Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-08-17
JUDGE PARKER ACCEPTS.
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| ~ RIeW dS u WorIu power as ltS sturdy
citizens to whose natural increase were
added immigrants from the Old World
seeking to obtain here the liberty and
prosperity denied them in their own
countries, spread over the face of
the land, reduced the prairies and
forests TO cultivation, built cities,
constructed highways and railroads, till
now nation which, at the formation of
the government, numbered only three
miliions in population, has become
eighty millions, and from ocean to ocean
and the lakes to the gulf, the country is
the abode of free and prosperous peo-
pie, advanced in the highest degree in
the learning and arts of civilization.
1t is the liberty, the advancement and
the prosperity of its citizens, not any ca
reer of conquest, that makes the coun-
try world power.
This condition we owe to the bounty of
Providence, unfolded in the great natural
resources of the country, 10 the wisdom
of our fathers manifested in the form of
government established by them, to the
energy, industry, moral character and
law-abiding spirit of the people them
| selves.
We are not military people, bent on
conquest, or engaged in extending our
domains in foreign lands, or desirous of
securing better natural advantages, how
ever great, by force; but people loving
peace, not only for ourselves, but for all
the nations of the earth.
The display of great military arma-
ments my please the eye, and, for the
moment, excite the pride of the citizen,
but it cannot bring to the country the
brains, Drawn and muscle of single i'm
of dollar of capital.
OF course such armament as may be
necessary for the security of the country
and the protection of the rights of it's
| citizens, at home or abroad must be
maintained. Any other course would
be not only false economy, but pusilani-
nous.
protest, however, against the feeling,
now far too prevalent, that by reason of
the commanding position we have as
sumed in the world, we must take part
in the disputes and broils OF foreign
| countries; and that because we have
grown great we should intervene in every
| important question that arises in other
parts of the world.
also protest against the erection of
any such military establishment as
| would be required to maintain the coun-
try in that attitude. We should coufine
| our International activities solely to
matters in which the rights of the coun-
try or our citizens are directly involved.
| That is not a situation of isolation, but
of independence.
The government of the United States
was organized solely for the people of
the United States. While it was con-
templated that this country should be-
come refuge for the oppressed of every
duties of our citizenship, and we have
always sympathized with the people of
every nation il their struggles for self
government, the government was not
crei for career of political or civil
liziil & evangelization in foreign countries
or among alien races by Intervention in
their affairs. The most efficient work
we can do in uplifting the people of
other countries is by the presentati, of
happy, prosperous and self-governing
nation as an ideal to be emulated, a
model to be followed.
The general occupation of our citizens
in the arts of peace, or the absence of
large military armaments, tends to i'm.
pair neither patriotism nor physical
courage, and for the truth of this refer
the young men of to-day to the history
of the civil war. For fifty years, with
| the exception of the war with Mexico,
this country had been at peace, with
| standing army most of the time of less
| than ten thousand men. He who thinks
the nation had grown effeminate during
that period should read the casualty
| rolls of the armies on either side at Shi-
| loh, Antietam, fredericksburg and Get
tysburg, at Stone River and Chicamauga.
| would be the last man to pluck single
laurel from the crown Of any one of the
military heroes to whom this country
owes so much, hut I insist that their
most heroic deeds proceeded infinitely
| more from devotion to the country than
from martial spirit.