Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-07-29

taconist with sling and stone, yet, coming up in the
name of the God of battle and the rights of man,
cry STRIPPING proved Hercules, and every martyrs
strength descended upon brother martyr.
Mysterious sequel - And yet twas so. The
mighty is rebuked by the weak; the opulent spoiled
by the destitute and the fancied omnipotent is
matched by the confessedly feeble. The result was
as strange as the enterprise was bold and daring
Others may solve the problem differently, but for my
self will own, have not credulity enough to ac-
count for it, without the Intervention of Heaven
and therefore with the sacred warrior will say -
i" Had not the Lord been on our side, had not the
Lord been on our side, when rose up against us,
then they had swallowed us up quick, when their
wrath was kindled against u.s." Or in the words of
our eloquent countryman, " To God supremey are
we indebted"
am done with my first item; and pass to The
Influence of the Revolution on the destines of Man.
These are twofold those which are Already unfold
ed, and those which are yet to be developed.
And here will frankly own am as much at loss
where to begin to speak the one, may be where
to cease to speak of the other.
Every where, wherere we turn our thoughts, or
eyes, we are struck with the strange changes which
the revolution hath wrought. Here, on this very
charmed spot, which perceive your committee has
baptsed under the charmed name of Independence
Islands, now spread with the festive board and en-
liyened with the full blush of civilization and refine
ment, and lighted up with fairy forms, and laughing
eyes, and floods of beauty against which even stole
age is scarcely steeled-here another race of beings
lived and reveIed. Here the war-6re added fury to
the furious-Here went up the shout for blood, ana
desperation strung the nerves of the darlng-Here
the children of nature padded their bark canoes along
your meanderlng River, and laved their frames OF
symmetry and strengthen its sleeping eddies-"Here
they warred the echoing whoop the bloody CRAP
pie, the defyng deathsong, all were here; and when
the Tiger strife was over here curled the smoke OF
peace-Here too, beneath the same sun that rolls
your heads the Indian hunter pursued the pant
ing deer; gazing on the same moon that smiles fol
you, the Indian lover wooed his dusky maid" But
all are passed away. The Revolution hath swept IT'D
onward tide changed the face of nature the science
of freedom and the theories of happiness and savage
history speaks to us but the important lesson
I" How miserable is man when the foot of the con
queror is on his neck %
There is a low, and unworthy view of the Revolu
ton, which contemplates merely ss the separation
of the colo1ie95fom the parent government. Ilool
upon the DecIaraton of Independence, by the Phila
delpha Congress, as one of the great eras of thu
world; more important in its bearings upon the des
TIMES of man, than any other event IN the earth
history, save only the introduction of Christianity
in the circumstances and progress of which, hav
often fondly traced the parallel. 1t was, az one
our countrymen has happily said, 'it was the prac
tcal annuncation to created man, that he was ere
ated free and it will stand in history the epoch fror
which to compute the real duration of political ber
ty. Intolerance and tyranny had for ages league
to keep their victim down. While the former coul
remain the pious guardian O. his conscience the lat
ter knew it had nothing to fear from his courage
He was theirs, soul and body. His intellectual en-
erges were paralized, that he might not behold tn
corruptions of the church; and his physical power
were fettered that he should not rise up against tn
abuses of the State. Thus centuries ofdarkness TO
. led away. Light, indeed, broke from time to TIM
but it only served to show the surrounding clouds
bright stars, here and there, looked out, but the
. were the stars of a gloomy night. At length tn
= morning dawned, when generation OF your al
cestors wiIled that none but their maker shou
guide them in their duty Christians; and the pei
feet day shone forth; when another declared tn
from none but tn cir Maker would they derive the
immunties as men,"
who can for one moment contemplate the swee
ing changes, the mighty march of American min
for the last seventy years, without the most pere
amazement, without the profoundest awe!
But it is not that trackless forest has been fell
= by the hand of industry, and the desert brought
!, blossom-not merely that an outstretched waste b
:. been redeemed, and is every where teeming with
terprise, and adorned with art-Not merely that O
" young country is boldly disputing the need of HI
- bandry, and the palm of science, and the laurels
~ heroism with the old world: But it is, that spi
" ofinquiry aas gone out and cannot be stayed. 1t
that standard has been planted an ensign of libel
= reared fer the nations to gaze on. 1t is, that
- leaven of freedom has been infused and commend
its work in the mass and no tyrant hand can extr
:. it. 1t is, that mighty problem has been solved,
~ the diagram and demonstration set up to the worl
20 gaze, that MAN CAN GOVERN HIMSELF! Well mig
the silver tongued Cumming say, ''already have
r principles of the Revolutionary struggle, shaken
III their centre the thrones of despots, and awaken
from the lethargy of ages, many people to the man
persevering and successful assertion of their RICH
u" She has erected temple, the vestibule of viii
e" "The day was celebrated upon little Island
)h; cupvng an area of perhaps an acre and halt, IN