The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-07-07

of tenderness. he labors to lift us up to his
owns grandeur Of soul. having " charity to-
ward all, and malice toward none"
Never did there sit kinglier soul in the
rule of an empire. Wiser than all his
true as the needle to the pole"
in his love of country and humanity, firm in
his convictions of right and duty as the ever
lasting hills, coming generations may recog.
nize in him, without disparagementt to others,
the greatest of all our Presidents. There
had been great men in that high Office before
Washington himself, whom to name is
ever 10 revere-the able. elder and younger
Adams. the philosophic Jefferson. the wise,
well-balanced Madison and Monroe. the
heroic, patriotic Jackson, "Old Hickory,
ready to stamp out treason as he had once
crushed our Indian foes. But considering
the circumstances by which he was surround
ed, the strength ofthe enemy, the antagonisms
around him, the eagerjoy and secret aid with
which some foreign nations awaited and
abetted I" the collapse of the model Republic"
the man who baffled these and by his own
ardent patriotism impelled our gallant forces
to success was the grandest of them all. His
place in histoay has been already assigned
as "the second Founder of our Republic.
In the eye of mankind
"His noblest monument shall be,
The broken letters of the slave.n
CHANGES IN OUR IDEAS REGARDING OUR
INSTITUTIONS.
In our past national career we have seen
that we have already overcome strong enemies
and many great difficulties. The powers of
our system of government in this way have
been developed and displayed. 1t was once
thought that Republics could not rule large
extents of country. Our plan of separate,
states has enabled US already to
extend our empire from ocean to ocean, and
it seems capable of controlling continent
Until the war We scarcely comprehended the
power Of our government over the citizen
We had thought Of Washington as the place
of supply of post offices and custom houses
and bnneombe. But we had hardly conceived
of that sovereign power there which could lay
its hand upon US at will and take us nolens
voleqs to the field in the hour Of its need.
The fact has revealed to US the corresponding
duty it has of protection. The government
which can make soldiers of its citizens in
war owes to them protection, if need be, In
peace.
Doubtless there are other great powers
lying dormant in our constitution which new
emergencies shall call forth and which shall
prove the strength and vigor of our govern
ment Lord John Russell and even Macaulay
had doubted the ability of our Republic to
sustain the press and strain of civil war.
Experience has shown that no form Of gov
eminent had ever proved so strong in such q
momentous crisis, and its peculiar strength
has consisted in the fact that it rested on the
hearts of its people.
THE SETTLEMENT OF OLD ISSUES.
We have already settled many questions
which, as they arose, had greatly perplexed
our fathers.
The right of general government to make
internal Improvements which once exhausted
much eloquence. is practically settled in the
affirmative.
to urge appropriations for the improvement
of our Lake harbors, and we all accept the
benefit gladly without distinction of party.
The United States Bank. which some Of
us once thought essential to the financial sal
walton of the nation, has long since given place
to system which we are compelled to rec
ognize as better.
The Tariff question. which, after the long
repose to which the defeat Of Mr.. Clay con
signed it in 1874, seems again rising to de-
mand q new consideration, cannot, as it
appears to me, excite again the interest which
it once commanded.
The views which were not able to secure
the suffrages of the majority of our people
when advocated by the gallant "Harry OF
the West''-the most magnetic political lead
er in our history-will hardly enlist the old
enthusiasm in this day of facts and figures.
The actual prosperity of many forms of man
ufacture disproves the need Of that special
encouragement which then led us to support
those views.
The great agricultural states of the West
and South are too we'll satisfied with the
ordinary workings of Tariff for revenue to
depart widely from that principle. and so that,
too, is probably practically settled. The argu-
ment which may lie before US on that subject
will probably only procure wiser discrim-
ination more favorable to our own American
interests.
Even the old vexed question of State
Rights is in all probability forever determin-
ed. The section or faction which shall at
tempt to raise again this formidable issue in
the exaggerated sense of the disciples OF
Calhoun is doomed to grief and the inde6-
mite postponement of its own success.
1t has been slain on the battle field. Our
nation-our northern people especially,
without regard to party-cannot consent to
re-argue it. The graves of our young men
who calamity went forth to Illustrate the as
saults to which this great heresy has led, the
treasure we have expended in defeating them
forbid that this shall ever again enter into
our discussions.
State sovereignty, in the sense Of the denial
al of the national sovereignty, is beaten down
and forever PROSTATE. Insensibly we are pass.
ing away from this great issue, and are slow
ly returning to that early and better doctrine
of our fathers-Nstional Sovereignty over all
that concerns national interests as full and
complete as if there were no state lines-a
state sovereignty in all that relates to our
domestic affairs as full and complete as if
there were no central government. Compli-
Gated, yet simple, upheld in their separate
orbits by the opposing forces of the state
and national interests, like the orbs in the
solar system controlled by two adverse natur-
al forces. they move tremendously on their
appointed mission in obedience to the organ
ic law by which they have existence.
PRESENT DANGERs-oNE THE ANTAGONIST OF
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
Having had happy deliverance from
many old forms of peril, we may already see
looming on our path some new shapes of evil
less formidable, however, than the one we
have lately passed and readily overcome, if
the American people are only true to them
selves.
The first which shall note is that to which
our attention has been so often called dur
ing the present year, allude to the grow
ing antagonism of Labor and Capitalize
that which has caused the numerous
"stIikes," that have so disappointed our
anticipations of revived prosperity, and SO
greatly depressed our business circles.
In land like ours, where the laborer of
to-day is the millionaire of the morrow,
there would seem to be little reason for the
growing alienation of these two great inter-
ests. Indeed, we are confident that it can
not endure. II is only an imperfect under
standing of their relations which can lead
any to question their indemnity of interest,"
And believing that there are no political evils
which our institutions cannot remedy, we look
for speedy solution of the problems which
temporarily divide them.
Already we observe the changed character