The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1853-11-12
An Aaelen, CITY under Ground.

FUETi.-e, Mississippi, paper gives some IN
'ege,dug particulars Of recen, discoveries BY
Piof Swallow anil other, near hat place, which
are SUPPOSED to be the relics Of ely tail, an I.
occupied By people WHO ate supposed to have
dwell upon tie continent before The lniars POS
sessed It. Tic editor q he parhyil'e Lgniuary
states hat lie accompanied tie professor 10 4
beautiful elevated plateau Of second bottom
tia! theY here saw wLat appears TO be al that is
left of an ani.n, city-sirceis paved, dccaycl
,rick and brick walls, pottery, stone walls, d.
Similar runs have been ipllI in vAr,o3s pats
= his confident. They have almo,, ceased to- be
r.'ers Of wonlermgn,. onio, Michigan, Wiz.
'IH ~, Texas, Utah, Ca.ii4suia, and Mexico, all
al with these memeu'Ios cf ancient great
g.. .nf a once mighty anil civilized people who
'.-a-,rl this vast continent; vhi cultivated it.
s'... u.. gated IL rivers, ana wogked.its mines
"NJ Oak vas, cities rjo.ed in luxury aud spIen
dor; who vaged wars, made peace who fyul
rhcd for ccatllies AMI then were suddenly cut
o!-hurled from tie face Of the ear,l in al,aos .
d,y.
Who were til, n,aplel The re.ro1,e SAB,
Who'll There is no history, no. not even vague
tradition Of them. The rcd man Of tie forest,
"to carries in hi, bfain library OF traditional
l'scndry, running baos for centuries knows 10.
'nug concerning III. origin Of these pile. Of ru.
i"'. In his o.les; stories, Il. only speaks O: them
'' landmarks, exhibiting the ssmo ou;lres-tLe
,'nie aspect Then. they do at the preseat DAY.
car anliqualians are pl4:sl a, lie n.a-te he
'glypics that still .ugcr upon the ship,lc.s
tones, scattered profusc!y over these ru,as,
That volumes there mit, Lo complied, c,u'a
Lut these .licnt-mute :rlirs te made So speak
81; such .s lie history of he human race
a. tho oak OF the torcs, sp,in.s from the small
acora buried IN wouldeiiu. leaves aud in tie
course Ui .iEe becomes nj yhty 'ler, b &, :hr
hgrrcane 10 ~. Gerce-, bh.,. AMI Survives !h-
col. an! whitening frost. 20! Thousand win err;
arrives ut tic z'ni,h o! his glory, thrn wi;!,rs
Er power i exhausted In. glory ht. departed
uake!ness he nay conIcld VITA he s,orm., b.,
his days are numtcrei-Nc fill, and moi!ers it,
the dust. So with man, aud 50 viii nations.
From tt, earliest history Of the wur.d down 90
the prs5,n: ;iinc, one nation after another has
emerged from oJi,urty, and ~ degree. gained
'hs mastery of the world arrived at the very
sunni. Of power and m,gn.fceuce then wsnel
AZ soon vas numbered With he past.
Look Al E.yPl--anso the very cradle Of wi,
dnm, at BAbylon EIuevrb, Palmyra where is
tis,r splenl9ri Where is Carihlse-- D.its en-
6hanted home and mighty Greccc' They have
yasred away. Mighty runs only tell tho story Of
then greatness and their fall iti.almost within
the memory Of man, when tho island Of Great
Britain was wilderness, inhabited by fierce sa
wages, tie smoke Of whose fecatomb; of human
beings a:cunaed in perpetual columns TO the hca.
vsns. Now Great Britain boasts herself he mis-
',rss Of the world Her ships, he. sons her Ian
guagc, and her Influence are Known and f,lt in
every cline. But she too must reach the z3niih
other glory. She TOO will wAne, AMI the dazzling
brightness Of her present grandeur fade away.
lime viii blot out her history an'iqratans vii!
dig up her cities from ths bowels Of do earth
llor language viii no more be spoken, AMI her
songs aud boasts will all 10 forgotten. And SO
with our pIoal republic. Cuumb. will see her
Igoudast day--bor deCiine--ard fnal desolaticu.
Whu knows bat the very ruins which are now
scattered over onr broad spread iominions, were
tho homes of n ppn,lp ones vlatly mira prnnl
an mighty, than now tread upon the same soil,
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