Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-01-07

voters WHO 40 Uno WOTk LOT pTlu-
ciple,-a man or men who never
give a cent to the party, never
tend the meetings except to seek
a nomination, never show an
ounce of gratitude to the work
ers or the party that made them
political Cars, the intelligent
people have voted and worked
for the last of that kind of polit-
ical tyrants.
DR.. D. J. Stafford, of BALTIC. in
a lecture on Maryland, has call
ed attention to the rights and
power of man and we hope his
words will ring out through all
ages the death-knell of the lazy,
greedy, self seeking, self-willed,
one-man-power, political party
destructionists -
Gin order to be great, in order
to be strong, and in order to
reach the highest possible civil
cation, America has only to be
true to herself. She is according
to the nature of things, and her
fundamental principle involves
all possible progress. We have
had the age of governments, the
time of kings and the day of
monarchies, but the future is to
be the age of man. Time was
when a few ruled. Time was
when man, forgetting his digni-
ty, abdicated his natural and in
herent rights, and gave them
into the hands of the few. But
that power being abused a storm
arose, and above it's din and
rumble, amidst falling thrones,
crumbling dynasties, wrecking
governments and disintegrating
systems, and amid ruin and
chaos, was heard the voice of the
future crying, "Man. Man! Make
way for man! For man make
wayv' This is the government
of man, and that fact assures it's
future. 1t is according to the
nature and logic of things, and
that fact makes sure its progress.
We need never, and ought never
draw the sword for its extension
only for its defense. Let the
innate force and energy work.
This lump will leaven the mass,
and is only a question of time
when the whole continent will
be ours. For the future of civil
cation and progress is in this
fundamental principle, and is to
come by a logical, easy and nat
ural development of it. 1t is true,
therefore powerful, and the near
est approach to the ideal Christ
ian state that the world has seen.
1--WE talk of our greatness
now, with our sixty five millions
of people, our great natural de-
velopments and mechanical prog
ress, and for many other reasons,
but we were a great nation from
the beginning, and when we had
but handful of population scat
tered over a great continent, and
battling with elements for life, in
the infancy of our history, we
were even then a great nation.
We had the greatness of princi-
pie, the greatness of thought, the
surprising greatness of an uni
versal idea. Our history has add
ed nothing to our real greatness,
for the beginning and end of it
is not the development of re-
sources nor increase of popula-
ton, but the recognition of the
natural, inherent rights of man
with which we began. This
principle is the greatness of
America and her glory. The
glory of Greece was the glory of
art. The glory of Rome was the
glory of war. The glory Of Ven
ice was the glory of trade. The
glory of Europe is the glory of
state, but the glory of America
is the glory of-Man. America
was the first of all nations that
taught the dignity and equality
of man as man, and realized in
the civil order the sublimeChris-
tian doctrine-the brotherhood
of man. Ia conception, ours is
the highest form of government,
in execution approaching the
ideal; in its beneficent effects
upon man, without a parallel; a
moral force that has elevated the
world, relaxed the grasp of ev-
cry despotism, and by the same
act which declared all men Gre
ated free and equal, and gave to
them the inalienable rights of
life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, it knocked off the
shackles of every slave in the