The southern press., 1851-05-10

lom choiera on the steamer iroqu0i5, which
boat arrived NJ St. Louis on the 24th ult. There
was also SO cases Of ship fever. She Ind 800
Irish emigrants on board all of whom were land
ed at the quarantine ground.
AsWE ExPEcrED.-Hon. Milton Gregg, edi-
tor Of the Madison Tribune. endorses Governor
Stewards letter We predict that every Wing
paper in this State will follow indiana Slas
Sentinel. .
Lamartine on the Religion Of RcvoIutInary
Men.
know sigh when think Of it--that hith-
erto the French people have been the least 70.
ligious of all the nations Of Europe. II is be-
cause the idea Of God-which arises from all
the evidences Of nature, and from the depth uf
reflection, being the profonndest and weightiest
idea of which human intelligence il capable
and the French mind being the most rapid, but
the most superficial, the lightest, the most re-
Elective of all European race--this mind has not
the force and severity necessary to carry far ard
long the greatest conception of the human un-
Outstanding?
Is 1t because our governments have always
taken upon themselves to think for us, to be-
lieve for US, and peay for usl IL 1t because we
are and have been military people, soldier
nation, led "a, heroes. and ambitious men,
from battlefield To battlefield, making con-
quests, and never keeping them, ravaging, daz-
ling, charming, and corrupting Europe; and
bringing home the manners vices, bravery, light
ness and impiety Of the camp to the fireside Of
the people
| know not, but certain II is that the nation
has an immense progress 10 make in serious
thought if she wishes to remain free. If we
look at the characters, compared as regards re-
ligious sentiments, Of the great nations Of Eu-
rope, America, even Asia, the advantage is not
for US. The great men Of other countries live
and die, forgetting completely the only idea for
which it is worth living and dying-they live
and die looking at the spectator, or, at most, at
prosperity.
Open the history of America, the history Of
England, and the history Of France read the
great lives the great deaths, the great Martyr
doms the great words at the hour when the rul-
ing thought OF life reveals itself in the last
words of dying-and compare
Washington and Franklin fought, spoke, suf-
fered, and descended in their political life Of
popularity, in the ingratitnde Of glory, in the
contempt of their NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in the
name of God, for whom they acted and the
liberty Of the people and his own soul.
Sidney, the young martyr Of a patriotism,
guilty of nothing but impatence, and who died
to expate his country's dream Of liberty, said TO
his jailer-" rejoice that die innocent towards
the king, but victim, resigned to the King on
High, TO whom all life is due"
The Republicans Of Cromwell only sought
the way of God, even in the field Of battles.
Their politics were their faith-ibeir reign a
prayer-their death psalm. One hears, sees,
feels, that God was in all the movements of these
great people.
But cross the sea, traverse La Mancha, come
10 our times, open our annals, and listen to tho
last words of the great political actors Of the
drama Of our liberty. One would think that
God was eclipsed from the soul. that His name
was unknown in the language. History will have
the air Of an atheist when she recounts to pos
terty these annihilations. rather than death. Of
celebrated men in the greatest year Of France
The victims only have a God the tribune and
lictors have none.
Look at Mir bean on the bed Of death
"a Crown me with flowers" said he, % intoxi.ate
me with perfumes. Let me die to the sonnd Of
delicious music"-not a word &c Col or of his
sonl Sensual philosopher. he desired only su-
preme sensualisn, last righteousness in his
agony. Contemplate Madame Roland, the
strong-hearted woman Of the revolution, on the
cart that conveyed her 10 d,.ah She look
cnnfemptuously on the besoited people who
killed their prophets and sbys. Not n glance
towards heaven! Gnlv one word for the earth
she was quitting. Oh, libpriyw
Approach the dungeon door Of the Girondins
Their ST night Is a banquet; the otiy hymn.
the Mar~eillaisel
Follow Camille Desmorlins Ia his execution.
cool and indecent pleasantly at the trial. and
long imprecation on the road 10 the gpiIo,ine,
were the two lat thoughts Of this dying man
on his way 10 the last tribunsl.
Hear Danlon on the platform ~ the scafroli,
nj The distance OF line from God and eternity.
IL have had good time of II let me 90 10
Sleep Then % the execntioner-s you will
show nv head 10 the people--it u worth the
tronble r His fifth, humiliation; his last Sigh,
vanity. Behold the Frenchman Of this latter
agel
What must one think Of the religious sentl-
ments OF free people whose great figures seem
thus TO march in procession 20 humiliation, and
10 whom that terrible minisier--death--itsel
recalls neither the threatenings nor promises Of
God
The republic Of these men without God has
quickly been stranded. The liberty. won by so
much heroism and so much genius, has not
found in France a conscience TO shelter i, God
to avenge IL. people to defend il against the
atheism whiea 80, Jeen called glory. All ended
| in sa1dier and some apostate republicans ira
vested into cour,iers An atheistic republican,
ism cannot be heroic. When You terrify IL, It
bends; when you would bny il. il sells itself
Who would take any heed The people nm
| grateful and God non-exstentl So finish athe-
ist revolutions.--Bie Publigue.
Tue Corros CRor or FLoRrDA--A letter
from Ocula, Florida, under date Of the 9Th
inst, says:--When tell you the true state