The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-12-10


The man who dgaies the existence ef \
experimenting Providence. in hri.l .ing n
bout the yariaus revolutions which lax.
place in the world, must, in our opinion. Lr
hHaa 10 taei, deaf 10 argument, aud alive
I D.hy TO hls oHa prc-eoaccrcd prciuliees.
Not 10 80 further back than The French
Revolution, ihe phiiosoplic eye may easily
trace, IA that siupehdous eNeGi, the prima-
~ AID secondary causes which lead 10 il +:
each separate and distinct in IL oprration.
yet all admirably harnoulzing together in
The hand of their great director. Tie ex-
ample of America, tie writings of the phi
losophers, the arrogance OF the Arisiotra-
cy, the a'arlce and ihiql ity OF the Clergy,
the arrangement OF the finances, the mud
tplleily and frequent changes of the state
qnacks, atioS, Prime Ministers and. more
, than all, the misery of the people in the
midst al plenty leach cause distinct in it.
self and having its own peculiar effect, yet
The whole forming n grand combination,
Supporting and strengthening each other
like the varied mechanism OF "A watch, pro
daccd the mighty change that the world
has wondered at, Kings have shuddered at,
aud united despotlsm and ignorance have
been lighting at for the last 30 years.
Believing, then, rs we do, that liz who
permltteth not sparrow 10 fall 10 HE
ground unnecessarily, directs and controls
those great moral causes Which have such
Important effects upon his creaturc--.jIda ::
lat US, awed and hnmblcd by his belief,
but Influenced by it, take advantage 10 our
experience and look about us, Ia discover
whether the same or similar means are
now using by the Almighty mechansi, 10
work out the same or similar ends.
Last week we showed the state of pub
lie feeling in Russia, aud commented upon
the rapid strides which knowledge and H.
berty had made in that semi-barbarous
country. There, amid the GOODNESS OF al
most eternal SHOWS, and the Witness of
uncaltured naturc-among men who, for
centuries, have paid slayish obedience to
authority, and who, as soldiers, have ever
deemed 1t their only duty to stand aud be
shot at, no matter what the caHsc or who
the COMMUNICATIVE principles Of freedom
and philosophy, TIE spirit of independence
aud the love OF inquiry, have taken root,
started up, distcnded, and become great
trees III moment.
We had scarcely finished our Former oh
servations upon this astonishing fact, when
intelligence, OF u similar nature, reached us
from Germany. a great conirderacy en-
braclng nearly all the Unis ersitics, many
OF the soldiers and a great mass of the com
mon people, had been discofeied in the
Umpire of Austria be object of the Fon-
itderateS was liberty 5; and such liberty loo,
as men, goaded by repeated acts OF iAralI-
ny--traml l.d down by despotism--sa5-
I'D and bandagcd by highly penal laws
and mocked by broken promises, and The
common cant OF superstition and Machia-
Neiism, might expect Their principal
Watcll-word formerly WAS, Our Country; :
now, since many of them have been hunt
ed by the slndIcllve blood huihds of power
to the bosom of their families, and from
them dragged to be imprisoned and ruin
ed, they have adopted Equality We
lament this, but we arr nOt surprised al II.
lnnocent individuals, Just cmanaing from
he rack or the whip, would gladly destroy
all human punlshmrnts whatever; 81 per
sons who see nothing IN the inequalities OF
society but haughtincss ard cruelty on the
one SIDE, and ;lhlrciness and misery on the
other, are disposed, in the first instance, TO
wish for the utter extinction Of all ranks
grades, aud degrees, nhtreser they may
I've. This is an evil, however, which eX-
perience, history, and philosophy, will
soon cure.
In France, the trial Of the consprators.
at KocheHr cIicits ncw facts every da, re-
latise 10 the spread OF liberal opinions
there. 4 great number Of the Witnesses,
and Of the accused. are u, owed 10 belong to
the taibonari. Successlu attempts had
been made 10 hold meetings. nj night, 10
concert their plqns, under the scmblaner of
Free Masoas' lodges. Military ,n'n. phi
Yates and officers. Aad associaied them
selves together, as brethren, IN tllcse lodg-