OUR COUNTRY.
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Liberty does not mean independence of law.
But the right Of selEgovernment by our own
laws.


Freedom for every one to do as he pleases
without regard to the rights of others, is anarchy
NOT republicanism.


Equality does not mean that each should have
the same amount Of property as every other, nor
that all should have the same calling. To de-
mand this would be as if we should ask that the
earth should be all hill, or all valley.
There must be diversity Of condition among
men as long as there are differences in character
and capacity and different ends to be answered in
civil society.


BY equality, mean that all shall be equally
protected in their rights, and have the opportunity
TO rise by their industry and well doing, according
to their several ability.


We have no despotic government, costing a
hundred fold more than sufficient to sustain re-
public. We have no landed aristocracy---no
union of Church and State--and no sinecure priest
hood. No minister with us can be settled un-
called by his hearers, but each one stands upon
his own character without anything to break the
force Of responsibility is in his calling ur-
ged by as powerful necessities as is the farmer.


The soil belongs to us--and is owned in fee
simple, and for the most part, by its cultivators,
or is in the hands of Government for sale, for
the benefit Of the whole, or to any who may
wish to purchase.


Our constitution and our laws are our own;
they were made and are sustained and enjoyed
by ourselves. There never was such people.
never such luxuriant and boundless soil thrown
open for the benefit of the cultivators--never
since earth was made, have men been let loose
under the stimulus of such high hope and the
pressure of such motive to continued action.


And we are wonder to many, and wonder
even to ourselves. 4 t,4art -#


But how to preserve liberty, there's the rub
Other nations have made themselves free, but
their light Of life has been like the meteors glow
flashing athwart the horizon and going down
in endless night. Shall it be thus with ours?
Have we been called into the light Of liberty and
shown what we may be, only to be thrust back
into more terrible darkness? ". " ,,..n..


trust not. trust we shall shine brighter and
brighter, till the nations, encouraged by our sue
cess, shall break their chains and walk erect and
free over the fair earth which God has given
them. ~,


When at first we set up for independence,
Kings, Mobiles, and Priesthood stood aghast
They pitied us poor orphans who had no Church
and State to take care Of us--they feared that
we should all 60 back again to skins and acorns.


But we have kept along for SO years or more,
and we have in that time made some bread stuff,
some cloth, and considerable pork: and we have
thoughts Of trying it SO years more-and if we
stick to the good old way Of : Virtue and Liber-
ty,' | think we shall succeed.- DR.. Beecher.