The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-07-15

iced ior time only with the saraeen'e sneer'
they are but thirty men iPerehed upon rock We
can destroy ihem when We phrase But luxury, 40
its turn infused weakness into the councils OF VIC
yictors and few ages revealed 10 them the menaeins
magnitude Of the danger which betides neighoor-
ing selfndulsent people from the hardhood and ga
gAciiy Of a small number OF Industrious and acu'e
foes Ii was The repetition Of Roman experience
the dec adency which followed ihe demolition oil Car
thage-
Since Rome FROM want and hardship Was
secure,
All vice abounds and every crimes mature
And the Turks whose horsemen shone in prophetic
vision with breast plates of fire, and OF Jaenh and
of brimsionen-who bestrode Asia IN furious con
quest and burst with iDundaling and overwhelming
violence into Europe have they by their a'aree ana
injustice secured the strength and consolidated The
glory of their empire or do they also attest the re-
tributions of Providence Are the fatal days that
struck The lower empire of the Greeks from exist
ence beginning to be repaid Have the yellow haired
sons Of the North descended from their plains with
vengeance in their hearts, Have oezakow and
Ismae and fifty feds of defeat, dropped the proud
look of the Ottoman, bent his naughty soul IN an
guish and aties,ed that honest labor Is better,
permanent resource, than pllndering rapaciiy Dad
the bitter contest of Nayarino engulph his navy in
the sea that had witnessed his piraces and severed
Greece from the grasp Of his expressions And does
he wait the humble mental OF the three great powers
attentive to receive their next order OF command
\ Luxury and indolence have, for brief period, re-
olced in his presence; but he, likewise, has found
that guy Is weakness.
| Go thou, oh nation, and do like the people have
done whose history have briefly recouuted, and
thou shalt be rewarded accordingly thou shalt have
thy wages--be 50 thy sin shall fI.d III OUT
| These ways and means have been tried--tried SO
often, that one would think that in this age, man
should have learnt fixed and impressive lessons from
their efiects-yet the old lesven remains. They
have been anchor insufficient to keep nat onal
prosperity 10 her moorings but still they trusted
by multtudes. 1t would be- however, denial OF
fact, TO affirm that mankind have gained nothing by
the terrible experience of the past-that they have
made no solid advances The thirty years of peace
among the great powers of Europe furnish a strong
proof that meliorating principles have obtain
ed much influence on the minds of men-tha
they have gained admittance into the councils O.
statesmen Thankful for this degree of improve
ment let recollect that there are perils even il
the present systems and modes of thought both il
| Europe and America. In each of these great ant
| influential regions-ac,iDg and reacting on eacl
other-there is something to retrench and to add
The fires evidently in many places smouiderin
| beneath the surface let not deceive uiselves
il will require great wisdom in people and in states
men to prevent their bursting forth in some might
conhsgraiion. England and The United States ar
| the powers, now, TO whose custody is committee
more Than to any others, the peace and happiness o
the world. If they mutually respect each other
sghts-scrupulously aJs,an from encroachment upol
them-cuvate friendship in the spirit Of peace, goo,
will and mutual regard-leasc each others institu
tons TO be cared for and disposed Of by each nalio
separately-an is come, not only marked by
should attempt no other influence but that of exam
pie, so far they are nationally connected-esc
individual of the respective nations, preserving hi
rights freely to speak and print what be thinks pro
- - - -afine
they may marshal he moral forces Of the world no
the eradication Of error, the extrpation Of vice an
the temporal and eternal veal Of the whole race
And if Providence, IN his awful dispensatons, hat
in reserve any great conflict in which the essen,ia
principles of liberty endangered and the hsppi
ness Of these two great nations should be clearly
zarded-in the language of Mr. Canning the mo
Their and the daughter will stand together against tn
world