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Let us, upon this field where they, the brave, Their last lull measure of devotion gave, Highly resolve they have not died in vain 1 That, under God, the nation's latter birth 01 Freedom, and the People's gain Of their own Sovereignty, shall never wane And perish from the circle of the earth !" From such a perfect text, shall Song aspire To light its faded fire, ; And into wandering music turn ; Its virtue, simple, sorrowful, and stern? | His voice all elegies anticipated : For, whatso'er the strain, We hear that one refrain ; "We consecrate ourselves to them, the Con secrated !" 11. After the thunder storm our heaven is blue ; Far off, along the borders of the sky, In silver folds the clouds of battle lie, With soft, consoling sunlight shining through; And round the sweeping circle of your hills The crashing cannon-thrills Have faded from the memory of the air ; And summer pours from unexhausted foun tains Her bliss on yonder mountains : The camps are tenantless, the breastworks j bare: Earth keeps no stain where hero-blood was poured: The hornets, humming on their wings of lead, Have ceased to sting, their angry swarms are dead, And harmless in its scabbard, rusts the sword! 111. Ob, not till now —oh, now we dare, at last, To give our heroes fitting consecration ! Not till the soreness of the str fe is past. And Peace hath comforted the weary nation! So long her sad indignant spirit held One keen regret, one throb of pain unquelled, So long the land about her feet was waste, The ashes of the burning lay upon her, We stood beside their graves with brews abased, Waiting the poorer mood to do them honor ! They, through the flames of this dread holo caust, The patriot's wrath, the soldier's ardor, lost: 1 hey sit above us and above our passion, Disparaged even by our kenan tears Beholding troth our race, perchance, may fashion In the slow judgment of the creeping years, We saw the still reproof upon their faces ; We heard them whisper from the shinning spaces: "loday ye grieve; come not to us with sor- 1 row ! W ait for the glad, the reconciled To morrow! j Your grief but clouds the ether where we dwell : Y our auger keeps your souls and ours apart; But come with peace and pardon, all is well! And come with love, wc touch you, heart to heart!"' IV. Immortal Brothers, we have heard! Our lips declare the reconciling word: tor Battle taught, that set us face to face, The stubborn temper of the race, And both, from fields no longer alien, come, To grander action equally invited, — Slarshalled by learning's trump, by Labor's drum, In strife that purifies and makes united ! We force to build the powers that would de- i •stroy: Ihe muscles, hardened by the sabre's grasp. Now give our hands a firmer clasp; We bring not grief to you, but solemn joy 1 And, feeling you to near, I.ook forward with your eyes, divinely clear, To some sublimely-perfect, sacred year, \1 hen sons and fathers whom ye overcame Forget in mutual pride the partial blame, And join with us, to set the final crown Upon your dear renown, — The People's Union in heart aod name 1 V And yet, ye Dead ! —and yet Our clouded uatures cling to one regret; We are not all resigned To yield, with even mind, Our scarcely-risen stars, that here untimely set. We needs must think of History that waits For lines that live but iu their proud begin ning— Arrested promises and cheated fates— Youth's boundless venture and its single win ning, We see the ghosts of deeds they might have done, The phantom homes that beaconed their en deavor ; The seeds of coantless lives, in them'begun, 1 hat might have multiplied for us forever ! We grudge the better strain of men That proved iteelf, and was extinguished tben- The field, with Btrength and hope so thickly sown, Wberefrom no other harvest shall be mown ; For all the land, within its clasping seas, Is poorer now in bravery and beauty Such wealth of manly loves and energies Was given to teach us all the free man's sa cred duty! VI. Again 'tis they, the Dead , By whom our hearts are comforted. Deep as the land blown murmurs of the waves The answer cometh from a thousand graves: "Not so ! we are not orphaned of our fate! Though life were warmest and though love were sweeteet. We still have portion in their best estate; Our fortune is the fuire&t and com pie test! Our homes are everywhere; our loves are set In hearts of man and woman, sweet and ver nal ; Courage and Truth, the children we beget, Unmixed of baser earth, shall be eternal. A finer spirit in the blood shall give The token of the lines wherein we live — Unselfish force, unconscious nobleness That in the shocks of fortune stands unsha ken— The hopes that in their very being bless, The aspirations that to deeds awaken ' Oh, if superior virtue ye allow BEDFORD, PA FRIDAY. JULY 23 1869. To ns, be sure it still is vital in you — That trust like our lift the brow, Aud strength like ours shall ever steel the sinew! We are the blossoms which the storm hes i cast From the Spring promise of our Freedom s ' tree, Pruning its overgrowths, that so, at last, Its later fruit more beautiful shall be ! j Content if, when the buim of l ime assuages The branch's hurt, some fragrance of our lives Id all the land survives, And makes their memory Bweet through still expanding ages! 1 ' MI. Thus grandly, they we mourn, themselves console us : Aud, as their spirits conquer and control ns, j We hear from some high realm that lies be yond, The hero- voices of the Past respond. ; From every State tbat reached a broader | right . Through fiery gates of battle; from the shock Of old invasions on the People's rock ; From tribes that stood, iu-Kirgs' and Priests* despite; * •• From graves, forgotten in the Syrian sand, ; | Or nam '<-ss barrows of the Northern strand, Or go.ges of the Alps and Pyrenees, : Or the dark bowels of devouring sea3 — Wherever Man for Man's sake died--wherever Death stayed the march of upward-climbinj feet, Leaving their present incomplete, Bat through far Futures crowning their en deavor, — . Their ghostly voices to onr ears are senf, As when the high note of a trumpet wrings ; -Eolian answers from the strings Of many a mute, unfingered instrument. ; Platmau cymbals thrill for us to-day; I The horns of Sempach in onr echoes play, • And nearer yet, and sharper, and more stem, The slogan rings that startled Ban nock burn; Tiil from the field, made green with kindred deed, The shields are clashed iu exultation Above the dauntless nation, That for a continent has fought its Runny mede! VII r. 1 eg, for a continent! The heart that beats V ith such rich blood of sacrifice Shall from the topics, drowsed with languit heats, To the blue ramparts of the Northern ic< Make felt its pulses all this young world ove! Shall thrill, and shake, and sway Each land that burgeons iu the Western da-. Whatever flag may float, whatever shield msy ; cover! With fuller manhood every wind is rife, In every soil are sown the seeds of valor, Since out of death came forth such boundliss life, Such ruddy beauty out of anguished pallor! And that war-wasted arm Put forth to lift a sister-land from harm, Ere the last blood upon the blade was dried, Shall still be stretched, to shelter and to guide, Beyond her borders, answering the need With counsel and with deed. Along the Eastern and the Western wave- Still strong to smite, still beantiful to save! ! IX. Thus, in her seat secure, W here now no distant menaces can reach ler, At last in undivided freedom pure, She sits the, unwilling world's uticonscous teacher : And. day by day, beneath sereuer skies, The unshaken pillars of her palace rise, The Doric shafts, tbat lightly upward press, And hide in grace their giant massiveness. V\ hat though the sword has hewn each ow ner stone. And precious blood cements the deep found ation ? Never by ether force have empires grown; I From other basis never rose a nation! For strength is born of straggle, faith of doubt. Of discord law, and freedom of oppression; We hail from Pisgab, with exulting shout, The Promised Land below us, bright with sun. And deem its pastures won, Ere toil and blood have earned us their pos session ! Each aspiration of our human earth Becomes an act through keenest pangs of birth ; Each force, to bless, must cease to dream, Aud conquer life through agony sup-eme ; Each inborn right must outwardly be tested By stern material weapons, ere it stand In the enduring fabric of the land, Secured for those who yielded it, and those who wrested! X. This they have dooe forus who slumber! here— Awake, alive, though now so dumbly sleeo- t 'ugl •Spreading the board, but tasting not its cheer, I Sowing, but never reaping;— Building, but never sitting in the shade Of the strong mansion they have made; Speaking their word of life with mighty tongue, But hearing not the echo, million voiced, Of brothers who rejoiced, From all our river vales and mountains flung! So take them, Heroes of the songful Past! Open your ranks, let every .shining troop Its phantom banners droop, To hail Earth's noblest martyrs, and her last Take them, 0 Fatherland! Who, dying, conquered in tby came; And, with a greatful hand, Inscribe their deed who took away thy blame — Gire, for their grandest all, thine insufficient fame! Take them, O God! our Brave, The glad fulfillers of Tby dread decree ; Who grasped the sword for Peace, and smote to save, And, dying here for Freedom, died for Thee! OKATKKI BV TUE UO.V O. P. JUOK TU3, Delivered at the Dedication ol the Gettysburg Monument, July 1,1869. When the monument we are about to dedicate shall have crumbled into dust; when '.he last vestige of this cemetery shall have been obliterated by the hand of time; when there shall be nothing left of ail we see now bat the hills, the valleys, the streams, and the distant mountains, the great battle which here took place, with its far-reaching consequence.-, will stiil live in history. Na tions have their birth, youth, maturity, old age, and death; and our?, though we call it eternal, and our institutions immortal, will be no exception. Bat though nations must pass a ryy, and nil physical evidence of their existen lie lost, yet may tb.-y live through atf cime, in the brightness of their example?, in the glory of their deeds, aud in the b&ieficeoee of their iostitutvns. Those a>e ; the inheritances they may leave to the fr --! coming centuries. !When the pyramids of Egypt shall have sunk to the level of the Nile; when the last remnant of Grecian architecture, the last in j scribed block of marble, shall have perished, j una will stiil road of Moses and the Pass of j Thermopylae. Monuments, after ail, are | but for the present, and may only instruct a few generations. But a glorious deed is a joy forever. Six years ago, day after tomorrow, the I nion army was stretched along these bights iroui <_ ulp g Hill to Round Top—a human . breakwater, against which the great tidal { * ave °f Rebellion was that day to dash in vain, an 1 be thrown back in bToodv spray and uroken billows. The Rebel chieftain, flushed ' by his success at Fredericksburg and , Chancellors* ille, forgetting that bis tri- ] umphs bad aiiscn from the fact that he Lad ought upon his own soil, behind natural {fastnesses, having the advantage of choice |r>f portion and knowledge of the country, had insolently crossed the Potomac, and in vaded the lojal State of Pennsylvania. But i • roni this invasion he was to be hurled back in bloody defeat, and in disordered flight to recross the Potomac, never again to set foot upon the soil of a loyal State. On yonder high ground across the plain was drawn out in battle array the Rebel host. It was an open field; the terms were nearly equal, and steady Northern valor, animated by the love of country, was to meet the boasted Chivalry of the South fighting for Slavery, sweep it from the field, strip it of its meretricious plumes, and give the Confederacy a fata! wound. It is the solid qualities of men and nations win in the long run. The chivalry of false pride, the arrogance and vanity of a favored class, whose elevation is only seen by the depression of other?, may by spas modic a time dazzle the eyes of the world, but cannot long maintain a suc cessful contest with truth, justice, and the strength of free institutions. This was illus trated in the war of the rebellion, and in the battle of Gettysburg. This battle was not won by superior strategy or military genius, although managed with great courage and skili by Gen. Meade and his subordinate commanders, who left nothing undone that the occasion seemed to require, and who made the best use of the forces and op portunities at their command. It was a three days battle, with varying for tunes the first and second days, in wbich the I steadineis of Northern valor, animated by the convictions cf a just cause, and the love and pride of a great free country, finally wore out, bore down, and swept from the field the Rebel masses, composed of men of equal physical courage, but whose moral power was impaired by the absence of tbat strong conviction of the right, which is a vast element of success. In yonder cemetery among the white tombstones, "where heaves the turf in many a molder!ng heap" over the buried genera lions of the hamlet, was planted the ar tillery, whose fearful peals woald have! aroused the slumbering dead, were it not j ordained that they should awake only at the sound of the last trump. Just behind the j crest of the bill, in the old cemetery, stood j the tent of our glorious commander, the im perturbable Meade, calmly dictating hi- 1 j orders, while the storm of shot and shell I Sew over and around him. From yonder steeple, south west of the village, the Rebel chieftain surveyed the field, directed his host, and from time to time saw his advancing columns reel and wither, and finally retreat in bopeles- flight and confusion. The flow er of the Rebel army had been chosen for the a--au!t, and were massed to bring over whelming numbers to bear on the point of tttack, Ihe Rebel chieftain brought to gether more than 150 pieces of artillery, with which, for three hours, he poured a j terrific fire upon that part of the Union j ■ lines he intended to assault. It was a grand and solemn sight, when line after line, with steady step and in per- j I feet order, emerged from the Smoke and ; swept across the field toward the Union army. It was a moment of vast jeril and import, of which both parties were power fully conscious. If the Rebel assault was -uecessful, and we lost the battle, Washing ton and Philadelphia were within their; grasp. The North invaded, defeated, and demoralized, would do— we know not what, i Foreign nations would be encouraged to in tervene and the South elated, would put : forth more desterale efforts thaa before. : If the assault failed, and we gained the j battle, the remnant of the Rebel hosts must j iseek safety in flight, and a blow would be inflicted upon the Confederacy, from which , |it could scarcely recover. These thoughts | r vrere present in the minds of all; and gave heroic courage to assault, and to resist. But ! DOW the fire of our artillery was opened upon j the advancing columns, and the shot and : shell tore through their ranks, making great gaps, which were quickly filled up by those who came behind. But onward they came, with desperate courage, until soon the fierce fire of musketry on both sides, mingled with the horrid roar of artillery. Then, with terrific yells they rn-hed upon our lines: but the impetus of their assault w.-s suddenly ! checked. They were met by a courage as desperate as I heir own, and a fierce hand-to hand conflict took place. The r ; -ult was not long doubtful. Their thinned and broken : columns were flung back across the plain in ; h adlong thousands of prisoners in our Lards, the ground covered with deed and dying, and wet and muddy wi.h blood. We had gained the day, though at fearful cost. The victory wa great and mighty iu its cous-quences. The prestige of the Rebel army was broken, never to be re covered, and the wound inflicted upon the Confederacy was never stanched, until it had bled to death. But I shall not attempt to give a general description of the battle, or to enumerate the many glorious names th it are a part of it The nest day was the 4th of July, and the most memorable since that of 1770. On another field it witnessed the surrender ef another large Rebel army to the great chief tain of the wir, now dttv illustrious Presi dent. The capture of Yieksburg ojtened the navigation of the Mississippi River, and severed from the Confederacy all that part of its territory lying west of that river. The loss to the Confederacy was irreparable. It wa< out off fiom its chief source of supplies. The limits of the war were greatiy cireein scribed. The mass of the Rebel population were demoralized, and be_an to despair. from that day it became manifest that the Rebellion could not succeed, unless the Southern people exhibited that enduring, patience under adversity and high devotion that will sacrifice everything for the cause, which, as it turned out, they did not possess. By our victories at Gettysburg and Vicks burg the Rebellion lost its prestige in Eu rope, and all hopes of foreign intervention. At the foot of this tnonumeut sleep the heroes of the battle. Here lie the father, the hnsbaod, the brother, and the only son. In far-off homes, among the hills of New i England, on the shores of the lakes, and in j the valleys and plains of the West, the widow, the orphan, aud the aged parent are weeping for these beloved dead. Many of the tombs are marked "unknown," but tbey will all be recognized on the morning of the resurrection. The unknown dead left be hind them kindred, friends, and breaking hearts. None die so humble but leavesotue one to mourn. ' Perished at Gettysburg, 1 u defense of their couutiy," 979 men, of whose names, homes, or lineage, there is no trace left on earth. Doubtless the Record ing Angel has preserved the record, aud when the books are opened on the last day their names wiil be found in letters of living light, on the immortal page of heroes who died that their country might live. s In the fields before us are the graves of the Rebel dead, now sunk to the level of the plain, '"unmarked, unhonored, and un known. Ihey were our countrymen, of our blood, language, and history. They dis played a courage worthy of their country* and of a better cause, and we may drop a tear to their memory. The news of this fatal field carried ageny to thousands of Southern Homes, and the wail of despair was heard in the everglades and orange groves of the South. Would to God that these men had died for their country, and not in fratricidal strife, for its destruction. Oh, who caD describe the wickedness of rebel lion, or paint the horrors of civil war.' The Rebellion was madness. It was the insanity of States, the delirium of millions, brought on by the perfticious influence ol human Slavery. The people of the South were drunk with the spoi's of the labor of 4,01X1,000 of slaves. Tbey were educated in the belief that chivalry and glory were the inheritance only of slaveholders; that free institutions and free labor begat cow ardice and servility; that Northern men were sordid and mercenary, intent only npon gain, and would not fight for their Govern ment or principles. And thus educated and thus believing, they raised their Lands to strike the Government of their fathers, and to establish a new Constitution, the chief comer-stoue of which was to be hu man Slavery. The lust of power, the unholy greed of Slavery, the mad ambition of disappointed statesmen, impelled the people of the South to a fearful crime, which drenched the land with fraternal blood, that has been punished as few crimes have ever been in this world, but out of which, we are assured, that God, in His providenee, wiil bring forth the choicest blowings to our country and to the human race: CVCD as the rarest flowers spring in profusion from the graves of the dead: Liberty universal, soon to be guaranteed and preserved by suffrage universal; the keeping of a nation's freedom to be intrusted to all thf pcojric, and not to a part only; the national reproach washed out, in rivers of blood, it is true: but the sins of the world were atoned by the blood of the Savior, aud the expiation of blood seems to be the grand economy of God, founded in wisdom, to mortals inscrutable. Resurrection comes oniy from the grave. Death is the great progenitor of life. From the tomb of the Rebellion a nation has been born again. The principles of liberty, so gloriously stated in the Declaration of Independence, had hitherto existed in theory. The Govern ment had ever been a painful contradiction to the Declaration. While proclaiming to the world that liberty was the gift of God to every human being, 4,000,000 of people were he!d in abject and brutalizing Slavery, under the shadow of the national flag. ID the presence of these slaves, professions of devotion to liberty were vain and hypocriti cal. The clanking of their chains ascended perpetually in contradiction to our pro fessions, and the enemies of republicanism pointed contemptuously to our example. But all this is passed. Slavery lies buried in the tomb of the Rebellion. The Rebellion —the of Slavery—hath murdered its unnatural parent, and the perfect reign of liberty is at band. With the rat ideation of the Fifteenth Ar ticle, proposed by Congress as an amend ment to the Constitution of the United States, which we have every reason, to be lieve will soon be completed, impartial suffrage will be established throughout the land. The equal rights of men will be recognized, and the millenium in liberty and government will be realized, to which our fathers locked forward with hopefulness and joy. The principles of liberty once planted in the earth and ripened into their rich fruits, will be borne through all the ago, Leasing mankind to the lafest generation, even as the seeds first sown by the hand of God in Paradise were blown by the winds front con tinent to continent, until the world wos clothed with verdure, fruits, and flowers. The prospect for liberty throughout the world was never so bright as it is to-day. In all civilized lands the grand armies of freedom are on their march. And they are allied armies. Victory to one will give prestige and confidence to the others. With some, progress will be slow, they will en counter disaster and defeat, lut will again ral'y and go forward to final victory. Inthc great campaign of freedom we count, not by months, but by decades and generations; in which there will be many a Bull Run, many a Gettysburg, and a final Appomattox. The lines of march will be marked by many a cemetery like this, by the wrecks of fallen institutions and dynasties, and by the ruins of hereditary privilege and caste. Let as briefly review the advsnrcof liberty since 1770. The priueiples of the Declaration of In dependence took early and deep root in trance. The people of the Empire had long suffered from the grossest misrule and op pression, and their minds were Weil prepared to comprehend and accept the new Gosncl of Liberty. The French revolution first threw off the kingiv government, then es tablished complete democracy, but, not km-wing how to use liberty without abusing it, and the people being governed by their passions, and seeking to aveogeupou parties and classes the wrong* they had suffered for generations, passed into anarchy, from V Ola. 42: NO. 27 which the transi • ion hack t<> monarchy and despotism was easy and rapid. But the re : turn lo monarchy way not characterized by ! the former opprcseioo and u.i-rule. The ; people had learned their rigblsaml mooarclis i had learned their power. Many of the old j abuses which had teen swept away by the rcvolction were gone forever, and the new monarchy governed with copipar tive just ice. liberality and humanity. I The spirit of liberty had entered into the hearts of the people, and from time to lime asserted itself in various ways, and, in ISIS, France returned again to a Republic. This lasted bat a short time, hut the new mon arch who overthrew it and established hirn soif upon its ruins, was constrained to ac knowledge the sovereignty of the peop'e, and lo profess to accept It. crown by the vote of the majority. While wo cannot say much for the freedom of that election, nor believe that the result was the will of the people ; yet it was of vast significance that the usurping gov mm MI t was oropeUed to claim its title from a pretended popular election. In many respects the Govern ment of Napoleon If I. has been excellent, lie f a* r.eoguized the f tc'out of re'igioj* opinion. He ha* protected the people in their persons and property. He has en couragtd trade and industry, stimu'atcd manufactures, and i x tended tLeircotntnerce. He has given them a constitution which eteates a legis'ative body, and guarantees many rights and privileges. But the pro- I!e are not satisfied. TVy are denied lib erty of speech and of the pros* upon politi cal question--. They are not allowed to as semble for the discussion of measures in which they are vital'y interested. Their legislative body is so constructed and man aged, as to be a mere registry of the will of the Emperor. The recent elections show the spirit of discontent, and the existence of a powerful party who understand their rights and arc detei mined to assert them, peaceably if they can, and, as we have rea s>n to believe, forcibly if they must. The attentive observer, anl student of French history, is led to the conclusion that nothing can preserve the throne and dynasty of Na poleon 111., but the concession of popular rights, and the e.-tablisliment of freedom of speech, and of the press, of the elections, and of the legislative body. The Republican sentiment of France, though it has been unfortunate, and from time to time suppressed and apparently ex tinguished, i* still vital, is growing in intel ligence and power, and cannot be restrained, unless monarchy becomes so liberal and free as to confer the substantial benefit of a Republic. We cannot doubt that Napoleon appreci ates the situation, and is preparing to make such concessions as will keep the popular di.-eontent this side of revedution. The march of liberty in Gerifiany is slow but steady. The great German family are struggling for unity and freedom. The in stitutions of Germany are becoming more liberal fiorn year to year, and the condition of the people better and happi r. Tbe evil of large standing armies, annu ally withdrawing the young men from home and productive pursuits, is still endured, because Germany is surrounded by war-like and powerful enemies, clad in complete ar mor. But everywhere the tendency of the Ger man mind is to the fullest liberty of thought, and to the recognition of the "equal rights" of men. Austria, so long oppressed, feels and re sponds to the impulse of libcrtv. An intel ligent Emperor, who has not shut his eyes to what is going on in the world around him, perceives that he eaDnot stem the pow erful current everywhere setting in toward free institutions, and that the security of his throne depends upon his conceding to the people, rights and privileges which have been denied them since Austria was an Em pire, and giving back to Hungary the enjoy ment of her ancient Constitution. The abolition ot*the Concordat, the estab lishment of religions freedom, thcequal tax ation of all classes, are among the hopeful beginnings of Austrian reform. Italy, the ancient seat of the power and glory of the Roman Empire -, land of histo ry, philosophy, poetry, music, painting, sculpture and romance; land of "starry climes and sunny skies," whose delicious climate, lofty mountains, and beautiful val leys and plains have ever exeited tbe ad miration of the traveler and poet, ha® made great progress in unity and freedom. Suffrage nearly universal, the habess corpus, freedom of religion, and free schools, are some of the principal features of Italian liberty. The spirit of liberty is abroad in Russia —mighty empire of the North, whose gov ernment has represented the perfect idea of Absolute Despotism—an autocratic power, unrestrained by constitution or law. An en'ightened Czar, animated by love for his people, and perceiving the individual hap piness and material prosperity product d by free institutions, abolished Slavery throughout bis dominions, made the serfs freemen, and gave to them local free insti tutions, based upon the right of suffrage. It is true the imperial power still extends over al!—a dark imj>cnetrab!e canopy—but beneath its shadow there is individual liber ty and local self-government. Thus far the prosperous r salt ha® established th: w's dotn of the Czar, and may we not believe that be has laid the foundations of a fee government, to be developed into a graud Republic in the far future, and nearer, into a Comtitattonal Monarchy with represen tative institutions? Liberty is like living seed ; wherevtr planted it vivifies, expands, develops. Thus p'antcd in Russia among the lowest people and for local purposes, i will grow, develop, and finally conqu.r. Russia is among tb-: progressive nations, and is our friend ; Sod it was the American ex ample which touchi d the heart and intellect of tbe Emperor. The spirit of liberty i U onward march has iuvaded Sp in, and is stirring the great national heart. We hire lately seen the great Spanish people firmly, and almost peacefully and unanimously, depose a licen tious Queen, and declare against her itad. T emure t --tention fat* or* of tb is kind matt invariably be * •■•mpanied bylse name of tbe author, aot for pnblieattaa, bat a* a guaranty impoiritir a. All letter* neruin.rig v> bu.,ine, of the offce ali -JM be addressed to JOHN L.TJTZ, BiDrcas, Pa. right of kings, nod asserting the fundamen tal idea of free ifiwrirutiow. We lyve bear] it pronounce the abolition of Slave ry We have heard it pronounce the right of all men to worship God according to tbe dictates of their own consciences. Verily, these are great things, and new times, in old Spain. These are the germs of free institution', and will, in the progress of years, grow into a Republican Government. Cubs, the Queen of the Antilles, richest gent in the Spanish Crown, the most fertile el* i-Liifd*, rich beyond description in the fruits and productions of tropical clime!'; and from which the Spani-h treasury has so 1 >ng been supplied, is making a bold, vigorous, and, a- we trust, a successful el fort to throw off the Spani-li yoke and es tablish h< r independence. fhe n.it sve Cubans, in.-pired by the spirit ! liberty, have i>i< claimed freedom to the | staves, freedom of ridieious opinion, and | that Governments exist only by consent of i the gov. rned. Cuba belongs to the Ameri can system, and the question of her fate is essentially American. He cannot be indif ferent t > ibe struggle, and trust and believe that our G •vertrm ot stands realy to ac knowledge her independence at the earliest moment that will lie justified by the laws and usages of nation*. Tbnn.'h we cannot r gbtfu'ly in'crves® be tween Spain and her Colony which she has so long oppressed and impoverished, our st rr< jat hi—s are with the Cubans, and we ctntiot regret any aid thev may receive, which does not "evolve a breach of the ir.- t rnati-.na! bu'v of our Government, \\ bde the grand revolution in Spain is proceeding so peacefully and successfully; while the Spanish people are asserting their liberties, and fo tifying them by Constitu tional bulwarks, it is to 1* deeply regretted that they arc ee England a republic, but I believe our children will. The event can bo predicted wi:h as much certainty as any other iu human affair.-; and it is hasten ing on, perhaps fa t enough wh'TI.VCED OS FOURTH PAOU,]