New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-29

rises in its strength snaps ssunder the bonds that
had confined his mighty limbs, and the world is
Uttered with the idle hay Stop the human race
in its development and march TO freedOm7 AS
well might che boys Of Boston, some lustrous
night, mounting the steeples Of this town, cal on
the stars 70 stay their course Gently, bat ire
sistibly, the Greater and the Lesser Bear move
round the pole; Orion, in his mighty mail, comes
up the sky the Bull, the Ram, the Heavenly
Twins, the Crab, the Lion, the Maid the Scales,
and all that shining company, pursue their march
all night, and the new day discovers the idle
urchins in their lofty places all tired and sleepy,
and ashamed. Il is not possible 10 suppress the
idea OF freedom or forever hold down its instltu-
tions. But it is possible to destroy State
political party with geographical bounds may
easily be rent asunder. 1t is not impossible to
shiver this American Union. Bat how What
Glove asunder the great British Party, one nation
once in America and England Did not our
fathers love their father land Aye. They called
it home, and were loyal with abundant tealty
there was no lack of piety for home. Ii was the
attempt to make old English injustice NewEng-
land law Who did 1.-THE British people
Never. Their hand did no such sacrilege IL
was the merchants of London, with the Naviga-
ton Act" the politicians Of Westminster with
the STAMP Act - the tories of America-who
did not die without issue who for office aud its
gold would keep a kings unjust commands. 1t
was they, who drove our fathers into disunion
law. all Of US love it but true loves it only
as the safeguard Of the Rights of Man II it de-
stroy these Rights he spurns it with his feet Is
here DO lesson Look further then
Do you know how Empires find their end
Yes, the great States eat up the little. AS with
fish, so with nations. Aye, but how do the great
States come 10 an end By their own injustice,
and no other cause. They would make upright
eousness their law, and God wills not that 1t be
50. Thus they fall; thus they die. Look at these
ancient States, the queenliest queens Of earth.
There is Rome, the widow OF two Civilizations
the Pagan and the Catholic. They both had her,
and unto both she bore daughters and fair sons.
But. the Nobe of Nations, she boasted that her
children were boiler and more fair than all the
pure ideas of Justice, Truth, and Love, the of
spring Of the eternal God. And now she sits
there Transformed into stone, amid the ruins OF
her childrens bones. At midnight l have heard
the owl boot in the Coliseum and the Forum, CIV
ing voice to desc ation; and at midday have
seen the fox in the palace where Augustus gather
cd the wealth, the wit the beauty and the Wis
dom Of a conquered world and the fox and the
owl interpreted TO me the vO.ce OF many ages,
which came to tell this age, that THOUGH HAND
JOIN II HAND, THE WICKED SHALL NOT PROSPER
Come with me, my friends, moment more,
pass over this Golgotha Of human history, tread
ing reverent as you 60, for our feet are on our
mothers grave and our shoes de6le our fathers
hallowed bones. Let us not talk OF them; gOiur-
Their en- look and pass by. Come with me into
the Inferno of the nations with such poor guidance
as my lamp can lend Let US dlsquiet and bring
Up the awful shadows Of empires buried long ago,
aud lean q lesson from the tomb
Come, old Assyria, with the Ninevtlsh Dove
upon thy emerald crown. What laid thee low!
II fell BY my own injustice. Thereby Nineveh
and ably Ion came, with me- also, TO the ground
Oh queeDly Persia, flame of the nations, where
fore art thou so fallen, who trOddest the people
ii al, II,ff. anf
and pouredst thy temple wasting millions on the
western world Because trod tue people uh'
der me. and bridged the Hellespont with ships,
and poured my temple.wasting millions on the
western world. l fell by my own misdeeds
Thou muselike Grecian queen, tairest OF all thy
classic sisterhood of States, enchanting yet the
world with thy sweet witchery speaking in art
and most seductive song, why lest thou there
with beauteOus yet dishonored brow, rePoslng on
thy broken harp O. scOrned the Law OF God
benthed and poisoned wlsest, Justest men
loved the loneliness of hesh embalmed it in the
Psrian stone; loved the loneliness OF thought
and treasured that in more than Parian speech
But the beauty Of Justice, the loneliness OF Love,
trod them down to earth LO, therefore have
become as those Barbarian States-as one OF
them
Oh manly and and majestic Rome, thy seven
fold mural crown, all broken at thy feet, why art
thou herel Twas not injustice brought thee
low; for thy Great Book of Law is prefaced with
these words: Justice is the unchanging, everlast
ing will to give each man his Right Twas not
tie saints ideal; it was the hyPocrite Pretenoe!
made iniquity my law. trod the nations I'M
der me Their wealth gilded my palaces where
thou mayst sec the fox and hear the owl,-it fed
my courters and my courtezans. Wicked men
" ere my cabinet councIOrs,- ilatterer breath
ed his poison in my ear. Millions OF bondmen
wet the soil with tears and blood Do you not
hear it CRY ing yet 70 Godl Lo here have l my
recompense, torment with such downfall es you
see 60 back and tell the new born child, who
stitch on the Alleghanies laying his either hand
upon tributary sea, crown OF thirty stars about
bis youthful brow-tel him that there are Rights
which States must keep, or they shall sutter
wrongs Tell him there is God who keeps the
black man end the white, and hurls to earth the
Hottest realm that breaks His just eternal law
w arm the young Empire that he come not down
dim and dishonored to my shameful tomb Tell
him that Justice is the unchanging, everlasting
will to give each man bis Right. | knew 1t,
broke it, and am lost. Bid him to know it, keep
il, end be safe {"