Arizona republican., 1899-02-06
VISION OF A GREAT AMERICAN.
The Day We Live In Foretold With
 Pride by the Father of Alaska.

Pride by the Father of Alaska.
 Among geriusos so lefty as these l (Webster, Calhoun, John Quincy Ad-
 ans, Jackson, Monroe, Madison and
 Jeferson), Henry Clay bore a part in
 regulating the constitutional freedom ! of political debate, establishing that 1 lcng- contested and most important line which divided the sovereignty of
 the several states from that of the states confederated asserting the right of neutrality, and yindicating it by a war against Great Britain, when that just, but extreme measure became necessary; adjusting the terms On which that PeTilous, yet honorable con- test was brought to a peaceful close,
 perfecting the army, and the navy, and
 national fortiflcations; settling the
 fiscal and financial policy of the gov
 ernment in more than one crisis of apparently threatened revolution; as-
 serting and calling into exercise the powers of the government for making and improving internal cOmmunic3-
 tions between the states; arousing and encouraging the Spani5h-American col onies cn this continent to throw eff the foreign yoke, and to organize govern ments CN principles cOngenial to our own, and thus creating external bull warks for our own national defence; establishing equal and impartial peace and amity with all existing maritime powers; and extending the cOnstitu- tional organization of government over vast regions, all secured in his lifetime by purchase or by conquest whereby the pillars of the republic have been removed from the banks of the St. Mary's to the borders of the Rio Grande, and from the margin of the Mississippi to the Pacific coast.
 * "The Union exists in absolute integrity, and the republic in complete and triumphant development With out having relinquished any part of their individuality, the states have more than doubled already, and are in crossing in numbers and growing in political strength and expansion more rapidly than ever before. Without having absorbed any state, or having even encroached on any state, the con federation has opened itself so as to embrace all the new members who have come; and now. with capacity for further and indefinite enlargement has become fixed enduring and per petual. Although 1t was doubted only half century ago whether our politi- cal system could be guaranty for the peace and happiness of society, it stands now confessed by the world the form of government not only most adapted to empire, but also most con genial with the constitution of human nature.
 When VIC consider that the nation has been conducted to this haven, not only through stormy seas, but alto gether also without a course and with out a star; and when we consider. ! moreover, the sum of happiness that has already been enjoyed by the Amer ican people, and still more the influ- eIce which the great achievement is cXerting on the advancement and ameliOration of the condition of man. kind, we see at once that it ng ght have satisfied the highest ambition to have been, no matter how humbly, con CeTned in so great q transaction
 Certainly, sir, no one will assert that Henry Clay in that transaction performed an obscure, CT evcn com mon part. On the contrary, from the day in which he passed the gates of death he was never a follower, but al- ways Q leader.
 * We are rising to another and more sublime stage of national prog ress-thGt of expanding wealth and rapid territorial aggrandizement.
 Our institutions threw a broad shadow across the St. Lawrence. and, stretching beyond the valley of Mexico, reach even to the plains of Central America, while the Sandwich islands and the shores of China recognize their renovating influence. Wherever that influence is felt, a desire for pro lection under those institutions is awakened
 Expansion seems to be regulated not by any difficulties of resistance, but by the moderation which results from our own internal constitution. No one knows how rapidly that restraint may give way. Who can tell how far or how fast it ought to yield? Com meTce has brought the ancient cOnti- nents near to us, and created necessi- ties for new pOsiions-perhaps con- nectiOns of colonies there-and with the trade and friendship of the elder nations, their conflicts and collisions are brought to our doors and to our hearts, Our sympathy kindles, or in difference eXtinguishes the fires of freedom in foreign lands. Before we shall be fully conscious that a change |. going on in Europe. we may find ourselves once more divided by that eternal line Of our separation that leaves on the one side those of our citi- Zens who obey the impulses of sym pathy while on the other are found those who submit only to the counseIs | of prudence. Even prudence will soon De required to decide whether distant east and west, shall come un- der our own protection, or be left to aggrandize 9 rapidly spreading domain | or hostile despotism. Prom William l Fl. Stewards speech in the senate upon 1 the death of Henry Clay.
 CUBA AND THE PHILIPPINES.
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