The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-12-16
NUMBER 5.

Norma at tne emu OF looU, Delng greatly struck
with the analogy that appeared to exist I'M fths
geological structure of the two countries in
duced to enter upon the inquiry that led to the
discovery. The value of the exports from the
port of Melbourne alone, from the gold discovery
in November, 1851, amounted TO 81 ,235, ,326,
exceeding in value all the gold imported into
Europe from Mexico and South America in 1886
In 1872 the colony contained only lO,454
souls, 81 900 in cultivation and $4,000 un-
der pasture. Now it has 100000 Of the free
people, an export of 60, S99, 600, an import Of
GO, ,O78, 800; has 1000, 000 some say IL, ,000 900
sheep, and for the discharge of her debts and Ii
abilities, bars upon bars of yellow metal piled
in her mountains Yet with all this, she is not
at rest The wrinkled hand of England is upon
her. Years they have petitioned and protested,
over and over again, against the perpetuation Of
this terrible and ncalculable wrong. In vain;
the curse continues, the pestlence becomes in
tolerable. In 1851, the five colonies-NeV
South Wales, Port Philip, South Australia
New Zealand, and Van Dieman's Land, enter in
to a solemn league and covenant, binding them
selves one to the other, to resist, by every Just
means within their power, the transportation of
criminals to their shores. They adopt flag
pollutionists, as they are called-denounce it as
a sedtious rag. 1t does look, indeed, as if it
was copied from the bunting of the Chesapeake.
Honor and victory to that flag. 1t is lifted in O
holy cause-It is the type and war crest Of ma
ton full of youth and glorious promise. One of
these days it will traverse the world, with the
five stars, in undisputcd possession of the field
That destiny was pre-ordained--was pre-arrap-
ged---would have come---thOugh all her wealth
Law In the ieeces of her fOcks and no sands
sparkled through the streams at which they
drank Inevitable always, it is now immediate
The gold discovery shortened the road 30 it,
shortens it by a thousand miles--disperses ma
ny superhuous woEds-many circumlocutory
chapters in her hstory---has saved her, perhaps
many discomfture--manya staggering blow
many an exhausting wound. Gold, which has
caused many a brain TO ache, has blistered many
a hand, has broken many noble heart, has
wounded many a soaring soul, and, clinging to
it, has brought it TO the dust; gold, which has
bought the integrity of the statesman, and led
his wisdom captive gold which has silenced the
tongue Of the orator and bought the lucious fat
teries of the poet; gold, for which, in the gay
saloons of fashion, many fair and noble girl
has plighted the vow which consigned her Gfe
to bitterness and locked upon her radient neck
the snake which swels her veins with venom
gold. which has stolen into the councils of the
struggling nation, has bred dissention among
cred secrets has forced the gates Of her strong
est citadels, has bought the evidence which hur-
ried her apostles to the scaffold, has bought the
votes which made over her inheritance to others
and her glory to strange people---gold, which
has led the traitor to the garden, and with kiss
betrayed the Redeemer of the world, gold which
in so many shapes has stepped with a stealthy
tread or rioted amongst men---which has been
the fever the madness, the despair-has been
in turns, and in quick succession, the spy, the
swindler, the peTiurer, the assassin---tle foe Of
innocence, the blight of beauty, the bahe of ge-
MUS gold has become a fountain Of life, and
ioy and freedOm--the serpent has been trans
formed into blOssomed wand---Luclfer has be-
come the morning star
To you the citizens of America, it must be
pleasing, indeed to behold new republic rising
up to share with you the labors and the glories
of future. before which the conceits of the Old
Word shall be humbled, and in the light of which
humanity shall grow strong Already-as if
YOU had a secret intimatiOn ofit-you have gone
down to the golden shores Of the Pacific, and
there arrayed as bridesmaid in her jewels
YOUR Youngest daughter has waited the coming
of the bridegroom. The newcomer traces his
descent from an ancestry which hac given to
you the tongue you speak, anc the sounder por-
tions of the laws you reverence. The new-com-
er has had trials similar to those which taxed
the patience and reused the courage of your faith
and growing interests-ali the sympathies----alI
the facilties----all the faculties which qualify to
enter with you into relations of statesmanship
and commerce. In these new communities, hu-
manity restores itself. One fair morning tow
ards the close of last summer, l stood IN field
that overlooked the Hudson. was struck with
the ripeness of the fruit which waved around
me- and broke into an expression of delight.
1t seemed to me that the most glorious l had
seen in any cline the most glorious which the
earth could bring forth. ''That seed" said one
who stood by, 'came from Egypt" II had been
buried in the tombs of the kings ; had lain with
the dead for two thousand years"
But, though wrapped in the shroud, and lock-
ed within the pyramid, it dies not. 1t lived in
the silence---lived in the darkness---lived under
the mighty mass of stone---lived with death it.
self and now that the dust of the kings has
been disturbed---now that they have been called
and they stir not---now that the bandages have
been removed, and they see not---behold, seed
gives forth life and the fields rejoice in its glo-
rv And thus it is that the energies, the in
stincts the faith, all the vitahties which have
been crushed elsewhere, have been entombed
elsewhere, IN these virgin soils revive, and that
which seemed mortal becomes imperishable
And thus it is, the seed will multiply, and borne
back to the ancient land, viii make the wilder
ness rejoice Children of the Old World, be or
good cheer. Whilst in the homes, by the Rhine,
the Seine the Danube and the Arno---in the
homes YOU have left, the wicked seem to prosper
and spurious senates provides of the offspring
of the tvrapt. even to the third and fourth gen.
Grafton Freedom strengthens herself in these
new lands and, in the midst of countless hosts
copsecrates the power by which the captiye
| shall be redeemed and the evil lord destroyed