Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1842-02-26


converted creations Eden into cherries waste?
No. A moral desolaiion has swept over her sur
face, aud consigned to destruction the pioUdest
monuments Of human grandeur. The S roc
breath CT lnemprrance has used along, aud
beneath its whitening exhaIations have fallen the
proud, the beautiful, The great. Rome was once
noble and ennobling. She was the hume Of
liberty, the nurse Of Science, the birthplace Of
genius. the cradle Of the mighty men OF ynre
Her Scipios and her Cgsars poured in her lap
The spoiIs Of nations aud the sparkling gems OF
Egypt. change has come over her dream Of
empire aud dominion, her star Of glory has cuI.
minated from lie empyrean height and the
"O"ean Queen presents a sad spectacle Of the
Of human grandeur. The cause OF
her ruin is graphically described by her own
pocI:-"L WTurid SaeUiOr arms incubun"
Luxury more destructive than war and pest.
lence has seized upon her vilals. Babylon too
has fallen. She, whose "nerchants were princes,
and whose traf!lgkerS were the honorable Of the
earth" is no more. In he palace, which Ne.
huchednazzar built as monument Of his glory,
the lion howls and where revealed the impious
Bel>hazzar, shtieks the tuaeIrs' bird Of night.
I'm drunken Ievelry the mysterious hand writing
was traced upon the wall of the eastern tespot,
and his empire divided TO the Mede aud the Pr.
sian. Had Spartan economy been the guide Of
modern Greeks, the guardion spirits Of her LID.
erty would not now stoop from their abJdes, and
weep over her deserted aud desOIated fares II ID
Roman simplicity never yielded 10 the innova.
tions OF luxury and imtenperance, her glory
wonld not have passed away like dream. II
tr,y tells ~ thaI C.nainnalus, when entrusted
yv.n the dictator snip OF Rom, drew his subs ct.
ercs from few acres Of gruun1; and the family
.. Rsguius, during his embassy TO Carthage were
the humble recipients Of public bounty. or
such sons could Rome boast in her plIniest
days Of power ior then virtue and temperance
reig0el triumphant over luxury and vice. And
have we been sacure from the he4vinss Of this
volcano Has no lava tide dashed it.: burning
waves upon our own loved shore! Yes the
demon OF intemperauce hes entered our borders,
aud like the dragon mentioned in the Apocalypse
has drawn a third part OF the nation away from
their ID. Ii has not only marred domestic (e.
Iirity, hut it has presided in the halls Of Iegisa.
iJn, it has invaded the temple, desecrated the
Sanctuary, and furnished the bright es utcheon Of
Christianity. The cities Of the plain are buried
beneath the pool Of oblivion, the lonan no
longer looks on Attica with delight, the throne
Of the Ces1rs, has crumbled before the touch Of
the Goth and the Fandal, and the sun OF the
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