The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-06-04
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Of The living. but the living ones, alasi
tue living ones, I sought every where with.
out finding thsm.. Iswass.old slbst here
there once existed a gteat Fpeop!e. : It must
assurlly still exists and tits NOT 90 very long
since it-gave proofs Of its valor, patriotism
and enthusiasm. But where does that he :
roic pcoplo Of the last revolution hide it.
selfl It's concealed, silent and waiting
1t is not impossible that within few years:
it should have become demoralzedto such
a degree as to be the same people now seen.
in the streets, with outstretched hands,
begging for aims. : =
GA people Of beggars! Il 1t is true,
that these beggars have hatred expressed
in their eyes and q curse on their tongues
end! Oh if there are some of those that
so lately re.conqucred their liberty, have
pity on those heroes of yesterday, have pity
on the conquerors of n day, who, by their
rapid degradation, proclaim that painful
truth of the ancients. "When the gods re-
duced man to slavery, they deprived him of
half of his SOUL" If large majority of
that people, as it appears at present, is we'd
ded to Incidence, cowardice, and all tie 9th
or vices engendered by them, if Rome is the
sink of williams and spies, whose fault is it?
If free people would rather live OF the
aims of their oppressors than work,,it would
deserve the contempt Of the universe. But
when tho serf of an absolute power, theo-
cratical and infallible, falls to the lowest
degree of AFFECTION, to whom must We as
criIe its Upon what ground can we ex-
pect that such a people should be possessed
of virtues, when it is not allowed to think
for itselfa
"The people of Rome is not population
in fact, but mob 1T iis not flock of ingo
nious and superstilious believers, consoled
of misery by ceremonies and images, but a
flock of infidels, literally believing in moth.
ing, not even in the priest, that specter, so
long placed next to God, and much above
God' in their mode Of worshipping. The
mob hates and threatens the priest in look
and thought, but bends its knee before him
and blesses him with words. Money is its
only dream. The lottery shops, vulgar car
features Of our exchanges, are the onlv tom-
pies they visit with enthusiasm.
"There, influenced by a remainder of SUI
pcrstitions, he spends his last piece of mon
ey, after having made VOWS to the Virgin
Mary or some other patron saint. But
whenever deceived by fortune, the holy .Vir-
gin and the saint are insulted and damned
in a loud voice, and in terms that would
not be addressed. with us to the most abiec:
Of human beings, or the most infamous of
bis associates.
Whenthe Pope shows himself in pub
lie, there still gathers around him crowd
he so far mistrusts as to Keep far distant by
a number of ill-natured and ifnde Swissaol.
diers, in opera costume, we'll armed with
'r
at must be acknowledged thasEssfhat
crowd is the most hideous to be conceived.
1t is gathering of infected beggars, of dis
gushing nudity, lacerated with all sorts of
sores and wounds, covered with vermin, and
all the monstrosities only to be produced !.
BY night mare. The Pope and Cardinals
drag gold and purple in the midst Of these
rags and filth. How humiiating! What
adeplorsble specimenof Christian equality
1t is a terrible sight. The immortality of
these creatures is as repugnant as, their
sores. Man is not to be seen so depraved
anywhere else; the atrocities Of which the
pagan world was the theatre, the beasts of
the circus devouring men in the presence of
public thirsting for blood, slaves whipped
and tortured, all that contempt for humani
" which fills up the annals of Rome, seem
to be perpetuated and incarnated in the bo.
SONS and habits Of the Romans.
"To be sure, the scene has changed the
personages. The terrible CsesRs are mild
and high holy priests, and the enthusiastic
''o''iiiS arc oegraded oeggars. But In. fact
there are the same contrasts and the same
horrors. The lions and tiger of the CoIise-
nm appear in the form of depravity,, cor
'uptiori and misery. All Romeis an arena
where the eye Of the curious spectator can
behold the most hideous forms of physical
and moral destruction.
But let us look at Rome in its brilliant
moments, when the cardinals, bishops, and
he young Nonsignoripass with a firm step,
highshead, ardent eys, and triumphant
MEN, through the streets To them belong |
,ood fortune and joy, liberty and impunity |
to them belong the fine horses and car
iages, the searching looks Of the bellies, the
toilets, and taste for the fine arts.
"Must we look in the voicss of man for
he cause Of this degradation Or agony of