Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-04-05
Eloouence Of Modern rta1v.

l848 We give few passages.
In times of revolution, men speak and act in
style of grandeur and sublimity, unknown in
the calm periods OF peace. That which in one
condition of a people is exaggeration, at anoth-
er period is only the language Of truth. The
passages from Mazzni are of the most impas-
stoned oratory. 1t is easy to conceive how
these sparks of the "authentic fire" must have
infamed the passions of an Italian auditory:
"Love! Love is the flight of the soul to-
wards God, towards the great, the sublime, and
the beautiful, which are the shadow of God up
ON earth.
Glove your family, the partner of your life,
those around you ready to share yourjoys and
sorrows, the dead who were dear to you and
to whom you were dear. But let your love
be the love taught you by Dante and by us,
the love of souls that aspire together; and do
not groyel on the earth in search of felicity
which it is not the destiny of the creature here
to reach, do not yield to a delusion which
would inevitably degrade you into egotisn1.
To love, is to promise, and to receive a pro-
mise for the future. God has given us love,
that the weary soul may give and receive sup
port upon the way of life. 1t is a flower which
springs up upon the path of duty, but which
cannot change its course. Purify, strengthen,
and improve yourselves by loving. Ever act
even at the price of increasing her earthly
trials-so that the sister soul united to your
own may never need, here or elsewhere, to
blush through you, or foryou. The time will
come, when from the height ola new life, en-
bracing the whole past, and comprehending its
secret, you smile together at the sorrows you
have endured, the trials you have overcome.
'Loye your country. Your country is the
land where your parents sleep, where is spo-
ken that language in which the chosen Of your
heart blushing whispered the first word of love;
it is the house that God has given you, that by
striving to perfect yourselves therein, you may
prepare to ascend to him. It is your name,
your glory, your sign among the peoples.
Give your thought, your counsel, your blood.
Raise it up, great and beautiful, as foretold by
our great men. And see that you leave it un-
contaminated by any trace of falsehood or Of
seryitude, unprofaned by dismemberment Let
it be one as the thought Of God. You are
twenty four millions of men, endowed with ac-
tive, splendid faculties; with tradition Of glo-
ry, the envy of the nations of Europe; an i'm
mense future is before you-your eyes are
raised to the loreliest heaven, and around you
smiles the loyehest land in Europe; you are en-
circled by the Alps and the sea, boundaries
marked out by the finger of God for people
of giants. And you must be such or nothing.
Let not a man of that twenty-four millions re-
main excluded from the fraternal bond which
shall join you together-let not a look be rails
ed to that heaven, which is not that Of a free
man. Let Rome be the ark Of your redemp-
tion, the temple of your nation. Has she not
twice been the temple Of the destines of Eu-
rope. In Rome two extinct worlds, the Pagan
and the Papal, meet each other, like the double
Jewels of a diadem; and you must draw from
thence third world greater than the other two.
From Rome, the Holy City-the City of Love,
(Amor) the purest and wisest among you,
elected by the vote, and strengthened by the
inspiration of a whole people, shall give forth
the fact that shall unite us in one, and repre-
sent us in the future alliance OF the peoples.
Until then you have no country, or you have it
contaminated.
aLoye humanity. You can only ascertain
your own mission from the aim placed by God
before humanity at large. God has given you
your country as cradle, humanity as mother,
You can only love your brethren of the cradle
in loving your common mother. Beyond the
Alps, beyond the sea are other peoples, now
fighting or preparing to fight the holy fight of
Independence, of nationality, Of liberty: other
peoples striving by different routes to reach
the same goal-improvement,a association, and
the foundation ofan authority which shall put
an end to moral anarchy, and link again earth
to heaven, and which mankind may love and
obey without remorse or shame. Unite with
thenl-they will unite with you. Do not in-
woke their aid where your single arm can SUI.
fee to conquer; but say to them, that the hour
will shortly sound for terrible struggle be-
tween right and blind force, and that in that
hour you will ever be found with those who
have raised the same banner as yourselves.
aaAnd love, young men, love and reverence
above every thing the Ideal. The Ideal is the
word of God, superior to every country, snpe-
rior to humanity; it is the country of the spirit,
the city of the soul, in which all are brethren
who believe in the inviolabiity of thought, and
in the dignity of our immortal soul; and the
baptism OF this fraternity is martyrdom. From
that high sphere spring the principles which
alone can redeem the peoples. Arise for
lLCLls duu uVt 1iO AL psatiCHSc VI suAoliiiSsso
dread Of evil. Anger, pride, ambition, and the
desire Of material prosperity are arms common
to the peoples and their oppressors; and even
should you conquer with them to-day, you will
fall again tomorrow; but principle belongsto
B peoples alone, and their oppressors can find
"a arms,to oppose them. Adore enthusiasm,
Worship the dreams of the virgin soul, and the
sisions Of early youth, for they are the perfume
of Paradise, which the soul preserves in issu-
ing from the hands Of its Creator. Respect
above all things your conscience; have upon
you ps the truth that God has placed in your
heai| and while working together in harmony
ii III that tends to the emancipation of our
soil, even with those who differ from you, yet
ever bear erect your own banner, and boldly
your faith.
aSuchswords, young men, would the martyrs
nf Coreenz1 have spoken. had they been ly.