Show LETTER FROM MISSOURI th this is the first day of august Is the anniversary of the emancipation of the colored people of the united states from their condition of slavery the event is being celebrated in missouri and will be no doubt observed all over the union by the race made free as 88 the result of the four years war which cost the battion immense treasure and blood this naturally suggests reflection and calls up memories memories painful to patriots that the best formation of a government of which civilization can boast should b have ave been plunged into internal strife which called into action all her wealth and prowess all her immense stores of tion and brought her liberty loving millions into open and deadly conflict is most lamentable the question of slavery from its first inception in this country has been a perplex ing one most likely it was among ra those questions which the framers of the constitution anticipated vv might arise at same some future period to perplex the nation and disturb its peace and which caused the members of that honored and patriotic body of men to proceed cautiously protracting protract ing their session for many days before they ventured to sign that instrument which has proved to be the very best that could have been framed to secure the liberties and rights of the whole people no wonder those honored delegates should have felt the premonitions of danger as to the results that might follow in the then unseen future it is not strange that they were filled with solicitude as to the future of their country ef knowing by common reasoning 5 that in the settling up of such a vast i area of country complications of a ir general and local character must naturally arise in the political fir lancial nan cial social and sectional interests of the citizens to show that great solicitude was felt in the con bention ven tion I 1 need only relate the fol owing lowing which is recorded of dr franklin whilst tho the last members were signing dr franklin looking towards the presidents chair at the back of which a rising sun happened bened to be painted observed to a few w members near dear him that painters have often found it difficult in their art to distinguish a rising from a setting sun 1 I have ha ve sail said he often and often in the course of the session and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue looked at that sun behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting but now at length I 1 have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun f dr franklin was certainly right in his final conclusion it was in deed a rising sun 9 though the dark and angry clouds of rebellion and war have since obscured its ita brightness somewhat for four years the hand of a great destiny has brushed them aside and the glori our orb of liberty still shows a smiling face and mounts onward and upward to a zenith of future excellence and the inspired constitution so carefully an and d wisely framed and adopted by congress and the entire people may it never be made a nullity by division by rebellion or the deliberate vote of freemen the war which has resulted in the liberation of four millions of slaves has taught the american people deop le a lesson that cannot fall fail to have its influence upon posterity the future citizens of this republic will be slow to assemble cabals to connive s galust against the perpetuity of the government they will hesitate to light the torchon torch of revolution or fire stich ewh signal guns of revolt as lg shook the walls of fort sumpter Rum pter the gory fields that quickly followed the reverberating rever berating echoes of the rebel cannon will rise before the visions of coming generations and they will consider well and wisely before igniting the match of against the fair fabric of national liberty berty ll sf it must be that this american republic has been framed to endure it must be that the divine hand of omnipotence directed its formation and the fabric that has been erected upon it it must be that its brightest destiny and the full career caree of its usefulness has not yet been reached it must be that the hand of his great providence sus talus the ark of freedom angwill and will guide it to its full and bright destiny as the 11 cradle of liberty for all who are trodden down by the feet of tyrants I 1 am convinced of this when I 1 read concerning the discovery of the continent add of the emigration that afterward followed from all parts of the old world I 1 am inspired with that be lief when I 1 refer to the mayflower and the landing of the pilgrim fathers at plymouth rock bock I 1 discern it in the planting of the colonies in the declaration of independence and in the magnanimity of those principles combined in the constitution and who can fall fail to be influenced by the potency of that incomprehensible power that held together the ship of state while the cannon belched forth its flames and hurled its death missiles over the fields of slaughter where thousands upon thousands who had bad been citizens together lay dead in pools of fratricidal blood and when a little time has blown away the smoke of hostile cannon ani and hushed the clang of arms where the opposing legions rushed to the shock of death and I 1 see once more the glad spectacle of a republic bowing to one flag deliberating together as of yore in the highest councils of the nation it is then that the patriot takes comfort then the heart feels gladness and the internal monitor whispers of the perpetuity of the republic and the blessings Eles blessings sings it is destined to secure to millions still unborn that the ship of state has safely sailed through a period of storms that rent her sails and imperiled its orew crew is evident to the entire world but in its preservation the candid can discern the overruling of a power more potent and wise than that of man the terrible picture of sixty millions of people professing freedom rushing into a general conflict and drenching the rich soil of a continent with the blood of those who owed a common allegiance to one flag had been a strange enigma even to oppressive monarchs they said the american republic had at last shown its weak ness a weakness that belonged to all republics and boasted that only monarchies were strong and lasting but now that perhaps two millions have found a soldiers grave and the same stars and stripes float in triumph in all the world res respected ete and recognized every everywhere they once more witness the wo workings ings of that vital and internal fore force that was early interwoven in the grand symmetry of the national fabric that our union is thus so wonderfully der fully preserved americans have great reason to thank the god who lifts up nations and casts them down at his behest will they learn wis dom from the bitter past if will and will act upon the princia of the constitution there w will 11 good hope for the government govern government melT men in power will dispense e justice to every citizen a and n d see none are proscribed in the else cise of their political religious rights it will wil a reform that will ans the demands of humanity if ballot box is kept pure that thi voice of the majority shall decide ai to who shall rule in the 91 D ment it will protect the fre franchise ne from further corruption if in i the legislative councils of states and ia the halls of congress men wig wib stand erect in their honor and dg dine cline to be swayed from the thear COD convictions oy by the e D of political parties or the bi bigotry try vt the religious if bribes bribe w sars I 1 withheld or re rejected if offered tf the constitution shall draw di line of demarcation and fix path to be pursued by him h ac accepts cents of office then M m y r government go onward in 11 its career of purity and enlighten em then may americans ind indeed eed h ever to be free and prosperous a the march of the re republic bublic to such as to secure the a admiration mi ration all the world which loves strong permanent governments able overcome the internal bicker bicke rii law of traitors and defy the efforts the kinge raft of old monarchies wa to obtain a foothold upon this god blessed continent L 0 MARYS marksville marysville VILLE MO aug 1 st |