Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1835-07-09

than we returned to our couches, and
while we were exulting IN our strength,
and rejoicing in our victory, suffered our
indefatigabIe foe to regain all she had
lost. Its not sudd.n and transient ef
forts, howevery vigorous and well direct.
ed, that can preserve any State from de-
struction. There is in all popular GO
vernments, a natural tendency to degen-
crate, as there Is in matter 10 fall; and
nothing can couDteract this tendency,
and the continual endeavor of unprinci-
pied men to increase it, but the most en-
ergetic and persevering exertions. On
no easier terms can the blessings Of free
dom be enjoyed, and if we think this
price too great, it evinces that we are
neither worthy nor capable Of enjoying
them.
Away, then, with those idle hopes
and frivolous excuses which defraud US
of the only moments in which our safety
can be secured. Away with that indo-
lence, 50 unworthy, so inconsistent with
the character of freemen. This is the
very crisis of our fate! We stand OH the
exremest verge of safety, single step
may plunge us headlong, nere, 10 rise!-
The immense wheel Of revolution may
be pat in motion by fly, though it wonld
require more than mortal power to arrest
its progress. Those who attempt to
check it's career, must fall the first VIC
Tins to its ponderous weight-while those
only who urge it forward, and rejoice in
the horrid devastation il occasions, can
be safe. But let US not therefore give
away to despair.
The same maxim that bids us never
10 presume, teaches us likewise never to
despair. BY neglecting the first Of these
piecepts, we have begun our ruin; let
US not complete it by neglecting the last.
Let US endeavor to open those eyes
whose sight is not totally extinguished
by the vnulsnce Of the disease. The
bright ravs Of truth and reason, condens-
ed and reflected from polished mind
may penetrate even the shades and mists
Of deepest prejudice. Remember that
vhen good IS 10 be promoted or erii oppos-
ed, IL is the duty Of erery indsral,sal 10
conduct as u The whole success ofthe enter-
prise depended on himself Remember loo +,
that there is no individual SO insignifi-
cant, that he cannot afford some assis-
tance in the struggle for liberty and Or
der. But let US be careful to engage in
this struggle in a manner, and with arms
rorthy OF the cause we profess 10 support.
Why should we disgrace that and our
selves, by contending for the most impor-
tant interests Of our country in lang uage
fit only for tenant Of Billingsgate, dis
putting about the property of shrimp or
an oyster? Why should we quit the high
ground of reason and argument, on
which we stand, to wrestlc with our an
tagonist, in the kennel Of scurriiity and
abuse? Why should we exchange wea-
pons, with which we are ceriain Of ricto-
~, for those which our adversaries can
WELD with equal and perhaps superior
dexterity? IL ought nerer 10 be forgotten,
that ercept IN some teV Instances, it is not
MEN but PRINCIPLES, we are to at
tack. Experience has at length in sorrc
measure taught us what we ought long
since to have learned from reason, that
though rnitcule can p1'itate, it cannot
conrince. On the contrary it rouses to
opposition some Of the stronge est passions
in the human breast; and he must be
something different from man, who can
be seourged out of any opinion, by the
lash Of personal satire.
We are told that the torrent of Iicen-
tiousness which is rushing upon US, is no,
just cause for alarm; that it will cease
Of itself, when it has run its career and
that the people having learnt wisdom by
experience, will know how to prize the
blessings of order, and return with alac-
ritv to their former correct habits. True,
II ,ciH cease when it has run its career
and so will the conhagration that de-
stroys your dwelling; but will you there.
fore use no endeavors to extinguish it
BeWare Of induising any hopes but hos'
which are founded on ereriions. The tor.
rent which approaches US is the over
whelming deluge of Vesuvius, or Htna
which calcines or consumes what It can
not remove, leaves nothing behind it bu
black sterility, and renders AGES in.
sufficient to repair the havoc of DAY
Let not these counsels be despised, be-
cause they are the words Of youth and
inerperience. When your habitation j:
in flames, a child may give the alarm Il.
well as philosopher"