Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1850-03-25
COMMUNICATIONS.
For THE VINpIcAToR.
THE DISSERTATIONS OF HEAVEN, DEM
QCRkTG OR EQUAL:
BY 4. A. Sewers:

THERE is no general view Of life; perhaps
with which the minds Of men are more strongly
| impressed, than with the apparent inequalities
Of The human lot. Ii is, probably, the most pro-
life source of all heart replning and open COM
plaint Affliction OF severe kind comes but
seldom but this inequality in the state of life is
permanent 1t is perfectly obvious, too Every
one can see the difference between his situation
in life, his dwelling, his equipage, and the OBJ
sernalee which ii paid to him, and those which
belong to his more prosperous neighbor. The
distinctions of life, indeed, chiefly consist in the
glare of outward things, and therefore more
powerfully impress the senses.
| Now if it can be made to appear that there
is, in fact considerable deception In these est
mates; that things are far more impaitially bai-
anced in the system of Providence at large, than
| is commonly Imagined; that inequality is not
the rule of its operations but ekly the exception
TO the rule, it would serve the important purpose
of making us more contented with our lot: more
happy in the opportunity and means of happi-
ness that are given to us all, and more submits
sive and grateful to that Being who has SO e.
qually and SO bountiflilly distributed them.
| a short series of essays
stance and illustration of this ifnpariaity of Di
vine Providence, IN the Inequalities produced by
nature; in the al!otments OF climate, tempera-
There is no one Of u.s. perhaps, whose thoughts
| have not sometimes wandered TO fairer climes
than our own to lands of richer predictions and
more luxuriant beauty; to the isles and shores
OF the classic East; where all the glory OF man
has faded indeed !; where all the monuments Of
his power and art have fallen into decay; but
where nature lives forever, and forever spreads
! -.
wales Of the South; regions of eternal Spring
where the circling seasons as they pass, let fall
no blight or chill upon the fresh and fragrant
bosom of the earth. Bats there no counterpart
to this scene? Where does the volcano lift up
| its suberraneons thanders and pour forta its
flaming delage? 1t is in these very regions Of
eternal Spring. 1t is on the green and howery
mount-on the vine-clad hills, fast by the quiet
fold of the shepherd, and amid the rejoicings of
the vintage. Whence comes the fearful rumor
of the earthquake that has whelmed Lisbon in
ruinss 1t comes from the land Of the diamond
and the cane-from Inc hills Of ophir-from
groves Oh TIE onve anu the paln1--from vallies
loaded with fruits and famed with aromatic
gales-where il nature is more energetic to pro
duce, she is also, more. energetic TO destroy
Where does the dire pestilence walk in dark
ness and the fell destruction waste at p9pn-day!
Amidst graves OF spices and beneath the bow
ers Of luxuriance; and the beam that lights
its victim to the tomb is the brightest beam of
heaven, and the, scenes which they stake their
last, hasty leave, are the fairest that nature dis
pays-as if life and death We're intended to be
SCI, in the most visible and vivid contrast. And
where, but there also, is that worse than plague
and pestilence and eartaqaake--that degradation
of the mind-that wide-spreading pestilsnce of
the soul-that lstless Incidence which only a.
rouses to deeds of, passion Let the millions of
Southern Asia tell. Let Turkey, so often drench-
ed with blood, answer. Let the wandering A.
rab, the stupid Hottentot and the. sothful and
sensual inhabitants of the fair isles of the Pacific
teach u.s., Who would not rather struggle with
fercer clements, than to sink an ignoble prey to
the soft languor Of pleasures and the besoiting
ndng s s Passion Wh Y s would nGt ia