The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-03-07
An Eloquent Speech by Chauncey =.
Depew, at Chicago, on Wash
ingtons Birthday.
An Grafton BristIing with New
Ideas and Pertinent Sugges-
tons for the Day.
The Patriotic Sentiment in This COun.
try Deep-scated and Of an En-
during Nature.
The States Duty to Protect the Ballot
What Protection Has Done for
the Country.

The political mission of the United States has
30 far been wrought out by individuals and ter
ritorial conditions. -Four men OF unequal genius
the West has reyolutionized the Republic. The
principles which have heretofore contfolied tne
policy of the country have mainly owed their
force and acceptance to Hamilton, JEFFERSON
The two great creative contests of America
We're purely defensive They were neither the
cratic revenges They were calm and deter,
mined efforts for good government and closed
without rancor or the outstanding OF resources
for retaliation The revolution was war Ior
the preservation OF well-defned constitutional
Ibert es but dependent upon them We're the IN
dustrial freedom necessary for the development
OF the country, the promotion OF manufactures,
and independence OF foreign producers.
SAVING INFLUENCE OF HAMILTON.
The first question which met the young Con-
federacy, torn by the jealousies OF It's stronger
and weaker colonies, was the necessity OF
central power strong enough to deal with Tor
eign nations and to protect commerce between
ton became the savior of the Republic. II
Shakespeare Is the commanding originating
genius of England and Goethe OF Germany,
Americans. At II he had formulated the prin-
ciples of government by the people SO clearly
that no succeeding publicist has improved
them. Before he was rs he had made sugges-
tions to the hopeless fnanciers OF the revolu-
ton which revived credit and carried through
the war. With few precedents to guide
him, he created hscal system for the united
States which was SO elastic and comprehensive
that it still controls the vast operations
OF the Treasury and the customs. Though but
a few years at the bar after his retirement
from public life, his briefs en- bodied in
Constitution and statutes, and to his mastery
address the press owes its freedom. This
superb intelligence, which was at once philo-
sophie and practical aud with unrivaled lu-
cidity could instruct the dullest mind on the
bearing of the action OF the present on the des-
x..f uxad
temporaries the necessity of O central govern
ment with large powers that the Constitution,
now one hundred and one years old. was
adopted, and the United States began their life
as nation.
At this period. in every part of tho world. the
doctrine that the Government Is the source Of
power, and that the people have only such
rights the Government had given, was prac-
tically unquestioned, and the young republic
began its existence with the new and dynamic
principle that the people are the sole source Of
authority, and that the Government has such
powers they grant to it, and no others.
JEFFERSON AND WEBSTER.
Doubt and debate are the safety-valves OF
freedom, and Thomas Jefferson created both.
He feared the loss OF popular rights in CEN
tralzation, and believed that the reserved
powers Of the States were the only guarantees
preme in our history political leader and
left no successor He destroyed the party of
Washington. Hamilton, and Adams, and built
up an organization which was domin ant in the
country for half n century The one question
thus raised and overshadowinR all others for
hundred years, half satisfied by compromises,
half suppressed by threats, at times checking
prosperity, at times paralyzing progress, at
times producing panics, at times preventing
the solution Of fiscal and industrial problems
vital to our expansion, was, Are we a Nation
For nearly fifty years the prevailing senti-
ment favored the idea that the Federal
compact was contract between sover-
eign States. Had the forces of disunion
been ready for the arbitrament OF arms. the
results would have been fatal to the Union
That ablest observer of tho American expert
ment, De Tocqueville, was 30 impressed by
this that he based upon 1t an absolute predic-
ton of the destruction of the republic. But,
ut the critical period, when the popularity,
almost the sole hope Of nationality, Webster
delivered in the Senate speech unequaled
effect and lasting results. The appeals Of
Demosthenes to the Athenian democracy, the
denunciations of Cicero against the conspiracies
tine pas % Mira
warnings of Chatham in the British Parlia-
ment the fervor of Patrick Henry for indie
pendence we're of temporary interest, and
yielded feeble results. compared with the
tremendous consequences OF this mighty utter
ance.
It broke the spell of supreme loyalty to the
State and created an unquenchable and resist
less patriotism for the United States 1t ap-
peared in the school-books, and by declaiming
glowing extracts therefrom. the juvenile ora
tors of that and succeeding generations won
prizes at academic exhibitions and mimic con-
crosses. Children educated parents. and the
pride Of the fathers and the kindled imagina-
tions of the sons united them in O noble idea OF
the great republic No subsequent patriotic
Grafton met the requirements Of any public &C.
casion, great or small, which did not breathe
tho sentiment of liberty and union, now and
forever one and inseparable." AS the coolest
clod, when first inspired by the grand passion
of life, becomes chivalric knight, 80, when al
last the Union was assailed by arms, love oil
country burst the bonds of materialsm and
sacrificed everything for the preservation of the
Nations life. From the unassailable convic-
ton OF the power OF the General Government to
protect itself. to coerce State. to enforce it's
laws everywhe and to use all the resourc 81
of the people to put down rebellion, came not
only patriotism but public conscience. With
conscience was the courage, rare in com
mercial communities, which will peril business
and apparent prosperity for an idea. This de-
feated the slave power, and is to-day the most
potent factor In every reform.
THE WEST THE CHILD OF UNION
The field for the growth and development OF
this sentiment, and for its practical application
without fear of consequences, the great
west. virginia's gift to the Union of the North
west Territory. which now constitutes five
great States, and it's prompt dedication to free.
dom. and Jefferson's purchase from the First
Napoleon OF the vast area now known as Arkan.
sas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas louisiana Mime
sofa, Missouri Mississippi, Nebraska, Dakota,
Montana, Wyoming, and the Indian Territory
were the two acts of generosity and consum
mate statesmanship which definitely outlined
the destiny OF the Republic and its political
mission.
In the genesis of nations there 10 no parallel
with the growth of the West and it's influence
upon the world. The process of its settlement,
reduced to comparative insignifcance the
romance and realities of the State
builders Of the past. Movements o.
peoples which at other periods have beer
devastating migrations, or due to the deliriun
of speculations, are here the wise founding anc
sober developments OF prosperous communities
The tabled Argo, sailing for the Golden Fleece
neither bore nor found the wealth carried and
discovered by the emigrarts' wagons on the prai
ries. The original conditions surrounding ou
poverty, where hope inspired the efforts and th,
accidental TO clear, or develop, or improve, OF
stock the farm which was to be at once the
family home and estate; the churcl
and the school-house growing stimuli
taneously with the settlements citizenship o
the great Republic, which could only com,
through the admission Of the Territory rs