American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1822-07-26
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The following desultory remarks were originally
designed as ON address to the guardians of litera-
Try institution Some circumstances concurring with
the solicitation OF member of that body, induced
the writer to subit it, though reluctantly, with all
its imprriections on its head, intelligent pub
lie, with hope that the motive that prompted the
undertaking will excuse its obvious defects.
Whether we view Education with the calm and
deliberate mind OF the politician, the sedate and in
qulrng eye OF the philosopher, or the pure and ar
dent gaze of the christian, the mind immediately
perceves the immense advantages resulting to man
kind from this inestimabe blessing. How impor-
tant is Il in political point of view in our beloved
country in particular manner, where the constitu-
lent has right to instruct his representative and
how absurd for the ignorant and uneducated to in
struct those whom we presume are the best inform
ed men in the country.
The annals of mankind afford sufficient evidence,
that decline and dissolution nvariable attendants
on every political constitution To suspend the CAL
antilles arising unavoidaby from the ruins OF gov
ernments IT behoves US to inquire the source of this
great national evil. The decay and ultimate subver-
sion OF the Gtecian empire may be traced to va
riety OF causes nauspicious TO learning and sci
ence thence the operations of the governments
were rendered weak and indecisive; and hence it
was that the energies and resources of the nation
were permitted to anguish 10 inacton, or to be ex
"Yes-'ts Greece--bu living Greece no more"
That name. associated it is with the remembrance
of her former glory, and the knowledge of her pre-
sent degeneracy, must impel the warm tide of SYM
lpathy in every feeling mind.-Although her poll
teal horizon has recently been darkened by the
urban of despotsm, the time is far distant, when
the spirit OF leonidas that Tor ages has slumbered
amid her Wondering, fallen columns, rising with
the hurricane OF the revolution, shall the
mage of Thermopyla, release her from the iron
lgrasp of tyranny and MAINTAIN her rank among the
nations OF the earth: and the genius of ancient
Greece, avaking from tine sleep OF desposm, shall
resume her empire, and, 'throned on Olympus tow.
erng height, deal the destructive lightning of her
wrath on the devoted foes of Greca-and bid the
turbaned despot recall his trembling minions, nor
dare pollute the sacred soil of regenerated Greece,
with the footsteps OF slave. The day that ushers
lin the dawn OF freedom. shall greet the sun of Sci
ence bursting from the tomb of Pythagoras, dspeI-
ing the dark clouds of ignorance and superstition
and Greece shall again shine forth in all her former
lustre. As corresponding harmony exists in all
1.-THE attributes OF the Deity. He must be Just as well
las merciful and He is the dispenser of eternal
Justice, and the hioslems have arrived to degree
(,of nQuty almost unparalleled in the annals of hu-
man depravity, We may hence infer their fall, de-
!crecd in the councils of eternity; and though the
Supreme in his unerring wisdom may suspend
1.-THE sentence, the dark cloud OF his wrath hangs DER
lguilty Turkey, and ultimately must break on her
devoted head.
/ Yes, Moslem the convulsive struggles of thy
victim, aided by the demon of vengeance, have
Preached thee thy couch of roses IN the shadowy
bower and mingled with The softest signs OF the
Egean zephyr thou shalt hear the dying voice Of
thy children, inundated a, the shrine Of liberty!