The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-11-28
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to assemble and to petition the govern
ment for redress of grievances. This
means that all our people have not only
the right to worship God upon the
dictates of their own conscience, but you
have been guaranteed legal protection
should they be interfered with in any
manner while so doing. There is much
in the history of dead empires to sadden
and discourage our hope for the perma-
nence of any human institution, out a
deeper study reveals the fact that nations
have perished only when their institu-
tions have ceased to be serviceable to the
human race, when their faith has be-
come an empty form, and the destruction
of the old is indispensable to the growth
of the new. 1t matters little what may
| be the form of national institutions If
the life, liberty, and growth of society
are secured. There are two classes of
forces whose action and reaction deter
mine the condition of the nation the
forces of repression and expression. The
one acts from without, limits, curves,
restricts. The other acts from within,
expands, enlarges, prOpels. COustitu-
tiOnal forms, statutory limitations, con-
servative customs, belonging to the first.
The freedom of individual life, the Opin-
ion, and action, belong to the second.
Ii these forces are happily balanced a
nation may enjoy the double blessing of
progress and permanence. Our success
in this country has been so greathithertO,
we have safely passed through so many
perils which at the time seemed almost
fatal, that we may assume that the re-
public will continue to live and prosper
unless it shall be assailed by dangers
which Outnllmber and outweigh the
elements of its strength. 1t is idle to
boast OF what we are, or what we are to
be, unless we compare our strength with
the magnitude of our dangers. What
then are our dangers, and how can they
be conquered? Our great danger comes
not from without as we do not live by
the consent of any other nation. Our
dangers therefore, must be within, among
our own people, Territorial extension
was at time feared as dangerous, as il
was said we fall to pieces of our own
weight; but that problem has been safe.
ly solved. We have admitted state after
state, and still room for millions. Rail
road and telegraphic communication
have brought San Francisco and New
York nearer today than New York ant
Boston were at the time of the reyOlu
tiOn. The test of true citizenship must
be love of country. First, love of God
| next, love of country. Patriotism is ONT
of the noblest traits of ones character.
believe Scott said,
"Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who ne'er to himself hath said,
This Is my own, my native land
] such there breathes. go mark him well.
For him no minstrel raptures swell.
High tho his title, proud his name,
BOundleSs his wealth rs wish can claim,
Despite those titles, power and pelf
The wretch c0ncentered all in self,
Living shall forfeit fair renOwn
And dOubly dying shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung.
Unwept, unhOn0red, and unSung."
No man who has not lived among u.
can understand one thing about Oul
institutions. No man who has beer
born and reared under mOnarchial gov;
ernments can understand the vast differ,
ence between theirs and ours, How is il
In mOnarchial governments? There
society is one series of caste upon caste
Down at the bottom like the granite rOch
in the crust of the earth lie the greaI
body of labOring men. i was told OncC
by an Englishman that in twenty-five
years of careful study of the agricultural
classes Of England, he had never known
one, who was born and reared in thu
ranks OF farm labOrers, that rose above
his class and became well-tO-dO citizen
That is a most terrible sentence. Thinl
of 1t. Three millions of people who lii
at the bottom Of society with no pOwel
to rise; above then, the gentry, the hered
itary capitalists;abOve them, the nobility
above them, the royalty; and crowninl
all, the sovereign; all impossible bar
riers OF caste. No man, as have stated
born under such institutions can under
stand the mighty difference between then
and ours. Thank God and thank tn,
fathers Of the republic who made, AM
the men who carried out the promises o.
the declaration, that in this cOuntr,
there are no classes fixed and impossible
Our society is not fixed in hOrizonta
layers like the crust Of the earth, but, a
a great New England man said, some year
ago, it is rather like the ocean, broad
deep, grand, open, and so free in all it
parts that every drop which mingle
with the yellow sand at the bottom ma
rise through all the waters till it gleam
in the sunshine in the crest of the high
est wave. SO it is here in our free sOci
ETY. permeated with the light Of America
: freedom. There is no American boy
however poor, however, humble, orphal
though he may be, who, il he have
clear head, true heart and stron
| arm, may not rise through all grades Q
, society and become the crown, the glory
the pillar OF the state.
+ ! have dwelt at lengthon the cOnstitr
+ tiOn and the manner in which it wa
) adopted for the purpose OF illustratin
7 clearly the effect that grand documer