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' 4-;:- Att•Z. z. ,---14,, . k i , , , . - .. 4, ,:.- , .._ ~,.., .., k , ~,,,, ---- , • . _.. _ ______ „..„--___.. ~: A FAATILY NEWSPAPER,. —,..._ ......_-_-.._ . ...._,.. ._ ------____.a....--- . . NEUTRAL 11`,T ~r . r il ici --------- - - - - - Mcuote to Ncon, I,:itcrottirc, iloctru, '2gricuittire, tlicijitittriion of ibcfal ;information, enteral 3ittelligitre;"Alinvienient, Allatucts, VOLUME IV. THE LEHIGH REGISTER, publishedin the Borough of Allentown , Lehigh - County, Pa.,every Thursday ,BY A.VGUSTiUS L. RUNE, At $l 50 per annum, payable in adyance; and lik2 00 if. not paid until the end of the year. No • ' - 'papei•Ais'eontthued, until all arrcarrges are paid e . ,..etVt A the option or the proprietor. AnvenTissmssTs, making not more than one square, mill be inserted three dines for one dollar and for every subsequent inset lion -twenty-five cents. Larger advertisements charged in the same proportion. Those not exceeding ten lines, will be charged seventy-five cents, and those making six Niles or less, three insertions for 50 cents. I:TA•liberal deduction \till be made to those ,who advertise by the year. ta'Officc in HantWon St., one Moor East of the Gerntan Rtfornterl Church, nearlll opposite the "Frieden.sbothe Ogice." 3ust Received New Assortment of Jewelry. Conic and Examine—Judge for Yourselves. Joseph la'eciss, Dealer in Clocks, Ifittclirs and Jewelry, IN A LLENTOWN, Adopts lids method to inform his old cus tomers and the l üblic in general that he still continues the above business. and in fact more extensively than ever, at his old stand, directly opposite the Odd Fello0'•Ilall, in I lamilton street. Ile has jin."(turned from New York and Philadelphia, with an unu- PT. sual lame assortment of CLOCKS, GOLD AND SIL VER (~ ). • AVATCHIE:'.., q " Jewelry, Epees, All of which is now unpacked and exhibit ed for sale at the most reasonable rrices. Eight-day and 20 Hoar Clocks, in cases, decorated in the handsomest styles Gold and Silver Watches, nn assortment that cannot be excelled in ant• country establishment in the Stute, among which can he found the finest GOLD levers, to the cheapest silver watches. Spectacles, Gold, Silver and Steel Spectacles, with las ses for a!l ages. Jewelry of every Description Such as Gold Chains, Rings, Brea-t-pins, Ear-rings, Nt'vs, Pens, Combs, Table and Tea Spoons, Thermometers, &c. &c. .I:Mama Im.hitments, TTe has in addition to his former Stock of Mucical instruments, filled up his asscut ment with new, Pianils, Billions, Violins; .qccordians, Muck Boxes. All kinds of Brass and -other Instruments, will be furnished at the shortest notice and at the most reasonable prices. He nisi) keeps for sale Piano and Violin Strings, and every other article that belongs to these instruments. Repairing Watches, Clocks, and Jewelry done at the shortest notice and on reasona ble terms. • Thankful. for the liberal custom hearto fore enjoyed, he trusts that his punctuality in business, the cheap prices of his goods, will secure him .their custom and be the means of obtaining many new ones. May 16 EMMINMM ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW Office in the western front room of the building of John D. Leman, formerly Horn beck's, west of the Courthouse. Allentown April 4, 1850 La OVP ( 11z) lat itk? 3 ATTOIINEY AT LAW. Office one door east of Ii olbs Hotel, Al lentoWn, Lehigh county, Pa Allentown, March `t3. Catasauqua Head Quarters. • Zesse Knauss, • Takes this method to inform his frieials and the public in general, se' that he has opened 416 , d: A p Miairf.7r Travellers Home, I 11111041 k" ' ,, Boording House" in the Village Of Catasauqua, Flanover town : ship, Lehigh county. Ile has but lately built his house, and ar ranged it in such n manner, as will make it .'.convenient to harbor strangers and tratrel- Ilors„ and for the accomodation of boarders nind visitors. • He will spare neither time nor expense, Tro'aecOmmodate his boarders, with all that 'the Market affords, also with such refresh !iitents us the law allows. Ills house shall ma'de the home of boalders and travellers. He . ! ilia 'a so very large and convenient stabling iitid'good water near at hand. quvites e 'travelling public to give ItitiVitectill and th satify . themselves with what is said ICNAtiss. June 02' .• " 11', LOOK HERE ! ! HARDWARE!!! The undersigned announce to the public, that they have just returned from Philadel phia and New York, with a very large lot of Hardware, consisting of douse Furnishino. Stacks "callow, Coach Trimmings, Saddlery and Shoe-findings, ail of which will be sold at extremely low prices. They ask the public to give SAEGER'S HATIDWARE, STORE, sign of the' . " 7 r VIZ 9 a c,iil, uc orderlo convii)r , - cif Ow PiCl, that a 'penny :..aved is a penny made.' 0 ICJ SAEGER. To Egon , se-Hcepers; A great assortment of House furnishing articles, such as ENA ELED and tinned inside, cooking vessels, sauce and stew pans, preserve ket tles, fish and ham kettles, frying pans, grid irons, waffle irons, &c. TEA TrtA V S and Waiters, from com mon to fine, in sets and dozens. A lso, goth ic form, in sets, and in ‘'ariet3i of patterns. KNIVES and FORKS—in sets and doz ens ; Also knives only ; carvers. steels, cook and butcher knives, with a variety of other manufactures. POCKET and PEN KNIVES—Razors, scissors, shears, from the hest makers ; one, two, three. and 4 Nude knives. SHOVELS ; spades, hoes, chains, rakes, pick. axes, &c. . SHOVELS and TONGS, Iron and brass poliArd steel fire sets and standards, cord bode, tailors' irons smoothing irons &c.. and for sal." by 0 S. J SA EG EEL IZON.—A lot . of Hammered and Irnn, Sheet Iron, American and Band Iron, I loop Iron, Cast and Shear Steel, square, flat, and Haind, just received with Anvils and \ ices, and for sale,chear at the store of 0 &. J SA EC: E:11, (1. ASS.-150 bbiscs (]ht ,ti by 10, 10 by 12, 10 by 11, 11) by 15, 12 by 113, and various othi:r sei•r.es, for : , ale by 0 &J SAECIEII. AIECIIANIUS.—TooIs of vvery crip:ion. sarli as Brncli and Arloulding Plant's, 1;0140101',11,11el, 1111(1 nick Sae's, Bract. and Ilitts, Awzer 130.15, 1 110A:huts., ttice., for t•ad2. by - TO SHOENI roceived new assortment of Alorocco and Binding Leather, Easis, Shoe-ihread, 'Wooden Pegs French Bilbers, and numerous other artic les belonging to the shoemaking: hairiness W HITE LE/10.-2 ions of White Lead just received, Pure and Exira. and for i:ale by U &J SAEGER. LOOKING G LA SSE,S.—A splendid . lot it , 4 p, e y.of Looking Glasses Plates, and - Frarnes of all sizes for sale by 0 & J SAEGER. NA ILS.—:3OO Kegs of the best Nails, Brads and Spikes, just received and for sale by U S. J SAEGER. SCYTEIES--20 doz. genuine Graliith's Grain Scythes, also a large assortment of genuine Steiermark Grass Scythes, cheap and for sale by 0 & J SAEGER, OILS & VARNISIL—OiIs dall kinds, boiled and raw, Turpentine, Newark Var nish of nll kinds, Glue &e.,--will be •sold • ¶-tf cheap by 1. 3 1.ANE5.--A. 101 l assortment of Planes of John Be i's best =be, ako a large assort ment of Carpenter's 'fools, for sale cheap byo J SAEGER. • OM HOLLOWARE.-500 Iron Pots and Kettles, just received and for sale, at. very reduced prices at the_ store of 0 &] SAEGER. April IS • 11-21 n To Builders. A splendid assortment of Front and Parlor LoCks with mineral knobs, german Locks, Latches, Bolts, Hinges, Screws, Paint Brush es, and a variety 01 other building Hard ware just unpacking, and for sale cheaper than ever by 0 J SAEGER. April IS, ÜbVILCOWci Whereas William T. Derr and Mary Sim, his wile, by Deed dated the 23d day of May, 1850, assigned and transferred all their estate, real, personal and mixed, to the subscriber for the benefit of creditors. There fore, all persons indebted to the said Wil liam 'l'.Derr, are required to make payment, and those. having legal clahris against the said Assignor, are requested to present them well authenticated, until the first day of Au gust next. - JACOB DILLINGER; Sssignee. Mny 30: .¶-6w BUILDERS ! A NEW LOT OF O J SAUCIER 0 & J 0 J SAEGER ALLENTOWN,. LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., JULY 18, 1850. Correspondence. M!4!IMEII,Mr;?3 obe rt'E. IVO gb,l,--t.sq... `The Committee of arranzements,_(together with your fellow citi zens) having listened with great pleasure to the Oration, delivered by you yesterday at . the "Spring," have tinapimously requested us to solicit the same for publication. .1:y Order of the Committee. JOHN D. STILES, Chairman. 11'ILLIAJI KERN, Seiretary. 1;41: NTLEniuri Tour• note of the 5:11 instant requesting, for publication a copy of the Oration delivered by tne at the Spring on the 4th inst.. is felon: me.. To be really worthy of preser vation, such an address should either tarnish the reader with new ideas on the subject, ot• else present old rites iu in new and pica-it!g hum. The I( rater, on a them• slohen - red b•, - abler 1(1011, I deem almost impossible; nor can I flatter myself that I have been as stweessful in the latter attempt, as I should have been tinder the circumstances. Want of time prevented me four condensing it,as per• haps I should have done for the comfort of those who were kind enough to. listea Jo it. As I see, however. no rea-on why I should refuse to accede to your request, I eomply witlt it, and herewith transmit Ow titan(, cnpt. Very Respectfully yours, R. E. WRIGHT. To the Committee of Arrangements. Fourgh ofJuiy GrafEon!. The future!—and the past !! What we have been, and what we shall hereafter he! how naturally, on occasions like the present, do such queries present themselves. What floods - of solemn thought roll in upon the soul at the bare mention of these simple words. Who that has lived on earth as man should live, no matter what his lot in life may be—no matter howsoever "blessed or bon'd," has not of ten, even at the topmost height of present en j,,y m e m, or the lowest depth of present sorrow, paused, at the annual return ofsome epoch in his own history, and with anxious heart endear( eel to rccal to mind, the days and years that hare passed away; or warned (it may be en couraged) by the varied lessons which the past has taught hint, gazed, upon the dim and misty future, with eyes, that burned to pierce the dark impenetrable veil which Heaven in mercy has hung across our path-way through life. Nay more—who is there, that does not delight in this, and who that has ever done so in honest so:4.unit mood, that has not risen front the pleasing, task a better, purer and a happier man with heart . more incline'll to that Which is good—with head inure clear to see and guard against the dangers that may lie before hint ; and with wish and will, more steadily determined to avoid the errors, and ebeiinrage the vii tiles that may lurk unseen in the unknown future. „ - That %rifle!) is true of inen,ds true of Nations also—a task so pleasing and so profitably to the imbvidurb - eannot be displeasing or unworthy the attention of the community. Be //cf then our theme 10. day—this our peas. ing profitable task.. Now when the rolling year has brctlight us all; to greet another anniversary of a day, so famous in the annals of our natirm, and the history of our rare; let us ac a people, pause in our onward and upward career of great. I.eSS and of glory, and from the point we. occupy at present, east ow. eyes back on the race we have run, and draw from it, we call; some les sunr.tof wisdom for that tVhich is set bcf..•rc us. What have we been What are we now and What, oh what is there yet before us! Who .can rroperly estimate the importance of these queries ; who will measure the heighth and depth the length.and the breadth of the mighty topics suggested by these queries. What have we been Let 113 talk awhile with our past hours for answer. Frbm the beginning of our history, our land has been a land of won. dem From an investigation of the records of our past career, the contemplative mind cannot fail to return, laden with a rich store of confi dence in God and man—a firm assurance of the onward and upward progress of our race, and a well grounded belief in the ultimate destruction of all those hurtful principles .and practices, which seem to have become an inseparable ele ment of society in the old world. For from the first day of its discovery to the present time—from the hour when with the ad vent of the first European on these shores, coin menced the new career of that portion of the hu man race; to which God, for his own wive par• poses, has coat:ll'lmA so much of the Ivistltint and energy of our species ; has the glut kw: wort; gone on, unce.niugly gone nn ; until the son in his (lady round-smiles on no land inure lice; happy than our own. How opportune—how providential its discov ery ! When to the extremes' verge of titan's en durance the helpless many of the old world. hall been &hien by the powerful heartless few.— When King craft, and Priest craft, by a m0...t natural and unholy nlliance, had quenched in blhod, almost the last faintsparlt of civil and re ligious freedom; and the groaning, toiling serf, had but the choice—the miserable alternative of perishing in silent submission, or unavailing re• Risloice; when over all those beautiful' lands, so favored by the beneficient "father of . alt"—the vine clad hills of lovely France and Germany— the sunny vales of Italy and Spain—and the pleasant fields of "Merrle England" there hung a dark and gkmmy cloud, shutting, from all but the favored few, the commonest blessings of life; compelling millions of men, brave strong men— and lovely women, and helpless Innocent chil dren, with bodies as perfect, and souls more pure than those of their masters, to sink and die in silent brokenness of heart. , When the body belonged to the heartless lord, and the soul was under the. care of the. godless priest, and none dare act, or think, or labor, but in accord ance with the iron code, framed by these iron tyrants for their benefit alone. Then it was—in that dark hour,. that he who heeds the sparrows fall; revealed to man, this new, untainted world a land so loudly called for by their wants, and fitted with such providential care in every particular for the highest developernent of all the powers and faculties of man. Nn wonder that Kings, and.queens and the. mighty rotriitatci, of earth 'oohed coldly on ,this new disenverynn wonder that ignorant and intolerant priests strove to Smother in fire and blood the thrilling shout of joy thatgreetedit.= — Todielif — fritild of power about. to leave 'their hands-for ever—and rang a startling knell proph etic of their future destiny. thit oh the mass— the sulk-ring, frenzied;dying must iheiPhearts have burned within them as the news ' of this great gift .frotn.Gttil first fell upon their ears ! How must their silent, heart felt prayers, have followed the bold mariners selected 11. r this great end by Providence ; filling their sails with favoring breezes, And as the time of their return drew nigh—and their wavering hope became a living faith—and faith at length a,certainty; how most their hearts have rejoiced in the assurance that the Moir of their deliverance was nigh. Ay! they did re joice—with hurried steps they rushed towards Ihr .short—eager to leave their native homes, that they and their children after them might live in a land, where roan dare walk erect, and know no master but the living God. And from that Imnr to this a constant. ce4se;vS7i tide souls has SCt upon these shores. Ilut the mere lam of this disenvery, and its mini:cello!' with the wants of Europe at the time; are net the only import tut events in our past litsmry. There was a most remarkahle and pro md.mtial • adaptation of means to the required end. in the first propilog, of this land ; and the title of emigration was controlled and turned to our present good by 1110 natural operation of a simple well known law of human nature.— There was a wide, unknown and trackless ocean to fe crossed—there were wild and dreary des erts beyond. There were dangers on the way and at the termination of the journey, which none but men with hearts and nerves of steel could . meet and overcome; and so, in perfect ac cordance with this went. the weak and timid paused before embarking, and turned again with longing fondness to their native homes, till dear to them in all their want and woe; while the braver, bolder, and more vigorous; heedless of these tender feelings; theew themselves m crowds on the wild rough shores of this new world. Those who could best endure the suf ferings that were sure to follow such a change as this; were willing to endure;—those who came to conquer the difficulties that were to he oeercotne, were the very ones, best fitted for the task. Before their sturdy forms, the forest soon disappeared like magic—the dark untrodden des ert was made to smile in the llght of a new and brighter beauty than it ever wore, and the vast hunzing, grounds that served for many a weary age, but to give a scanty subsistence to the wan dering tribes that roamed over them at will, and warred, and died among their bilk and vales, were changed by these adventurers to fruitful farms, nail pro.Terous towns, where trtyrtads or human beings hav- l o ng liv e d, and still live in the hill enjttyint•nt of earth's greatest ptttl co:itch:went, plenty and iintitrejtietted peace. Nor was 'his n u re phyHeal fitness for the (lit. ly thosr., by it ozir lat;(1 %vas fire pt•ttplt 11; the , only tote fleSCrl'ille, of noto.r.-- *l'ln• nt%v tretld would have been no boon (0 man nli!esS 1114' from the 11) , T111 /Intl Cyst., thAt hung like an incubus upon the A rd•re,i'diff wetiee wasihilisponsidlv neves. sary to give to it a mope, valor.. Civil and re ligions lilahly that found NO 11,111 P abroad, wer e destined here to Mess a new, a redeemed, and re generated pet pies Nothing short of this eculd satisfy the longings of a suirormg world. And so, not merely one land, but many, moved as it were .by one comm..] impuke, or perhaps by 'oppression that had become universal at, home, sent in their hardy emigrants to peo. pie this. A single people—even the best and purest of any nation, though dying from op pression for the sake of freedom, would have brought with them the errors and prejudices of early edneatiomand despite all the hitter lessons of the past, would have renewed time, in a milder form perhaps, the very evils they had fled from. But to prevent this fatal and me vitnble 'result, the whole of Europe, (so to speak) furnished her woo:loll men and creeds. •• The rigid Puritan at Nie rock of Plymouth reared his rude altar to the Clod of his Giuli o and worshiped him there in stern unyielding xitn plieity of heart. • The exclusive Catholic sat down by the shores of ..he beautiful Chesapeake, and there commen ced in .pomp, and splendor, and devotion, the worship of his fathers God, in the bosom of a church bound to him by the !tidiest ties and en deared by the sweetest associations of home and early life. 'Elm haughty Cavilier of England sought to renew in their settlement at dames. town, the religion of twit native land, while the quiet ()hotter in the foretds- of Pennsylvania worsloped without tear oft idirubr or harm in his own peculiar way. Beside these, the followers l.wher and Calvin, anti all the varied sects Chat fomol no telhwation at Mime, all for the simie cause nod with Ihr, Sal/P . 4:11.1 in view, cane hillmr, with their favorite creed.: to worship God according to the dictates of their own eon. sciences. Fnconnected eacii other--holding daimon! charters nod under 11 fre rent powers— equal too In every respect, there, was no one that could dictate to, or control the otlwr, while a sense of common danger, inspired by a sense of 001111 non WeaktlCS, Impelled them to a C9llrie Or mutual forbearance, i s t•hich led in time to the happiest results. And thit. , , from a state of things, which bid fair to renew the bloody eon , test of creeds and sects, that had for tnauy a weary age polluted the world they had fled frmn ; came the glorious religious freedom which we now enjoy. So ton in government. At first no doubt there were hearts here, as loyal as at home— and hands that would have battled as fiercely for the honor of the tyrants that they fled from, as if their owners were the freest recipients of royallavor. The emigrant from Spain, though forced into exile, no doubt for years looked hack to that court ns the centre of political greatness and glory. The volatile Frenchman feeling no longer the evils Irmo which he fled, was proud of the• fame of the “Grand 11ton:urine and Na• thin." The hauglrty Cavalier of the South sighed for the late of the Royal Stewart's, and 'cursed this nilherants of Cromwell as fervently. here as when at home. while the Puritan of the East looked back umin the riXe and progress ()I' the “English Commonwealth" as . the very ne s plus ullra of political grandeur. With_Siiine, monarchy was absolutely necessary to ilie.safe. ty ;mil well being of any statc;•and the doctrines of "passive obedience" and the "divinr right of KingB to govcrn,"sacred and immutable truths. IVhile_with_mber.s.no..E.lo"-or-othez-earthly-gov----1 renment.was required, Cut in lien thereof the law of God as found in the decalogue and Jew ish code, was held sualcient for ever' ethergen cy. Between these wide and wild extremes, the shades of differences .were varioni, as the people, the natural tendency of all which Was to neutralize and harmonize them both. Exam. pie, precept, experiment, success nail failure, ell combined in time to work the right result. The aristocratic Cavelier and the loyal Quaker hint in time their devotion for a Monarch, who was only felt in his opptession, and the them eratie. puritan and non conformist of the Bast failed not to see of length the folly of their course; and from this political chaos canoe at length the government we now have—a gov ernment which. placed most happily between the influence or a ron,et vativekto that never 111 ,, V1 . 3 aid a radicalism that never re , is. gives the Largest liberty to the miw,oJ dmnorratie tend, n• cies of the Anglu rme, while it gnarls with sernpalons rare, the nave, higher ;milli:J.. lirr rights or rite individual untie. And co, ton, in later and moo event fill tiniett, when them various settlomentri had grovn p,,polous coloriks, mil in the course of .. human events, it beci.ime necessuey Inc them to sever thy tie.! that bound them to their fitherlund, and P.S,llllle :illt011:r Ihr powers of t.:,r;li tho lion to which, by the l o ve; n.tt nre and of lit lure': God they were cuticle 1, the stone great rnliq lmtel is perceptible. From the inoep lien of this gre it movement to ins termimition all is gr..nd and glinlous and wonderful. The dcelar.dion. which announce! our fathers' stern resolve, to be and to remain a free and in -I—depentlent-peopittF-fell-ttpon-thedtutnatremend I inovell'the Itunmn heart like the words of iti spiratian. We read it 1101 V WithMa CIII.ICOII, ndiniring perhaps the force and beauty or the composition, but we rarely it' everlietir it lis it WaS I:s1 heard, when every ,tcrievanre that it sets forth was rambling in the heart, and every stern resolve it contains found a respown: in every patriotic breast. Calm, original, forcible, hold an , l determined ; strong in indignant, yet respectful remonstrance, cogent in reasoning, and irresistible in it:3 conclu sions; announcing with fearless voice, the great self-evident truths, of man's natural political equality, so deer to the mass and so odious to the tyrant—claiming only the free, inalienable gift of God, and relying in It timid() confidence on Trim for its recovery, that, document went forth with more than human power, winning the assent of every 1113:ughtful mind, the ardent prayer of every honest heart ; and the tirm support of every patriotic nem. .:11otind it and the principle: i; announced : in support of it and the ilneirints it proclaimed, with :in tutanimity that almo,t seemed the work or our higher than nom the people and the whole peuple r lined with one ennient : • The spirit of resistance tharrose in lice Up-J. uctuated the patriot in the ilistent ciiiintilt; and every blow st melt against fire fromlom of one col ony two felt in the heart of all the re-it. Wit hunt this r point—this 1kt:1:IF:Ilion or our rights ; , 11.1 erectl or our liti: 1 foil antl the liztaitimous feeling that arose in ruppert Ile it, NVII V..)11i , l 01:I• late putt 111 it ~r mini, 11: of the L,nu tit ri,.,•! lit the emu es: 111;11 I'ell,we tl this; the h ,(114's that were 1,0- au ! two ; tho tinal a int u it th.tt we achiev ed : indt:,,ett.lence that le ; s oluninetl, uud Neely tioltnoteltsigtsl : the govt. raittent hit 'teas arionvords forme;; the rapid t-pre:al 1101)- 111:d ; the aecestion 01' tittle hinds, to It, imp," hy our ins:it tit ions: the intlitettottentrgood It-1 1 kt ' let:Hi:tee hither', e eist:tl in the ; the. trealt It we hat e ourtssed ; he without] reputation which we have eslablishel ; the intern 11 peace, itet.sperity and happiness whieli we have enjoy ed, v. ho can tail to sec this the linger or d o t hiring iltol 1 tool who, in thus recalling the events to which I It the but. alluded, ein rail to feel gr:ttertal to I lint "in Nlhont the It tee Heel and nittectl :and had our being 1" It is true, there were many trials to be with stood ; there were difficulties to he CAI ; there wore sorrows to be endured. The past is not all brilliant and bright ; but often, very oft en, indeed, • ''(..!lottils daricness root upon it." Through tnimlot ion and through.bletal,throa t h sufferings that we can hardly re a lize at present. were all these migh: y things neeomplished—but they and those \VIM endurtsl them have long since passed away, leaving to us the glorious residt or their labor. and their sufferings. 'l'ie magbiti cent temple or ei di and religions liberty in which WO worship, may have been, nay. was, cemented by pat riot is blood and tears. Its round:it buts may rest on the' grave of m ny a bold, brave, holy man, who loved his country better than himself. They have done their duty, :obi have gene to their reward. We who g ither roniltl the :divine o fountle I :del :,0 roared, will lionta. their 111C111- nrio:i heti: Ly Silf.O.Ving lha we know how to value :not preserve it. From this brief and imperreet picture of the past. let us. tnrn to the fruits it has prodoeeil. What are we now? • IVhat ink do we hold in t h e 00 ' 1 '. 11 1" 1.111,0 : ;10 1 Oliti , ol ? What ore we /ma. doita.: to prc!:erve the reputation and perpea lade the blessitq:;s that have come down to us from our fathers Is the temple of freedom az secure 1 Is the shrine as pure, nod its wet.- ahipp-rs as fervent OS I hi'S were in limes gone by f II Is our flag no stain ? l las no ogle been dimmed—no stripe polluted—but ore we DOW as heretofore the refogo of. the eppresaed, the home of the free, the hope of the Bowe-trodden n a tio ns or the earl h Tit ink I leaven !we cm say with • truth, °fir mission is not yet accomplished—the glorious nice set betlire us has nut yet been run. \\'ll:uerce i;rrers arty .have been committed— however We Ilely hiivo departed from the stands, and of excellence Oct up by mint' Oilers, we lurve not yet reached that point in our career at which to go !byword is to descend. 'What ore we now 1 W e c l a i m not that we have attained perfection, We do not hope to do so. Perfection cannot be predicates of any earthly thing. All excellense f all goodne.is, 1111 prosperity, is comparative.— What, in this point of view, is our present con dition? I would fitin her, speak the words of truth and soberness," and yet the soberest,. ti lt _ est words May POOlll lU,nuns the wiliest or wild inoanity. \Ve eahtnd too Moldy eat 'mat e our condition as a peoplii: for In all that is truly 'valuable and good, we own few equals and no sm petiors. Areotheis rich bt Om goods of earth'? Who will estimot e the wealth, (active nod hid- - den.) that is enjoyed upon or that rests beneath tho surface of our land—the golden harvests that cover the soil, or the richer than mines of. gold that fill Its bosom? Wealth ; not like that of C b. N POUT ether lands, gathered in boards by t i 6 faivitd few. while the toiling inao in the very -1/liddt-of-plentyi4mi-weolthr-scattered-abioad through all the land, held and enjoyed by A nation that from her surplus vealth can feed the starving nations of the world Must nee& hie blest. Hare ()Mfrs no untarnished ndme? 'Who. breathes with truth one wont against the honor of our umile What treaty have - we everbro; I:en/ What national compact have we ever dis regarded I When did we ever trample on the rights of any member of the family of !idiom? When enrich ourselves at the expense of others; or talz , that which was not lawfully our own 7 ; The eye of keenest, criticism will fail tofirtd - i* - 1111 our past Carel', one single stain upon tlilefair . escutcheon of our nation. oilaYs prosimroas? Look abroad throng IL', out the length and breadth of the land, and say : , if the eye innti eau elsewhere light on scene4.:' tbfise that aro spread before Min here, 1L.9 trade languished I wince have tho. busy whe, , ls of industry ceased to revolve? .In what State—what county—what town—what, li. nilet, dl yet find a people that are not going nit.l errant in prosperity and wettith 7 , th,d d,e3 net evhibit year utter year nefi and en- d eviderie, of this fact ? Arc others Mesied 4c,i•,,171'n!S ta if wants ; and Mkt:. Me of tied Fuldir peace and happi= na 1 Min {coat exchange our own for any, even the most splendid on the et,rth ? .Wito dean not e the grand harmonious plan by ivhirx., th-ee who obey create the laws which rp them, mid the moral power whieh decrees the; ob:eiwance of a rule of civil action, is so sure, toha '_. by the physical power that can force it; that, discarding the •European.plitiii;; of centralization, throws all power inward . . frona the circumference to the centre, by JacantLgt. which the centre is streng:hened just as the oft; ennarenee is enlarged ; that defines tvitii 1140 cal accuracy the power of every branch ando,tft.. eer of ;7overnment. and by a systerii . of cheeks end balances that hiss never yet been eilnitned; - keeps each in the orbit 4ssigned to it, And.ilm pre , ory,.s hell:11.11)mq of the whole goyeili meitt which nit and subsists by die Coneeliti,of the govemed oluny, under which their iyill is the source, and their happiness thenbjectßf Laws that ate enacted ; and which is so con•• structed that it c,mnot be destroyed wird 'the people theniselves.are determined not to regard their own will tot embodied in the, laW,nad are even nmtilling to change it no they please. • And yet, in ivh;oh. i gunr.ls not easily or opt toll overthrown. the nntnril inolienable private" rights of the individual man, nropreserved.frotli iv.!ittort injutry 'l'o some th;l3 picture of our' present : , tote may seetn the colored delineittion: of a w7llll 0.11.1 partial friond, but the world liar told far fifty years, :41..1 is still telling the sand' tole. Who cm name the man that has ever volni- - t.;rily n 1,11 1 ,1.11,4 his rights andpriviliges of eiiz zeoi-liip here for other lands, their government an l l.tv - s 1 while. , the other hand, who does not knew that .11,r:m t the last half century oo•tntle::; them•ind,-, a; wen from every land in Campo. h.lvo lelt their friends, their country an 1 home, .evering all the ties that hind Man ' rive land, that they might find with its a het;( r country :did a happier home? liere let 113 panv. Thus far we have trod an ground. The past, with all its glorl ons de;ds, and the present as their grand result ere behire 11:3. What lies beyond? ' What sit ill we he hereafter 1 Who can foresho the heigffi to which we may rice, or the depth . to which we may de=ems before our Hautets lbst among ihe ti of the earth ? Thank God; if the future he unknown, if the good we aro; to' enjoy, and tha evils we' arc to suffer are hidden fun our eyes, they are not entirely beyond .ofir control. 'Our actions and their consequencts, are to a great eident in our own hands. Lot be then draw this lesson from the past. As tee lire stir, so also shall WC reap. If over ive have so ffered. it is because wo have sinned. If national calamities have ever fallen upon us ). - it was hecause of some departure from. the Arno principle. ofgovermnent ; and ifour onivard and - upward career is ever arrested, it will be in bbn s...ctence of 240111'i similar error. The law Of .re 7 se; ion is a universal one,. that operate. Under all eireduistances and -without nay. eicceptton. We can only prevent a recurrence Of the; evils we have suffered, by avoiding the course of ton- duet that produced them; we e.m only perpetu ate the blessings We ,enjoy; by pursuing . the career which Irts led to thiS result. Set Os; then, guard :,,lust the errors of the past; ilarticu; ktrly those that do most easily beset us. Nations, like men have their besetting sins, nod Ivo aro no exception to the general role. Ultruisni is our error, and will he our destruction if ,persisted bee tusc it is in direct opposition to the lintitioni- one middle „round on which our government is h c.cd. It ham been the curse of every peo ple; it will ruin us if not properly Cohtrolled!. It t lire w the prople of France in abject slavery at the font of the llcurbon, then at the mercy of no in roviut 0 vod mail. democracy, and again at the Ice( of ;mother tyrant in the pert3o,of na parte: It sanctioned in the mother Country the despOCtut of the. Royal Tudors end theStowarts; and the equally deplorable excesses of the English Commonwealth. It has shOOk Our country to the very centre, in the fierce partisan contests that' have Cr:,: year to year been fought within our borders ; and even now it roars its horrid front in a new nmre appalling form than ever, threatening the dissolution of this. glorious Union, and all the blood nod horroi• that must follow ouch a catastrophe. avoid it. as ye would tbe,Worst of evils, for it has been the potent 'eause'of all the evils wo have ever suffered. .Initlvernment, in.religion, in every earthly thing, extremes are dangerous,. and truth is nercr found with either. Our govern— ment is based on this great truth ; ultrairm is everywhere avoided, extremes are everYwhero discarded, and harmony and stability has beet.C. the result. That which produced this goverOti mut can alone preserVe it; that which gave utia • national existence can alone enable us to pervetii. me it ; and that which enabled us to raise thtiglb , rious stars and stripes of this Union, to &nit on the winds of every clime, and mirror thennielvet in every sea, that, and that tame, can keep' them. there. „; "Flag of the free, heart's only home, ,By anzel hands to valor given • : Thy stars have lit the welkin dome And all thy hues were born in Heaven; Forever float thy standard sheet', Where breathes the foe but falls before uek With freedom's soil beneath our feet And . frocdopa's bnnncr waving o'er u& NUMBER 4i
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