Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-05-01
From the y. Y. Examiner.

DEEDS THAT ARE DEATuLEss. -Hor time
Rererses Human Judgment Il ime tests the
value of all human action, and deeds that
were thought glorious Mt the period of thir
enactment wear different hue when looked
back upon. apart from the false surround
ings OF immediate victory. 1t is but a few
years, comparatively, since we were assured
that the Battle of Waterloo had settled the
condition of Europe upon Il permanent and
imperishable basis the the era of revolu
tions,' Lord Castlereagh declared to have
gone forever; and yet the Europe of to-day
Is practically ignorant Of any result, from
the greatest OF Welington's achievements.
and even the British Queen finds it prudent
to forget, in the Nephew alliance the i'm.
placable hostility with which her youtv
Grandfather pursued the Uncle.
These deeds OF warriors and Statesmen. -
much noised about in their day, are of lit
tie significance when the true history of the
world comes to be written. Fulton and
Watt, and Morse and Holloway-Jennincs
the inventor of Vaccination, and Ark.
wright, patentee Of Spinning Jennies,-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 of the Nineteenth
Century He must consult the life of Ilol-
he Ind perfect type of that combination OF
activity and erudition which form. the dis
tinctive development of our modern intellect
The wise and learned of former ages were
omnlpotent IL the academy. but helpless as
new borL babes in the rough conflict with
the world they ..confnd the treasures of
their genius to some half score or two of
credulous disciples; but for the great mas
ses OF the people-the proianum vulgus as
they called then-they cherished aprofound
' Jntempt and hatred.
W nat pleasing contrast to this exclu-
sive folly does the course of Professor Ilol
loway afford How much wiser. as the
event has proved, was he to treat mankind
with confidence, and rather seek to elevate
them to his own intellectual and scientific
platform, than to look down upon them
from an enved and unapproachable height ,
lie has now made friends OF the world OF
oil races, creeds and tongues of man he j.
looked up 20 by millions from all corners OF
the earth as the physical redeemer who has
dlsenthralled them, by his universal rene
dies, from the bondage of disease. The
world has not Il language In which the broad
principles OF his Pathology have not beer
enunclated; nor has the earth race of hu
man beings 50 utterly barbarian as to b,
ungratetul for the benz fits his phianthru.
ply has brought home to them Indeed, in.
deed, ingratitude is by no means Il barbur
ian vice. We find more Of it among tn,
polished circles of society than amid tn,
natural rudeness Of u savage camp. We
could, at this very moment, lay our hand
upon hundreds who owe their very lives t,
the use Of Holloway's Pills and Ointment;
and yet, because they think it more tn
thing to have n family physician 20,
could not offer them worse insult than al
animation Of who it is that really has cure
them
Ia the redemption of humanity from tn
pangs Of physical anguish, by Holloway
In the telegrapbic annihilation OF distance
by Morse-in the labor-saving machinery
Arkwright and the independence we EMO
over wind and tide, through the dauntlee
e1ertions OF Fulton,-th future historic
OF our race Will find the deathless deed
which are TO claim the tribute of his per
and will exclaim, as he records the might
miracles which they periormed-'Ah, thei
were giants IN those days we ne er sha
look upon their like again