The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-11-25
From the Cadiz Sentinel.
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THE PEOPLE.
The time will come when the people will
know themselves, and the moral sentiments
of mankind will triumph over their propens-
ties. "Coming events cast their shadows
before" and we believe the period is not far
distant when toiling man will rise in the dig
nifty Of his nature and point 10 the sweat
upon his brow as wreeth more ennobling
and more worthy of honor than the coronet
that binds the brow of royalty. Democracy,
is even handed justice to all, is progressipc-
its march is onward, and when it reaches the
goal--when despotism, the pride Of place, the
pride of wealth, the pride of power, will cease
to exist-and man, aboring, toilng 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
topursue 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 uni
formly been children of the people. An
Alexander, a Cesar, Napoleon, may write
their names " GREAT" in characters of ofblood,
but such'greatness will be abhorred, when the
principles of true democracy are established
upon the earth. Who would not rather be
Franklin than George the Third? Wash
ington than Napoleon? jackson than a
Cromwell? The man whose name is written
IN The hearts OF the people, is truly the great
man, and s,:ch great men have always sprung
from Tie people themselves. In Literature,
in Poetry, in Science, in the Arts, in Religion,
the names most renowned and glorious are
names of the children of the people. The
wife of poor carpenter Of Galilee was the
mother of Jesus-the glorious Redeemer
chose 10 visit the earth a child of the people
Emanuel was born in manger. His apost-
les were called from the humblest stations
in life, and their names are higher and
brighter than the stars Esop, Terrence
and Epictetus, were originally slaves, which
shows that even degraded servitude is on OBJ
stacle 10 the aspiring mind. Who wrote
poetry like Shakespeare, and Burns, and
Tasso, and Milton and Homer? And these
we're children of the people. Franklin drew
the Lightning from the skies and snatched
the sceptre from tyrants, and commenced his
glorious career of doing good friendless
printer boy. Little did the British officer
think when he struck the poor prisoner boy,
Jackson, for refusing to do menial service,
that he would one day be elevated to the
highest station 10 which mortal man ever
attained. When we have read in History of
the treatment of man of genius by tyrants-
of the conduct of those who lord it over the
people to those who would do good to the
people-our heart has bed, and we would
swear anew the oath that history had taught
us" Eternal hatred 10 tyranny" A mob
is not the people, but tyrant worse than
Nero. He who would aid or countenance a
mob, in this free country and enlightened
age, is tenfold worse than the Athenian who
pressed the poisoned chalice upon Socrates,
or the malignant Jew that buffetted the
Saviour of the world. The people will ever
act rightly so long as there is no trammel
upon their free judgment. Vor popula' is
" Vor Dei' only when the people act from
the voice in their hearts which ever says,
do UNTO OTHERS AS YE WOULD OTHERS
SHOULD DO UNTO YOU" That divine saying
is the Alpha and Omega of Democracy, pure
Democracy, and Democracy of the bible,
and the Democracy that ultimately will pre-
wade the earth. Columbus, child of the
people, gave new world to Ferdinand and
Isabella, and was rewarded with a chain and
a dungeon. Such is tyranny! But that new
world is now the asylum of the oppressed of
all nations, and the spirit of the Genoese
mariner beholds from the skies, the march of
Democratic Liberty, which will ere long
reign supreme from the Atlantic to the Paci-
fc, from the Polarsnows to Terra del Fuego
The spirit of Democratic Liberty, rocked in
the cradle of the American Revolution, is
now going onward in its strength " conquer
ing and to conquer" No Tyrant's will can
bind the unshorn Sampson-it marches with
giant strides Iand with potency irresistible.
No pent up Utica contracts its powers,"-
onward, right onward it will go, until
The whole unbounded continent is ours"