Democratic Standard (Newspaper) - July 11, 1855, Janesville, Wisconsin VOL JANESVILLE WISCONSIN JULY NO 38 Tii SVF Opposite the American Standard Y j Hotel Street Janesville Rock Co Wisconsin o R o Hon D 0 Publisher TEH M S in advance SI 50 I not paid in advance 2 00 R I square 3 weeks 3 months 6 months 1 rear column per year Third Hilf One SI 50 4 00 6 00 10 00 18 00 24 00 30 00 50 00 6 00 JAMES ARMSTRONG ATTORNEY AT LAW WIS on main street over Dimock's Boot and Store W in Mr Riker's building one door east the Hotel in May's block Doctor A will render assistance in all cases where his medical services maybe required and Lung affections treat cd on Dr Hunter's principle of New York Wis July 5 1855 Hon H S Dear The un- respectfully solicit for publication copy of the very Address delivered by vou to thy large concourse of people in Ibis city on yesterday Expressing the hope that you will comply vith our request and the earnest wish of hose who were so fortunate as to be present it its pronunciation We are ery Respectfully Yours JAMES ARMSTRONG JAMES SOTHERLAND R 13 TREAT Wis July 5 1855 Accompanying this note nease find the original copy oi my Address delivered in this City on yesterday For the complimentary manner in which you are pleased to speak of it you have my thanks am of its imperfections but if in your opinion it will accomplish any thing of good in its mission to the public it is at inhaling Medicated Vapors 1355 THE STORE H S SHELTON Co Dealers In Dry Goods Stoves Clothing Boo and Shoes JEnts Caps Groceries Crockery Carpets Ac Janesville do PR O P Physician and an one door east of the Stevens Hous HENRY WOODRUFF Attorney and Counselor at Latr nad Solicitor in Office corner of Main and kce OGILVIE I Retail Foreign anc Drugs French English and eria Paints Oils and ind Artists and for uses Drug Uss Instruments Fancy articles Perfumery Pa taut etc A3 II OGI LVIE PEASE sir and claims OF MADISON your disposal Very Respectfully H S ORTON To HOH JAMES JAMBS SUT Dr R B TREAT HERLAND C Every country which has attained the dignity of having a history either remote or modern possesses something more than its present material its territorial dimensions its condition of physical moral and intellectual cultivation or its present ence or from abroad a moral which approximates to the pre- of the Gospel a basis of the natural sciences upon which all subsequent dis- have only formed a ure morality equal if not superior to that of the present age j a refinement of manners which in comparison would make the urbanity of the French weak strained and imitations of polite ness an architecture which will never be at least it can be correctly copied j a perfection of the fine arts which has served all luture times and ages as a copying text bosk and whose vaunted and imperfect imitations now decorate the modern temples of and finally a ity of ardent and ing love of kindred and a veneration of their ancestors worthy thu imitation of any country What less could be expected of a try whose Heroes Poets Statesmen traced their noble through on unbroken succession of tral dignitaries up to the very heaven of the Gods Greece was once covered and memorials to perpetuate the fame of her heroes and the startling of her history but they have passer away The of Delphi gives no mon responsive The monuments o parian which were engraver the names of the defenders of are no where to be found upon the plains of Marathon Fragments of the the power and of this sentiment which under a government and genial institutions md laws which confer the greatest good the people and which sentiment at- itself to an intelligent patriotic and worthy ancestry to customs and practices founded in beneficence and forms an impregnable bulwark the encroachments of subversive changes revolutions and tyranny and corrects by with the if maladministration and bad legislation The history of the world presents to us striking instances of attempts to subvert and extinguish long established nationalities After the bloodiest tions and under the direst oppressions the subjected may become civilly incorporated with the conquering nation but she retains with the tenacity of life itself the habits and customs forms and predilections the long established and ored usages and the revered antiquities o their lost nationality and even after oppression and slavery fires will kindle afresh upon the long neglected and violated altars of their country Pilgrimages will again be to the tombs ancestors and to the shrines of their the of their fathers will be caught from the faint again and dying echoes of the past and ring out shrill and clear in the land war to the power which has so long held them in bondage for vengeance blood-red vengeance will surely visit the oppressor are among ns as household was the first in every public duty Conspicuous lite of ia his country's love he stood day when be the tendency is aristocracy and extravagance it may also be well to the simple and unostentatious ples of early republicanism One single act in the life immortal as an epitome of the whole In the year when he was the agent of the American vas called to the bar of the House of Com- undergo a searching as to the complaints and demands of the people he was then to represent It was after passage of thu famous Stamp Act created such an alarming sensa- tion in the Colonies It was at a time when Old England stood in her peerless majesty of chivalrous haughty pride tress af the seas and rich with the spoils and her vast power bed throughout her wide dominions ex cept by her oppressed subjects the ten- ants of the rude cabins of America hold of philosophers this champion of the innocent and weak as he there stands meeting unblanched the in- suiting gaze and sneering lip of England's high born and insolent nobility without rank wealth or title without even the trappings of dress or the gew gaws of standard however high of national Doric and Ionic orders of sculpture and i a moro certain swift and In to all these it has what is equally if not more highly appreciated its unfading and tal memories of the Past The former may and do contribute to the pleasures and uses of life but the latter form an inseparable element in tional pride and patriotism The gallantry and heroism of achievements and conquests of armies the of Science Philosophy and Art the of an exalted and beneficent Philanthropy and the national from age to age to or other claims against th its civil institutions are carefully ed and commemorated either in the tomes of his lory j or in the enduring monuments of marble to call up in generations a more ardent ove of country nnd to excite the pride atu emulation of posterity You dives a people of these nnd tos of their history without dissolving ont of the strongest ties that binds them to their peculiar institutions and destroying the landmarks of their national identity ing n Washington in Land and Lonn A j Votaries Office in the Empire Wis HEDGE 1 J J R P E A S JAMES HUTSON B I Shop Main I opposite the House J where be constantly Found variety of Ladies nnd work All kinds of in hip line leto aud of the best work 4 UNION HOTEL DM Pond Proprietor This House is on the e road from to Madison way from 50 PATTEN imil Counsellors atLaw and Solicitors It Chancery street C I F- L F Public and Commissioner for the State of New CHARLES and Dealer in Toys Main street nearly opposite the American Hotel other parties supplied with Fancy Pyramids Icecream JOHN M CASE Attorney at Law and or in in the Block relics of the ancient te pies of Diana Venus now lie scattered in a confusion of classic taste and beauty in the sacred groves of Epidaurus and the once magnificent and unrivalled non adorned with the sculpture of Phidias and Euclid by Pericles as the favored ple of Minerva is slowly mouldering away upon the of Athens a solemn yet magnificent ruin how ding enduring and forever fresh in the memory of the world is the fabled classic history of Greece liar orators anJ statesmen have been models since and will be in -all and the virtues of her loving and patriotic heroes of ism will be throughout the world J will not longer dwell upon the ples abundantly afforded in the history of the ancient or modern to illustrate ami establish the assumption thit frequent recurrence to past history and the renera tiou and admiration of the patri its heroic of the same country form a vital and almost indispensable sentiment And man thus severed from his in the patriotism and conventional MAX SMITH and Merchants in corner of Main HO T K L v North streets of lower bridge Stages call daily for all parts o and Illinois by these sacred and hallowed ces would wander in the world -a olite indeed The veneration of ancestors and the re- of their deeds and virtues in sic painting poetry sculpture and history arise sentiment as universal as our race and as unchanging as the nature oi man This sentiment of devotion so in China as to become tho basis of their religion social and laws j so and sublima ted in their books of science and as being virtue itself is the great element of strength perpetuity which lias made the Imperia of that populous and peculiar nation essentially in the of revolution after for centuries This B B J F a Krce stock of tal Troos Flowering Shrubs ic at the villo a milt west of tho River CALEB G GILLETT in Provisions nnd Produce the river The price paid and Provisions JORDAN BENNETT Attorneys Law Agents Of- Block Main street Janesville WM S i AMES LAND ind retail Bookseller and Stationer new Brick Block east side of the river Janesville -J and in every variety of Caps and Furs west side of the river Janesville and Painters Shop on Milwaukee street 1 tk Carriage Factory Hairdresser Merchant's Hotel 50 DR L ARNOLD Exchange Block ga Ball and Root For BAR WELL BKO sale by BBO Brushes A LARGE Assortment of Hair i PHILADELPHIA RESTON'S CHOCOLATE f A for in FA Bro LIGHTNING RODS TREAT would inform the public generally he is pared to furnish those wishing Lightning Con- with superior article to any now in use Orders for Rods can be sent through the Post Philadelphia Drug Store city or with N Gilbert of Beloit AH orders promptly attended to jAnesville April just nd fo B BO ROBBER Dressing Combs Horn Dressin 30 FARWELL BR AND 1 For BRO Agency RANGE CARROT SEED 850 pure orange carrot seed in quantities to suit this day received from the Rochester Store KEMP Co 0 B ion of the people of firmly and permanent nation This sentiment is not akin to what is The great and of a country deserve to be honored and highly respected by the even while living Yet in a like ours I cannot think it consistent with our ideas of that simple plain and unostentatious that personal dignity ami independence which should be cled as the highest and noblest benefactions of a free government that such honor i should be shown by fantastic high ums by flattering fulsome com- in the presence of the vnin This kind of in despotic terrible than the Corsican Vendetta sweep the invaders from their barricaded places of power Poland Hungary Greece Italy and land by their restless struggles and re attempts to throw off the yokes of foreign domination give evidence of the impulsive throbs of an The Saxon element still lives in the myths and fables in the tales and nursery rhymes in the laws and literature of England and ica as fresh and as in the days of Alfred The Norman conquest could not obliterate and succeeding ages of a foreign rule hare not destroyed it Go where you will explore any iny country on the jarth search cat the subjects of a foreign power the fugitives emigrants and exiles of all climes the hallowed scenes and ot their Father land are atill as dear to them as life itself They will bear about with them through all Ian and 3 their household and altars and preserve with pious devotion the relics and of their Fathers This universal sentiment of patriotism and love for the land of their Fathers and ship may bo constitutes the leading the royalty and nobility archal governments and the nomadic tribes the an 1 and nations of thn East This is what and an ami Theocracy cipher the dim and f on the of her architecture and tauntingly behold the recorded and perpetuity of republics These foreign political casuists most grossly err io supposing that our civil on was framed by any stand ird or model of the past They seem not to understand the philosophy of our civil institutions The bulwarks of our strength consist not ill rock-bound coast mountain fastnesses and impregnable fortifications The evidence of our greatness consists not in massive structures towering and sculptured marble The ence and intelligence of our citizens are not confined by any Academus grove their eloquence to any music to any morals to oracle All the and of our ment are diffused among the people upon the principle of entire equality We have no ranks no classes no castes no favored ones or privileged few in our civil polity but all interested alike in the com- mon blessings that are dispensed by it- stand unitedly as the props and pillars of the government All join to guard what each desires to gain 1 desire not to be understood as saying thai we have no physical or that are useless tj us as a nation Far from have as mighty has been exposed as in the light of the gaze and execration of the ple And the subjects of every form ef are beginning to understand their natural right their just relation to eich other to the government and to the have policy of our They have read our tory and have learned the secret of national prosperity They hai e compared our government bur laws our institutions our liberty and happiness with their own condition of oppression and wretchedness They will not much longer bear their to the oppressor's rod and kiss the raised o their They will not much longer lie prostrate under the of or sub- mit to have their mouths gagged and their liberty of speech injunction They will nbt much longer toil and sweat and perish to alien and enrich their cruel task masters No v They will tally and spoil tha M- they may And from the rend his It argument at this day to prove that liberty is congenial to man and republican form of government beet adapted to happiness and fashion Clad the simple and strength as any nation homespun garments wrought aud ed in Nothing to mark or designate his superiority except his Sashing eye and lofty brow on which sat the proud consciousness of in- strength and moral truth brow around which he afterwards taught the lightnings of Heaven to weave a land in sportive twist There hu stood Used and fearless in his purposes of right and charged home oil England's listening stands tha noblest amplest structure upon the pride of every age and the perfection of erery that its tall and majestic spiro appeals te for protection flings back the lightning's bolt and reflects the morning hurl into its elements disunion and like the im- pious Nero rejoice to witness gration No God such infuriated diabolical are but few I trust it will never be said of America as was What foreign coold never quell By civil rage and fell The rapid and startling events of oat unparalleled growth from small beginnings up to greatness as a tion pass us as a panorama We should discharge the sacred trusts our left us with vigilance with It is for us unabridged the liberties they havo bequeathed us to ever keep clear and open the channels of a correct intelligence to recur often to the first lights and ancient landmarks of our to encourage and a sound national morality and to that ever existed upon the earth Our glorious and army and navy have in many a well-fought battle with our foes proved themselves invincible foreign force and capable either to defend our own soil or carry successful war even to the capital of other countries Our soldiers are our en from employments of life and marshalled into veterans in a day and know not what it is to surrender They Senate the burning wrongs of hia I are ever ready at their country's call to firmness I march in legions to of strife and die is able to bear and demanded with their immediate redress We ought as American citizens to recur j that banner to any nation's port and often to these examples of tho enjoyment physically man was for liberty to bear elect his nobla form at will wherever beau- tics may attract or htr fruits in- vite his taste and select his the common heritage he was made for liberty The human mind unchained and unfettered was to soar aloft in its ange at pleasure the extended flf anil philosophy Morally he was nade for liberty worship God in: the orm most approved by his conscience to o f rth in the spirit of expansive ence dispensing to all around himy the of a simple and charitable nd in acts of forbearance love and athy Away with the doctrine that thers of the Republic and sh honor and our country service by at least an attempted imitation of their simple and republican of life of cheir unbending firmness and integrity pel that to respect it These mighty arms of strength are un- der the of the intelligent mind of the nation and ans therefore entirely com- petent and eScient to our country's defence and protection patriotism and philanthropy j But my fellow citizens our elevation as ffd mint remember that by the same i a people is not only a civil but a moral and principles that fashioned our institutions and formed our government they must be preserved ami perpetuated The shores of time are strown with the wrecks of fallen and a cal departure from the foundation our their nativity is right aud sacred it forms j which it has been so the indispensable ingredient in civil mV cro lonS Giber ours also among and industry t and deeply imbedded in all the social the lost extinguished from the ful proportion systems of the world In the night of this noble and patriotic sentiment so observed and in all countries this anniversary day of Independence this day so sacred by recollections of Lho past and replete with cheering promises of the future to our country is still observed and celebrated by present of American zens in its pristine ardor And why should it not be 1 What or present can present so ny of patriotic so ny reasons for gratitude and rejoicing and so many subjects of profitable It- is fantastic show unmeaning and childish exhibition ol national of the land of to when the sceptre from and the chosen home of the children of Abraham became a Roman province and the holy places of Palestine have been defiled and desecrated by strait and gentiles and that chosen ami once exalted people scattered throughout the sentiment that formed the in terminable chain of family succession from Abraham to Christ aud makes the history of that peculiar people consist merely of a record of genealogy still preserves the Jews in the midst of all nations kindreds and tongues without a country or unchanged in their peculiar religion and social institutions by contact with all the thousand forms of customs habits and of the countries they inhabit and in their national identity unobscured and unobliterated under all the civil ments of the Earth In climes far dis- tant from the waters of Jordan the cedars of Lebanon and the olives of Jerusalem the scattered descendants of the Judea still as in of the an captivity hang their harps on the weep when they remember Zion lo ancient Greece this pervading national than anything else buted to produce the glory and grandeur of that ancient seat of learning and ment All her states and cities though in- in their general relations with each other under a common history yet preserved a distinct and well defined ration in their own peculiar laws customs and traditional history and though graced with the facilities and intercommunication of a rich refined and common language yet put sued with jealous care their own distinctive idioms and dialects They each had their own heroes to honor and admire own deeds of fame to extol nnd commemorate and they each had their own antiquities if possible more ancient than the other to boast and Thus was formed that noble emulation bet states of Greece in the invin cible bravery and gallantry of War in the mild and of Peace in the vation of letters in the ments of Painting and Sculpture and in Eloquence by which each strove and added new trophies to its ancestral honors And then the time under the of paganism ana in in ex- ten the light snd aid of f insincere and ml cal as they nny lie ths stl willing which urs bestowed the fawning sycophant tho abject the 1 statesman of eminence and citizen in any department ol usefulness who is renowned for any thing that reflects honor h s country should feel a consciousness that he receives as he always will receive the deep and and honor of the American people and should never require such a display and illustration of this respect as might excite in him pride vanity and in ordinate ambition and would certainly beget in his adulators the meanest traits of the sycophant But whatever harm it may do and ever improper it may be to testify too much for the living no can possibly result from paying a dutiful merited and becoming respect tu the dead good that men do live ter them The short life of the good and great by no means circumscribes the fulness and influence of their actions acter and example left with their countrymen a far richer legacy than their advancements and contributions to their country while living because they are never obscured and underestimated by passion and the associations and tho relations of the time Like the sun their examples rise higher the firmament of their country until they shine oat upon all alike cloudless and resplendant said that in the Celestial Empire patents of nobility conferred by the ror for distinguished services do not descend to the as in other countries but on the contrary give rank to the tors of the living This kind of aristocracy is certainly far less ble if any is to be tolerated than Honors conferred upon merit descend in a line of succession upon an ignorant vicious and sometimes upon an idiotic progeny Among any people this sentiment of at- to ancient customs habits and is always conservative and hostile to any change and begets the yet quite filial maxim that it is proper and right to do only as their fathers did before them In n government and laws of evil habits and customs of rance and servitude it presents an able barrier to improvement where it of right and amelioration that die a day uf J 4th of July a day ut general jubilee in If England has reason to of the privileges granted to her by thf of King John and tha of Rights of Charles the Ibt most tainly we cannot too highly estimate that Charter which is always read on this day by which our fathers the sovereignty and independence of these States and the rights and liberties of our people England's first charter in the custody of delegated ons and the other depended for its tion upon the conquering sword of well and both have been often violated by the encroachments of the prerogative and the grasping ambition of a pampered aristocracy Ours is recorded in legal form in the hearts of twenty-five millions of freeman and its validity can contested until those records are nil destroyed may on this occasion revert with profit to the day when the of our government were laid in a civil revolution the best directed the most complete and successful and the most brilliant and triumphant in the history of war when every citizen was a veteran dier every soldier a hero and every plumed profound and talesman And this theme so often this day and so hackneyed times of and in this matter of faci and calculating age to the honor of be it yet awakens a thrill of admiration and the lapse of future time from generation to generation will increase rather than ish the respect and honor of these sages and heroes of our early history in the es of their countrymen Time will never be language never worn As fellow citizens of this great Union may feel justly proud of our civil elevation We have the freest upon the earth Ours is the funn substance of pure and genuine racy We are all sovereigns and govern ourselves We call uo man and are subordinate to no power save the of law by enacted and tile of General government is no more or less than the creation of the federal con- which binds together these anJ independent States ioto one strong enduring and confederated Union into one wisely and government of the United States English statesmen may bouse that the oi Great Britain is the most and the most enduring and Tis true our ties were purchased at the expense of war and blood but they bj preserved by a sound public morality a correct gence and tho arts of peace The will torni lo tear uu forest oak th lightnings of II avi u may rive it but and skilful ar to mould it into is of We arc not alone interested in the port and our institutions aud the durability of the Republic The force and of our national ple upon the people of other and countries are the only hopes of bleeding liberty throughout the world The recent attempted revolutions among the nations tho vicant and de sorted the tottering walls of an- cient and absolute oppression the strange spectacle of seeing kings and emperors fu from their enraged subjects their heads without their crowns aud their backs without their royal purple The slave turn- ed against his lord and tho subject against his The long oppressed and now incensed pop illation of Europe upon a general strike for more liberty and higher wages Oui beautiful but inconstant sister France circumstances was made for larery i Yoked the brutes and fettered toil in a tyrant's balance with his gold STo nature stamped Mm iu a Herculean mould She bade no wretch his thankless labor urge And the pittance and the scourge It is an interesting and benign feature of policy to make our try what it ever home of the immigrant and the asylum of the exile Did not this mighty continent stretch forth its arms far the sea and invite our Fathers lo its bosom from the oppression of the old w Did not its rich and invite their riven their its every natural advantage present to the growth arid a mighty nation And does come us who are birth ipr their immediate lineal dants to discourage in any way those who wish to participate with us in trie blessings of rational liberty No Rather let the invitation go forth to the down trodden and oppressed of every nation to spurn their chains and their servitude come here and be free Let the oppressed tax Englishman the hearted and patriotic but despairing man the brave and generous Scotchman the honest German the Russian serf and the Poland and Hungarian pie of For the same that ery tyrant come here and learn to hot tears are ever form of government in the world converting the palace of her king inti may call the crown the parliament and the three massive pillars lhat sustain hur government and hor em- pire proclaim that without such theatre for popular sports and ular rejoicing The sunny land of Italy the ancient school of classics for- mer mistress of the world long purls no government can long By i and profound sleep of dark ages awaken ing in her rejuvenated strength to throw our own example we have long since ex- this fallacious of her economy Tho of our off the foreign domination of Austria am to regain her lost nationality Ire government are laid broad and deep in the land green and lovely Ireland the land hearts and affections of the people and the which in the richness Of her soil and the pillars of our strength are equal rights 1 beauty of her scenery in her verdant vales virtue and intelligence gentle slopes groves and Many predict that a government like j ing rivers is better fitted by the Creator ours based upon tho ever-changing for an earthly paradise than any other bo menls of democracy like a structure upon j math the sun Ireland whose ardent and the wave is ere long to be buried seem expressly j aled to resist oppression and enjoy the blessings of freedom Ireland in the vortex of civil and popular reasoning upon this subject tis true we cannot disguise the fact in cal contests we are somewhat subject to And there are timas when rivals that of and whose harp that hang in Tara was tuned to n sweeter and holier than Grecian music or popular pulse beats hish and ardent i song She has long struggled against But U must be that our i mighty of English gold and Bug al affairs and under the care j lish for Her national and management of- the and in that unavailing striiggl pie and the agents of their selection and j though chained manacled and that in our political contests are the j bleeding at every pore she knows no sub mission and proffered peace and pittance of her oppressor and tingly the points of Irish pikes her published laws How long shall Ireland remain in dage and her scattered sons and in our momentous national affairs mourn How long that the seal is never placed ner her MEAGHERS and subjects of popular deliberation That our council chamber is of large and vast dimensions embracing all our widely ex- tended country That we have five or six millions of public counsellors aud advis- ers privileged with a voice and suffrage on our deliberations It is not at all strange that we have ular excitement and that when the can people are in motion discharging their civil duties as citizens of the a great noise goes up to Heaven aud is heard all over like the voice of many waters But for all this let not anJ hackneyed in enumerating the enemies be we shall er harm each other or jeopardize our ces and virtues of of his whose Tame will be cherished by the nation and the world as long as the beau- Potomac shall base of Mount Vernon and the stars of Heaven mid- night watch e'er his tomb In the language of one of Ireland's most ent orators nation can claim no country can appropriate him the boon of Providence to the human race his fame is Eternity residence Creation To simply speak the name of WAS BIN is sufficient tp commen ek- ample to the regards of alK For deeds of patriotism justice and eminent What they consider the evidence of our weakness is in truth that of our greatest In what they consider our danger of liberty and it is the citizen in a like ours to watch with caution and to and bear each his directing the administration and of ment and preserving the rights ties of the people the servile cates of monarchy go and explore rains of ancient Greece and Rome and de- her be driven native homes and the hearts of the world the mournful songs of the Exiles of Erin God ol Liberty roll on the day when to the dast oppression shall be hurled Her name hor nature withered from world The unholy alliance of kings and tyrant awe of influence o reverence of birth and noble long practised habits of ent fora time throw ob- way of successful revolution in the day will como and i not far distant and despot will ths their sed subjects a ten retribution The sun of to the political zenith more than half a been pouring his effulgent beams globe places of the earth Have been explored The of annr be hated needs but to be keep forever burning on freedom s holy altar Yes my on this day cred to our country's liberty und dence in the spirit of our glorious ration pledge to each other our lives and fortunes and our sacred honors forever to WARREN THE MAN'S go out Come stay with me Not I have promised meet some friends this and must keep my word I will be at homo in good season had hoped that I should have your company Come why can't you try and see if 1 cannot make you as as those companions whom you are to Just this once Malcolm 0 this No no Alice I am going out New what's the use of an't a fellow go out once out leaving a crying I can't help it Malcolm But before you go Thus spoke Malcolm his Malcolm was a twenty-seven years of age nnd a carpenter by trade His was one of the est dispositioned made one of the best She loved lier with the whole pure soul and that she was loved in heart Her two children a boy and girl often saw tears they were alone snug little and was old enough to ask what made his mother cry but sho dared tell Malcolm Wirren owned the little cottage in which he lived and he had paid for it all ont of hard earnings while Alice had borne her own share of the by purchasing all the Malcolm stout and an excellent workman and had never yet seen the hour when he needed to lay idle for of work A better youth not in the and when be took the for his wife there was many a fair maiden whose bo- som gave place to a kindly wistful They would not have robbed Alice of her but they only hoped lhat their own lot might be as fortunate Whv then should a cloud come upon that house should Alice Ah Hail Columbia We have yet territory enough for set for the next fifty years and if our population should become so dense as to need more space thank God we have an equitable to the entire for it was intended the Creator to be- the abode of Liberty and then we shall have brave hearts and strong hands enough to foreclose upon it the equity of ass or two tion This day in addition to being an occasion of historical remembrances and as far as may be made of tical profit to lis by guarding against the evils that may beset our national progress and by renewing our civil obligations to our country and the world The greatest enemy to the liberties of nny people always has been and always will be ambition this Angels fell then how can man hope to win by it Bonaparte charged with the custody of the French Republic made himself the military despot of Europe and his trio is nephew placed under similar has followed his example Cromwell with the pretence of wresting royalty from the crown arid giving liberty to the people of England forced ment by legislative enactment to declare himself King Protector of Hie British realm aru striking instances of the highest usurpations of power in the name of liberty and democracy and should be to us like beacon lights to caution us not to trust too much power to one mm or to privileged few No one should be elevated to public who seeks it with too much avidity himself The insignias of office are easily changed into the of arbitrary power The palm of entrusted honor is easily convert ed into a rod of oppression A contracted local sectional ing and jealousy should as much as ble be avoided Not that that a dissolution of our Union is to be feared from such causes or from any other but that our prosperity may not be retarded I am not one of those who believe that there is danger of disunion from every threat of a reckless who talks about dissolving our federal compact as if it charter of a village Tis true there may be nhis country but they are few who would desire to see our union destroyed and our government subverted t matters such that our was planted by the hands its by the and its sed with the Wood and yer crying out their silent appeals for that run until they make a flood that shrieks as it rolls over our land Malcolm had a high society was prized by all who could secure he had been ing in the lalse smiles of the For the last year he had been allowing his appetite to gain strength At first it only an occasional then a glas so once in a and then one glasses a day But lately he Fias gone so far as to spend his evenings away from home and for nearly two months past ha had spent all his money with his jovial companions Alice saw this and shs full well where it would end if it was not stopped She knew her husband's ture and she knew how surely he was len She had whispered to him her fears and he had tried to laugh them off whims She had prayed to the fatal career while he yet had strength but he had been offended would think that he would ever ard So Alice was afraid to speak all her fears Yet she saw with a clear eye all that was coming She saw broad road upon which her beloved was traveling and her heart was aching She knew that even now want was staring iii the face autumn and she had asked of Mal- colm for money to buy warmer clothes for herself and children and he had none to give her Only before he had brought home a bucket full flour in- stead of sending home as lie used to do lie earned money and poor Alice knew too com's face and she saw that its beauty was slowly but surely away eyes bleared ana bloodshot the once fair cheeks were becoming swollen and bloated and his lips looked cracked No slie knelt down by her bedside and prayed It was now evening colm was going out lie wis to friends and Aliee knew that meet them at the tavern He had worked only three days the past week the pay for those three work pocket That money was needed at home but where would it be on the Malcolm O do not wholly fond loving Alice when your But not sed her not as he used merely because then left his cottage Alice sat down and wept She help it Her darting boy crept by and placed his arms aboot her asked no questions But he asked her not to cry His little mind have at rejoice to verdant the ground 1 It Temple w reared dread thoughts upon more he asked her not to and own little burst mother drop in the cup Oh muat co when i Ipr child the But sW could only and And they to
