Delaware patriot & American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1828, 1828-03-25

Or the plttli OF tue republic. II "ou'e no. oe ~
full to designate these men. Some lew OF these
had been military men but the greater NUMBER were
not military cheftans. Both descr'puonsoy 'hr.r
writings and other acts and deeds have lett ,naen
lie records Of their hostility to the declaration Of
human rights and the eternal equality OF man ID
society.
Referring then to the maxims above cited it must
be very clear that it would not be correct to consul
er those who achieved and those who succeed To
distinction upon the ,!isbandment OF the army as
the same persons. 1t is sufficiently painful to re-
fect on the manner of treatment those who loushl
experienced from those who came into the mass OF
political power. 1t is not necessary to dwell on
the details Of efforts made by this class Of men, to
effect hereditary institutions, titles and all the par
aphernalia Of vanity and absurdity, by which unso-
cial governments dazzle and cajolc those whom
they betray or enslave. | pass over portion ol
the incidental history which preceded the frustra
ton Of those designs but in which those WIN were
defeated did not despair of accomplishing indirect
y what had failed in the direct effort.
The second crisis of these antscclal designs
was in the four years upon which the title OF the
reign of terror prevailed; and the issue OF the
struggle at that time was tried, and first princi
pies succeeded, and the clouds which appeared Il
menace the hopes OF the world were dissipates, AM
the contederatcd republics Of the new world be
came what it was proposed to be IN l776.
This memorable year was but the close OF al
cpocha in which the colonists were not weanet
from the vanitles and prejndices Of ieuda institu
tions then it was, that new ideas and national in
national rights; and the stirring spirit of war, b,
producing calamity strengthened thuse new opn
ions into confirmed principles.
Including the revolutionary period secont
epocha commenced in eleven short years, during
which questions of war no longer agitating the pub
lie the contest was between the good and the eyi
passions of the species; and the federal constitu
ton arose out of the contest, in 1857.
This year marked the commencement of anoth
or epocha. tide in the affairs OF nen,'' in which
the bbs and flows repressed and abated by events
which, while they proved the imperative ascendan
cy of the popular authority, exercised in constitu-
tional and legal forms. occasionally betrayed ma
ny lurking dangers.
Another epocha commenced in 1897. and 1t had
scarcely commenced with serene but delusye sky
when clouds and darkness seemed to menace with
ruin all that had been established duringthe prece.
ding epochas The events were out of the ration.
al order Of progression; the agitations were pre-
ciptous; they wanted time and space for action,
and they were submerged by the excess Of their
own accumulation Their supernatural cxtrava.
gance broke up the ordinary epocha before halt
OF ten years elapsed, and dispersed the warning
elements which had threatened general ruin and
shame. An actor in those tumults of ungracions
ambition, undertook to predict, that in ten years
more there would be a counter current, and the
elements which conspired to produce general dis
order in this semi -epocha wouldircsume their de-
structive influence The prophet saw twenty
years pass without fulfment Of his prophecy,
but not until he imagined he saw the dawn of its
renewal in 1926.
Much might be said on the transactions which
ushered in the year 1925. The elements were
partly old and partly new. When a series of
events arose which showed that first principles
had not obtained that vislant conservation which
all experience required; and another semi .ppocha
almost as unnatural, very much resembling, and
perfectly consistent with the hostility to the Peu.
pie as sovereign became manifest.
a ne'o crisis has arrived-and like the monster
OF the Arabian tales, though it assumes different
shapes, is still the identical demon, against which
the energies of virtue and public spirit must of alb
soute necessity be directed as in 1799 and lsoO.-
he cause OF apprehension as well as that Of 20.
'ltca' principles are the same-now as before
one OF the other must urish
One Of the People.
Milford, March 10th, 1898.
MIR. EDI1on,-There is piece in the Journal
OF the l4th inst, purpurting TO be, an extract of