Holly Springs gazette., 1845-04-05
WHAT Is TO BECOME OF OUR
COUNTRY:
BY JUDGE STORY.

repub ic to all future ages2 What vast
moives press upon rs fH lofty efforts
what brilliant prospects invite our enthusi
osm-phat solemn warnings at once de-
mand our vigilance and moderate cur con-
| fidencei
The old world has already revealed TO
us in is unseaed books, the beginning and
end Of all marvellous uggles in the cause
of liberty Greece lovely Greece -
the land Of schollrs and the nurse Of arms
f-where sister republics in fair procession
chantcd the praise of liberty-whete is
she2 For two thousand years the oppres-
sors have bound her to the earth. Her
arts are no more. The last sad relics of
her temple are but the barIicks of a ruth-
less soldi.ry; the fragments OF her col
umns and palaces are in the dust, vet beau
| tifui in ruin. She felt not when the
mighty were upon her. Her sons were
uniied at Therm0pylae aad Marathon, and
the tide OF her triumph relied Jack upon
the He'll, pon'. She fell by the hahf OF Ter
own people. The man of Macedonia dIo
not the work of destruction. 1t was alrea.
DIV done by her own corruptions, Danish
mentS and disseriions.
Rome republican Rome whose
eagles glanced in the rising sun-where
mains, proud even in her desolations noble
in decline, venerable in the maJesty OF re-
igion, and calm as in the composure OF
death. The malaria has traversed in the
paths won BY the destroyers. More than
eighteen centuries have incurred over the
loss Of the empire. A mortal disease was
upon her before Ceaser had Crossed the
Rubicon n, and Brutus did not restore her
health by The deep probings of the Senate
chamber. The Goihs and VaLdals, and
Huns. the swarms of the north completed
, only what has begun at home. Romans
} be.rayed Rome. The legions were
: bought and sold but the people paid the
tribute money.
| And where are the republics of modern
D times that clustered around modern Italy
Venice and Genoa exist but in name. The
I Alps, indeed. look down upon the brave
4 and peaceful Swiss in their native fastnes-
: ses: but the guaranty of their freedom IS
0 their weakness and not their strength
A The mountains are not easily retained
4 When the invader comes, he moves like
r, the avanlanche, carrying destrucnon 10 MS
d path The peasan,ry sink before nim,-
e The country too, Is too poor ior piunoe''
, and TOO rough for valuable conquest Nd>
!. ture presents her eternal barrier on every
|
And Switzerland remains, with her simple
institutions. military road 10 climates
n scarcely worth permanent possession, anu
- pro.ected bythe jealousy OF her nelghbors.
N We stand the latest, and if we fall, pro-
- bably the last example Of self government
- bv the people. We have begun II under
- circum stances of the most auspicious ma
- ,ure. We are in the v gor of youth OuI
~ Growth has never been checked by the op
pressIon of tyranny. Our constitutions
81 lever have been enfeebled by the vices ol
luxuries Of the world. :,
Such as we are, we have been from Tho
bepjuninq. simple, hsrdy Intelligent, ac
cas,omed to self-government, aud seif-res
pect. The Atlantic rolls between US an.
no 4 formidable foe Within our own terri
~ tory. stretching through many degrees
CO latitude, we have the choice oil many pio
ducts and many means OF Independence
!. the Government Is mid. fhe press
"a free. Knowledge reaches, or may reac'
- every home What fairer prospects OF sue
cess could be presented What is NOR
~ necessary than Cor the people TO preser'
no n what they themselves have created
oo Already has tie age caught the spirit
We our institutions Ii has assembled IN ~
on Andes. and snuffed the breese OF DO.
e oceans II has infused its slf into the III
eai blood of Europe and warmed the sunni
10 nlains of France, and the low-iands OF fo
ose land Il has touched the philosophy
lot Germany and the North, and moving o
'es' IVA I'd toward the South, has opened
mas Greece the lessons of her better days
nm Can il be that America under such g
'he cumstances can betray herselfF Ihat 81
n'eS i 10 be added to the catalogue of fepuo,''
e'o The inscription upon whose rum Is :.
no" were but they are not 2 Foroia
as countrvmen Foro;d it heaven
,ls., Ical upon you. Fathers by me snbi ",b;
ven of YOUR ancestors by the dear ashes !" w =
was repose in This precions soil, by ah y
ven hone 10 be, resist every aiiemps 10 'e,'
con- sopr conscience, or smother your pup
lec' schools. or extinguish your system
-, public instruction. IL. NH;
lna' call upon you. Mothers. by inat "hl
tan sver fails. in woman, the love OF your
tock a.r,on % teach them as they climb u
Tar Inses 70 lean on your bosom, the blessli
.ne Of liberty. Swear them al 'ne ai.a,i i
'ne with the baptismal vows, to be true 70 u
penu country, and never forsake her'
=, | cali upon you young men % fs' en'as
may whose sons We are, whose blood no"s
ear vour veins. Life can never oe 100 81
al which brings pothing but disgrace ara