Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-09-07
ing in its fury-the Bastile etaken-Lafayette lead
ing the Guards, and Mrabeau the Assembly.

ing the Guards, and Mirabeau the Assembly
England was at peace. The American revolu
ton had been ended. The Comet found E nglant
busy beef eating and bullying. If you search the
annual Register of 1888, you look in vain for any
generous principle as its guiding star. You will
find chronicles the great brusing match between
Humphreys the bully and Mendoza the Jew, in
which 100000 in bets passed from the Jews to
the Gentiles; and the great trial of Hastings, on
the 18th of February, 1888, wherein Burke, aided
by Fox, Sheridan, Francis, and others, impeached
the despoiler of India before the Lords in West
minister. You will find recorded the death OF
"John Scarr-a pauper-aged 1o5, who could
thread needle without spectacles, and crack
nuts with his teeth to the end of his life" as well
as the judicial death of Lord Mansfield, who in
that year had retired from the bench he had adorn-
ed, and the jurispru dence he had built up. You
will find England in hubbub because "shabby
insane man" had got into the the Princess Eliza
beths apartments to pay his alteration at her feet
and the English Parliament in hubbub, debating
"a bill to pay the American loyalists who stuck to
George, to their eternal disgrace. England was
content to cultivate business and the arts of peace
Jenner is writing about cuckoos and natural histo-
ry; the President Of Cambridge University is
writing can account of singular apple tree, part
of the fruit sweet, and part sour" One F. R. s.
is deciphering how to make steel, another, ardent
spirits out of potatoes; and third, paper out of
the barks and leaves of trees! A member of Par
Lament condescends to teach English housewives
how to make perpetual yeast; while an Earl writes
dsquisiton on purifying salt.
The Lord Mayor licenced the Dog and Duck
tea-gardens and has his grand gala on the Thames
Fox fights the slave trade and Liverpool and
London pray to be saved from the ruin which i'm
pends on the destruction of that traffic! The
Prince of Wales attended the horse race at Brigh-
ton, to see the pitched BATTLES in which only one
of the combatants is killed. The Clubs are open
to the India nabobs and noble sprigs Sheridan
shines in wit; Mrs. Thral writes novel; Gar
rick plays Hamlet and Mrs. Siddons Lady Mac
beth; the Bishops at Lambeth get up new pray
er; Wharton, the Laureate, pens birth day odes
to his majesty, who is every day getting cra-
zy; Della Crusca simpers through silly stanzas to
Della and sonnets to Damon; and Pitt congratu-
lated Parliament on the fine condition of the inan-
ces, while Fox finds the budget full of blunders
and minus its millions Oh! those were halcyon
days for beef fed, pleasure hunting, monied Eng
land, when our -CAmat brushed the Solar System
last, and bore away these tidings with " the wild
pulsation of its wing -a5 aar@7 1T
Yes-England was at peace at last. The boy
had whipped its mother and she lay still. These
United States, of which the Comet took little no.
tice then, had just put on its Constitutional dress
and in 178S had started out under the lead of
GEORGE WASHINGTON after greatness and glory.
The Comet, on its return in 1858, finds England
at nearly the same old sports and trades, yet
boated and ready to burst with money and lust !;
France still under despot with new name, al
together convulsions have since sorely shaken
ner; Russia and Austria still banded against the
liberal and the weak, and seeking to steal over the
Danube and through the Balkan, to enthrone
Russian Constantine in Byzantum and install
Greek Patriarch in st. Sophia. It's finds Venice
crushed by Austria, as it found Poland by the
sPowers.' But, whereas in 1888 it saw Europe
amely submitting to hereditary and inveterate
tyranny, without murmur-it now finds spirit
called DEMOCRACY, informed with the elements of
he American and French revolutions, and it hears
prayer rising from the patriot lips of millions of
to heaven-that patriots orison
aspiring for that republican equality of rights
which belong to those created in Gods own i'm
Lge. "
Whence this change? Whence this illus trious
pirt burning from heart to heart like the fiery
ross from Highland hill to hill! Whence this
cheering star in the night of the nations! Is it
rom the West It rose full orbed in 1888 when
ur government began. With four millions then
nder its auspices; the strange visitor of the skies
low finds that number multiplied six fold, and
heir spirit indefinitely multiplied and tranfused
t finds nation, beginning like itself TO mortal
we, dim tits nucleus and faint at it's radiance
'ut growing brighter and brighter as it approaches
he SUM- until its light shall be lost in the unver-
al effulgence. . s..-a f
When it shall again come to us-what message
# our greatness and power in the Earth shall it
'ear! Who that reads the history of the last IS
ears, and believes in Provdential destiny, can
all to foresee the dominant greatness ofthis Union
n the World Who that thinks of our progress
n science, arts and government; who that sees /
he steamship, the locomotive, and the telegraph,
bjects which this comet never saw till his pres
mt visit-and reflects upon their influence in the
world; who that thinks of what the Pacific realm
las become; what gold is doing; what commerce
las accomplished; what China, walled close in t
7SS, from the world S keenest ken, has done and
doing; who that believes that popular liberty |
must rise above the ruins of tyranny, under the c
uspices of Science and Chrstianity-can help I
narvelling at the changes in our Earth since last
he comet passed on its way, and anticipate the {
results which will greet it's next appear