Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 5, 1876, Page 2

1870, 2 ] - THE CIICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY., JULY 7 nd fnvess which the inmntes of this templo :ml mn enjoy, aa the rights and lbertics of Rngllslmen, aro only kept in place and play be~ couse of the firm strueture of thess anclent strongholds of rollrion and law, which you now desert and refuse to bulld anew, . ‘Our fathers hed formed thefr opinlons npon wiser aud deeper viows of man and Providence than theso, and they had the courage of thelr oplutona. ‘Tracing the progress of mAnkind In the ns- cending path of civilization, enlightenment, and moral and intellectual cultire, they found that the Divine ordinance of Governucut, fn every stage of the sacent, was adjnetable an principlca of common_reason to ithe actual condition of a oplo, ngd always had for {ts objects, in tho mmcvu en!a connsels of the Divine wisdum, the linpplucas, the expansion, the ‘security, Lho ole wation of suelety, aud the redemption of man, They sought in 7aln for sny title of suthority of A ovor man, exeept of BUPRRIOR CAPACITY AND MIGHER MORALITY. They found tho origin of coates and ranke, and principalitics and powers, temporal or apir- ftunl; fn this conception, ‘They recognized tha peuple as tie structure, the temple, the fortross, which the great Artificer all the while cared fof and bullt up. As through the long march of timo this work advancel, the forms and fash- jons of the Government acemed tothetn to he bat tha seaffolding and apparatas by which the development of n people’s greatiuess was shaped anid sustained. Satisfied that the peo- 1e, whoge Institutions were now to ho projectud, ligence, the courage, the constancy, tho spirit | to hold (ts territory on the enstern dm of the | of the people. of the people thomselves, If these have risen | eontinent, or haa covetous Europe driven in its | requires aud imports fecurity, na well as une | firm| fmity, tnat our iml ‘ment measurcs as adequiato | bered it lmcgrnfl Have its numbera kept | of sobriety nnd 1 to the struggle for fudependence, and the whole | pace with natural Increase, or have the mother | when the laws aind thelr execution rest whol sured, © What the nature and esuctions of this termined_by united” counsels and concerted | Jars of the 8iatel Haa the free press, with [1- | fn this country, a8 respects the probit; gctlon. Thesa they have deputed us to scitle | Hinltably sweep, blown down the props and | people. Nodoubt covetousness hus not ceansedl | own keep for tho defcnse of Lheir nnited fndependence | once were castles agalnst the intruslon of o TIH INPINITB TRUST # And for the rest, na to tho Constitution of [ run into Independence of law? Ilave’ free | conspicuously in our country, nlnrgo share of | on that form of Iatence. madl ‘Haye manners dee 1% CONDITION OF TRE IPEOPLE 18 EQUAT, guished, nrt faded, wealth decayed, sonal control. T Inatitutions of liberty. Whon the pulitical cone | TIavo other nations shunncd tho evil cxample | conduct, and refutes thespy disparagements of oinnings, nection with the parent State Is dissolved they | Aud held aloof from M intectlon? Or bave re- the gencrnl momtit ‘necessity. As all wovernments i this. world, | under which the imupln Shurned Incenee to vau- | of nature, the discipline of life—all that makes | erclsed vod and bad, 1iberal or despotie, are of shen, | 1ty and stumblec castes or ranks, or decrees diseriininnl men fn it population, beeomnes’ ot ones & Gov- | restored tha throne, rebulit tha altar, relald the | to make this t! acunu[l ernment. u& e ?50]’"01 by the people, and for foundatlons of socicty, and again taken shelter | al character, o the faithful provislon and exten- | are the the people. 8o know that the result of all hangs on the Intel- | great manifesto? lina the new nation been able | proves induatry, peraistency, hrift ns the habita | community amd puhllcll{ of mm'nclm\d at the }‘mmml;n(lun of wealth, too, clu\r’m aml s an Institn i1 P ] Imhedded In t‘ljn \vlnntn and tlifi};m“:{o:,xl(l‘e ta 1 eight, and grown to n strength snd unan- | houndacies, or interna) disrenslons dismem- | fettored activlty; and thus {t'is a fair celterlon eople, Common gehools are rapid & oot 1 i ! yll"um In_n peopley vvrlJ\\i!]i" ng through the only port of tha contitry which ¥ | had boen shut ugaitiat them, and follow close sum of ther Ilberties, they will ncecpt | countrien reccived bck to the shelterof firmer | in their hands, A carcless obacrvation of the | upon th fodtstepsof itanow luorty to enlighten that ssue and follow thet lead. 'They hinve | institutions tho ropentant tide of emigratton? | crimes and frauds which attack prosperity, fn | the enfranchised race. takon up arma Lo maintain thelr rights, nnd will | or have the woes of unstable socicty distressed | the.nctual condition of our soclety, and the fme PREADOM OF CORSIENCT i not lag them down il those rights are as- | ond reduced the shrunken popuintion? Hus | perfeetion of our meuns for their prevention | cosily stamps out the first sparkles o cnmr(llr- the Irce suffrage, s a qulckennd, Joosened the | amd redress, lends sometimes to an unfasorable | tlony and anaps o green withes the fieat Lond I} security are to be they understaml muet be de- | foundations of power and underniined the pil- | comparlson between the present aud the Pul. of splritual domjuation. The sacred oracles ‘I) of the | their reltgion the peoplo wisely hold fn thelr fimz a8 Lhe keys of religlous liberty, and and prociniin, and thia wo bave done todlay, | buttresses of order and authority in govern- | dn the world, nnd thicves still break throngh | refuse to be hoguiled by the volce of the Wisest What wo have declared the people will ayow arid | ment, driven before ts wind the barciers which | ahd steal, Hut the better test upon this poliit | chnrmer tnto loosig tlielr grasp. ! confirm. Hencoforth It Is to this people a war | fence'ln soclety, and unroofed the homes which | {s the vast profusion of our wealth and Freedom from mifitary power and tha maine i | tennmee of that nemn of govermment in the peo- agalnst Ita overthrow by forvign arms. Of that | Kingl Tias freedom In religlon ended in free- | shown by the manner in which it I8 invested, | ple; atrust In tho own nucqun&y ns soldiers, war there can bo hut oie faste, dom from religion? and independence by Jaw | It 1a not too much to eay that iv our thaes, sad | when thelr dut{ 1 s confldence of mun fnman | posalbility for this nation, in lts present or prosl- they hiava the habits of froomen and possces the PUBLIC BPIRIT WITHERED | 1s ever Increasing, measured by onr practical | pective greatness, than In tho duys of its simal r- But {n the treedom of the press, aud the ank- will Lo self-goserning and self-govarned of | flection and hard fortune dispelled the alluston | Kuowledge, intel cctual utlfll{htlm mastery | versnlity of the ufi[mg?hn‘\;‘ tllll\:al:fllilc!:md :nx& hirou| rrieit in mlnlr wuy: from filhu "d"c’%,l“' “l’dfill‘l)! cdllll("t.l]uun cfrun pco]llo—a;u duvvloplad hmum: %f ;H nnq'.dfl 2.“‘1‘11“‘;,' ::3::“ é:l,:,m::: o) 3 aths ava they, tleelng” from the double | an 'naed through the masses of our populn- | ous and declsive evidence o et S‘“‘“{fi‘.’,‘;‘n}‘.fiy}}g fienlnmlfln which 3L'tcnun hvlly and arroganee, | tion, in ro ample :fid qunuruus a distribution as | of the fnstitutlons of lihcrty und the jenlous cvoua trat In our natloni | guard of its principal defenscs, These Indecd t must remain, unless forelgn | I tho old protections agalnst'the perils, shocks, | slon of the means and opportunitios of this adu- | GREAT AGENCINS AND ENGINES OFTRE PROTLE'S as citizens shoul e o ! an‘rvk]uw the Sufl:; :‘oltm:“ h?v: tlo new Btate, Its species fa disclosed by its ex- | achool o ch 1 made the peoplo | every man's rty 18 in otfier men's keeping ned now Jorco by tho oxporient fore! o e g 81 1Ehve. cnmingl,"cx:;:t lclfi-rll lsu- and i'un|:ln‘;xeuxl’g:§clu{nvntclml and bcyund‘;:cr- EZ',.- clvil war, nndl{slnndlhg anny Is a remoter | Our ervn ara the dast of Time, Tho far-off yeaterday of power Creepn hnck with stenlthy footy Invadea the londehip of the honr, And at adr hanquet takes the unbididen seat, From all unchronicled and allant ngen Befora the Futnro fimt hagot the Paaty Hiatory dared, at ast, To write cternal woris on granlic pageai From Egypt's tawny drift, and Assur's mound, And where, uplifted whito and far, Earth highest yearns to meot a star, And Man his manhooil by the Ganges found, — Impetinl heads, of old millenninl sway, nd atlll by some Rn)u splendor crowned, Clil as a corpac-1ight in oar full-orbed day, 1n ghostly grandaur rise And sy, through atony lips and yaennt ayes: **Thoa thnt asscrieat freedom, power, and famo, Declare to ua thy clatm (" ton of the Btate, Is ko 1.2, Hoed 10t On the shores of A contincnt caa She won the invivlata ro Ry loss of heirdom of 411 the Pasl And faith in the royal right of Toll} Bha planted Lumes on the savage sod: Into the wilderness lo £be walked with fratlues feety In hor hand the divining-rind, T the velng of the mountalus beat With Gira of metal and Yorce of stone | Slie net the apead of tha river-hoad Ta tuen the mills of et bread; Sho drove the plowsharo deep Through the Frnmt‘n thonaanl-centuriedaloep; “To tiie Sonth, and Woat, and Nortt, 8ho called Pathinder forth, Tler falthful anil anlu companion, L i Whero the flushed Sierra, -nu\vy-nhfrefl, wad reached all that measure of steength nnd | eonquest or domesticururpation shail change it, | ud changes In human aifairs, which cation are the cherished jneiitutions of the BOVEREIUNTY. mncfi of preparation for sclf-government which \\‘h’e‘umr it shell bea mu,l wise, or pmnpgmua Divert and crack, rend and deracingto conutry, LcnrnlnF literature, relence, artarecul- | They hold the same relations to tho vast k;lu- And the “'n'g‘fd'c'g r‘,‘" :‘rl: """m:;‘é'g:f:ga fokin old Institutions could ve, they [fearlessly | Government, it must i’m a popular Guvernment, The unity and niarried calim of States tivated, in thelrwi Jcatrmagundhlghcatrunch, by | mocracy of nodern socicty thit the porsuusions Channeled the terrible canyen t seized the happy opportun! ;;Lo clothe thepeo- | nnd correspond with the wisdom, justice, and Quite from thefr fixture? alargerand lnrrurnnmbur of our icople, noty to | of the orators amd the personal volees of unu‘ ’nn— Nor pauaed 1] her ultermoxt homo ple with the inajestic attributes of their own | fortuncs of the people.” Who can recount In an Lour what lins baen | thelr pmise be i sald, 28 o personal distinetion | sembly did In the narruw confines of thoGrockan | yus buils In the smitlo of 5 foftor aky, soversignty, and conscerate them to the admine fatration of their own Erluumud. The reputation ot England of the spiritoal power of Rome, at the Reformatlon, wos by every eatimate o stupcndona fnnovation fu thi rooted alleglance of the peopley a profound dis- turbance of all adjustments of anthority. Dut llunr’y VIIL, when he diaplaced tlie dominion of the Fope, procialmed himaelf the head of the Church. ’fim overthrow of the ancient mon- archy of Franee, by the flerce triumph of an enragod people, was acatastrophe thut shool: the arcangements of socloty from centre to clreumference. But Napoleom, when he pushed asido tho royal tine of St. Louts, an- nounced, *Iamn the people ceowned,” and set up n pleblan Emperor us the imporsoiiation and depositary in bl snd bis Huo foreser of the ople’s eoverclgnity, The founders of our Bgmmunvmuth conceved ?mt the people of these Colonies needed no Iuterceptton of the supreme control of thelr own aflairs, no concli- atfons of more names and Images of power from whichi the pith and vigor of authority hnd duparted, They, therefore, did not hesltate to TOUOW DOWSN THE PARTITIONS OF POWER AND nonT, and break up and distribute shares in nuthority of ranks and orders of men which, [ndeed, had ruted and advaneed the development of socluty In civil and religlous liberty, but might well bo egleeted when the protected growth was ag- nured, and oll tutolary supervision, for this rea- gon, lieneoforth could ouly be obstructive and incongruous. A glancu nt tho fate of the English cseay at o ecommonwealth, which preceded, snd to tho French experimont atz Republie, which followed our own (nstitution “*of o new Btate of nnew specles,” will show tho marvelous wisdom of our ancestors, which struck the line between too 1ittle and too much; which walked by faith (n- decd for things nvisible, but yet by sight for things visible; which dared “to upprupiat urerything to tho neople which had belonged to Caesar, but to assume for mortals nothing that belonged to God. No daubt it was o dellberntion of prodigions dlfticulty, and o decisfon of Inflnite moment, which sfiould settle the new {nstitutlons of En- And 8o this peopic, of varlons roots and kind- | done In a century, on so wide a ficld, and n nll | or n selfish poscssivn, but, inalnly, a8 n This Northern Continent of Ameriea had been | Wide terrltory to which wo have opened and prepared for the tranaplantation of | on our -limits, Liues of climale miark our regard of cunrage, publ TIE PULL-GROWN 3ANTIOOD boundarfes north and south, o apirit, aud patriotism, dens wi better opyl)on,unlty for fnstitutions consonant | of the habitable ¢! with tho dignity of human nature, and with the | cesstvo sequisitions, the impulscs which ua- | distinetive service of the Btate suf Itntnortal and tatinite relations of tha ruce. Inthe | slsted, and the motlyes which retarded the langunge of the thnes, the search for civil und | panslon of our territory; the play of the v religious liherty aninated the Pllgrims, the | peting elements in our élvilization, Puritans, and the Churchmen, the Preshyte cessant struegle each to outrun t! seg, thie Germaus, nnd the Swedes, {u their sev- | “in charity for all und mulics towar eral migrations which made up the colonial rnp— which_the ‘study of the maulfest designs of | {liusory. They beloug toa condition of soclety | original princip! ulation, Thelr experlencs and ‘fortunes had done nothing to reduce, uv\'vi'!.hln to con- | detain us for a mwoment's fllustration, toward which the very schiemo ol our nati tirwy the views and traits which with Europe, seemed to these people but from the culmlinted pride of Europe, but Irom | formally, in the peo; which had led them across the ocean—but the | criminated frum all The preparation of the past aid tho cuthusinams of the future consplred to favor tho project of | liberty: o race unreprescuted ln the Congress of a capricious and glddy exaltation of spirit, ns | truths then declared, us It were, from the dead, | sun of at new-zained lberty, a sober and soleain sense of the larger trust and duty took possesslon of | SAME CONSTITUTED LISENTIES WITH OURSELVES, | and Yurponcs in the whols budy of the people, | consplracies; i i gt | S, T e e o red of the Old World—scttled and transfused | 1ts multitudinous aspocts? Yot I may not avold | ous jeaven, to quicken mid expaud healthiul | and sentiments of the peopla 1 In thelr cisatlnatic home into barmonlous fel- | Inslsting upon nnmu‘llnchlvc llnumnm’na of the | fermentation of the general mind, and 1t the [ and wider rango aud license to the nx;fl"mtlnuis u: lowship In the sentiments, the intercsts, the [ materfal, soclal, and politieal developmenta of | level of popnlar inatruction. 8o far from breed- | the prese, multiplied nnd more frequen: (m?lml | abits, the affections which develop and sustain | our country which the record of the hundred | Inga distetnpered splrit In the people, this be- | for the oxoreise of the suilrage, larg wi‘r an x\:f; 2 love of conntry—were commitied to the eom- | years displays, and thus presont to * the opinjon | comea n main prop of authority, the great in- | oy communication of its franchise, Mwmgf" 5 wmon fortunes which should attend nu nbsoluto | of mankind;” for its gencrous judgment, our | stinct of obedicuce. ‘It I8 by cducatlon,' says | of a hundred years (inds m?m prodigious ‘xlu fi trust {n the primary relations between man and { nation as ft 18~ to<lay—our land, our | Aristotle, * I 'have leamied to do hy‘c‘.-huh.-o what | lties in thir fullest plne—hwcmuu and all- his fellows and_betwwean man sud his Maker, | people, and our laws, And, irst, we notico the [ other men do by constralnt of fear.! powerful—indisponeable fn teadily pushed The * breed and nlisrnnltluu "ol a people, In chplu, and {mpr I feir publie service, and thelr subordination to il Lwo_oceans | are, Howover, tho the publie eafoty, ane of the highest civilization of the Old World to n | cnst and west, The space between, apeaking by | TEST OF THE WORKING OF TIEIR INSTITGTIONS, | another and in thelr frecdom thus maintained. placa where it could be free from mixture or | and large, covers the whote Temperate zone of | which the world most valuce, and upon which | Neither could exist in truo vigor in opl} nlsalem collislon with competing or hostilo elemncnts, | the continent, and, In aren, mcasures pear ten- the publie safety most dopends. It has been | without the other, W ithout the \'vn.l(.(_lllu , om- and separated from the weaknees und the hurs | fold the posscesions of the thirteen Colonics. | made s reproach of democratle arrangements of | nipresent, and indomitable coergy t:l uo p;nsa ‘l(ch it would leave behind, The fpulscs | The natuml featurea, the elimate, the produc- | soclety and government that the sentiment of | the suffroge would lunguhgll. wunll e sl ]u; aud attractions which moved the emigrution, | tione, the influences of the outward world, aro | honor, and of pride in publie duty, doeayed in | pated by the corporate power of the cglunrs of and dirccted {t hither, varjous In form, yet bhad -| all implied in them.’ It hins been professed thut the fluctu- | plavemen which the administration of theafl x}lrn 80 much a common cliaracter, 88 to merit the THE IMMENSITY OF TIIS DOMAIN, ating currents and the trivial perturbations of | of a great natlon finpuses upon ity “H"l fall & deseription of belng public, elevated, moral, or | for they embrace all that the guodness and tha | their public lifediscouragud strenunus endeavor | prey to that *‘vost |1ul.r(ml|{|) which,” we are religious, They Included the desire of new and | power of Gud havo plauned for so inrgo a share and insting deyolton i the public survice. It | told, **distracted, m\-rupw." &u\:e. ‘Tho steps of the suc- | has boen charged thatyos o uunsc?nuuco, lie | verted the Ruman Republic.”” On the other cred, oflice | hmnd, 1t the fmpressions of tlio press upon the and mnglstracy were belittled, soclal sympa- | opinfuns aud pussions of the people found no thics cavied, love of country drooped, and sclf- | gettled and ready mode of thelr working out, and thelr tn- | 18h nffection® nbaorbed the” powers of the citl- | through the frequent sad peaceful sullraze, the e otlier; tho | zens, aud cat {uto tho hiearts of the Common. | people would be driven, to satisfy thulr diapleas- ans, the Untholics, nnd the Quakers—the Hurue- | irrepressible contlict thus nursed in the bosom | weatth. 5 ure nt governmen| A nots, the Duteh, and the Walloons—the Walden- | of thie$tate; the lessons In humility and Y““”““fi The experlence of our country rejccts these | Lhe coarse methods of barricadus an bm.wrle‘:. - nong,” | gpeentations ns infsplaced and "these tears as e canuot, then, husitato to declure that the f fea of equul soclety and popular oto | Drovideuco 8o platuly teach us—theso may well | abovo which we huve Tong since been litted, auil | governmcnt sulll Inspiro tho lawsy live ‘i the fonn | Tinbits of the people, nn rought them | And this ealts attention to that incredient tn [ Jifo prolibits a dealie, They aro dmwn from | ANIMATE TUELL PUNIOBES AND TILRIK LODAS, bither, To sever all politieal relatiuns, thon, | the populution of this country which mmr! not | the exwnples of l.\lsl‘ur);: \{lx] L}lt :ixl;,rmll power, ‘l‘lr‘fi;i :;lm.g})ll:; e, but. Teft then jgnorant | clasticity. £iLH BEALIZATION OF TUE PURFOSK tho abject. ““!l‘undfl”{ of Africa. A raco dis- | and aboct, unfurnished with the htnns of ot | ads of government I the past; we feel no fear he converging streoms of | erciaing {t in thelr own rizht and fur thelrown | for thelr ndequncy in the future, Released now ane thing needful to complete this continent for | fmmigration which I have nawed bylneffaceablo | penefit, In o domocracy Wiclded by the arta from the tusks and burdens of the formutive pe- thelr huine, and to glve the nbsoluto sssurance | distinctions of naturc: which Was brought | gud to the cnds of a pateivian clnss, tho lees | riod, these princip of that bigher life Which they wished to lead, | hither by o foreed migratlon and into slavery, | wortly members of that cluss, no doubt, throve | rected with undly whilo all otbiers came by cholco and for groatt | by the disdain which noble’ characters toust | cunduct of governtnont, to the staple and stead: q ufv\mya fecl for methods of decoption and lnsin- | virtues of sdministration. Tho Secblencss ol soll-goygrnment and inyest it with a moral | which lssued the Declaration of Independence, | cerity, and crowded them from the authentle crowding the statute-hooks with unexecuted grandeur which furnished tho bost omens aud | bot now, in the persons of 4,000,000 of our | servico of the State. But, through the perlod | laws; the danger u[flmwcruutgruwlug or_evad- the best guaranteds for ita prosperity. lnstead | countrymen, ralsed, by the power of tho great | whose years wo count to-duy, the greatest les- | ing responsibility; b f all s the 1)r0pul\|}||:ln]|m.a nd pullxllc u\'cj g( ll.'{nlpfil'm“!t ‘exp elng y and r scllish, tendencies ane which partics and rejoleing in one country und the private, of soclal uve % ¥ dia destinotota factione aud it have not lost thelr spring or havo sutliced for ail thlu mZI::Lh- ples and tnethods can be di- ided foree to tho every<lay edlents; theconstant tondency decline into factions sud end in And the glory of beanty still to be, Whore the hannted waves of Asln dle On the straad of tho world-wide seal 112, ‘Tho race, In canquering, Bomo fierco, Titanle Juy of conqueat knows; x Whother In veinn of Sorf o¢ hing, Ourancient blood beats reaticrs In repoge, Clinllenge of Nature unsubdned Awita niot Man's deflant anawer long; For hardship, even as wrongt, Provokes the lnvol-;s ed, herale mood, ‘Phils for hemalf ahe did; but that which lles, Asovor earth tho akies, Blending all forma In ono benignant glow,— Crowned conecienco, tender care, Jdustice, that auswera overy bandman's prayer, Freedom whore Falth may lead or Thought may dare, The Fn\wr of minds that know, Pasalon of hiearts that feel, Purchased by blovd and woe, Guarded h{vllre and steel,— 1inth ghe secured? What blazon on her shield, | In the clear Century's light, Bhines to the world revealed, 4 Declnting nobler thumph, born of Right? n the hubits of the guable In thelr aflections, stoud in thelr play upon one aud finally sub- 1.—3, Poreseen In the vislon of wacen, Foratold whon mariyrs blod, 8ho was born of tha lunging of ages, Ly tho trath of the nobio dead And the faith of tho living fedl No blood In her lghtest velns Frete at remembered chaing, Nor ahamo of bondaze hins howed her heald. In hor forn aurd features still The unblenching Puritan will, Cnvalier ionor, llaguenot graco, The Quaker truth and awectness, And tho strength of the danger-girdled raco Of Holland, blend n a prond completancas. From tho homes of all, where hor being began, Bho took what sho gave to man: Justice, that know no statlon, Hollet, oa ronl docreed, Free alr for nspiration, Freo forca for independont doed? Sho tokes, but mfilw agatn, Aa the sea retuns the rivers Inraing And gathem the chosen of ‘het recd From the hunted of every crown and creed. Tlor Germany dwolls by & gentler iKhine; t or their love of clauge, to o rashness ahd flcklencss 1 1 Iler Ireland soca the old Sunburet shine; glond after the exeention of the King, ond de- | thelf souls, as il tho Great Master lnd found In Au"ustf 1020, 8 Dutch slave-ship landed | and the persistent crnments, and age lmn. of the life of ench geu: | jjor France pursues somo deedm divino termise whether they shiould pe popularor | then foithful uver fow things, and had now | her freyzhit fn Virginia, completing her voyage | fIDELITY 70 Tix OBNIUB AND SPIMIT OF Por- | eration, “bo deal with these evila—tho tasks und | Her Norway keops his mountatn plio; munaschical, unule them rulers over inuny. soon after that of the .\lnylrower cominenced. ULAR INSTITUTIONS, burdens of the Immedinte future—the natlon | Her italy walts by tho Weatern brinu§ THE PIODLEM WAS OO VAST for Cromwell pud the great men who stood nbout him, aod, balting between the only pos- sible O{IIHIUHG. thoy slmply roblied the throne of stubllity,without ?vlug o the people the cholee of thelr.rulers. {ind “Cromwotl assumed tho state and stylo of King, and assigned the con- stitutionn! lmits of prerogative, Lhie statesmon of England would have auticipated the estub- lishment of 1633, and saved tho dls{;ruxcs of the drawn projects. The difference between | tiou from England the soverut Colonles nttracted | gunlight of pub y equality und privilege, betweon elvil | eacl thelr owi emlerution, und from the sparse- | which'warms and lrradintes the Mife of the na- | virague Thicac feellugs, common o the whols popula- | Bth ships wers on the ocaan ut the sunio time, |*of the educated chases, tho Wbern professions, | noeds no uther resources than the principles tlon, wero ot of stidden orlgin_and wers not | souglit our shoren, and plunted thelr seeds of | and thogroat men of the country. 'Phese quali: | and tho uxutuplos of vur pust histury supply. romiuntle, nor had they any teudeney to ovapo- | liberty and slavery to grow tgether on this | tos transfuse and blend tho huce and virtuvs of | Theso principles, theso cxamplos of our fub rato in nolsy boosts or run wild i adr- | chosen ficld until the harvest. Untiltheseparn- | (ho manifold roys of sdvanced civilization futo a | aru the strenyth and the safety of our Stute to- {l\:uplr“- uud forvid patriotism | duy: *.Woribus antiguls, stal res tomans, rlghts and capricious = favors, between | ness of the populatiui, buth {uthe Northornund | tion, Excess of publicity is the sulmsting spirit UNITY, LIABRTY, POWNI, PROSPBRITY, freedom of consclence and persecution | Soutbern Colonies, and the polley of England in | and stimulus of soclety more probably thit its | thesc aro our possessions to<lay. ~ Qur territory for eonsclence’ sake, were not matters of moat | introduclng African sinvery, wherever It might, | lack will excite our solleltudes in - the future, | fg gufe yeninal forelim dengoraj its completi- dobaty, or ubstract conviction with our country- | {n all of them, the (nstitution of slaverydikinot | Even the public discuntents tako on this colur, | ness dissuaes from furthicr ambitionsata extend Aud, broad-based undoe all, Ta planted England's onken-learted mood, As rich In fortitude As ¢er went worldward from tho leland-walll Fused In Let eandld light, T'o ono strong raco il raced here unitot Taongues nelt in hers, hereditary foemen Yorgot thelr sword and slogan, kith and clant "Twan plory, once, {0 ba a Ruman; #ho makens (¢ glory, now, to be a Manl hers, IL=0, fntervening record. If, un the otlier hand, tha | men, Tho stury of thess battles of vur rabe | ruise a dofinite and firm ling of division between | and the mind aud heart of the wholo people | 4t and Its rounded symmotry_discourages all everreemTing consent of the people i vesting | was the warm and llvln;z mewory of thelr fore- | tho tides of population which sut in upon New | ueho with unxlctics and throb with griefs wlich ;,,‘wmmg 10 dlumeml{cr 1t rym’ dlvln“fin nto Dou“tux:lvn';‘zoz‘lr‘:'x'x;nlnn ctown! the Chicf Magistraey had been acvepted for tho fathers' share it them, for whlcu{ 1o avold in- | England and Virginta from the Old World, and { have no meaner scope than the honordnd the | greatly unequal purts would bo tolerable to Ohe hour farget Canstitution of the State, the revolution would | sutferable prievances nt home, they lfad heen | from them later, as from new polnts of depart- | gafoty of tho nation. cither, No fmnginable union of futercsts ot The, p{lory. and recall the debts Thuve been fntelligible, aud ml;iht bave proved | enforced by heaps to leave thelr uative coun- | ure, were dilfused over the Contlnent. The Qur estimato of the condition of this peoplo | passions, lnrge cnough to Include unc-hall the Make expintion, permanent, But what o *Lord Proteetor ” was tries.!? nmicflnl Intoreats of slavery hnd not becomo | at the close_of u contury—ia bearing on the | tountry, but inust embrace much more, The Of humbler mood, nobody knew, and what Lie might grow to bo evcryfivody wondered and fearcd. The nrix- tocricy could ondure nml!lgnhy above them luss than o King's. The people knew the measure and the titic of the chartered Hbortics which had Dbeen wrestul or yielded from thie King's prerog- atives but what the division between them and & Lor® Protectorwould bo no ouc could foreenat, A brief flutterlng between the finnament above aml the flirn earth beneath, with no polaes with efther, and the discordant scheme wes JOLLED AWAY AS A SCHOLL. A hundred years afterward Montesquicu ‘de- rded “this fmpotent effort of the Em%llsh to establish u democrsey,” and divined the truc cause of {ta failure, * The uu{m:mu [>lucc, no longer sacred by tho divinity that doth hedge thout a King, frritated the ambitious to which i waa Inaccessiblo except by faction andvio- lenco. ‘*The Government ‘was incessantly chnngzed, and tho astonfshed people sought for dcmoeracy and found it nuwliers. Alter much violence, and mpny shocks and blows, they wero {ain to fall back upon the same Guvernment they had overthrow,! The English experiment to make n common- wealth wilhout sinking its foundations into the firtu bed of popularsovereignty, ncecssarily fafled. Its example nnd its lesson, unquestioti- nbly, were of tho greatest service in sobering the spirit of English reform n government, to the solid establishment o " constitutionnl monarehy, on the expulsion of the Stuarts, and .+ fu giving} cournge to the statesmen of the Amgrfean Rovolution to push on to the solld establlsbment of republicsn guvernment, with ihe consent of the people us its overy-day worldug force. But If the English experiment stumbled in {ts logle, by not golng far enough, the French phi- Josoplicrs camo to greater disaster, by OVERPASSING THE LINES which mark the Hmits of human suthority and Juman Mberty, when they uudertook to redress the dlsordered balance’ between people and rulers, and renovate the Governimont of Frauce. To tho weath of the people ngainst Kings aud privsts they gve free course, not only to the oyerthirow of the establishment of tha” Chureh and State, but to the destruction of n.'milon and soclety, ‘They defied men, and thought to rlso & tower of man's bullding, as of old, on the plain of Shinar, which should overtop the hattle ments of heaven, and frame a constitution of human aflairs that should displace the provi- denee of God. A confusion of tungues put an end to this ambition, And now out of all its TITRY PROPOSED TO SRTTLE FOREVEN very atrong, awd fu its morld” aspeets no sharp | value and ¢Mclency of the principles on which pusslbly befall then or thelr posterity. They | when unity and independ suro to this end as to solve tho minor diM- | vain for any adequate barrier agalnst the natu- | to measuro the power and purity of the religous The spirit o tlon, and an authentic and deliberate method | Northern populatiun fu thelr hurder cllmsteand | climate, its fertility, By this wisdom thoy at lcast would shift, | jabor to commixture. Out of this grew tho fm- | rudiance of the sun witlin the sphiore of goverument, the continu- | patient, and apparently prematuré, invasion of | preservation of thedel ous warfore of human nature, on the ficld of | the Western wiids, pushing constantly onward, | fur o peoplo cast loose from religion, whereby | natured, wi good andd ovil, right and wrong, it parajlel lines, thio outpoata of thu'two rival mnulg Detween whose endices fax, Justico resldes, ntcrests, What greater onterpriso did for | ermnent of the world, Btate, the rcason of the poople, nud dectdo by | the requircments of the systemn of slave cultl- | thought o volved no pretensions of tho perfection of hu- A WALL OF PARTITION jous zeal and practical guod works In the car tmah nature, nor did {6 asswime that at other | runming east aud west, with the novel conse- | purt of the nincteouth ceutury. But thoso lres | wo royerentl would be, so capable. Thelr knowledge of | the free and siave States. ‘The successive we- | and manifold sgencies of Lenetleent actlvity, | “Tn the Thelr faith taught them” that this corruptible | treaty with Mexlco, woro all {n the interest of | lzatlon, and outrun the caucus, the conventlon, | jubors, und | leas, thoy the other hand, all schemos or tendenvles to- | no political cstablishment, rests ] and ou these {mperishable supports they | nurth were discoupnged aud defeated by tho people wbo lud these living conceptions | forelgn Tnmigrutfon, relnforclng the flow of | in thelr schools, tho Bible in thelr house- willlug to commenee o sysf upon the virtue and vlfiur of the Yunp!c. From | served'thele purposs fu completing and sssur- | our lond, 1s st tho boginniug. What ball o this virtuo and from this vigor 1 rot I thele decay, Thoy traced this vigor and | of bordor States oblfterated; thost who hud | sun rises oh a Sabbath morniig and travels | country, ungpent heat of o lava soll, quickened’ by the | petuation of “slavery, and thiose who foughit | Wil behold the countlcas millions assumbling ua | white of o race supply un unstinted vigor Lo smurk the | slon of our possussluns, us lovsenlig tho tics of | authem will commeucy” with the multitudes on | of the future, virtues of tho immense population and to unon, and those who desired it, us a step to- | she Atlantly Coust, be sustained by the loud Toinotest gonorationn. 0 v e ) ard “dissolyiion, Tuvo ol & oo g | chorua gf 10,000 things 10,000 . tio Valley of ovil have como the salutary checks and dlscipline w ‘The i Al 15 | Shio Misatssfppl, and be prolonged by tha tiou- tho plety of that generatlon will rocall the an- lood | and freodom, which have brought t‘”""""‘"‘" w)’xll‘zh ux]:uli{'lav:}r‘:;ul:‘!}}&?fg‘]{|l;§rel“a‘l’:’«‘fia"‘ ,’Jffl ?:»’lx'.tlu “Whteh the oxistonce of nl:sgrylflu&fl sunds of Hhasods on R ubares of tho Du- wfl:‘.‘filu“‘b‘l" .fl’ (flu‘fl’uflflf !:r:t:;t .{[,&:E ¥§’If3‘ e eits ShsspRaet ] m"bl lcrvl;l gmnfi: wl';lllle lfi’x’:%"m and framo of s | Jiystry a bouk of atioclotes, the iworal warfare | country und the fnvindible repugancs to it of | clie.” Which no tuan iy nuwnber. By thapgpum clre *+Wa lived sud died for theas :,‘:n"h"‘,'",‘c’ n;lxl]lm:m» e ourowny and, e | whiel @ils up the Wfe of mun aud the record of | the principles of our state, together, generated, | What remalns but to search tho cumatances of this periudicity” our generation ) How mueh, then, hung upon the great da wo celnhrutc.'uud u'pan fim wisdom ufl will uyl the men who fixed tho hnmedlate, and, If so, thy preseut fortuncs of this peaple, If tne body, o epivit, tho texture, of our political e it not beon collectively declared on this_ day, who can be bold enoughto say when and how inde- gumlunm. liberty, union, would have been com- incd, contirmed, nssured to this pooplut De- hold, uow, THB GMBATNESS OV OU) DBDT TO THIS AN- OESTRY, and the fountal, as frow s rock smitten in the wilderness, from which the stream of this no- tlon’s growth and power takes its sourco. For it fs not wlono fn the wepmory of thelr wisdom and virtues thist the founders of a Btate truns- mitand perpesunte their influences in ita lusting fortuncs, aud shapa tho character and purposes whaose display u;fmn up the of n uorthiern night. But PREH GOVERKMENT FOR A GHREAT PEOILE Influned ghe zeal, Informed the understandings, never coies frowm or gets uld from such phil- | aod tired the hearte of throe generntlons, Al osopliers. ‘To u Lrue splritunl discernment thepo | lust the droud debute escaped all bounts of rea- | huyve been sunaged, sometlmes wisely u stautia), few thimgs wory likely to enduro in ccn of war, what wua too bord fur clvil wisdom. | al arrangemont of politieal authority, or the this world, than hutnan thoughts, humusn pas- [ With our territory unmutllated, our Constitu- sluns, huwan interests, thus molten into the | ton uncorruptod,’s united peo) ) praclaram, disciplinamgue, quam a majoribus rtal truths of the Declaration aceeplinug, & L tencrennus! 1! 1have made no uceount, us unsuitable to the TIUH EMANOIPATION OF A NACH. the profound radicalism, the wide occasion, of the distribution of the national Iiind, then, In the method and the resultsof the | which spoke du thoe % Declurution ” aud were fie ernmnents, or of the u\:ccl.ul arrangements of ex- | catlon of its Y maln, gure 1[:mm]u.\ ol thoe dura- | beon In ‘\"'"] fuith pdhicred to by phe peoply, ecutlve authorlty, of sislutures, Courts, and | tlonof the body polltie, w of fta future rulers. +* In the birth of socleties,” | Btate establlshments, Collectively, they form | £round-plun of tho s 128 For I find the | ment and socloty. LD TMV\"‘!‘(T&“%’#\:MDHJ .231'.?“"“"" snys Montosquieu, "it is .“‘° chicfs of au:lc the body and fruwe vl a complete ’(‘lu\‘dumpm vital tuerfl of the free sovlety rnd tho people's e who lelbl!l needs bat to look around to = ‘Won fromn n.l'..nn..,{'%y thino clomenta, tlnt muke its fustitutions; and, aftarward, itls | for a great, opulent, and powerful people, oc- | Eovernment, horo founded, have by thelr own | find all things full of the oriizinal eplrit und tes- TOE NATIONAL ODE. "T'o gultle the vagrant schenio, theso l.l'umul.lun that form the chiefs of the cupying vast regions, aud embracing iu ‘amlr vigor mado this their natural growth, Strength | tifying to ite wisdom sud streugth. We have JuLy 4, 1870, And winnow truth from each conitcting dresm| Btato, puséossions a wide runco of cllinate, uf soll, und | and symmetry have knit together the greas | taken bo steps backward, nor huvo wo neoded to 1.-1, Yat In thy blood shall live And whut was this people and what their | of all the clrcumstantial Influcnces of external | frame us its bulk increased, awd tho splrit of tho | sk vther pathis in our progress than thoss In Sun of the statcly Day, Bomalares aupent sinin s primitive tralts and truoing that” could justify this Con- | nature. I have lwluml )l'uur attention to the | nstivn snimutes the whole: which our feet were plauted in the begluning, TLet Asla Into tho shadow drit '{,‘0 :;,::' ‘:‘ m«g lxium‘::e tg hu: n: :. greas of thelr great mea tn promul fnm-g the | principle” and tho eplrlt of the Guy- ~— totamquo, {nfusa por artus, Welghty and uwfllol'i vo been our: obliga- Let Kurope bask In thy Hpened ray, O Peniad ines food of Khiger " profound views uf goverpment ud fluman ne- | centuent for which ol this frume wnd | Mens agitat woluny, ol magnoso, corpore miscet, | tlans to the great uations of thy curth, to their And over the sovering ocean 11t Withbeld the udder aud tho orchatd-fruits, ture which the Declarution embodics, snd ux- | body cxists, to which they ure subservlont, | We turn now from tho survey of tha vast ter- | scholars, thelr philoso hvml tholr men'of gentua o i ot "““:“".',?""""" Fud thee Witk ssvage roats, lmcung thelr sceoptancs o3 “pelf-evidens ™7 | and’ Lo Whoss mustery they iust confori, | ritory, which the closing contury hias consolidat. | 800 of scence, to thoir skill, thele tuste,” tEE | op gy jard et waite to polisla (hee rive And toread 15y Rarater N (11 Larron brenateof low had thefr Jives been disciplined, and how | The Bfe of tho natural budy s the bloud, and | ed uid contirmed us the ample home for a nu- | invention 1o thoir woalth, thulr arts, thute b The gladuves uf moruing land ber, Mani their spirits prepared, that the newslaunched | the circulation of the moral and jutelicetuul | tlon, to exhiblt tho greatucss in numbers, the | dustry. But i the insututions and methods of WILL the triumph of nova attend her, 1. —3, ship, freizhted with all thietr fortuucs, could be | forces and mn}mm of tho budy politlc shapes oplrf , the charncter, the port aud mien of the | government—in civil prudence, courage, or And thie f (he veaper skical O sacrod Woman-Form, trueted Lo thetr guldance, with no other chartor | and molda the nutonal life, I havi toughied, hoaply that dwell fn this sectire habitation, | polley—In statcewnanship, o the art of inukiy Forlo! she cometh now Of the first Paoplu’s uced and passion wrought, tompnas thau thése abstract truthsi What war- | thurefore, upou the traits that deterdined this | That, {n theeo years, our populution bus stewdily | 0f & stoall town a great clty 3 fu the wdjus| With bopo on the lip und pride on the braw, Na thin, pale ghost of (Kuu,‘n rnt'was thers far tho confidenco that upon | butional 11fe, 8a 40 be of, from, aud for the peo- | wivatoed, L) A einants forty millions justead of | ment of suthority 1o tiberty; in the cuncurronce Stronger, sud dearch, und fairer, Duy !m s morning and a8 hicart's blood warm, — Miede plaln precepts of equallty of right, com- | plo, and not of, from, or for any ruuk, grade, | three, bears witiess, not to be dlsparsged oy | ©f roason sud strength in peace, of forew sud To suits on the lovs we beas hot,— Wearing \hy priestly tar on Judab's nm-:l punity of literost, recyroclty Ot duty, a polliy| parly o sectionde thuln. [ thiss traily urd | guinghld, v tho gonchal congrult ¢ of Gt social | obedienco in war, wG have fouud o R A S ey Clear.cyed beneath Atheno's holi of goldi wuld “be framed which might sufcly dlscan ound the “ordinances, constitutions, und cus- | gnd cvil (nstitations with |?xu happinoss | NOTHING TO BECALL US FILOM THIH COURSE OF | 1; tho clofts of n: r‘:):\:u fn':hu":etmlpllul, unr\gflfl:mul!‘::-"of(el:u:'g::nl.fin‘ulnu beat * fi(:\‘r‘x.m{::rfivfi ‘;uln& "s:fih.r:;ugflfrmn:;m:l toms " by o wise cholve of which the founders | and prosperity of man. But §f we consider OUR FATIRLS Wo found hor traces; 1o ‘,,ul,d.,",,n.,. hier leglons polled ; ) b sven, with Eoglish traditions of ness to thelr postority and succession, elemuuts 1o which we have been hospitable, and | ressluite Bu fur from ils, ull moditicutions Ing clrcles all Prlnugenity and due of birth, Aud now, thelr ready fusion with the earlic s of European politics uocept tho populir prine When {he lines of batile broke, T ho sl sin elrcies 2 ath tulile I Trorogutive of age, crowns, aceptres, laurela? APTER A CENTULY OF GROWTH, huve m_-‘:-l {xvl‘:l‘gn::e :f‘.u‘zl]:gu'] ‘ud‘f éltm“ .,::: clples n(vuur systein, md’;end mpg«rur mg’dcl. We maw ber fuce in th flery simoke} Thyuol! uot fre lllll:nl'l one s unu;t To thuse :;lputlr,ua tho answer was ready und | of tetal, of experience, of obscrvation, and ot | fu our population, which we may not refuse to ’l‘f:u ‘moveuicnis toward equality of representa- | Through tall, und lnsllhh&lfld desolatlon, oddess, that as & Nation lives, suflicient.” The delegates to this fminortal we- | demoustrution, we are mnct, ou the spot ud ou | mhmire. The dlsposition and capacity thus | tow, enlargomont of the sulliuge, sud public | \oqp g “"""4"“"' i N""f'"‘ tor Aud 22 a Nation df sembly, speuking for the whole country, and for | toe dats of thepreat Declaration to, compare our | shown give warrant of education Hu Eugland—tho reatortion of unity | Witk gy ,’,":fil"‘mfl (e That for her cf ‘Illfluu 43« ivan defles, iho réspective Colonics, thelr cousiituents, | age with that of our fathers, vur structure with A FOWBLYUL BOCIBTY, fn ltuly—the confeduration of Gormany Who sl fojoico Aud “,'rl"l:'gm renas s smothel Kivenes night well say: ticlr foundutlon, our lutervening blstory und | All nations,” says Lord Bacon, * that are lb- | under ihu lead ol Prusslu—tho sctual Re- With & righteous volce, No more s Chleftatriass, with Wampum-zons ot Lhuat wu dfc, auch ave this peoplo. Woury | pres:nt Sumittion s thele faith uud problieey. | eral of sturaifzation aro the for tmpice.” pubdictn Franco-tho wnsieady throue of' Spuin | pur-beard tirougi o sice, I ot ahet et o b AT .uxym:x-ruxv-s ct pinfun of wankind," ln Wealth (0 ita tuuas, aud still wore tn fta | —the now lbertles of Hungary—iho constan ot the monuca fu dumb that deded hor, No more a uew Britanuls grown ‘We have been deaiéumwd by nu previous ofil- Declaration of Independence, w ek - clal stutlon, taken fromn no one employment or y et oo ckuoul ditiun of a people, which touches both its eners edge aaa seuthnent most it "to lofluenco us in | gy and morality, Wealth bas no source Lot [ polated out in the Decluration of our Indepor Bus will sobascowest oo soudithes 01 life} eluosen from tho poople st | ouf cupimemorutive yrataiutione bo-det hor. 5 Lifo Yias giver norbing” valuail ‘o | Vit Ab, Bark! tho snemy. undertane T e ol ks cambesudy the walimching aye arge, bocunse they cinot ussciabli in per | o thls oplufon of tuanliud) thou, Gow ehall | mian withuut great labor.™ “Thls s 0a triso now | Tho caro and zeat with which our peupio eher | on eviry'wind of bumian slory flawn. thino ownl i 30D, stloc uss they ku senl Hove the vigo oulug of tbls duy! How [ us when [Horsce wrote . The prodigious | fsh und {nvigorats the primary supports and de- AL".‘ divinely.molded Fute mcnufl we theirs, on the ioweutous gues- Aun which gur Jeliberatiows sre 1o declde, They 8 phrasy of tlw | Wielorey o slgual wurk of prosperity, bal € sverylyg s Tho b urtmenm T . PR RGNAR BSOS " - E - nadness of partition Into numercus nnd feoblo proceed only from the hopeless enco of government | and seeurin the pertnnent well-being of 8 na- | degradation of the people, sud would fornt but Enew 10 plan so sfinple, socowmprohicusive, or sv | were aceepted by the Colontes, we shull ook {n | tlon—would, indeed, b Incomplute it we fulled | gy Tocldent In gencral x;'x,un.‘ A hiehest il the natlon 1 at Lo highesi cultfus 0 the government of soclety by o radical | ral attractlon of the softer cltmate and rich pro- | elements which prevade nnd elevato our soclety. | trimnph over the fnborn, Inbred perils of its basls for Its source, a common licld for It opora- | ducrtons of the South, which could ket the | One might us well cx}lcv:t our land to keep it | Constitution has clinsed away all fears, justified tg snlubrity, and It beauty | a}) hopes, and with universul joy we %n:et this for consulting nnd enforclug the will of the | on thelr less grateful soll, except the repug- | were the elobo loosened from “tho law swhich | dny, We have not proved unworthy u puople as the sole authority of the State. nancy of the two systems of freeund stave | holds it in an orbit, whera wo feol the temperd | pytcetry; wo have had the virttie to upheld o e o, no tho | what tliey so wisoly, so firmly established, "With ighits and glories of Wborty | thiesc prond [puueunlnm of tiie ;lml, with powers th princlples sottled, with hobits bound In harmouy with tho mioral fov- | formed, the nation pusscs as it wero from tho ?:wsliun whether guch grievances should | divisfon of sentitnent had ?'utalwwn ftagll. But | the Government was founded, In malutalning | fragments could preparatory growth to responaible development from conflicts of the strength of the many | the Northern pooploin stimulating this move- | * It ia quite certatn that tho present doy shows | of “charucter and the steddy gmrlm'nmncu uguinat the craft of the few, They wonld gafi | hient wus more than supplied to the Bouthern | no such solemn absorptionintheoxalted themes | of duty. What lubors awalt I, what i advantago of supplying as tho reason of the | by the pressing neecssity for new lands, which | of cunmmrlnuve plety, us marked the prevalent | trials hail - attond it, what trlumphs for the peoplo a hundred yenrs agoj nor | human nature, tho moral and intollcctual {nfuences of nstruc- | vation Imposed. Under the oporation of these | so hupeful an cuthusiasm for the speedy Feno- | gre prepared for this peoplo” i "the coming cen- tlon and persuastot, the fssue of who should | causes the politieal divisions of the country | vatfon of the world, as Lurat upon us i tho | tury, wo moy not aasiin to furctell. ' One manke and who administer the daws, This in- | bullt up marvelous und wide systom of velemont mnFy- gencration passoth uway, and anuthor gonoro- tlon comoth, but the carth abideth fureyer, and I{{ liope that thess qur conatituted times, or under other clrcumstances, they would | quences of the *barder States ™ of tho toun- | sroless splondld berties shinfl be maintained to ths uncuding themselves have been cupuble of sclf-govern- | try being ranged, not on our forelgn boun- ONLY BEOAUBR THEY AIlB MORE POTENT, line of our posterity and mout; or, that other peoplo then wert, or ever | darles, but on this middle e, drawn betweon | and diifuse their lieat du well formed habits | go Lona A8 TILE EANTIL ITSHLE SHALL ENDURN, d 5":!1% procession of natlons, in the great mankind showed them that there would be | quisitions of turritory, by the Loufsiuva pur- | Thoy traverse und perincate soclety i every (i~ | march of humanity, wo hold our place, Peace faults and crinics 80 long na there wero men. | chase, by the annexation of Texas, and by thg | rectfon, They travel with the outposts of civi- | i3 our duty, ’fn?uzlfl ;,m- ;}ulh:y. htll ‘:, arts, lu, victories, then, wa find scopo for would put on incorruption only when ths | Southern policy, ond, ns such, all suspected or | unt the suilrage. all our energles, rewards for all our ainbitiomw hortal should put on laiortallty. " Neverthio- | reatsti by, theorival Intorest fh tho Noreh. On | . ‘Tho Chiurcly thronghout this land, upheldby | yanown “onenltTor all our love and famo, T thu firmier | the wugrust presence of 80 many nations, which, UELIEVED IN BMAN AND TIUSTED IN 0OD, ward tho enlurgement of our territory on the | on the rovk on which ita founder bullt it. Thio | by thefr ropresentatives, have donp us tho henor greut mass of our countryion to-day find In | to be witneases of our comtnemorative joy and thought they might rest clvil government for a | Bouth, At length, with the fuinenso Influx of | the Bible—the Bible in thelr worship, the Bible qmtulnuun, and iu sight of the collectad cvi- { i e iions leasone of the. fear ol |cnlccu ‘?[( !Lh;; grentness of thc'lrhnwin civilization wrought into thelr own characters aud lves, pulation, the streums of free labor shot | Nolds—the sullicien with which they grace our celebration, we ina; T pust aud present are the ouly meaus by Doross the’ continent. Tho ud was reachod, | God und the lovo of mun widch make | well confess how mateh o £l short, liow rou which Jonu foruaveaand sliupes the fature. Upon | Thie bounds of our bLubiiation was seeured, | them obedicut soryautato tho freo coustitution | wy Luve to make up, 38 the emulative competh- the evidutieo of th pust, tho contemplation’ of | Tho Paclile posseasions becamo ours, aud thio | of thelr ewntry, tn ull clvil dutles, and rewly | tions of tho imes. tho present of this peoplu, our statesmen were | discovered gold rapidly peopled them from tho [ With their lives to sustuln L ou the ficlds of | ana with n Just deference to the age, tho power, fem which must e | lives of frew lnbor. ‘Tho rival energics and am- | war. And now, ot the end of 100 years, the | the greatness of tho other natfons of the carth, tinualty druw, for its siatonsnce and geowth, | bitiung which had fed tho thirst for forritory hud | Christian falth coliccte it worshipora thiroughout | we do do ot fear to uppeal to the opinion of {Ic maukind, whother, as wa' point to our land, our can nlony bo | Ing the domainof the natfon, The purtition- | contury ago was hopefully prophesied for aur | people, und our laws, the contemplation shoutd nourished; It must decline I their deeling and | will of slivery was thrown down; the ling | far futursgocs on ta lts futtillment: As tho | fiot nspirc us with o lover's enthusiasm for our virtuo to inexhuustible spriugs. And, as the | battidd for territory, 18 an extenslon aud per- | westward from Newfoundlaud to Oregon, ho | “‘Tln¢ makes no pauses in bfs march, Even cak the last hour of tho receding is retirning suimers, througa tho vintags of o | agalnst its enlargement, ua o disparagement and | If by 8 comuon Lupulse It the Lewples with | roplaced by the lirst hour of the comlng centuiry, housand years, will' still giow in the grapo and | o danger o liberty, were aliko confounded. | whith overy valloy, mountaln, and plaln will be | and revarduco for tho Pm gives way to the spurko fn the whie, so will thu cxuberunt forees | Those who feared uidue and precipitato expan. | adorued. Tho morning pealm and the evening | and hopee, the activit A NIUNDIBD YEARS HENOR hils race Beciis us nureal and alwless us the con- | have had thelr play upon the passtons and the SPIIT OF TR LAWS OF TIE LAND 111 by i tho minds, Jn the hearts, on the lips of fiicts of the glittering hoste HRU" an olry fleld, | fnterests of this I‘L{qun buve fortued the basts | aa frumed by and modeled to tho popular Gow :;ur mumry‘r’nellnu'lgu next cl:‘nunmu gm{ coting splendors | of partics, divided sects, sgltated and invigor- | ernment to which our fortunes wero canmitted | emoration in comparison with their own char ated the populur mimd, ingpired the cloguencs, | by the Decluration of ludependence 3 1douot | aetor and condition, and with the grest founders ‘micin to examiue the partlenlzr leglalation, Stats-| of the nation. What ahall they suy of usf How t | or geucrul, by which tio affairs of the ‘fc:\gll]a ?,1:1': uu‘; mun:‘m nm‘ part we bear ‘n x.adun. W {U ng of o nation'’s yresa! Ll aru fow thinga wore real, few thlngs pore sub- | 8om and Wie nutlon naruis solved, h{ the up- | at others feohly und lllinun.-vun the fundamonts on, m':]m Joog reach of l.lmg:r%ruvcr -mil torl: vl eyer, our place [u the sccular roll of ages wust critleal trestwsent of great juuctures I our | piways brfog us uto observation and critlcism, lo, In the last | polley and history, The hour'and the oceasion | Undor this double trust, then, from the past frawe ond model of our Btate. O morem ]vcun of thu centyry, crowns with now fln‘? the | convur to preclude so intlmate an dnquiry, The | and for tha futus BB 0 de- | ehlol concern fu this regard, to us and to the | g s pendenco by Feat of tho world s, whaiir'tho proud frust st o Haes Eocyel AT be et enovolencs, | duwn through the zenerations, the home of liberty, the aboda of nghold of fulth among men, 06 Erowtl to these | and whother now these principles ‘supply the | ogether,” and ?;&ufi‘{uu(lf mun(llughl é‘h ‘fi:m ‘ ¥ e ¥ cf & 7 Bugmnwlcnl Whicther of the goncral or of Lho | vust ymsmmuun lm,ln- {'ct-but luid out the | living forues which sustain aud direct ‘uvru- wf;h :;'m‘."w:ow" odyw o A ruct poner botween the Generud und the State Guy- | century's nr(:t:rcau of tho uation tn this smplifl- | fused fnto the * Constitution ® ut the first, haye &’.m,m the etro o *which Lolds th of States muy, Lord Lacon says, “sow great- | further o varkty and muguitude ot forclgn | nothing to add to our sufcty or o old our prog- | g the I.\ll‘l;,.lln s crusl of woods that fall, . ' heur uttention L0 vrhich our wtatcamen (ramed the | tonure and ditfusion, is's wessure of tho cou- fi:u;fio:“:u';fiff"‘fll'u“fifi"gn 0 osetei Tl douit o dead (kb dubled Kote . - ot ionl u v—al! l » rand Buccey of the coutitry 4 c : ‘ crelgy £ cuwported with Wi gousdin country's war- | growth of wealth fu this country la not unly‘ feusca of thelr own mvmlbuz&mva sil the uo- q"'"“"”‘a‘x'lifli‘ifi'-}'ififlfl"’” of 8 Btats, rutu let us tako hecd to our ways, For the pride of thine oxultation O'er peril catiquered and ntrife subducd?l lllu,';‘lellf tlh:: dgh;. Ilsdtv{culedfl 'n yictory ylelds her prize, Aad it the marrow teated " Whon old endurance dies. In the slght of them that luve thee, Bow 1o the Grenter nbove theo! Ho fatloth not to emite The jdle uwnerahip of Right, Nor spares Lo slnciva fresh from trinl, And virtiie schaoled In long denial, The tenls that await for thea In larger “erlln of prosperity, Hero, &t the Contury's nwlh{ shrine, oW to thy Futhors* God, ud thiue{ agreat I.—4, Dehold! ahe bondeth now, ITambling the chaplet of her ‘hundrod yoars; There 18 u solemn sweetness on her brow, And In her cyes nre sacred tears, Cun she forget, In prenun(h‘\u‘v. llmfimrdvn of her debt, When for a cuptive raco She graudly stakod and won Theo total protnise of lier power begun, And bured hot bosom's grace To the shurp wound thiat fuly tortures yet? Can shie forgot The mililon gravea ker young devotion set, "' fiunda that clasp nbove From cither alde, in sad, returning love? Can sho forgot, Here, where the Huler of to-day, Tha Cltlzen of 10-niorrow, And eqnal thousands, to rejulce and pray Busida thieae hioly wolloare met, Hler birth-cry, mixed of keeuest bljss and sarrow? Whete, on July's immortal norn & d“'l:m l‘or‘fl:. :En Peoy ‘lie lm’]?nrmfld‘. dead, nd alivuted to tho world: **The Klng is dea 3 Rut lo! the Helr Is lmrnl" = ‘When fire of Yauth, and suher trust of Ago, In Farner, Soldier, Pricst, and Suge, Arose and cast upon hor Bapt!smal garnionts, —never rohes 8o falr Clad Prince fn Old-World alr,— Tholrlives, thelefortuues, and theirsacred honor! Wl what _glory for ftself, ot, ¢even In thia prescuce, 1, 4. Atisa] Recrown Ly head. Radlant with blssing of the hondt Bear from this haltowed placa e prayer that puslios thy Hpm, The lght of courage thut defies eclipae, The roso of Man's tiow morulng on thy facal " Lot no fconoctast Inyada thy rising Pantheon of the Past, Ta make a blank where Adaus stood, Ia toueh the Futhor's sheatlied uhd eucred blade, poll crowns on Jotles and Frankhn tald, Or wash from ¥reedomn’s feot the stulu of Lincola's JU; es nud tho rwponnbdu{; We greatly dared that thou might'st be E?_ lrgm thy childeen “mg : We claim dosilale which at laat fulgll, And froodom yloldod to prescrve thes free! Beside cloar-hearted mrm. 'hat amiles ot Power's uplifted rod, aa nt Dutlos that reuto, i nd Order thai sustains, upon thy sof "And standl I atainlosk izl Above all self, end only lcas than God I'* il ~1, Hetre may ‘hy solemn challenge end, Alproving Past, aud each discordunce dlo 0Of doubtful angury, Or In one choral with tho Prescnt blend, And that lialf-heard, sweet harmony Of geimnething wobler that our sons miy seed "Mhougl poiguant memorics byrn Of days that werd, and may again mmrgv . ‘aods, led to-day, resolve that the long lino of the advaucin When thy fleet fuat, O tuntross af the “I'bu alippery brinks of danger knew, Aud gl the oyeslglit grow 4 I Toer call; Couwpict uf high, LFolg hoatts sud wills, ‘To spread au e:hull Lanuor to the bresze, And {4 thy trident o'er tise dudble acas; ) 1113, Yook py 100k Lok, and cat Fal Aro waltin) ¥or koener sty Pluck them W"%‘;:h“ onk ol There's light In the Thio clonda aro parting, the o I’re,mrc for tho work of the 0w thy pastures llo Al fa thy shepherda atray, And the fieldaof thy vaat domain for iine [ "Toll watchful and Maatrong, nnd fear no foat Tie Just and the Warld ahal] know! th tho samo love love s, an wo givej And tho day shall never come, 'I'hat fifde na wenk or domb Ta Joln, and smite, and e; In the great tank, for th And the greator task, for thea to llve! t in gonox day’ nrer recd Of knowted e o ealre, and deed, A and mellower rafn{ Itut kaop thy gatinunta puro: hnck, with tha old disdaln, From tauch of the handa that staint Bo ahall thy atrength enduro, Transmnta into good tha gold of Galn, “"}F"l to heauty thy ruder powers, 11 the Luniity af coming hours Shatl plant on thy ficlds apart, the roso of Aril kcep ns so: eu to dle, Darann TaTrOR. JUDGES' AWARDS. HOME SPECULATIONS, Spectal Dispaich to The Tribune. PituAveLrnia, 'a., July 4.—The Contennial climax hos beon attalned by a fAitting and appro- priate celebratfon of the national holiday, and the Exposition, with its hosts of visitors, cxhibs ftors, managers, &e., has gone back to the lovel of cveryday Contennlal existence. The pros peettve nction of tho Jadges keeps up a ripple of excitement in the crowd that broadens into a wave of anxlety among some of the exlibltors, notably tho sewing-machine companles, It Is Just as well, for the satisfaction of all, thst thers arc to be no lutormediste awards. One might s to be damned From what can be gathered of varlous u‘vlnlonu, and from all * stirface indications, ! well get wvothing us with faint pratse, hore I3 scareely a doubt that the veteran rociplent of awards and honors,~tlnt_culmination of corpo- rate mugnlficence,—the Wilson Sewing-Machinoe Company, will cnrr{ [ A has exceeded th fI the prize, Thelr d(splnr of any similar one, und although this does not make or mar the ‘merit of their mnchlneli the fact that per it s sinply an {ndication of fection in one department of their business argucs nprmfimntu porfection In ] all others, Mauy peopl the Wilson establ bo glad to see Scwing-Machine Come any tho rociplents of Contennfal onors, not_only because wo bellovo thelr ma chine perfect; or'as nearly 8o as material comble nations can be, but because there s no othor coxr poration of equal wealth and power that dls! tributcs .fta copltal and_its responsibliitica so unsellighly and wisely, We'know whereof we nmrm‘ huving visited thelr magnificent Westorn sliment, and scen for oursolves tholr un- paralleled enterprise and Hborality, CHICAGO. IN BRIEF. TIE DAY WE OBLEDRAYHD, The Centennial Fourth, like the hundred Fourths which precoded ity has passed into . Lis- tory. Naothing of it remalns to-dny, so far as Chieago {s concorned, save a large number of headaches, the smoldering rulns of a few smalle sized conflagrations, an ocensional thumbiess hand, and o general fecling of used-upness, A hundred years hence, the Carter IL or the George Francls Traln of 1070 may search the files of Tur TRIDUNE of the cenlury previous to ascertain how the then balf-milllon popula- tion of Chicago colebrated the first Centennial of tho nntlon's existence for the purpose of Instituting a kind of Plutarchian comparison hes tween the days that were and the days that are, Then Chieago will have a popu- Intion of probably 5,000,000; and they will be Just a8 nnxfous to kuow hutv the Chicago of. 1870, with its hatf-million of souls, celebratpd the day as the latter took pride In knowing how the first Fourth of July was engtnecred in Inde- pendence Ilall, just 100 years ago, and they will do just na Chicago did yestorday. Sluce the War, the averago Chicagonn has tale en comparatively little Interest in * the day wo colebrate,” Why, Isonoof those conundrums that no follow can find out. The Chicago calendar Is wofully barren of red-lotter days. Year In nnd year out ho plays the role of a commercinl Wandering Jew. Ie 15 always on the. go; i perpetually looking after Lusinces; fs totally absorbed in buying or sclling, Probably th the year on whicl congregates are thost Whito = Stockinis Bln’ on the Twenty-third street grounds. On thost only dn{a in the Qhleagonn on which “the oceaslons he-aggregates "t\mr. ‘Is offeret other opportunit: uito Inrgely. On ever m%\' o hol(dsg o betakes himsclf to himself, and kecps out o the way of any unity in nn{nqunt.. Yesterdny was no cxeeption, With a patriot ism that {8 nowhero elsa manifested, tho Chica to style. Il¢ didn't celebrate na n compouen! finnn celdbrated the Fourth In bis own Inimits P art 0f Chicago or na an Amerjenn citizen, Ht simply celobrated to uul} himaclf, Ho wont oul ) on the Inke, cither with 18 wife or sweetheart! T took the traln the nightbefore for the “ rurs districts} " ho borrowed's flshing-rod, bought ¢ dimo's worth of minnows, and sat on thy breakwater or onona of the plers all duzlm\g fn the burnlog aun, and dldn't catch a flg R crambulated around towny and at accaslona Exmmu drank to tho health of the American lo; he rolled a string of ten-pins: Ei lnfimchcd the fvories to tho extent of three ot four games sandwiched with the seductive and yet hugely {ntoxicating ruth-punch, But he dld ot march In procession; he poaitively refused to keop step to the tapping of the splrit-stirring drum, Ie would bo blessed first before e would stand in a crowd, and laten to the read- tng _of the Declaration of Independence, or Washington’s Farewoll Address. AN that kind of businesa he left to our German and Irish fellow-citizens. Thoy had a monopoly of it, mul hie was peefectly willing that they ahould muke all they could out of it But to our muttons. THE DAY WAS USHEIED IV with the usunl pyrotechnic pandemonium, Fire- craclers, plataly, dnd g‘uupowdnsr did thelr level beat to et the llm& Fourth had arrived. Ing the night and ecarly morning it ng city know that tho m.wn.hmndmlf that dur- hod rafned cousldernbly, the ardor of the boya wos not dwnpened.” They folt that 1t° wae not sud_dauphiters, strolled mleeul‘] rudo boys armet endenvoring to aang, ond danced, of dolng at and sl h’lg with reference together with ex 116 went in crowds, fu the wee of rob them of thelr time-honored perquisite. **No sleeping allowod n this vicinity™ was thelr motto, and ono 18 construtned to ‘say that tho ln‘;mcuun was pretty thoroughly cortied out, lia fursncon was tool pud cloudy, but as the liour of noon approuched, the clouds dispersed und the sun shone out quite gencrously. Aund thien camo both an cbb and fow in the” humun tide. - Tho forcuoon tralns brought in vast quantitics of unsuspeoting Urangers, thelr wives the olmauts to Linked band o hand, they throuPlt tho streets, dodging with pl which thoy ecarclessly dlacbnr;i belug run over by the uui car; staring ot show-windows, and when tired with their utals amd fro-crackors, ed; avolding amoed street- wanderings, fruftlcssly ik tholr wiy unalded to the [ thofr o raflwny dopot, whence they were Lo taku the re- turn traln. Buch was the How. Thoebb was all ou the sida of the Chicagoan, He got out of town as foat 08 he could,” e wont to the parks at the city lmita. He visited Evanston, Wau- kegan, Dosplaiues, Hyde Park, and elsewhere. s stcainers wor londed down to the gustds with Hving frolght, some of the cotnponont parts of which tried to dance to the music of sinall bands, and fatlod, beeguso thy squecze was too great, it fun. Tho Gernaus wont to nd lm. thoy called o groves, and d drunk becr, and dfd just sbout what they bave bLeen o the hubit shooting, turning, festivals. Tho Irish elemant (fu- dulged A big parado, fu Which thoy werejus- ststéd by the couutrymen of Ponfatowskl. {Iu the aftornoon and evoning the Becond Regiment fiuvu a concert und exhibitlon at the Bxposition ullding. 1he theatres, a8l alwuys tho en.udm holldays, (£ the weather bo a land-oflice busincss, ‘The dei boonied with querring froquency uway futo the night, and tmade timurous woinen quake with fear, and the dull, yot noble car-lorse champ tho bt with warlike energy. Taken all in all, it may be safd that thu colebration wus mois Lhonored {n the breach thau In the observance. s at all propitious, did ullly ll.‘an;:kt‘l‘ RELIGIOUS S8ERVIOES, PLYNOUTH CUURCIL Tho Centennial unlun servi cs on tho South Bido yesterday were beld at 9 a. m. in Plymouth Church on Michigan avenuo, ucar Twenty-sixth strect, about 800 persous bolng presont. The Hev. Arthur Mitchell, pastor of tho Frst Prex byterian Church, presided, and the hour lmited fonthe mecting was well takon up by remarks pruyer, aud efnging. Tho character of the ro marks was, of vourss, ln uulson with tho o caslon, sod the duties of the Chardt the present Ll condtion of affajrs were largely dwelt u mll‘ rosaions of lmnkaalvtnfi 1 thero was such s hopelul future for the I e Bpeclal and frequens allusions were wadt 10 Prosideut Liucol emanupating the pulr his great vecurd It BEIVLER Wies 2