The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1847-01-08
Human Rights
AN ELOQUENT PASSAGE.


we have been favored with a copy of an
oratioa that YVES recently delivered before /
the Literary Societies Of the University Of I
Vermont by j. L. Headly. lis title is The |
lone Progressive Principle,' and il is one OF
tie most thrillingly eloquent productions that
ever came under our notice. We annex a
string passage Philadelphia Inquirer.
have thus endeavored to make history
illustrate nay proposition, by watching the
anneasance Of this principle at different pes
RODS, and aiadying its character, and suag.
ing rs slTeugth- But, tho present, no less
than the past, throws in iiS tes,mo1y; aud
oven now this strange, unconquerable priu-
ciplo is moving on, dragging the life and en-
! ergy Of the world after ii. Oh, il is fearful
TO behold lis strength, and the upheaving it
/ has occasioned! Ever since the time Of Christ
/ Man has stfiven more or less resolutely to get
an acknowledgement Of his rights, either in
religious or political matters. or in both.
Dsspots have made use of old reverence-su
perstitious fears trickery-ialseho od--lh
dungeon-the bayonst and the scahold-t
silence his claims and overcome his argu
ments. Force has done much. for though
''Truth crush'd to earth will rise gain;
it often requires ''the eternal years Of Cod,
and men have ucceeded in burying il fail
oms deep. But the one Of viii CHI hav
toen soaking, has had two wild resured
lions-one in England, when Cromwe
shouted over its grave, and one in Franc
when the Infatuated popuace called it
shueks forth from its burial of ages. Oh! no
man has struggled TO be rree-fres to Cd
the bread his own hand had sown- free s
breathe his thoughts over the Tyre, or ute
them III ough The pages of his country's Ii
erature-ffee TO lay the taxes he hlmse.
pays-lree TO worship God according TO tn
dictates of his own conscience. See Eng
land conVusoG, her House Of Commons i
tears, and the torch Of civil war blazing owe
the land, and all for a principIe-the princi
pie of personal freedom. Behold this cOun
IN try, pouring out its blood like water-see
clothed in mourning-her children marchin
barefooted over the frozen ground, leavin
!, their bloody testimonials on every foot of
- they ,raversed-nay, matching by hundred
into battle, and all for this one principle.
See France rent ssunder, her streets flow
ing blood, and the loud beat Of alarm drum
he and the steady peal of the tocsin, end ii
e. heavy pools of the umbrils, going TO al
,ix from the sCafiold-the only music of Par
he
Ior and yet this principle, in some foIm or 9th
re- lying al the bolton of it all. Deceived
tor The fierce actors in this tradgedy may ha
40 been, and diverted though the thought, for
m, while, might have been TO personal safety
personal ggrandizement, yet the spell-wor
by which the storm was directed were 'lre
Tho dom, equal rights Look at Europe, VIII
the great Napoeonic drama was perlormi
ca There is something more than the unro
lily ing of banners and the pomp and majesty
arms. Great deeds are wrought and glory
the guiding star 10 thousands, yet that 10
ur> and fearful struggle, notwithstanding the
the rious pTetences set forth, was with all
om bloody accompanimen's and waste oftreas
and loss of life, and suffering, simply an
e" fort to stop the progress Of this one prnciI
chs Here all the diplomacy and hypocracy
Europe are reduced to SINCE eiemen
que! the world 10 arms againsH equal rights
que! France sslhrew down the head of q king
That the auags Of battle, = and the conflict was
Cromwell's army shouting through the fil
lage and French patriots storming over entrsn
rcH! ments with republican songs in their mou
hich NAV be fanaucal or deludedsmen, and chi
ness ed al lest by ambitious chieftains, but
tive thing they sought was no delHsion,
What a terror il is able 10 inspire W