Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-06-03

precedepted advance of this country, feels thrill
of pride when he sees the results of Saxon energy
and intellect. But he pauseS when he thinks of the
end of the rush. this ambition this terrible energy
When and how shall these proud waves be stayed !?
What assurance have we that this country shall not
( meet the fate of ancient States?
The intellectual greatness of people is not in
the least significant of their moral power Their
material prosperity is at the farthest remove from
their true happiness. What power is there which
can preserve this great people in the completeness
of true humanity, pure in morals well as tr
umphant in the fields of mental and physical enter
prise The true lover of his country ponders this
problem, and anxiously seeks its solution, that
truth upon which the glory, the happiness, the very
existence of our people depends.
1t is the religion of Jesus Christ, said the Bishop
which can alone quench the power of ambition
check the rage of lieentious opinion, and conduct
the genius and activity of this great people into sa
lutary and conservative channels. The people must
have religion. This want the elder Napoleon saw,
and used lever to steady the masses and to ele
vate himself into power.
Without the mornings ofreligion, the people, how
ever gifted and strong, will float at random over tho
seas offuctuating opinions, the prey of demagogues
and the workers out OF their own destruction The
want ofthe people is some great catholic, informing
principle, parallel with the moral instincts of hu-
mainly, ennobling in its social and spiritual tenden-
brotherly energy. What is this principal? Look
around upon Nature! What subtle power is it that
clothes the earth with this verdure? What
mysterious principles is it that sends the throb of
spring through all the veins of regenerated nature?
1t is life. 1t is this secret power which changing
the sterility of winter into the richness of spring
makes up the totality of being-makes the world
comtinuLm, and existence integral. So with man.
OF himself he dries up and desdes from the fever
of his mad RIGHTEOUSNESS. The new principle offe
from above, speaking through the universal consci-
ence terminating into oneness the disjoined elements
of his nature and conducting, by it's regenerating
power the great circle of humanity circle of
moral, mental and physical elements " all compact"
To-day, in laying the cornerstone of this edifce,
we are doing great work. We are lending our aid
to the unbuiding of an institution alone eficacious
in withstanding the aggressions of party spirit ra-
dicalism and inhumanity. The patriot should re-
joice in such a work. The philanhropist should
breathe God speed to so sacred an undertaking.
The statesman should hold up the hands which plant
Churches and Chapels throughout the land Every
steeple pointing to Heaven is symbolic of prayer, Of
purity, of truth. The erection of every Christian
Church tends to make God.fearing stable and
happy people. When reflect upon the work and
genius of the Anglo-Saxon race, the importance of
religious influence upon such master spirits and
shapers of the worlds destiny cannot be over.est.
mated.
All good citizens much more all Christians, should
cordially cooperate in the work of imparting moral
life and health TO the people at large The dstinc-
tive means of such great and holy end is to be
stone in the name of the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Ghost-shadowing forth the office ofthe Evan
gecal pulpit of the missionary, and of every Chris
tan in the catholic communion
The South WAKING Up-Enterprise has at last
got foot-hod in the South A railroad has lately
been opened from Savannah, Georgia. to Memphis,
Tennessee, distance of $50 miles. From the At.
lantc seaboard to the banks of the Mississippi the
run is now made in SO hours without change of
cars. This speaks we'll for the South
Cleaceland (Ohio) Plaindealer
"The South waking up" What is the North do
ing when it now for the first time discovers that
"enterprise has got foothold" among us? Did
this Northern Editor hear of the first steam
ship that crossed the Atlantic? Does he not know
that this hitherto unried experiment success
fully carried out in 1919, by the citizens of Savan.
nah, in the face of the Encouragement of scientific
men? "At last the South is waking up" The first
passenger railway in the United States, the Balti- |
more Ohio, was opened on Southern soil, in 1929, |
before single mile of road had been projected in |
the State of Ohio where this editor claims his resi-
dence This triumph of American, of Southern en-
terprise was before the first successful experiment
in England had aroused the minds of the people to
the importance of railways
In 1882, South Carolina opened her great railway
from Charleston to Hamburg, distance of 1 SO |
miles, which has been run regularly SINCE with
out the loss of single passenger. This road contin-
ued for several to be the longest in this country
under one management
In the Fall of 1943, the Georgia Central Railroad
from Savannah to Macon, 19l miles in length, Vas |
opened, and has since continued to do a large and
profitable business. At this time there were very
few roads in Ohio, and even down to 1876, there
in the entire country west of Buffalo and north
of the Ohio river, but 500 miles of Railroads in |
operation. The Central Railroad retained it's posi-
ton for several years the longest in the United
States, under one management, and even as late as
January 1, 1854 it exceeded in this particular
by but eight Railroads, of which only one was To- |
Gated in Ohio the Toledo and Wabash, and but rs |
miles of this route was within the limits of that
State.
We admit that the present condition of the Rail. |
roads of the country shows the West largely in ad-
vance of the South, but the paragraph at the head
so
past that we cannot permit it to pass without COM
ment. SaUanndh Morning Neoa