Southern telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1834-1838, 1838-06-27
EGYPT.


dead!"
EGYPT.
The prcscnt condition Of Egypt is per-
haps amongst the most remarkable of any
existing territory in the world The Jews
ish prophecies marked it from The earics,
period Of history, as lying under anathema,
second only in s;ernnoss aud extent To that
Of Judea itself. lis religious corruptions,
which have been suffered, ss if for the
purpose Of showing 10 what depths the hui
man mind, in lis natural state, can descend I;
brought down upon il the extraordinary ma
ledictlon, that the Egyptians should never
be an independent people. No prophetic
declaration has ever been more distinctly
fulfilled For nearly three thousand years
the Egyptians have been the prey Of adj
ventarers, successfully ravaged by the
Persians, tyrannized over by the Greek
successors of Alexander, turned into proyin-
ces by the Romans, ravaged by its Saracen
government, enslaved by its Mamelukc
robbers, conquered by the French, again
in the hands Of the Turks, and at this hour
t.iaStercn DV tufkiSn save.
Whether its long depression is now about
10 cease. CT whether, as is much more pro-
babie. il is destined, on the death Of Mo-
manned All and lis son, to fall again into
the halls of the Turks, and feel the pilloge
Of Turkish government, Is only Tor the III
ture TO decide. Bat The not less cxtraord'-
nary circumstance charc, crlzes Egypt
that il, Of all the regions of the earii, is the
most singular instance of continuance OF
fertility, and of Il perpetual provision for
that fertility. In the midst OF desert, the
narrow land Of Lower Egypt presents to
the eve a territory, whose exuberance
hardly required The aid Of human labor, and
has scarcely ever failed during course of
centuries, This is the well known work of
the well known Nile. But it is not to be
overlooked, that the moral and physical
condition of Egypt, exhibiting the most d.
rect contrast to each other, since the days
of Pharaoh, give decisive proof of the fact
that the power and prosperity of nation
are dependent on higher sources than sol
or situation. The position OF Egypt is made
for power. Inaccessible by land, with the
desert for its rampart-lnaccesslb by sea
from the shadows Of the Nile--if the PEG
pie had the spirit to defend their frontier o
their shore, standing on the central poin
between the east and west, and thus com
manding the opuient commerce of both
with the unexampIed productiveness of I
soil utterly ENTHUSIASTICALLY has Egyp
been prey or province for nearly three
thousand years? All probability is agains
it-naturo is against it-but fact is for II
and prophecy had prepared US TO expect j
Great designs of ProvideI ce may be in ac
tivty at this moment for the restoration {
the East to its moral understanding, and ic
the extinction of those fierce, ignorant, an
goddess governments which tear it 10 pi'
ces. The thoughts of men, totally fire.
from extravaganza, are turning upon Ia
estine. The days of the crusader will me-
er come again: but it is impossible to dou'
that new influence is turned towards r.
clons on which neither Jew nor Chrlstid
, can look withou, mngling at once of j.
and pain, of the loficst hope and the dee
est Observation-Disclosures Magazine.