The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1856-01-31

auNah1Hge ls mot Inr US The great men Of
other Countries live and die looking at the
spe tator, or, at must, =, Post,rily.
Open the history Of Americs, the history
Of France; read the gre lives, the great
deaths the great martyrdoms, the great words
at the hour when the ruling ihuught of life
reveals itself in the last words Of the dying
--and compare.
Washington and franklin fought. suffer.
ell, and as:ended and descended in their DO.
Iitical life, always in the name o. Gnd, for
whom they acted; and the iberator Of Amer
lea die confilinS to G ID the liberty Of the
people and his own soul.
Sidney, the young inartyr Of patriotism,
guilty "f nothing but imp ,tience, and who
died To expiaie his colntry's dream of liber
ty, said to his li!or--'I r, ice that die
innocent toward the King, b Ut victim, re-.
signed to the King Oh High, to whom all my
lie is due.
The republicans Of Cromwell only sought
the way Of God, even in The blood of battles.
Their policies were their ;aith--,heir reign
Il prayrr-their death u psalm. One hears,
sees, ferls, that God was in all the move.
ments Of these great people.
But cross the sea, travere L. Mlncha,
come 10 our times, open our anna,s und lis
ten to the lart words Of the great political
actors Of the drama Of our liberty. One
would think that God was ecipsed from the
soul, that his name was unknown it the n +.
guage. History will have the air of an a.
! theiet, when she recounis to posterity these
annihilatiuns, rather than deaths. ot ceiebra.
ted men in the great 'st year OF France
The victims only have God; the tribunes
and vi,tOrs have none.
L'Ok at Mrabpau on the bed Of death!
Grown n HE with fl ,wers." sa' he; '.ntuxi-
cate me with perpmr. Let me die at the
sound Ut delicious music"-nut a word Of
Gud Ur OF his soul, Sensual plAIusup piier,
he desired only supreme -ensualism, u last
voluptuousness in hi, agony.
Contemplate MADAM R 'laud, the strong.
hearted woman Of the revolution. She look
ed contemtuouSly on the bespnttrd people
who killed their prophets and sybi-. Not
glance toward heaven. Only one word
for the earth she was quitling-"Oh L,ber.
ty"
Approach the dungeon doors OF the Orion.
dius. ThIr last night 3 banquet; the on.
Iy hvmn, the MirseilIaise!
Follow Camille Dtsmonlins to his execu
ton. A cool aud indecent pleasantly at
the trial, and lng imprcc .tion on the road
10 the guilluutine, were the Two last slough .
Of this dying m III On the way to the last lr,
bunal.
Hear D.nton on the plat orm Of the scat.
told, at the distance OF II line from q ID and
eternity. Il have had go,d time of it:
! 1T me 80 tn sleep. Then to the execution
er-You will sh Nv my Nod t, the people;
it is worth the troubled" His faith annihi
lation; his last sigh sigh, vanity. Behold
the Frenchman VI this latter age!
Whit must one think %! the .Ii!ious sen
tirnrnt Of a tree people, VIII 'se great Il !ur.s
seem t" march in the PROCESSION to anuihi
ton. and t. win m that terrible minister
death itself rec dis neither the thrcatenin %
or PROMISES o' Gpd!
The republic Uf these men without G I'D
has quickly been stranded TIL. liberty
won with ~ much heroism and 50 much zen
ius, has not found in France conscience to
shelter it, Il God tu avenge it, people to de.
tend it against that atheism which has been
called glory. ALI ended in soldier and
some uPost"te republicans, trave,tied into
ronrters. An ath' istic epabican;sm can.
not b" heruc. When you lerr,'y It, it b nds !;
shen yon would buy it, it se'ls itself. Who
would take any heed, the people unsrate-
ul and God nUn-existent! 81 finish a,he.
'st revolutions!