Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-06-23
From the .N'e,r Fork Ti4ah Teller.
STATE OF EUROPE.


iiesty evinces the verification handed down
to US BY the immortal FRANKLIN, that "t,ind
would ono day become omnipotent over mat
ter" What now is the tacP Look at Bel
GUM, with her vasciIlating mutit,ile-- Look
at Naples with diScord in her bosom and fer
ment on her bortlers-Look al Spain and
Portugal, whose despotiSm has caused their
thrones 10 to'ter, aud whose sccptres are bu;
sustained by the ser,ility of the base! = Aye,
and look TO them all lessons Of instruction. II
IS not that glory gows, and valour fires, and
PATRIOTISM heatS--nor is IT that thrones have
been undermined and dynas,ies destroyed; it
IS not that the Nooch OF despotism has rear
ed his head, enlisting votaries for his support
or booming them to desolatiou mol il is IN
tedigence- II is the march Of the mind. which
has the transition OF our day with pride and
admiration be it said from the darkness Of
diabolical ignorance 10 the halowed and glo-
rlous light of irresistible intelligenc,l What
have I'VE better illustrative of these truths
than PoLANp-long suffering, prosecuted, de-
graded Poland with nothing but virtue FOR
her distalf-with none but the Con of battles
for her friend and none but his radiant sky
to overshadow her. Emerging from the vale
ofignoranee, she has struck the blow for free
dom, and proved to an asionshcd world that
her sons know it and appreciate lt--that
"Freedom's battle once begun
Bequea;h'd from bleeding sire to SON
Though often lost, is ever won"
Long may they cherish the admirable thotl
Long may they prove the champions of that
freedom for which PulaShi bled and died on
the plains Of Savannah, and for which kosci.
usko strove in vain in the darkest hour of Po-
fish history. They have now journeying
with them the day-sprlng OF intelligence--th
omnIpotence OF mind over matter-which,
while it dssipates the mist Of prejudice and
banishcs discord from among them, gives an
impetus to exertiop and hallowed strength
TO their resolve. Man has risen from the dust
oil degi adatlon, and asserts in every direct ton
the dignity of his nature. No longer is ty-
ranny 10 trample upon human rights, and de-
base, degrade, aud barbarize the human
mind;-no longer is The iron sceptre to be
welded as a scourge and desolation, or the
Juggernaut Of despoiism to crush its victims
with impunity. Man has taught Kings that
they are men, and that freedom is the inherit
right of all, whether the serf or the chieitan,
the subject or the monarch. Hereditary ideas
as to distinctions among men are falling into
disrepnie-andc citizen Kings and Kings hold
ing their stations M The ,oH The PEOPLE,
are fast growing into fashion. Such are the
effects of educafiont that inestimable bless
ing, to which tyranny is such an enemy. But
let us turn our eyes TO land that more deep
ly interests us, to see the march Of intelli
gence among people lately trampled on and
desplsed, and the effects Of which are visible
from the Giants Causeway to Cape Clear.
Look at IRELAND Ii is, as it were, but yes
terday that education was prohibited there
- Al. ID =. - ID
by the Parliament Of a nation arrogatng
to itself pre- eminencc on the score of ref
ned intelligence, Amid the countless other
acts of oppression and Of cruelty, all tending
TO destroy the character and name Of IRELAND
as a nation-amid legislative enac,ments that
The verlest tyrant OF Barbary would blush to
avow-amid them all stands conspicuous the
act Of the British Parliament prohibiting the
education of seven-eghths or the people OF
IRELAND, and thereby dcbasing am. render
ing iallow her intellect, tho more eflectualIy
TO lord 1t over her. Yet, look at IRELAeDl
Fifty years ago, aud though the peasant
might have sent forth his sigh in the silence
OF bis cabin for his countrys long lost liber-
~, his daring and manly voice OF The present
day would have led him to the scaTold.
Then those who perhaps by stealth, in the
deep recesses of tue cavern, or in the retire
ment OF the mountains, amid danger andd diff
iiculty, had cultivated science, and thus'per-
petuated its blessings, had just breathing time
enough through the darkness of ignorance
and the gloom of oppression, TO send forth
scintillaton which, being famed into glow
Ing, has since irradatcd the Irish mind Now
that mind is on the march land on its m lrch
to ireedom-esscntially through the means
Of triumphant inteiHgeacei No stoidity per
vades it-no tyranny can stay it--no discord,
or discussion, or bigotry mislead it. Hand
and heart in unison. and guided by the out
pouring of patriotism, it uiustrcach its desti-
ned goal-ior
Erin the night Of thy winter is past,
And the hope that lived tho it shall bios
som at last
The master spirit that has wrought such
inc alculable wobders-that has driven imbe.
ciIity, and despotlsm into exile is now at
work in the bosom OF Ireland. and s'miI.d wM
one day become omaipotent oger matter"
Lottery Ticket couaterteited-B Brokers look
0ni--One OF our Lottery Brokers exhibited
TO us last evening half ticket in the Della.
ware and y. c. Consolidated Lottery, 10Th
Glass drawn 3lst May.) having on it the
combRation number % 40, entitled TO the
highest p. lze, $4,000. Ii was presented at
his office for examination by decenily dress
ed white woman, and hc had already written
the amount on The face Of it, when flom some
misgivinss induced by the rather suspicious
behaviour Of the woman, he compared il
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