Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-01-27

passed by. Men do not now require il:
they know so far as losses between debtor
and creditor are concerned, there would be
no more 10 be apprehended under the system
we advocate than the present one; aud they
know too, that you only require 10 make
honor or character an object 10 a man, and
he will acquire and maintain ii. These are
the motiv- which are gradually growing to
Influence among men, and we Ike then This
hurried woman cllusc, and the exemption
clause n the me article, because il is an
approach to tue pti C PIE for VIII ch We con
Tend End we CO.'S d. rit as much better thar
The pre- sent condition Of things, as little
virtue is better than total deprayity.
DEsrINY.-P philanthropy IS good thing,
and no. any the worse because il his moi
always tho wisdom to perceive that fire.
quently out ofthe most terrible and revolt
| ing convufsions most grow great and ever
endu,ing coed. !, starts with horror al the
miseries of wur-deprecates unsparngly
tue waste of human blood and human life,
vi bout looking beyond TO SEQ what great
good may spring up for generations yet 10
come, from the, soil thus nanu;ed. Ii we
could, we would have the world march on
to that condition of perfection which it is
capable of attaining without strife Of any
character; but such is not yet the nature OF
man. But few can turn erthc pages Of
past history without shuddering with horror
al The carnage of mankind. Follow Bona
pate IN his campaigns-,he path Of his
armies, whether 10 success or defeat,
croyered and oDlitered by human bodies
Even the ordinary heart must shudder q,
the p'c;u presented But look at il again,
if possible, in calculating and Unitarian
,poin: of view, wi h reference TO the life Of
tho world, and not 10 the aceiing genera
ton in which alone you I've. Where
would the men whose deaths cause such
shu Id2r, new have been--not one in a
hundred OF them living. The ques ion is
simply ono of time, and by dying earlier
perhaps they have weakened the power Of
nts,-perbaps they have aroused TO
power and thought, The intellect which sue
ceeded them, and man has stood up more
proudly in the consciousness of his own
might. The blood which has fallen upon
the battle field may have served other pur-
poses than manure the soil to hr;n. c,r,h
a more abundant harvest. !. may have
tnanured the great field oc human thought,
from which may spring more abuudanly
the good purposes which benefit the rce.
We are no advocates Of war. We know
of no question Which may 10, be letter set
Il d; no end which may not be better al
iained; bat all men are no: constituted alike.
All the good thus far attained, seems to
have had lis b r,h fIom evil, and our desli
ny appears 10 be, that by evil we shall con-
tinually be urged forward TO seek the good
We a:e now at war with a ne ghboting
power. Philanthropy is busy in lis wal
ings over lis horrors; but let us view this
by The same standard we judg Of the pas, :.
Half q century hence. those who have fai-
len and those who now weep their fall,
will occupy the common receptacle Of The
dad. Bat what may be the results Of this
srlo? This country, now the scene OF
conf c., may bepeopled by strong, free,
and independent race race who may
have grown in virtue and learned to know
war no more. If such is likely to be the
case, is i, not worth all il cos's? What
will be, will be, say the Turks, "a conc sc
mode Of expressing the be Lief of destiny
as influencing the the affairs OF The world.
|, is more than a barbarian superstition.-
There are, we are confident, CERTAIN great
ends 10 be attained before INNS indepcn-
dence can be fully attained, or the work OF
regeneruion be competed, and the great
end is the peopling Of tho world by the
4 Angio-Saxon race. This is one of the
things that VIII be, and we may say with
propre:y that it is Dcstiny which is spread
ing our population in every direction, and
irnpclling Them to lake possession of the
soil. In the Old Word, men were cooped
in narrow boundaries, and their in,ellects
we're content with a narrow range. They
were and would have remained the paiien,
slaves Of despots. Blu, such was not Des-
Tiny. Columbus was sent forth; New
World was discovered. Multitudes aocked
TO ii. As they looked forth on The bound
less wilds where tyrans had never irod
nor reigned, their minds drank in sort Oh
an inspiration Of freedom. They were
not content with the reign Of princes, and
oar presen. republican government is the
fruits. But little has been done yei.-
Con6nc us 10 certain prescribed narrow
limits, and our republic would fall back 10
n,isrule, anarchy, and despoiism. The