The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-07-09

cept an immoderate extension of his tenure
rs President, and fixed term of eight
years as the limit beyond which no man
should be President of tho United Sta.ss.
his country's freedom. He lived not for
ambition. but for his country's good, and
richly does his memory deserve the praise
Of ByrOn's pen:
where may the wearied eye repo.e
when gazing on the Great,
Where neither guilty glory Slous,
ie.--one-tho hrst--the last-the best
The Cincinnatus Of the West
Whom envy dared not hate
Bequeathed tho name OF Washington
To make men blush there was but oncm
First in war, first in peace and first In
the hearts Of his cOuntrymen" he not only
was and is, but will remain the example of
the highest type Of Citizenship. His char
actar, my friends, presents to my mind the
OF exalted manhood which has eyer been
bequeathed to history by statesman or war.
rier. In q public point Of Wow he Was aa
general tho equal of Cesar aud greater
than Napolean-greatcr than Napoleon
because he could bear adversely and rescue
victory from defeat, which Nnpolean never
did. This assertion may astonish those
who have laid aside their Judgment and
given play alone to their admiration for
Napolcons brilliant exploits at Lodi, at
Austerlitz and Jena, but history will sus-
tain tho claim that Napoleon never extri-
Gated an army from defeat. Hence. he lost
five magnificent hosts. His genius only
enabled him to utilize the values of victory,
while Washington, by his prudent and
strokes Of misfortune and achieve success
under circumstances in which Napoleon
would have failed. AS q statesman no was
far-seeing, cautious and jealous Of the in
te, e. Of the infant government his lead.
ersnip p had founded. Instead Of presenting
to the country the spectacle of ambition,
he gave the only instance OH record Of
great military chieftain setting Limitation
upon his own power.
"IIow shall VIC rank thee upon glory's page,
Thou more than soldier and just less than sage |;
Al thou has, hast been. & reflects less FAME on thee
The independence OF the United States
gave to the world the only real rcpublic
that it has ever seen, except the little dis.
trict of come twenty-five square miles upon
the top of the Alps. San Morino, with
less than one-fifth the population OF Ab-
bcville County, has for over fourteen hun
dred ycars been free State, governed by
its own people because it was too poor to
tempt the spciler or to engender internal
dissentio.s The great republics Of which
history tells. were so only in name. Rome
had her classes, the Patricians and the
Plebeans, whose influence and opportuni-
ties we're vastly different. Her laws were
not equal or uniform and her tribunes.
consuls and dictators were but modified
forms Of monarchy. The same is true oil
Athens and the Republic of Greece. In it
the chief magistrate often held dictatorial
power anI Hrescribed as Solon did, the laws
which were to govern the people, who were
Us in the Romaa Republic, divided into
classes with different rights pertaining to
nor. T,,o o,,ct, ropr1lio ,t,;I ,ft
ship willing to submit 10 such distinctions,
it was meet for their great lawgiver, Solon,
when asked if he had given Athens the
best of laws, to reply "the best they were
capable of receiving"
The modern republics have likewise been
far from such governments as would prop
erly entitle them to the name. The gov
ernmonts of Mexico, Central America, and
Sout America, have been in continual
discord and frequent revolt. Even the Re-
public of France, has not been able to Gull
those principles of liberty aud maxims of
government which promise pcrpetuity to q
nation; but in her laws to-day Ee find
1t is only in the United States of Ameri-
ca that the spirit of liberty and equality
before the Inv finds o genial soil in tho
hearts of the people. 1t is here that homo
Is offered to the lovers Of liberty through
out the world. Under our laws none Of
the r'Snts oi Ilhh are apriu6ed except 80 lar
as may be necessary for the well.being Of
tho whole people, and such abridgements
are only made by the people themselves.
In monnrchial governments the laws are
made by one supreme head or by council
whose selection is not left to the people.
In government, like so-called republics,
the laws are framed by bodies but little bot
ter than mobs. In our Union the laws are
guarded with the utmost care and every
person who participates in their enactment
Is selected from among the people. They
arc directly responsible to the source Of
their power and are easily changed when
they abuse or misrepresent the trusts i'm
posed upon them.
With principles so benign, with SAFE
guards SO strong our government has within
the first Century Of its existence extended
the limits of its territory until to-day its
flag floats, with protecting power, over the
fourth government Of the world in area,
and the fifth in number of citizens who
Gems Is unquestioned. W. have the p small. nall
est standing army of any nation in the
world, except Denmark which with
population Of less than two millions, and
ON area of less than fifteen thousand square
miles, has an army that Is only eight men
less than ours: The greatness Of the moral
trated by comparison with Russia, which
has in round numbers population Of
l0o, ,0OO, 900, while ours is only fifty million,
and yet Russia has q standing army of
more than million men, while our army
numbers only thirty.six thousand. Russia
has fourteen times rs many soldiers in pro-
portion to her population that is. it takes
one nan out of every one hundred men,
women and children In Russia, to guard
the Empire s:i time Of peace, .yhile it only
requires one out of every fourteen hundred
In the United States. And yet our shores
arc laved by the tides of two oceans whose
coasts aggregates over 1900 miles and our
frontier reaches more than $500 miles,
Great Britain. This is sufficient com-
mentary on the greatness of our country.
Its constitution Is bulwark of freedom.
It's justice and its integrity are q tower Of
strength. Clothed in the panoply OF these
attributes It is safe from sedition at home
impregnible to invasion from abrosd.
have builta system SO. strong that fearful
civil war could not destroy, but only per-
fccted IL: Dissgseeing upon the theory Of
government, heir differences were arbftra-
ted in battle and the result has vindicated
the course Ofeaeh Tho South In defeat
has risen 20 her former EQUALITY, with every
save aicne, tHs right Of secssdon, which is
destructive OF government. Secession Is q
thing Of the pasta but State sovereignty in
the goyefnnletit Of ltd citizenssis q funda-
mental prfnclp Of osir government. The
bloody issues OF tho war for d time made
our free institutions tremble in the balance
anchored TO be torn from her mtorings,
and the teachings Of our Washington
barred The npholy ambition OF the laurel
crowned Grant, who was his Nations hero
and who sought, like Cesar Or Napoleon,
to inordinatcly prolong, IL not 70 perpetu: