Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-02-26
What we have and what we owe.

MUS or by science for the benefit Of man.
kind Greater and more glorious discoy-
cries have been made within our memory
! than ever were made before. We NAV
with the rapidity of lightning
"Speed the intercourse of soul with soul,
And watt sigh from Indus to the Pole"
Alas ! we have little else to watt.
Dreamers have made others dream !;
and the rich gambler has ruined the poor
er gambler at his first and last stake. HIS
tory. in recording the crimes of princes,
may record perhaps some more atrocious
than those who now rule exhibit but no
future Tacitus or Suetonius will have pa
tcnce to describe their obliquity, false
promises, detection from duty, and from
even kingly pride. Even that specious
glitter, even that reptiles scale, appears
not in the tor!uous track they are purSu-
ing. Two Of these creatures are at lhis
instant raising up threatening crest
against each other the patron Of Haynau
and the prosecutor Of Waldeck. A millioa
of men will be marshalled in arms to fight
their battles. Each protests lie fights for
Germany each lies. Whichever is the
winner, Germany will gain nothing. Two
swords will hew her through the centre !;
two eagles (vultures rather) will divide and
devour her.
OF what use is any form Of government
(which fails to protect the lives and prop
critics of the people And what form OF
government in Europe has done this {?
That government which Austria, France,
and Spain, have united to re-establish, not
only failed to protect the lives and prop
critics of the people, but paral yzed their
energies and stihcd their conscienceS.
Spain and Austria make no prctcnccs to
honor or honesty in this aggression; but
the President Of the French Republic uses
these words at the banquet in the Hotel
lie Vile:
"It has often been said that honor fnds
an echo i'll France"
Never were words truer. There is
mostly an echo where there is a hollow
and yacuity. Honor had an echo, and
| very loud one too, every time an oath
was taken and every time an oath was VI
lated. forget how many dozens OF
hem Talleyrand said he remembered to
have taken. The best christians in France,
catholic and philosophical, romantic and
poetical, swore they would lend assistance
to all nations that invoked them in the
name of liberty and within few months
they bombarded Rome, scattering the pa
,riots who defended r,recalling the Pope
who abandoned her, and restoring the In
QUESTION.
The Americans have declared their sem
.imcnts freely, loudly. widely, consistent"
Ily against the violence and Perhdy OF
Russia and Austria. They must do great
i ly more they must offer an asylum to
whoever, rising up against oppression and
indignity, shall, in the absence OF law and
equity, have slain those who caused H.
for it is impossible that such iniqul'les as
certain men in high places have perPetra-
ted should be unavenged. ConsPlracle'
will never more exist. Two persons but
preferably one) will undertake the glorious
task, which not only antiquity applauded'
but which has been applauded also year
after wear, generation after generation,
century after century, in the seclusion OF
colleges, and raised The first tumult IN the
bovish heart. To maintain the inordlnate
n,ide of few worthless families, heca-
tombs of brave men have fallen, and indus
try ha, been turned into brutality. Even
in our own country many millions have
been idly squandered in ships unfit for
sailing and unnecessary for fighting This
we know from one whose very name
hears the warrant of truth and intelligence.
There were times when the lords OF the
admiralty would have been fined to the
full amount of the damages they have
sanctioned. We may soon want the ships
that are no more-for ere six months are
over we shall have to support the Turkish
omn;re If we trust to France for help,
we shall receive from her just as much as
before. But there are masses now inert
which our machinery may raise, combine
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