The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-07-17
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AMERICAN PRosrEcTs.-Rev. DR.. Green, of
Baltimore. in a recent address before the Ameri-
can Tract, Society, in New York, published in
the Messenger said:
The problem which had been thrown on
us for solution, belongs TO all ages and coun-
tries where increasing wealth or resources
have gathered the masses, and simulated
the passions of men TO their widest action.
What shall BE- done with The masses Of men
s,reeping beyond the porcer Of education
and lar and civilization? 1t comes from all
Europe. Every philosopher in his closet,
every statesman, every one that reflects on
the destiny OF man, repeats it-What shall
be done with these masses OF men!
The Socialist answers, let the great ma
chine of human affairs alone, to work out
its natural tendencies. Leave human ma.
ture TO itself; throw all the human family
into the grand clover pasture of nature,
without hindrance OF control. Can YOU
bear such panacea, Are We not fathers,
brothers. husbands-have We known the
sweets OF domestic virtue, which make the
name of mother, sister, daughter, the no
liest on earth, and can we bear such a pana-
cea! No no.
And every mitred desPot, every sceptred
tyrant has his answer: it is, to fetter the
powers of the soul, to muzzle the press, TO
crush all human right, all freedom of opn-
ION, to spread stagnatiOn over the world of
thought, to make solitude and call that
peace Can you bear such panacea as
that No, BY the blood OF ou fathers; by
the bones of our martyrs in every land;
by the grave of heroes hewn down in every
battle field where despOtism has prevailed
over right, No! All the memory of the
past, and hopes Of the future forbid. Our
remedy is, to send light throughout the world,
and to give new energy to all mans facul-
ties, new hopes Of his immortal destiny
Rather let us die in promoting the truth; and
if We fail, let there be written, as the So
ciety's epitaph, "Magnis cecidere ia ausis
they died in high endeavors.
DR.. G. proceeded to speak Of the rapid
growth of our population. In fifty years
there would be population Of one hundred
millions on our soil-in century, three
hundred millions OF enlightened, intelligent,
Anglo Saxon people 1t would be as if all
Europe were now under one government,
pcmcated by one spirit, and filled with the
light and knowledge Of another hundred
years. The man is here, today, who may
stand amidst that mighty population of a
hundred millions, and may have his share
in moulding its character.
How shall we meet such an emergency!
How shall this vast multitude be brought
beneath the power Of Gods eternal truth,
God, let it be remembered, makes himself
seen in the footprints of history. He eau
scs alike the wrath and the love Of man to
praise him. Never does there spring up
great emergency, for which he does not
make provision.
DO we ask, then, what We shall do IN
view of the great prospect that lies before u.s.
Let us do our duty, do all that Gabriel or
Luther could do-the duty to which in the
providence of God We are called We are
to bring into active development the slum-
bering elements Of power that lie around
us. We are always and everywhere sur.
rounded by powers that need only to be
used, to bring about any great result which
God NAV have proposed