Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1855-09-19

mother to bring him milk, no wife TO grlnd =
lis corn" Need we wonder that sleep
led from his eyes and tears filled them ?
Here, where he had no right to expect any
thing like benevolence or hospitality, there Y
appears to him an Angel of Mercy in the :
Of a woman. In it We have a strong
argument in favor of humanity pervadlng
all classes in life, subject to no restrictions M
as regards sect or color, but universal as III
air, as light. ST
Even in the field of battle, we find HUI W
mainly shining out from carnage, like a 7
grain of gold amid heaps of sand. Even :
here, amid strife, contention and death we
meet with instances standing out in bold
relief against the scene around. The hu-
mainly of Sir Philip Sidney was consplcu- ;
GUS even in death. Dreadfully wounded,
he lay on the sad field of Zutphen tor I
tured with thirst a bottle of water is held
to his lips but at this moment he sees the
eyes of a wounded soldier fixed upon him
with sad yet e%nvipus earnestness "Give
him the water" said the dying hero; " his
necessity is still gseater than mine" This
was the browning act of one whose =" splen-
did accomplishments, humanity and love
of literature, made him the idol Of his age"
Shall We for a moment look on the dark
side of the picture, revealing the baser
shades of humanity, and by contrast, make
you prize the bright side more
There was the treatment of Regulus by
the Carthegenians 26O years before Christ.
The noble Roman would not allow his
countrymen to suffer for his sake, so he
returned to Carthage and to a death as
heroic on his part as it was base and inhu-
man on theirs.
The death Of CESAR, Al B. G. by BRU-
TUs. CESAR enslaved his country, was
a despot and a tyrant, and his elevation
cost the lives of l 200, 900 men. But we
leave these and turn to the tragedy ending
by his death with ct te Brute ringing in
our ears. At the battle of Pharsalia, CE-
sAR spared the life of BRUTUs. In the
Senate house on the Ides of March, the IA
vor was returned by a stab.
CoMMoDUs the Roman tyrant who noun
ted the throne $50 years A. c., combined
the c~ruelties Of a NERO with the mean
ness and avarice of a JUsTINIAN. He it
was who cut off mems noses under p~retence
of shaving their boards; he it was who,
like HERCULES of old, paraded the streets
with club and lion skin, beating beggars
to death.
IRENE the mother of the last CoNsTAN-
TINE proved how nearly woman and demon
are allied, when with barbarons inhumani-
ty, in order to obtain the purple, she or.
dered her sons eyes to be put out, SO that
he died three days after. The eighth
Century showed no greater act of inhu.
mainly.
The death of JOAN OF ARC in 1926
marked National Inhumanity as well a
National Superstition. The murder of tn
PRINCES in 1883 by command of RICH
ARD, was a domestic tragedy Of deepes
b dye as we'll as a National disgrace, at whicl
i Humanity bowed her face for very shame
! DIEGO DE V~ELAsQUEz' treatment O
the Indians on the island of Cuba in 1451
Fl when HUTNEY, a Cacique, was taken an
> condemned to be burned. At the stake
ere the fire was kindled, a priest propose
to the victim the ceremony of baptism, S
1 he might enter the Christian Paradise
What was it but the effect of such priestl
4 inhumanity in his mind-savage yet nobl
that led him to say Are there any Spa1
iards in that happy place 2" eyes, W;
the answer. Then" was the reply ="
n would not go to a place where I would
II in danger of meeting one of them. Ia
IL to me no more of your religion but lea
me to die" 1t was a noble rebuke. I
> record in the treasury of history may W.
IS cause a blush of Indignation to mount
u.s. the very temples, when Spanish tyrapl
Of and Spanish %inhumanity passes in revie
is There are WoLsEY's dying words a
Mt cord Of Kingly inhumanity and ingratituc
Had [ served my God with half the x
d. with which l served my King, he won
or not have deserted me in my. old age"
tb There too is the treatment of GAUg
he MAIN the gallant Emperor of Mexico
ne 1912, by CoRTEz, who debased his digni
Ict stained his renown and degraded his |
nd mainly by torturing his royal victim.
NJ Queen ELIZABETH S treatment of Ma
Ter Queen of Scots, in 1887, was an instar
he in which the humanity of friendship V
ell blotted by q%ueenly unfaithfulness, q
ut, stained with royal blood which should h;
it been held as precious as her own.
;or Do you now wish instead Of records
I'll, the past, present instances of that Inhum
ng ity which indeed makes countless thousa1
ew mourn Individual ones are within y
,ed sphere-they need no pointing {
ess Do you need National ones? Their
nu- ITALY at the feet Of AUSTRIA. INDIA
ary IRELAND beneath the heel of ENGLAND
ca POLAND, land of STRAUIsLAUs and Ko
of UsKo, under the Internal %triune, PRUsS
,ce- AUSTRIA and RUSSIA. HUNGARY
ere four centuries subject to AUSTRIAN tyran
ms Shall we multiply instances? Indivi
ro- al or national, local or cosmopolitan
UGH Shall we speak of the bondage of our
Je- land, of the foul blot on the escutcheol
the freedom ?
IRA Rather let us turn from all these
ave with hope for Humanity in the progress
5 in spirit of the age, add our feeble efforts
pom ward rolling on the car of Progress.
ark Jugernaut of Sin must yet receive its
DON tims-the funeral pyre must still cons
it's the living with the dead-the Ganges
it is the Crocodile must still receive the
the of the Hindoo mother-men must
we meet men in warlike conflict and blood
re- like a river-passion must still reign
: is walk up and down the land with ola
now eyes, while Murder, with red right h
and Anger with knitted brow, and Envy
thus pallid lips attend her during the Rev
nee, Anarchy in the world. Is it not wri