The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-10-01
TIE PeOnIe.

The People.
The time win come when the people willknow
themselves, and the moral sentiments of mankind
viii triumph over their propensities. "COming
events cast their shadows before" and we believe
tho period is not fat distant when toiling man
will rise in the dignity of his nature and point to
the sweat upon his brow as a wreath more emo
bling and more worthy of honor than the corona
that binds the brow of royalty. Democracy,
which is eyen-handed justice to all, is progress
Sire-its march is onward, and when il reaches
the goal-whcn despotisul, the pride of place,
the pride ofwealtb, the pride of power, will cease
to exist--and man, laboring, toiling man, made
in the image of his God, but deformed by the
circumstances which surround him, will stand
up in the dignity of his primal nature-knowing
his rights, and daring to maintain them, knowing
the truth and daring TO pursue it-then, ,and then
only, will he be crowned with happiness The
truly great men of the earth who have done good
to man, and exalted his condition, have always
been children of the people. An Alexander,
Cesar, Napoleon, may write their names
"GREAT," in characters of blood, but such great
ness will be abhorred, when the principles of true
democracy are established upon the earth. Who
would not rather be Franklin than George
the Third2 Washington than Napoleon? a
Jackson than Cromwell? The man whose name
is written in the hearts of the people is truly the
great man, and such great men have always
sprung from the people themselves. In Litera-
ture, in Poetry, in Science, in the Arts, in Rell-
giOn, the names most renowned and glorious are
names of children Of the people. The wife Of a
poor carpenter of Galilee was the mother of Je-
sus-the glorious Redeemer chose to visit the
earth child of the people Emanuel was born
J in manger His apostles were called from the
humblest stations in life, and their names are
higher and brighter than tie stars! Esop, Ter
ence and Epictetus, were originally slaves (which
shows that even degraded servitude is no obsta-
Gle 10 the aspiring mind. Who wrote poetry like
Shakespeare, and Burns, and Tasso, and Milton,
anu I1OlIlGII AIlu LiCh0 WCIC IutlOlCIl vi tLC
people. franklin drew the lightning from the
skies and drew the sceptre from tyrants, and he
commenced his glorious career Of doing good a
poor printer boy Little did the British officer
think when he struck the poor prisoner boy Jack.
son, for refusing to do menea service, that he
would one day be elevated 10 the highest station
4 TO which mortal man ever attained. When we
have read in History Of the treatment Of men Of
genius by tyrauts-of the conduct of those who
lord it over the people to those who would dc
good TO the poope-our heart has bled, aad we
would swear anewthe oath that history had taught
lus-"EteFnal hatred TO tyranny" A mob is moi
the people, but tyrant worse than Nero. He
who would aid or counenance mob, in this free
country, and enlightened age, is tenfold worse
than the Athenian who pressed the poisoned cha
lice upon Socrates, or the malignant Jew tha
buffeted the Saviour of the world. The people
will ever act rightly so long as there is no tram
mel upon their free judgment "Vor popuIi'
lis "Vor Dci'' only when the people act from
the voice in their hearts which ever says, "Dt
UNTO OTHERS AS EE WOULD OTHERS SHOULD DO UN
TO YOU" That divine saying is the AL pha ant
Omega of Democracy, pure Democracy, the De
mocracy of the bible, and the Democracy tina
ultimately will pervade the earth. Columbus,
5 child of the people, gave new world to Ferdi
, nand and Isabella, and was rewarded with chair
and dungeon. Such is tyranny! But that new
r world isnow the asylum Of the oppressed of al
nations, and the spirit of the Genoese marine
beholds from the skies the march of Democratic
) Liberty, which will ere long reign supreme from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Polar snow
to Terra del Fuego. The spirit of Democrat
, Liberty, rocked in the cradle of the American
5 Revolution, is now going onward in its strengd
: ''conquering unto Conquer" No Tyrant's vii
can bind the unshorn Sampson marches wit
e giant strides and with potency irresistible. an
: pent-up Utica contracts its powers,"-onwarC
!, right onward it will go, until
.'The whole unbounded continent is ours"
PatriOtism.