederate Con-
gress sat and deliberated, reioiced that the
negroes were free, and that every one WAS
cordially in favor OF giving to
THE BLACK MAN
in unstnted measure every personal tnd
political right which the Constitution aud
laws confer.
Alter this rapid recital OF prosperity and
progress, some dangers were mentioned 10
be guarded against. Frequent elections
are a source OF evil. Ciyil-selyicc reform
vas insisted on as necessary TO the purity
OF elections, 90 efficient administration, ard
to the preservation OF the Government.
Universal suffrage and illiteracy OF the
nassss made congressional aid to State sys-
tens Of education pressing need. SuDOr-
dinsti0n Of law and order 10 popular pas-
sion, to mob violence, was denounced, ard
better the unpunished crime OF one man
than the audacious crimes OF thousand.
The spcaScr urged the
PRESERVATION or NATIONAL HONOR
and the dcminancy OF conscience In legs
lation and at the baliot-boX. A single oct OF
deliberate dish0nOr throws IL bsieiui
shadow over the distant future. We may
ou.liye an incompetent officer, bad Lev,
an incxpcdicut policy; we cannot escape
the retribution which surely follows 4 VIC
l2tion Of the Interchangeable laws OF God.
We can only find time and space to SUM-
marize the conclusion q the address. We
are not concerned simply with the past.
We may glory in the achievements oi ocr
ancestors, their benedca6: AID fgr-rcae iES
work. but society Is the mother o. the 10
ture. We Inherit not that we may hoard
or bury, but that we nay increase and
transmit forces that will find In improved
aud more benCiicent institutions not peri1h-
able but permanent forms. Man is 10
create higher civilizations.
TIRE NATION LlYEs FOR THE pAcE.
When genius embodics itsef In fJras q
Government, codes OF laws, Il is FOR eli
Peoples and all ages. A victory achieved
over prejudice, or ignorance, or ianaflcls.E,
or ialsehood, or wrong, Is for humanity.
America reversed the precedents Of ages,
unlocked the doors OF tyranny, and TUNED
loose the immured captiyeS; wrought out
the great problem Of free government,
dimly seen and predicted by the prophets
Of liberty; allied liberty and law, l1y9lty
and order, government and people, activity
OF personal freedom and subjection 70
established authority, and the couqroS5 b
for the oppressed and despotlsm-cured
Of all nationai;ies andal times. Egyptmay
have her lmpershsble pymmiis; on El-
pbrstes may bc sad memorials OF decayed
splendor; perished dynasties may come
and 80 in the kaleidoscope OF uemory;
bur the conquests Of libeity-victoriss
achieved ior humanity-become ideas UNI
versalized, immortalized, that lift up those
degraded by sin and crushed by tyranny,
and unity them Into an exalted brother
hood.