Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-06-22
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ANCIENT REPUBLIC.
The following eloquent passage from
Brooks Letter., will be interesting 70 every
Amesicsn reader:
..AscosA, Oct s, 1895.
Not lar from Rimini, upon high
andsstecp hill. among savage rocks, O.
overlooking the despotisn, ana slavery
of men III around there firmly and
proudly cnthroned, sits little repub-
lie of an age Of thirteen hundred years
-one Of the oldest, il not the Oldest go-
vernments Of the world; hut alas! "the
l1st Of all the Romans, the last Of
those glorious republics that once dot
ted and sparkled upon all the Italian
plains! LIBERTY, that inspiring word,
when no longer heard in the Roman
Forum, and no longer fought for on the
isles Of Venice, when the very whisper
Of II was death, upon the banks Of the
Arno, even then found a refuge in the
forbidding cliffs that overlook the Adri-
attic, and was proudly blazoned forth
upon the portals Of San Marine.
uThe oldest Republicans fthe world
are there in one little town, as some
proud eagle in her sky-built eyre.
The waves Of despotism have for ages
beat against this rock, but have never
overtopped its summit The inva-
ding armies Of Romagna, the Hun, the
Austrian, and the Frank, have never
clamberedupits sides. -Eventhcsthun-
dcrer Of the EARTH as the French once
styled the last man-conquerer others,
who by the noise and confusion he
made, well deserved the name, hurled
no bolts Of wrath against this little Re
public, nesting in the very heart ofhis
achievements. Even when flushed with
triumphs, and scizing every thing for
himself and France, with his own hand,
he complimcnted. the little miracle ola
government, and promised it an in
crease Of territory, which the people
had the wisdom to refuse, with thanks
for the offer, but with the avowal that
they had no ambition to aggrandise
their territory, and thus to compromit
their liberties. Even dcspots, then, and
the subjects Of despots, respect gov
ernment thus consecrated by age; and
the interest Of an American is redoub-
led upon seeing this fac smile Of his
own far off land; upon feeling, e. It
were, the pulse Of a people, whose sym
pathics are in unity with his. The lit
tie heart that Is beating here upon the
rock Of San Marino, is, in the new
world, sending life-blood through ten
thousand mighty veins, and flushing
with its health the broad-sprcad sur
face Of a country that reaches from the
sea-wrought battlemcnts Of the Bay Of
Fundy to the sands Of Mexico, and
tho the hope is wild, yet It will spring
upt that the humble work Of the hon
est Dalmation mason, who, flying from
persecution, founded his city upon the
Titan mount, may become what the
like government was that arose on the
Palatine Hill, and stretched at last from
Scotia to the Euphrates, or like that
nobler empire Of those wandering pill
krims who FIRST landed on the rock ot
Hymouth. Italy would thrice save
the world, and thrice redeem it from its
Indifference, il but the principles and
purity Of Marines Republic could cx-
tend from the frozen needles Of the
Alps q the blazing mouth Of Vcsu-
vius. z