Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-12-25

as TO replenish it when exhausted and Sc
condly what had been taken IS sold back
in the manufactured state, so that the price
which was paid for the same material is re-
taken by the manufacturing region with
large per cent, and by this exhausing pro-
cess desoation is produced for the agricul-
,ural region. The agricultural products of
the fertile region is eaten up by the sterile
region and carried to the soil of the latter
in the shape Of manures. The two sections
Of our country illustrate this, and so it ope-
rates, until the fertile region manufactures
its own products and returns them to its
own soil al home, and thus acts Nth and
no. against itself: Blu. when this latter oc-
currence takes place what is the resul! in
the sterile region? Why simply and GER
tainly, that being deprived Of its sources of
sustenance, its bloated prosperity soon dis
appears and desola,ion in its turn takes its
place; and then both are in their turn ours
ed with the desoation of this divided action.
The same results will follow from the d.
vided action in the world Of mind. In a
divided action Of this kind the law Of gravi-
talion is not observed in the growth and
use of the agricultural product, for it is
transferred from the spot on which it is
grown and is not permitted to return so as
to fulfil the law of gravity.
But"a government, divided against ITSELF"
How is this effected materially? it is per-
fec,ly plain that it can only be done by the
violation of the law of one, or Of grav.alion,
which have illustrated. A government. is
foimed from the union Of the people ,hro'
a constitution, and thus there is established
an organic structure. How is it divided
against itself? Plainly, by throwing the
organic weight Of the government on one
side by the force of the majority.
But the passage which follows immedi-
ately the one have quoted is still more
Iexplicit and direct: "a house or city di-
vided against itself SHALL not stand" This
lis more easily explained by an application
of The mathematical axiom, that the parts
are equal TO the whole, and the whole is
lequal 10 the parts; or, in other words, the
law which governs the parts governs the
whole, and the law which governs the whole
governs the parts. This is a self evident
truth. in order to arrive at the correct
meaning of The passage just quoted we mus
use it. How can "a house be divided a.
gansl ITsELF?" It is against itself and no!
against another. ]. is 10 be remarked that
in order to arrive at those laws which gov
eT>-~aen reference is always had to ma
teriai object. Thus, man is said TO be ruled
by the same law with tree in bringing
forth fruits, and so in this case, governments
faud'houses are assimiated in reference TO
the laws which govern them. FIRST, we find
government represented as divided against
itself, and then for the purpose of simplify
ing the force of the law, house is resored
10, and then it is extended to city, which
is composed Of many houses. In the law
of the city each house is part, and all
the houses united constitute the whole city;
and yet the law is the same in reference to
the city, or all the houses, that it is to one;
Or in fine, the law Of gravi,ation is equally
indispensable to be observed in governments,
houses and cities.
OF the division of government against
itself we have already briefly spoken; and
now how can house be divided against
itself? It is simply by throwing the force
Of gravity outside the centre Of the building
Ii ii be thrown partly on the outside Of the
centre, the house is only careened, but II 1t
! be thrown outside the base the house is up
set. This every fool knows when he sees
II, but Chris, intended to tell them, SO it is
with man, mentally and bodily; and so it
is with him when compac,ed together in
The form of society, for government divi-
ded against itself is brought to desolation,
or what is the same thing, is overthrown.
ITO be continued from time to time.