The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-29

power: with that secure all other blessings
were safe. At word, desolation woGld
break forth into dazzling splendor, deserts
would bloom into gardens, and on the
wastes OF q wilderness palaces OF un
earthly glory would lift their majestic
forms. My brethren, the story is not alto
gether the dream OF frepzied brain. Lib
erty is the Alladdins lamp Of our American
republic, and individual manhood is the
Roc's egg with which liberty itself cannot
afford to tritle. It may seem paradox "a
assert that manhood Is the source oil lib.
erty, and manhood is the object Of liberty,
and yet the paradox contains an
eternal truth. Manhood is the greatest
boon the eternal Father has 10 offer TO His
children. Let that be secure and the
obedient genii OF toll and virtue, wisdom
and enterprise, ambition and perseverance,,
will coin riches from poverty, lift hovelc
into palaces and transform deserts into the
granaries Of the world.
TRUE MANHOOD.
Let manhood be unimpaired, let 1t
stand forth in all its majestic grandeur as
the possession Of our tribef, and what honor
may We not wear, what victory may we
not achieve; where the bastard hand that
then dare write "ne plus ultra" there is
beyond, upon the Gibraltars Of
our time, wave back the shipsspf our Co
lumbus from their voyages 6fdtscovery
All continents are his. The highest gran.
deur and glory are his betitting jewel.
ry, and across every difficulty he writes the
inspiring truth, "All things are possible to
him that is man" This manhood, the
hope Of the country,the world and the ages,
is our heritage. Though the riven clouds
that have sent their hurtling tempests Of
aud OF wrong upon the tribes
Of time, men have caught brighter glimps.
es Of its form far away beyond the height Of
Alp and Appenine. Aud on toward the
distant goal they have pressed with. un-
wearying feet. To 1t prophets have point.
ed, OF it poets have sung and orators de-
and for il, as the brightest prizs
Of time, heroes have fought and martyrs
have blcd. And this, l say again, is our
heritage. The puritan fathers brought It
with them in the Mayhower, Pat
rick Henry found it on the plains
OF Virginia. The Boston patriots possessed
1t when .hey crushed the chests Of tea and
tossed them to the waves OF the harbor.
The colonies felt its power when, without
money, without credit, without military
scattered along the seaboard
Of q thousand miles, they threw down the
gauntlet OF defiance at the feet OF the
mightiest military organization ofthe globe.
1t WAS the inspiration OF Washington and
his guide, like some star OF Bethlehem
the dark night OF conflict until the
broke with the surrender OF
CORVALLIS. For century II has been the
crown jewel Of our republic; and like the
sun, whose earliest beams glld only the
peaks, but which, as he mounts
to the zenith, lightens every valley, and at
last kisses the tinicst flower that grows 10
its sylvan shades, SO this, which for long
ages touched only the mountain peaks Of
human thought, has for hundred years
been irradiating the deserts and the viii.
dernesses Of our land, until they have
and blossomed as the rose. The
last chain has been melted by its
fierce splendors. The last slave
is man. It's glory has become
historic. The story has been translated
into all tongues, and 1t has made our land
the mecca for the oppressed Of every ma.
lion and cline. Such, gentlemen, is the
inheritance entrusted TO your care It is
the most royal domain OF time. Manhood
Is an empire broader than Alexander's, a
crown brighter than Napoleon's, glory
more enduring than C@,ar's. To You is
the duty OF placing it as dia.
dem upon every brow. You must decide
whether it shall be dream or reality;
meteor, flashing for a moment along its
cratic pathway in the sky, or the bright
sun that has ushered in the noon OF a
cloudless, nightless day. To each and to
Al oil YOU the exhortation OF my text comes
Is ifln peals Of thunder. "Quit you like
men; be strong"
THE PRRItS or THE HOUR.
2. The demand Is proportionate to the dan.
gers that environ us. ltis not the duty Of
he preacher 10 be- an alarmist. Every
cloud that boats above our heads Is not
:irocco. The falling ant hill does not be.
.oken an earthquake. And. yet, to sup.
pose that liberty, the highest manhood, Is
begirt with no dangers, is TO suppose that
Il has no analogies among the affairs Of
time. When the mariner 3 sailing the
sea whose smooth waters have deceived
every navigator that has preceded him, and
whose hidden breakers have stranded
every gallant ship that has sailed upon its
bosom, it becomes him to scan well the
chart upon which Is marked It's dangers
and TO steer clear OF the reefs that have
strewed the shores with wrecks. Other
ships of state have .essayed to sail this
sea, and one by one, they have
been dismantled by the tempests. and
hurled shapeless wreck upon the strands
of time. Greece filled the world with the
light OF her culture and the odor OF her re.
Her senators and statesmen
we're the admiration Of the world. Her
poets and orators have been the models for
Ill subsequent time. Her heroes were
peerless, her sages and philosophers have
stood without rival; and yet, magnificent
N attainment, unequaled in glory, at once
he envy, the admiration aud the despair
II the nations, she suHk, like ship
and helpless, into the abyss oi
.uin. Rome, whose mighty conquests ex'
ended from the wall OF Autoninus TO
Mount Atlas, and from the Western Ocean
o the Euphrates, whose colossal tread
hook empires to ruins, whose very name
vas protection aud safeguard to her
iumblest. citiz5B to the ends Of the
.arth; whose senators could prefer
isath to dishonor; and, seated in their
.urule chairs, could receive the assassins
blow without the tremor of muscle; the
loquence Of whose orators could rouse
nation to frenzy; whose invincible soldiers
lad learned but two lessons to conquer
md to, die; yet, Rome, was broken into
and like ship disrhautled and
beaten into pieces, each timber and spar
ioated to speedy ruin. Itis we'll then to
inquire what are the dangers that environ
our American Republic.
SECTIONAL DIFFERENCES.
(I) And first there are the conflicting in.
terests OF our different sections. The
United States is the largest nation OF the
globe. Her domain Is greater than that OF
ancient Rome in her palmiest days. From
The forests Of the frozen North to the Sayan..
nahs Of the sunny South she belts the con.