conjoined with legal obedience, then we are safe; for the influence thereof will ascend to the higher spheres of life with a controlling power, and we shall have a government here, the reflex of a pure, honest, healthful public sentiment, manifesting, in the arena of political life, the rigid honesty and the simple purity which characterize the dealings of plain, honest men. As a consequence, intrigue, corruption, subornation, Dating Personals Wi could never find here sanction, vantage-ground, or Dating Personals Wi undisturbed and settled rule.
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For this end we must turn our attention to public men and to public transactions, with a large open eye, and with a discriminating spirit; otherwise, we can Dating Personals Wi never reach the ideal of a high, noble commonwealth. And here we catch Dating Personals Wi a glimpse of duty to governors. And here I would say, most seriously, that we, who Dating Personals Wi are private citizens, should Dating Personals Wi learn ourselves, and teach our children, to respect all Dating Personals Wi constituted authority, to reverence the laws, and to fear Dating Personals Wi our rulers. The fact that this is a republic, voids not the remembrance of the sacred Word, that "the powers that be are ordained of
God."* If, therefore, we would more and more approach ideal governmental superiority,—while, indeed, studying our rights, jealously watching the Dating Personals Wi safeguards of liberty, in a free Dating Personals Wi state like this,—we should always maintain a manly forbearance, and that generous balance of thought and inclination which eschews the blustering demagogueism, whose tendency Dating Personals Wi is to make rulers insecure in their high places, and cause weak minds in authority to cater to public prejudice and passion. Rulers should never fear the people; and it is the depth of meanness in a man, or a number of men, who would create a public sentiment, which would so relax rule and Dating Personals Wi authority, that it should fall away to magisterial sycophancy and official mean-spiritedness.
As the people, so also their rulers, are bound to give Dating Personals Wi their free gifts for the high