Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-11-19
Deeds that are Deathless.
HOW TIME REVERSES HUMAN
JUDGMENT.

Time tests the value of all human action,
and deeds that were thought glorious at the
period OF there enactment wear different
hue when looked back upon, apart from the
false surroundings of immediate victory
| 1t is but few years, compare lively, since
we were assured that the Battle OF Water
loo had settled the condition of Europe up
on permanent and imperishable basis;-
tie "era ot revolutions" Lord Castlereaugh
declared to have gone by forever: and vet
the Europe of to-day is practically ignoralt
oi any results from the greatest oil w elling-
toms achievements, and even the British
Queen finds it prudent to forget, in the
Nephew's alliance, the implacabe hostility
with which her gouty Grandfather pursued
the Uncle.
These deeds sf warriors and statesme n =,
so much noised about in their day, are OF
little sisnitica al ce when the true history OF
the world comes to be written, Fulton and
Watt, and Morse end HolloTuy-Jennings
the inventor oi VaccinnatiJn, and Ark
wright, paieAtes o. SPinming-jenHies.- it is
to The lives of these, the future historian
must turn when he endeavOrs TO account
! for the vast physical Rnd mental progress
y hich charac -erized the first hait OF the I9Ln
| Century. He must consult the lite of Ho.-
Ioway in particular; for no where Else could
he lind SO perfect type of that combna-
tim OF activity and erudiiion which ioims
the distinctive deve!upement of our modern
intellect. 1he wise and learned of former
ages were Omnipotent in The academy, but
helpless as newborn babes in the rough
CONFLICT with the world; they confined tae
treasures OF their genius 20 some halt score
or two OF credulOus disc les; but for the
great masses OF The Peuple-the p~otanum
UEL9uS, as they call then!--they cherished
profound Contempt and hatred.
What pleasing contrast to this exclusive
folly does the course OF Professor Holloway
afford! How much wiser, as the event hes
proved, was He 10 treat mankind with conf
dence, and rather seek 10 elevate IEem to
his own intellectual and scientific platform,
than to luok down upon them from an ell
We'd and unapE roachabIe height! He has
now made friends Of the world-of al races ,
creeds and tongues of man; he is looked up
to by millions from all corners of the earth
as the physical edeemer who has disen-
thralled them, by his universal remedies
from the bondage of disease The world has
not language IN which the broad princi-
pies ol his Pathology have not been enun-
Grated; nor has the earth race of human
beings SO utterly barbarian as to be migrate
iul ior the benefits his philanthrophy has
brought home to them. Indeed, ingratitude
Is by no means a barbarian vice. We find
more OF 1t aILong the polished circles of SO
cIety than omd the natural rudeness of d !
savage camp. We could, at this very mo-
meut, lay our haRds upon hundreds no owe
their Very HrtS to the use OF Holloways |
Pills and Ointment; and yet, because they |
think 1t more the thing" to have a ''lamiiy |
physician" you could not offer them Il worse
insu than an !ntimaton OF who it is that
feally has cured them!
In the reoemptron- OF humanity from the /
pangs OF physical anguish, by Holloway
IN the telegraphiC annihilatIon Of distance,
by Morse-ln the labor-saying machinery
of Arkwrght and the independence we en-
joy over wind aud tide, through the daunt-
less eXertloLs oi Fulton THE future histn-
rIan ot our race viii find the deathless deeds
which are to claim the tribute OF his pen,
and viii exclLim, as he records the mighty
miraclts which they periormed-"Ah, there
were giants in those days! we ne'er shall
look upon their like ugainr'-N. Y. Eram-
iHer