The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-04-25
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THE ANTI NEBRASKA DIFFUSION RAPIDLY DYING


What great reform has prevailed tested alone by the
unsafe tribunal of passion and preudieef How many Of
the blessings that enjoy have been yielded TO reuc
family or realized after those who discovered them had
been gathered their fathers in poverty and obscury
Columbus and Gallleo painful examples Of popular
dstrust and unbeie in the darker ages and these
distinguished instances not without parallels in the
present day Now in times past the bold man who an
cpates the coming hour and prepares for the events OF
the future often prescribed by those who do not hes
enjoy the fruits of his sagacity and his
But mark with pride the large advance in the popular
mind which the few years bygone have exhibited and we
hail, with undissembed satisfaction the dawnng of a ma
tred and enlightened judgment upon the discoveries IN
government and in science and upon the results OF progress
sive principles.
few DAYS now effect favorable change in the public
mind which it has required years accomplish heretofore
While the world endures will work out its GRAND OF
evil and falsehood and calumny viii their dark
designs But the power is longer given to the common
sanderer to keep down the right permanently to tram
mel the truth Men cannot always be deceived by the
same jugglers and by the same expedients Intelligent
men will not surrender captive their judgments to those
who have wrought good result and whose only
practical achievements have been practical wrongs
mposor must also be armed with theory or he is
extnpushcd like a brief CANDLE The who read
newspapersth thoughts that fly on electric wings and
revolutionize nations without war-the practical and
tangible doctrines of hard agecannot be
caught or conquered by the connerets that always at
last fail to pass current and by the charatans who can
point to record upon which there not single act that
has reflected credit upon themselves upon others.
Nah ia Nv vi
ible Ii has been not the wonder but the paroxysm Of
few DAYS II has been explosion il is true, for it has
been both brief and loud but began and ended in moth
ing A few noisy fanatics in corner of New Eng
land-a few boiserous speeches in Congress--here and
there an eipythc empties editorials Of Greeley and Gar
rsonthese have been the properties of the drama and
with these it has ended in ridicule and in defeat
General Shields his classic dissertation upon the de
usions of the day in the Senate last week ELECTED by the
presentation of the petitions Of the believers in spiritual
ISM omitted probably the most hurtfu audacious and
wicked of all these receptions He omitted the balefn in
atuaon of abotonism There is in this theory no ele-
ment virtue of reason and yet is wild and as
mpractcable as the fabrcations of Shehezerade who
lied that she might ivetried by any standard OF law or
of humanity Ii makes mad precisely like the vague
horrors of Millersm but il maddens them not with
hopes of Heaven but with fears of He'll 1t unseats the
intellect with the dreams of better day but with
visions Of rapne and of blood is not like the system
that restored health for its pillars murder and death
II calls up the spirits of the past not to take counsel from
them honest purposes but to make their memories the
pale witnesses of country ruined and destroyed
1t deals in prophecies OF evil not in promises of good
Constantly exposed scorn all its Vaccinations from the
beginning showing but black chapter of asehood and
folly and often reoces in temporary sue
cess and distinguished victims Like all other fabriea-
tons of diseased and dishonest csters its influence is
melting before the genial beams of popular intelligence
Unlike them ALL however, in its nfamy and its treason,
pershes amid the indignation of its dupes and the JOY OF
those who have not been entrapped by its wiles.