Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-09-03
DEEDJ THAT ARE DEATH
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nous at the period Of their enactment
wear a different hue when looked back
upon, apart from the false surroundings
ofimmediate victory. It is but a few
years, comparatively, since we were
assured that the Battle of Waterloo had
settled the condition of Europe upon a
permanent and iInfeEishhb1eJbasis tIhe
''cra Of revolutions" Lord Castlereagh
declared to have gone by forever; and
yet the Europe of today sFpractcally
ignorant of any results from tie great
est of Wellington's achievements, and
even the British Queen finds it pTudeft
ida forget, in the Nephew alliance, the
impiscabIe hostility with which hey
equity Grandfather pursued the Uncle,
These deeds of warriors and states
men, so much-noised aboGt in their day
are of little Significance when thc true
history of the world comes to be written.
Fulton and Watt, and Morse, and Hol-
loway-Jennings, the inventor of Vac
cination, and Arkwright, patentee of
SpinningtJennies,-it is to the lives of
these, the future historian must turn
when he endeavors to account. for the
vast physical and mental progress which
characterized the first half Of the Nine
teenth Century. He must consult the
life of Holloway in particular; for no
where else can he find so perfecta type
of that combination of activity and cru
d;tion which forms the distinctive deyel-
opment of our modem intellect. The
wise and learned of former ages were
om~nipotent in the AGA lemy, but help
less as newborn babes in the rough con
fict with the world; they confined, the
treasures of their genius to some. half
score or two of credulous disciples; but
for the great masses of the peop1e-thc
profnum ruLgus, as tEey call them
they cherished a profound contempt and
hatred.
What a pleasing contrast. to this ex-
elusive folly does the curse of Profess
or Holloway afford! How much wiser,
as the event has proved, was HEtto treat
mankind with confidence, and rather
seek to elevate them to his own intel
~lectual and scientific platform, than to
look down upon them from an enNied
and unapproachable height He has
now made friends of the world-of all
rlccs, creeds and tongues of man; he is
looked up to by millions from all cor
ners of the earth as the physical redeem
cr who has disonthralled them, bv his
universal remedies, from tbs bondage of
disease. The void has not a language
ia which the broad principles, of his
Pathology have not been enunci4ted%
nor has the earth a race OF human beings.
so utterly barbarian as to be rngratefun
fer Tie benefits his philanthropy has
brought home to thcms Indeed, in.rat--
itude is by no means a Barbarian Vice
We fad more Of it among the polished
circles of society than amid the natural
rudencss Of 4 savage camp. We could,
at this very moment, lay our hands upon
hundreds who owe their ycEy H~r-stefae~
US, OF Holloway's Pills and Ointlnent1
and yet, because they think it moro
the thing to have a family physieian5
you could not offer thcm a worse insult
than an intimat;oin Of who it is that
really has cured them!
In TIE redemption OF humanity from
the pangs OF physical anguish, hy Hoi-'
loway-in the Geographic annihiiati6n
O. dist,ncc. by liorsa-:n the ltbor-
saving machinery Of Arkwright and the
Independence we enjoy oyer wind and
tide, through the dauntless czertions of
Fulton,-the future Historian Of our
race win find The deathless deeds which
are to claim the tribute Of his pen, and
will cxclaim as he records the mighty
miracles which they rerformed-"Ah,
there were giants in those days. we
ne'er shall lcok upon their like again!'
\. Y. E.raminer,
DEcLIN Hs.-Stepian \. Douglas dc-'
clinos to deliver a political address be-
fore the Minnesota Constitutional Con
vention, which is now in session at St.