Kenosha tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1855, 1855-03-01


fastened her huge beak upon the frontier
of Africa, and Tapped her wings oser
Carthage, the countries of the Euphrates,
the Rhine and the Danube. The Firth oil
Forth and the Clyde, Mesepotamia and Ar
menia, Asia, Syria, and Phenicia, Pales-
zine, and part Of Egypt Who would not
predict her invncible and her existence i'm
mortal
Oh! her bloody escutcheon weighed her
down in the sea of denominations. Mons
ters sat upon her throne and wore her dia-
dem. Unblushing RIGHTEOUSNESS stalked
through her streets at MONDAY. Her citi-
zens baptized in vileness, worshipped at the
affairs of Bacchus, and profaned the temple
of the living God. The followers of Christ
persisted upon the Roman ck-drenched
with blood the rayeneus beasts ofthe arena
or famed like pitchy torches upon Pala-
/ tine Hill Her proudest monuments were
defled with vllainy and despatched with
blood. And when vileness had outdone
herself and could add to vileness no longer,
fell like a great giant, convulsed the world
with the shock, and remains mass of
mournful but magnificent ruins. The III
Der glides on at her feet. Massive ruins
still astound the spectator. Consecrated
1 ST. Peters lifts her massive dome above the
surrounding desolation, and religious pill
grims bow within her sacred walls.
| Babylon! Babylon! That mysterious
hand traced upon the wall the cause of her
down fall. The prediction Of prophecy
were fulfilled. She was city of Harlots.
Lewdness nestled in her bosom. Her pal
aces were retreats for injustice and wicked
ness. Her Hort PenSUeS have fallen. The
traveller seeks in vain for the spot where
they once poised. Scorpions and vile rep
tiles bask unmolested in her ruined courts,
and serpcnts slowly drag their slimy length
along her once thronged and busy streets
The Tigris rolls lazily on, past the ruins
of Bagdad; and the desert winds sigh over
the desolation of Nineveh.
Jerusalem, the City of the Almighty
God! The blood of the Redeemer is upon
her! The Holy of Holes is long since min
gled with the dust. Solomon's Temple is
as though it had never been. The Son Of
the great Vespasian RACED herto the ground,
and left not g one stone upon another. -
Her people are wanderers throughout the
universe to this day.
The Minarets of Turkish Mosques mock
the sorrows of Mount Olive and the city of
the living God, is now desecrated by the
Infdel and the Turk.
Memphis, Palmyra, and Damascus, the
genii Of decay has touched them with her
magic wand God has brea thed his wrath
upon them. The night owl boots amidst
her dreary ruins Their solitude is resiled
by afording retreats to robbers and beasts
! of prey.
OJustice where is thy conqueroy! These
are all gone
"Gmmerng through the things that
a school bows dream, the wonder Of an hour
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/ repudiate the divine right of kings. A
golden bauble-ag littering throne-ermin-
ed robes, cannot constitute a puny, imbe-
ellie, measly, degenerate. race of men, kings
and rulers. Whom the law declares a ruler
is not necessarily one, any more than what
the law declares right, is right. And if
the enactments of men war against the laws
of God it requires no great discrimination to
tell which must yield. France in her mad
folly once enacted that there was no God.
But her bloody throes, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
convulsed her with terror, and like an hum
BILE penitent with a eontrite heart, she sought
the protection of that God she had denied,
and expiated her offences in the fires of af-
Fiction.
The people alone are sovereign and su.
prcme. From them must emanate all power
and authority, and to them must be the
final appeal.
Majorijies may tyraunizc, but never more
nor worse than minorilies. And though the
masses occasionally so wrong, they often
err go right, and purge themselves from the
errors time and experience may developc
The people will lay their fundamental
law in the laws of God, and rise equal to the
emergencies, geographical position, or ma
tional eruptions may create. There is in
finitely less danger of the masses becoming
corrupted with power, than pampered
few, OF single individual.
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The American government with its de-
clarations of rights, which is paramount to
all constitutions and alllaws; guaranteeing
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ty, religious toleration; free speech, ua-
shackled thought; securing the liberties of
a prolific press, the inhibition of laws of at
tainder and erpost facto, and the right of
habeas corpus; astounding the world with
the declaration, That all men are born
equal, and possess the right to life, libcr-
ty, ana the pursuit of happiness" There
by assuming, when she takes her stand
among she nations OF the earth. only the
power to do all that may be done of right,
and virtually diselaiming all power TO dc
wrong"
/ With her cheeks and balances which are
me ~ admiration of foreign courts, and wise
ulpiomausis her laws based in the prin
eiPles OF mans nature, and designed to at
tam the ends of Justice: with foreign
policy wise and honorable as the eternal
Declaration of Independence; it is easy
to conceive such a government in such q
country as We possess, would soon render
our country great, happy, and wise.
! 1t is thus America has kicked off ber
swaddiing clothes, and ,eaped from an in