Montgomery County sentinel., 1891-06-12

recollections, and sends forth the burning
enthusiast, ardent for the regeneration OF
society, into other lands, but too often his
fondest hopes are blasted.
In an extended and prosperous society
the habits It induces, the foresight and self
denial which it awakens, the local attach
ments to which 1t gives rise, constitute it
the great expansive power over all forms of
government. Under its influence society
appears in its most favorable form, the pro-
gress of improvement is more rapid, the
steps of the people more uniform, quicker
and safer.
But il Is in government like ours where
its force is most felt its economy and wis
dom best displayed, its beauty most ad-
mired-where the warmth Of its feeling and
the eloquence of its language speaks of
freedom. Not less heart stirring in its spir-
IL, not less enhancing in Its progress than
the immortal annals Of ancient patriotism,
it spreads over larggs surface and is
fraught with more momehtous results.
In congregation of States, such as ours,
each having the power Of internal legisla-
ton, from the fact that separate interests are
brought to bear directly in the conduct of
public affairs, wealth succeeds conscious
ness of the independence which it confers,
and with It's growth a spirit OF freedom Is
awakened and hatred to oppression con-
firmed, and from this source the whole lib
erty of antiquity has been Graded
Under the workings OF our Democratic
form of government, forward is the word,
and forward will be the word for centuries
to come-and why Because all men here,
in this free republic, are free to think, to
speak and to act No traditions Of the past
bind them, no hereditary policy controls
their actions, no customs covered with the
| dust OF ages fetter them no physical or intel
lectual gives corroded by the rust of centur-
les are eating into their flesh, because thinking
American men, everywhere, live in the pres.
ent and are engaged in building up great
Democratic institution, where, in the lam
guage of Carlysle, we "speak our opinions Of
10 day in words as hard as rocks, and our
opinions Of tomorrow In words equally as
hard, even though our opinions of o.mor-
row may contradict our opinions of to day"
| Under our Democratic form Of govern
ment we cannot stand still amidst the uni
versal rush of thiags. Under the spirit OF
our institutions we have grown to be a
mighty nation, the march of civilization
has crossed continent tunneling noun
tains, bridging rivers, laying waste to the
virgin forest-unfolding the valuable and
hidden treasures of the earth. These stu
pendous changes are the result of human
energy, and they reach in their moral pres
tige and progressive influence through every
vein and artery of governmental and social
compact, affecting political Institutions
shaping national policy by their resistless
demonstrations.
Under the development of our Demo
cratic form OF government, the energy and
| ingenuity of man is an overmatch for time
from the ruins of decay, grander and no.
bier structures rise, whilst mans inventive
genius is daily adding such appliances as
to give far greater grandeur and beauty to
their formations. We constantly see the
crumbling landmarks of to day thrown into
history, or consigned to forgetfulness. In
this country, since the boundless forest was
first opened up to the sunlight, science and
art have been wrestling with nature, until
every State is bound together by the iron
rails of social intercourse and mutual inter--
est, and the scream of the iron..norse is
heard from peaks higher than where the
eagle buNds her nest or the reindeer makes
his path.
1t has beer1sald that by slow degrees and
impercepilble additions, all great changes
of nature are accomplished. 1t is by sim.
similaIsteps and as slow a progress that the
great Abric of society is formed. Regu.
lated liberty, the chief spring of human i'm
proyement, is of the most tardy develop
ment; ages elapse before it acquires firm
consistency and nations disappear during
the contest for its establishment. When
we realize that the curtain of the nineteenth
century has nearly fallen-we very natur.
ally ask what must be the extent, the glory,
riches and greatness of this favored land
under the spirit and workings of Democracy
in the next hundred yearsp
Sir VIM. Gordon Cumming, who lost his
suit against those who accused him OF cheat.
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