Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1852-09-10

r5n- President MAICoN's : Baccalaurcate
Address will be found on the first page ot
the Chronicle, and viii commend itself to
the attention Of our readers. The follow
ing Is the paragraph 10 which We took the
liberty Of dcmulrn. in cur brief notice Of
the Commencement exercises
The araa, struggle in Europe is to
overthrow titled aristocracy, and hithcr-
to it has mserably failed because the means
lave been erroneous. The ONLY way to
abolish birth right expressions, is to raise
the Intelligence and consequently the
wealth Of the mas, up TO a level with that
of the patricians The line Of separation
then becomes only nominal, and can be
abolished withou, the change Of anything
but name"
Unless we totally misaTprehend the
drift Of this paragraph, and mistake the
worthy Prs meaning, the views here ex-
pressed are so utterly imprac:icablt that,
it seems to Us, their untenable cLara ter
must be sclfcyident 10 the apprehension
of every intelligent reader. 1t is truc;Lcre
have been many melancholy failures in the
attempts TO torevolu'ionize Erropc, and there
may be again, but like the fstlcd touch Of
iutGcus to his mother earth, the people
gather increased energy and wisdom from
every defeat, and they viii yet signaliy
triumph but not in the way proposed by
lr N. \ funeral pail could not east a
deeper gloom over their hopes than the
practical operation Of such doctrines as are
here advanced, for they ignore the right of
revolution itself and abandon the masses
III Europe to the tender uercies Of the
most helpless and hopeless bonlage that
ever cIiei TO heaven for vengeance. f2rcC,
physical Joscc-bayonets, dungeons, and
the scaifvld in the hands of the bsolutists
is the paramount obstacle in the way Of
the political regeneration Of Europe; Hun
garyand Italy owe their late disasters, an !
tie entire continent its present miseries,
Principally TO this potent cause and until
1t Is overcome or neutraiized, there can he
no hope for Europe. 1t is question Of
porer as well as of opinion, and the world
has never yet seen, and is not likely to
see, a surrender of de>potie power to any
thing shor, of superior force. Civil, eccle-
sastlcal and military power are all com
hned against the people, reprcssing tier
energies, stul;ifying their inJellects, and
crushing their hcar,s-cu;ting of, with
Femorseless rigor, all mcans of improve
msnt-and how, unjer such circumstances,
they are to bc - raised " 10 " intelligence "
and wealth, is what we do not clearly
perceive onc might as well expect vcge-
t9tion to spriug Up luxuriautly beneath
platform of iron riyetel Close TO the earth.
shutting out the light, and preventing all
growth The barriers of arbitrary and ir-
responsible power mus; first be removed,
and then freedom of conscience ard Of
opinion viii work, cat their OWN benefeent
results.
This is fruitful subject SC discussion,
hut We have not leisure or spNe at present
10 moro than briefly indicate an honest
difference of opinion If the doctrines
from which We dissent are right, our rev
eiutionary fathers must have been wrong
IN appealing 20 arms and DR.. NJ shoald
to be consistent throughout, cease to advo
cate the Maine LiiuOr Law, aud sely upon
moral suasion, as the "only" means o.
eonsummating the Temperance reformation
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