Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-05-08

ney, traverseS more tl.an six times this dis
tance in single year. So that if car had
started at the birth of Christ to run around
the orbit of the earth, it could not vet have
accomplished a single circuit; though more
than the lifetime Of two Methuselahs! In
every science, to which we have adverted
man Is interested from the constitution of
his nature. Let us proceed to consider 9TH
er relations. Man, is a solitary individual
is comparatively weak and inefficient, and
unable to perform those vast achievements
that he can in connection with his fellow
man. Hence, social and political compacts
have been performed. History is the science
tEat teaches us how political organizations
have originated, been sustained, and over
thrown. Hence, to discipline the mind. and
give impulse and stimulus to effectfe act
ion, history ranks among important studies.
From history we learn what conduces to
the stability of governments, and what
causes hasten their dissolution No States
man can speak ad, isedly respecting the
adoption or rejection of any great measure
of State policy, If ignorant of its tendencies
as aught by the experience of past confed-
era-i1ns. Men may frame constitutions and
organic laws that will give character and
direction to nations through long periods
of time; sill There's divinity that
shapes the ends and overrules all Events.
Corruption engenders disease in BODY
polite as surely as in the animal frame
and if there be Il lack of reguia.ive power
to throw it off, death is tie inevitable re-
suit. The eternal laws Of right and wrong
can not be violated by the mightiest ag-
gregation of human power Sith impuniiy
And though no single life time is long
enough to read the judgment Of God upon
the transactions of contemporaries, yet the
records of past ages lay open the decisions
of heaven, and announce its verdict in the
dreadful catasirophics that it has visited
upon national tramsgressons. Babylon op-
pressed and broke in pieces the nations
but long ago her broad walls were broken
down. and her high gates burned with fire.
Rome vanquishcd and robbed whole ma
tons. But retribuiion came at last, when
the Hun, the Gath, the Vandal lihed her
ill-gotten treasures. One truth taught
from this source is: oppression nerer pros
pers.
Let youth then learn those lessons taught
by the recorded experience Of the past =
The history Of GOO years Is fraugIt with
instructions 70 cnlIghten and guide the at =
ieniive reader In the faith of duty and hap
piness. The results of ambition, individu-
al or socical, the end Of unres.rained alb
solution or reckless dcmagogue;sm are dis
closed in details. Man can here be studied
in his personal, social and PRACTICAL action.
As a study for American youth is import
ancc can scarcely be over estimated. Use
full as the natural sciences are, 20 which
reference has just been made, still, to know
the history of nations is perhaps more nee
essary for citizen of these United States;
especially those nations who have acted out
their parts 20 the closing scene on the
great stage Of the world In this counrv,
every man, as IA voter, shares in the respon-
sbiliiy of giving direction to the govern
meni; and any citizen may himself fill the
highest stations as legislator or admins
traior of law. But a man not only holds re-
la.lons to the external world, and to his
fellow man; there is another class of rela-
tions stil that transcend both, not only
from the consideration that they effect his
present well being, but also his everlasting
destiny. These may be termed his moral
relations. Past history shows that the light
of nature is insufficient to teach these. The
Sun of Revelation must beam in uncloud-
ed splcndor upon the mind, if they are full
y apprehended. Mans moral rela ions 10
his Creator, or to his fellow man are per-
fecily taught only in the Book of Books
the Bible. 1t contains system Of morals
perfectly adopted to our wants Earths
pass and present history too, clearly, fully
and dis .inctly testlies, that man, without
revelation to guide and direct him, easily
becomes the serf of despo;ism. or the slave
of oppression, politically; as well as the
vic,im OF imbruting supersyi.icn or vile
ilolany reisiously; that lis civil and re-
ligious freedom depends upon his living in
the vivifying radiance Of celestial Ii ighl, and
tllat we might as well expect vege,alion to
germna,e, develop leaves. flowers and
fruits or the animal to become symmetrical
in form, and endusing in constilu ion,
without the genial influence of Solar origin;
as man to become a noble freeman, in its
fullest sense, unblest by the eniyeninr
beams of the Sun of Righteousness. In
deed we might as consistently search fr
the blossoms and sweet spices of the trop-
ic anil polar SHOWS, rs for true freedom
amid the bliSh;ings of heathenism, or that
direful iniidelty that scorns, or that detes,-
able aposIasy that burns, or otherwise des-
troys the book Of God If we would then
transmit the inesiimable blessings of our
civil and religious freedom unimpaired to
postcri,y, and secure to coming generations
exemption from the chains of tvrannv, and
the CALLING fetters of an imbruling super
sti,ion, We must not only spread the am
pie stores of science before the youthful
mind, but we must likewise Undue the un-
derstanding with the knowledge of sound
truth. But mans relation reach beyond
his connections wi h the present world
The Book of books reveals this, and un-
folds the principles of Divine government.
and proners to the short lived sons and
daughters of fellow man, unending life in
the world to come. 1t not only gives his
torv ,f ,bo roct IN rtnouu,loJ norr, t;voS