Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-29
TUESDAY, NOV. 20, 1856.
whittier are we Tending {?

/ whittier Tending?
The violent commissions through which our
nation has just passed, and the result, suggest
wildly to our mind the interrogatory "what
next?" We exist under a system of compensa-
tions. Nature holds her scales with an impartial
hand. If Joe Dobbin goes on spree to-day,
Joe Dobbin must expect headache to morrow !;
and if Republic has debauch, and stains her
escutcheon with national guilt, she must prepare
for the just retribution which is sure to follow.
Not more quickly docs the epicure begin to loathe
what is wholesome, not more certainly does the
libertine hate the proGered wealth of virtue, not
more surely does the voluptuary become weary
of this God-given life, than a nation suffers for
nourishing and fostering a wrong in her bosom.
The youthful sensualist has bright days at
first. His future seems spread out before him,
as smooth as an unrufied lake, and his howery
pathway of Tomorrow is spanned by glittering
rainbow, and arched with summer sky. From
his reckless, voluptuous standpoint he sees not,
pencilled upon the near horizon, the mirage of
what he must soon inherit-the vacant eye, the
blotched countenance, the bloated liver, the ema-
ciated, marrowless, soulless Thing, to which his
| career is tending. Even so, the young nation
abandoned to the polutions and aggressions of
slavery, will not see in slavery the germs of
weakness and decay. So on goes the new clipper
ship Uncle Sam, bearing due South, the wind is
fair, the skies are bright, the Flag of Freedom is
at the top mast, the fgure-head of Washington is
upon the prov, and the chains and the groans of
Uncle Tom are in the hold stripes above, stripes
below, and the crew SO busiy engaged in mailing
the hatchway down that they heed not the break
ers, which lurk beneath the water only keel's
length ahead! What rights and liberties we do
epjoy-the blessed liberty to enslave a fellow
man the glorious right to do wrong
False is the belief-fatal is the delusion. that
right and expediency can ever be divorced or
that pocyli and wrong can by any means be re-
conciled. This distorted assumption that Gov
| ernment may do evil with immunity that Nation
al crimes may add to National prosperity, oh
this is the treacherous lever which has overwhelm-
ed in ruin the magnificent kingdoms of the
past. Can wrong doing, or the tolerance of Ma
tional crime ever lead to National Greatness
Alas-Troy thought so once her glory crumbled
with her virtue, and decay now walks through
her tabled halls, and woodbine chambers upon
her old temples. Sparta thought so once, but
oppression perfdy and vice usurped the sceptre,
and her fame exists only as ruis,ed memory
Spain thought so once. Three centuries ago, she
was more powerful than America is to-day; she
brought the first negro from the coast of Africa,
and lashed him on her plantations, and in her
marts she was the pioneer in the accursed slave
trade, and from that hour ,Oe naay date her
dooyaH! Where is she now? Egypt thought
SO once, but her splendid career stranded upon
the rock Of Conquest; the cradle of the arts is
now their grave, and the cherished home of sci
ence and literature, moistened with the blood of
the murdered Mammeukes, lies still and pulse
less as the pyramids at whose base she sleeps.
Carthage thought 50 once, but her senate became
theatre of corruption, and Carthage fell. This
caused Thebes to decay, and her hundred gates
| to drop pece-meal from their hinges; this has
tened the fall of Rome this blasted Greece
Ambition, Cupidity, Conquest, Bondage, these
arc the treacherous leeches, which, fastened upon
the body polite, suck out the life blood Of ma
tions. A great law lies at the heart of national
decline. And it should be pregnant warning
to our " fast'' Republic, rushing lnadly through
headlong course of reckless infatuation and
guilt. No nation can shine by unlawful gains,
and Republic more than any other, to stand per-
manent and strong, must have its foundations
deep-rooted in the soil Of virtue.
Well the hero of Ostend is our President-what
next? Will Kansas be admitted with the hell
born frauds which have been enacted there for
the last two years2 Will Cuba be seized and
plundered by a pack of pirates, stealing in the
name of Freedom? Will Southern blud scons be
sancti6ed as the only feasible answer to Northern
logic? Will the National Courts of justice (such
justiceD decide that shareholders may pass
through the Free States in transitu with their
"property" thus legalizing bondage in Min
nesota2 The good democrats answer this
with pshaw !''-but their voice has the hollow
jingle of hypocricy about it all the while! Will
Nicaragua be annexed with her restored chains
and whips? VIII " nigscrs fetch $4,000 apiece,''
and slavery be made National, and Freedom Sec
tional? What will hinder it9 "God rules! %
said an ascstic clergyman last Sunday. What of
that, good sir, your logic is weak. God ruled
when the first blood was shed beneath the cedars
of Palestine. God ruled when the hosts of Satan
met and overcame the armies of Israel, and
when, years after, for the eternal instruction of
the generations the human law trausfixei the
worlds Redeemer! God ruled when Nero took
upon his shoulders the ermine of Imperial Rome,
and put bis silver heel upon the neck of Human
Rights. God ruled when Robespierre rioted amid
the pollution of guilty Celts, and deluged the
streets of Paris, in blood. But" God helps those
who help themselves" Then let us to the work |!
The breach is broad enough for the whole regi-
ment of brave hearts-let US close up! The
morals of the world are with Us. The patriotism
of the world is with US. The humanity, the in.
tegrity, the intelligence Of the world are all with
us, and we must conquer!
"Though we were but two three,
| Sure OF triumph we should be,
And our promised land shall see,
| Though the way seems long;
| Every righteous word speak,
Makes Sins strongholds bend and creak.
| Wckedness is always weak
| But Truth Is young strong.
! ssMiunesota IL Il In ,s6,,
We have received the above capital work from
its author, J. W. Bond Esq, of this city. Re-