The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-06-20

how to be free they learn every thing else by practice
and the longer they have been in darkness the more arr
they dazzlsd by returning light @carry back said
the Chinese prisoner who had been confined forty years in
dark dungeon, 10 the Emperor Ching yang-aCarry
me back 10 my dungeon, for darkness is toera-
BILE to than light and blinded by the SUM- II
II thus with the victims Of bad government when they
first emerge from the dungeon of despotism without
any previous training Ten to they lose their way
or msed In CROPPING through labyrinth Of bloody
and untred ycissudes and find themselves at last at The
point from whence they first started How careful should
be people possessed Of liberty TO preserve il like the
sacred fire Of the descendants of Montezuma The flame
exlnguished is hard to reght again the prints II
the iron letters Of slavery remain almost ndelibe and
requires generations Of experience to elevate to the
standard from whence they have long been degraded
But the task, however difficult is not hopeless Tue
first efforts for freedom may fail from inexpeenoe OF over
eagerness; but every disappointment win convey
some important lesson and the fall OF the structure dis
close the source OF its weakness The people learn from
past failures the better succeed in future and amid all
their bitter draughts Of experience will assuredy have
tasted of the sweets of liberty the impression Of
which win remain their palates to excite longing
There cam think be little doubt that great srug.
gle is going between the prerogatiycs of kings and
the rights of the people of Europe The latter have
become if dsaneced, at least uneasy under their
burdens and disabilities; and nothing restraints them
from attempting TO throw of the letters which are
every day becoming more calling, and nothing pre-
vents their success, but the millions Of mercenary
soldiers whose bayonets everywhere brise before their
eyes, and arrest every combination before it
head There never probably, was period when it was
Il nfE IN
which have been 6ched from them by force fraud Ev-
erywhere in that quarter Except perhaps in Rusa the
people dsarmed by the jealousy of their government
and having long been accustomed depend on standing
for the defence of the State have in great measure
lost that martial spirit which, when pervades a whole
people oyermach for any regular force that can be
brought against them government Of force can only be
overthrow by force; and despotsm sustained by
standing army be by people who value liberty
than life will last forever The voluntary res
gnaon power never nationally be anticipated and
there few examples Of people Wrestling it from
the grasp Of the possessor except with arms in their hands
The application Of force fear is indispensable to bring
tyrants to
But 1t is said with perfect truth that great evils Often If
not always cure themselves and this probably the only
way they cured An overung Providence takes
them in hand and, by slow certain and salu,ary pro-
cess relieves the body polite without throwing into con.
WILSON'S
Thus, if we not much mistaken tins immense array
Of standing armies which has become the main pl-
lar of despoc power, though for awhile it may answer
the purpose will eventually accelerate the downfall of the
whole fabric it intended to sustain. Though they
may in time of actual war; administer the pride of
tons by adjoining them with the bright chaplet of victory
they fail to become unpopular in time Of peace
after the national enthusiasm has subsidized The spectacle
of many thousand idle drones whose services are no
longer required living at the expense of their labors Il
always offensive the people whose bread they eat and
whose freedom they restrain. We therefore, believe that
the people of Europe will not much longer submit the
maintenance Of some five millions Of hired soldiers whom
they contemplate only the cons~ners of the fruits
of their abor but the great instruments of their oppe
sion The patient ass viii kick and throw his rider and
despotsm like the one-egged beggar who lost his last
cruch sink to rise more until the people become
worthy Of freedom.
The Congress of Paris have been less mission
Of peace than conspiracy of kings against the liberties Of
toe people Nothing done for them there no efforts
made to relieve them from at least portion of their bur-
dens by entering into general stipulation TO dsband
equal proportion Of their standing armies leaving their
spectye forces comparatively tAe sane promise MOI
even hope held out Of any thing like representative goE
ernment nothing the dcspotsm Of kings There
was only spice OF about Hegal piracy and arbitra
ans for the special benefit Of Brother Jonathan But for
the minister Of Sardinia the rights Of the people with the
exception Of the Christians of Turkey would never have
been mentioned On the contrary their chains have been
ryeed still stronger by second holy alliance, OF which
Great Britain has now It would seem, become member
and il is evident that long the eaouses Of this COM
bnaton Of the great powers Of Europe be restrained
they will hold the entire old hemisphere in ihradom, and
France England and Austria become the successors OF the
great TiunUire which, for brief period, welded the
dsstnies Of the Roman world
But for the United States the same fate would probably
be shared BY this conlnenb whose future dcstns are nov
apparently in Of suspension, Let the great reppb
lie look sharp be caught In the web OF philanthropy
and can't The lion and the cock instead Of The lion and
the lamb have laid down together and roaring and
growing in harmonious concert and the towering eagle
should beware Let cherish republican mot black
republican, principles preserve our martial spirit which
the substitute for great standing armies cherish
next to our God devotion to country aud be CRATE
fu that our lot has been in world where there
Is no balance Of power form pretext for eternal wars
and keeping up standing armies Of five millions Of merss
nary soldiers at cos, Of some 1--WE hundred millions 81
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