Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-23
a GALA DAY,
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are here the wise founding anu sober de-
velopment OF prosperous communities.
rne fsoled Argo, sailing for the Golden
| Fleece, neither bore nor found the wealth
carried and discovered by the emigrants'
| wagons on the prsiries. The original
conditions surrounding our hardy snd sd-
Venturous pioneers; the riches in poverty,
where hope inspired the forts and the
seif-denial to clear, or develop, or i'm
Drove, or stock the farm, which vas
lt be at once the family home and
estate; the church and the school-h0use
growing simultaneously with the settle
ments; citizenship Of the great republic,
which could OILY come through the ad,
mission OF tie territory az Il state into
the grand cCnfederscy OF common
W slths, and only be lost By the dissolu
t n of the Unior; citizenship which
neant not only political dignity and in
CepsDdence, but incalculsble commercial
snd business advantages and opportuni.
ties-tnese were the elements which
made. the west, and these we're the edn-
Gators o. The dominant power in the
nation for The present and the future.
Thus the west, the child of the Union,
met the slave power with determined
assertion Of the inherent powers OF the
nation, AID with the pledge of rs young
| and heroic life for their enforcement.
CJMPLKTENRss OF LINCoLN's WORK.
This douole sentiI eat found it's oracle
and representative in Abraham Lincoln
He consolidated the northwest by de
claItog that the Mississippi shall flow IN
Vexed to the sea. In the great deba' e
with Douglass, his Challenge rang through
he whole land, a summons to battle. "a
use divided against ITSELF" he said,
"caInot stand. l believe this govern
ment cannot endure permanently halt
slave and half free. l DO not expect the
union to oe oissolved--I DO not expect
The house TO fall--1utI do expect 1t will
cesse to be divided" To enforce that
expectation he called q million OF
men to arms, he em4lcinated
four millions Of slaves BY Presi-
DENTAL pre- clsmstion, and wAen the
victory was won for liberty and uuity,
this most majestic figure Of our time,
clothed with the unlimited powers of d
triumphant government, stood between
the passions OF the strife, aod commanded
pace aud forgiveness. When he fell by
the hands of the sssssin the hundred
years struggle -or nstional existence WAS
ended. He throttIed eecionaItsIn and
buried 1t. The republic for which half
million men had died and mill n been
wounded WIGS so fgmy bedded in the
hearts. the minds, and the blood of It's
people, inst the question Of dissolution
will never more film part If th5 schemes
of It's politicians, or Re quire the wisdom
81 is Statesmen and the patriotism Of lis
people.
Ii ls impossible to estimate the IF &C.
upon our material AID moral develop.
ment OF the disappearance Of the dread
and deadly issue II dissolution ard civil
"ar from cur politics. The nation,
TN spcipatad from the tnralld0m OF per-
peIuel peril, advanced by leaps and
bounds IN its fiscal policy and indust1iSl
progress. Oar substantial growth IN
sver7 element Of national strength since
the war has been greSter than ia all the
YesrS which preceded. But the very COZ
dliops Of this tremendous development
and the mighty forces concentrs-
led and involved present grave
problems which must be solved
If We would be safe. Sid
DeTocqueyiile, in 1884, "I can not believe
ia the duration OF government whose
TASK is to bold together forty dife ent
peoples, sDread OVER surface equal to
the half of EdrOpe, to avoid rigslries, am
bittens Ind ruRgles among them, and
TO unite the action Of their Independent
wills for the accomplishment Of the same
Plans. UaIess l am greatly mistaken,
the federal government Ct the United
States tends to become daily weaker; 1t
draws back from one kiHd of business
after another; 1t more and more restricts
the sphere Of its action. Naturally feeble,
1t sbsndons even THE appearance OF
force
TIE HAMILToNLAS EXTREME REACHED,
With the admission Of The territories
already knocking at the door and fu ly
qualified to become ststes We will have
reached DeTOcqueville's fatal forty. But
In the me an,ime the pendulum Of our pol
ltics has swung back from the Jefsrsuni-
an 10 the Hamlltonian eXIreme. The fed
eral government is everything, the states,
in national sense, nothing. The s5oli-
tion Of slsVery, End with 1t sectional lines,
and the civil VI, have done much TO pro-
drce This; but commerce has done more
The application of steam md electricity
to trade has made ferry commonwealth
one. IL lS hOh QsbthDCe dIOn6 WHICH Gre
ates the dangers Of the disintegration Of
but difficulty of iDtercom-
municetior. Sixty millions OF peo-
pie covering continent are In
much closer communion to-day than were
he 4, 00o. 900 algrg the Allan ic soast ct
tue dme If the adoption CT the constitu.
tioD. The President, whose authority
DeTocqaeville thought week end grgdu
ally being reduced TO Sd dow, has |
acq aired power beyond the dreams and |
fears OF the fathers. the arbitrary ar
reets, the proclamations Of far-reEchirg |
import st which Mr~Lincoln did rot hesi- |
tate, indic-t Whist President may do in |
time of war. A civil service four times
as large IS our stsndlng army, and sub
isct to executive appointments and re-
naval, aud the frequent exsrcise Ct the !
se:o power by President Cleveland, *
bit the extent Of his power, even Ia
pescs.
TIE Uoited States has been fortunate IN
It's Presidents. The poorest snd weakest
II them bad pstriotism and sense Of
public duty which prevented the resort tot
iesL crate expedients for the retention OF
power. Bug as the country increases IN
population and in new communities, the
unc ions Of the executive become more
niu1a i1I |