Year: 1863

heavy burdens upon people, they scream


with delight. 1t has taken away tn,


very terror of their nights and the very


horror of their days-the nation whose


prosperity, whose peace, whose virtne


whose wealth and Whose power was per
! petual commentary upon their government


and the condition of their people.


That nation at last is under revolution


Yes, because it was necessary for God tC


teach them one lesson more; that self.
governed, free and religious people could
| 60 through a revolution and come out of il
stronger than when they went into it.
loud applause.) said to some of the
gentlemen, eff yon are happy and are
rejoicing, my advice to you is to make the
most of it now, for your day is short, and
the result of this great struggle will for
ever end all further joy of that kind. >
| Laughter.) We are, then, engaged in a
contest not alone for our own national
existence, and for the maintenance and
potency of those ideas and PHILOSOPHERS ON
which our government is formed. but we
are engaged in great and universal con-
| flict for principles. # is no small thing for
nation like ours to stand for the world,
but you do represent the ideas of the world
of the common people of every nation
in civilization; and only against the dy
nasties are you arrayed in antagonisms
and prejudices. Our conduct will have
the most important effect, not alone upon
ourselves, but upon all the world; for
should we be unable to bear the RESPONSE
bility of this great conflict We should only
be part of the sufferers. If the republi-
can form of government failed, the world
would have the shadow of hundred years
of darkness fall ON it, and the hopes of
mankind would be put back indefinitely.
On the Othe., hand, the power of people
to make and administer government for
themselves being proved here, it would
never stop here The power of the people
to submit themselves implicitly to their
govel nment would not create their happi-
ness half SO much as it would the happi-
ness of the world. No part of the Ameri-
can example had been more efficacious
than the implicit obedience which had
been rendered throughout all the free
States to law and magi>tracy; for it was
important to answer the ISLANDERS of Euro
pean detractors by showing that republi-
canism did not lead to anarchy. He had
occasion to say in England that in relation
to the Trent affair that none but free
people would have 50 heartily acquiesced
in the decision of the government.
(Cheers)


The power of our government against
external dargers was not doubted, but it
was vehemeEtly doubted whether we had
the power to bear up against internal cor
ruption. That was part Of the exLeri-
ment we were now enacting-the power
of this government to develop wealth,
knowledge or a Christian civilization under
such institutions as it has. The testimony
Of fact, that all the great ends that are
supposed to he gained by patronage and
special favor can be better gained from
the people, and by the people would 60
great way in settling those questions
If those questions were demonstrated,
then Europe stood on the eve of new
era Reformation or revolution was their
choice You cannot exist as free nation
much longer; you cannot have cheap
government; you cannot have free schools
and free churches, and free people thriv-
ing from these two breasts, deriving the
milk of life; you cannot 60 from decade
to decade with such wOndrOus strides as
you have hitherto, and as firmly believe
you are destined to in time to come-you
cannot do it and shake the world to it's
foundations (Applause) Americans
ought not to be impatient with European
institutions for the sake of the common
people-for the noblest class in this world
was the class called the common people,"
(Applause.) For the sake of this class,
which was really the foundation of the
upper classes, we should be patient; for if
the peoples had place it made very little
difference which way the governments
went. Besides the more public addresses
which he (Mr. Beecher) delivered in Eng
land, it was his duty to talk much in pri-
vate conversation with intelligent men,
and to address private houses, every morn
ing and every night-to be, in short, a
missionary and cOlDorteur among the
heathen Oaughter) 1t was his prov
ince not to give them his own private no.
tions, but to give them representative
American ideas. He found general i'm
preston prevailing that the American ma
ton was, by the very nature Of it's insti-
tutions and the character of its people,
liable to mobs. We are supposed to be
vain, boastful, lawless, arrogant and un-
scrupulous; and one reason has been that
the hand Of the nation has been Southern
for the last fifty years. Uaughter.) He
replied to them that the North loved peace
more than it did aggressive warfare, for it
was the nature of slavery to resort to phys
ical force. Even such a one as Harry
Brougham was pleased in his presence
for among the other trials which Provi-
dence submitted him to was that of listen
ing to his address Qaughter) ito style the
American people an American mob. He
(Mr: Beecher) never supposed it would be
his duty to say to the gentlemen Of Eu-
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