Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1843-09-07

| priually ryasperated by, arvai Alin"rity,
nearly squal, and close upon his heels,
and often displaciog him 10 take his turn
and hot by he chase, let this come to
! pass according To the strong tendencies
of the age, aud then, wo 10 The land -
4 The Assyrians be mron thee As It has
been With Samaria, SD must it be with
| Jerusalem
Il Absolute and unIniiigaied democracy,
such as we are approaching lar distant
be the day of our reaching it lis tanta-
mount Ia downright and iusupportable
desp,iism, the worst in the world, be-
cause it is the reign of chaos and conlu-
sion. That's condition that cannot be
borne long, never was borne long.
\ When 1t comes TO that pass, men must
have rehel, aud il is only found IN some
/ singl lc mighty arm, able to seize and hold
1.-The scepire. Som. "man Of destiny al
ways arises ai such crisis, and gives
the only protection aud rest then altalna-
ale, gives it beneath his iron heel and
hlood-rrd banner. lie finds the people
| tom by faction, weakened by ccasrless
dissensions, wearcd out and impoverlsh-
ed by The instability of every private and
|. public interest, fit and glad to welcome
any master that can give them repose.
/ Thus Greece got her Alexander, thus
! Rome got her Cesar, thus France got
her Napoleon. Oar "man of destiny" 4"
we trust, Is not yet born but We are
doing more than we are aware towards
laying for hin, the foundations Of II throne,
and crush us
\ Miserable forcbodings, these yet
see not how any man, who stands apart
/ from political strife, and watches the ten.
\ dcncirs OF the times, can help sometimes
entertaining them they are but echoes
oi The Sah lessons oi history, voices from
the tn,nbs of ruined nations and, If ever
these are ic be uttered, when so li'ly as
on the day set apart for public hutrlia-
ton
. Humiliation, "a word most appropriate
To our suhec 1t is The one thing that
this nation needs, s,-huniiialiOn We
want 1t (; not such as consist in shame aud
disgrace without repentance, of which
kind We have enough but humiliation
before God. Our pride needs To be
BUNDLED. Wa are Il vain-g lorious peo-
pie, hone more SD ever ilourishcd.--
Pride such as ours must be put away, or
il must have fall, and we with it, The
truth is, we have set up an Idol. The
,pecious name we have inscribed upOn
its ear is PoPuiar Rights 4; noble title,
IA precious p"sscssion, and never to be
disparaced, ever to be hon"red, yes,
h"nored and gurdod d, but not rorshipped
Our people worship it, make n god OF it.
Our public men can never laud It and
magnify it enough. Ii is the one grea,
theme Of state papers, and the daily press,
and the popular harangue. "Take care
leg, Popular Rights be abridged, or call
ed in question, or secretly undermined,
or be not worshippcd enthusiastically and
loudly enough" This is the one pre-
cept, the universal homily of politics as
If any one questioned the validity Of those
rights as if the lenst conceivable speck
Of danger lay in that direction of all
others as If the one great aud only
peril with us did not consIst in eXaliag
the popular will ,nI" divinity, and mems
believing that the voice Of the people is
an very truth the voice of God as if the
only possible dcspoiism for US did moi
threaten Us sing!y and solely from the
side of party passion, and sweeping pop
ular domination, majority exalted into a
tyrant. One of the worst Roman en-
perors, D"mitian, ! think, had his closet
panelled all round with mirrors, so that
no assassin might approach him urper
ceived. His thoughts were always upon
assdssnS he could conceive of the ex-
I,tence of no other EVIL moi considering
that the dangers and miseries of Rome
were centred IN himself, him alone, his
power and his crucltics. So our emperor,
the Popular Will, vino is no, nearly So.
bad as Domi,ian, has mirrored himself
all round, and Is watching with sleeplesS
eye for the approach Of an enemy con.
.luring up fearful spec,res, Of king or
aristocracy, phanioms that exist no.
where IN this county, but IN the cant oil
demagogues, and in The brain of the l.
norant and deluded his guards pro-
claiming, every moment, from every
quarter, but The right one, "llere they
come here is the danger !" when, in.
fact, it is from hlmscli alone that the ruin
Of our Liberties can possibly come in
himself lies the only conceivable danger.
We worship political idol Popular
Rights, Equal Rights, lnalienablc
Rights, is the flaming inscription but
under that title we worship man, human
nature, ourselves, our idea of speedy
periectibIhty, our own omnpotence and
in!alllbllity,our unparalleled intelligence,
and unequalIed liberty, and glorious dcs-
tiny. ] his idol may crush US yet, as il
has others as Samnria, so Jerusnlem -
La this idol, AUD our lanaicai worship of
1t, lies our danger. When we learn to
believe in God as firmly, and TO worship
HIM as devoully, then, and not till then,
the danger will be ovcrPast
II Would that there were in fact, as well
as in name, one day Of true fasting and
real humiliation through bout the lnnd, "a
day when the whole people, tearing of
the seven(old veil OF national conceit,
should confess with shame and conlri,ion
their political idulatries, their atheisl,c
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