Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-05

one as you will remembcr--take the sword of
the Spirit, and pierce every sin aud vice with
quivering torture, &c. (Tn this strain, the
speaker continued for a few minutes
The oppressed of every CLINE look hopefully
to us. Their prayers ascend, that our light may
never expire. If we unite religion with our
liberty, ! believe that our mighty sOmmon.
wealth will live and flourish till time shall be
no more. "Ho to the land Shadowing with
wings!" is beginning to be the hailing cry of
many struggling State. But if nations would
be free, they must follow our example, and not
seek to involve US in "entangling alliances ~,
For when the people rise, they march, like des-
tiny TO the goal their will has decrced reach.
Selling SOME. great truth, simple, but easily un-
derstood, such as, "fheSe colonies are, and of
right ought to be, free and independent" each
man hides it as an amulet in his bosom, and
guards it with more than Yestal Vigilance
Then it becomes true, that 'Yox Populi est
Vox Del" and we,behold anon the oldest seats
of royalty decuytng, thrones crumbling, Scepters
tnding, paraySed aristocracy and a free people.
"He is Il freeman " horn the truth makes free
and all are slaves beside" The long pent-up
volcanoes discharge their lava, and the spoiled
and buried Ierculaneums and Pompeis are
exhuned long centuries after, only to be gazed
upon by the antiquarian and the cnlious-fnr
the devil of tyranny, says one, always rends
the body he leaves" The spear of Ithuriel
smites between the joints of the harness, as
tranquil and hidden, yet powerful and hope
giving, as the ApocalSptic stone with name
written upon it, (which no man knoweth save
he that receiveth it."
The day is dawning, though faint is the glimm-
ering now which ushers it in-when men will no
longer be sacrificed, as obstinate heretics, or as
expiatory victims, at the bidding Of the bigot or
the fanatic.
"ha''e them tho day ys W ;dI@ seasons
sight 2 which our eyes are strangers yet,
And aS for qG s nGs eass s hS
This creature lie, that God pfOnounces good"
But the patriots of the heroic age of '76 are
well nigh gone. The cOmbatrnts on either side,
sleep now dreamleSs slumber reckless of the
din and strife of this wrong world No thuu-
dering artillery can awake them-lhc hercest
onslaught stirs not a muscle. And our nation
ITSELF like them, must meet its destiny-in the
general confagration, our towering memorials
of liberty, the records of our glory in the pub
lie archives, and the ten thousand proud ban
ners that faunt the sky, shall consume to
ashes, in the general DOOM And / would be
false 20 your eternal interests. IL did not re-
mind you, that you might be civilly free, and
yet in bondage to sin and Satan Even this
anniversary has been prosttuted to the basest
of purposes, and many, by recklessneSS and
intoXication, have staggered into an unprepared.
Eternity. Celebrate the day with prayer, and
praise, and thanksgiving--with reflection, and
high resolve and noble purpose. Let your hi
larity be tempered with moderatiOn--fur there's
land beyond this one. to which we all des-
tiued--a land which viii prove to us, trust,
jubilant forever, in that Jerusalem which is free
That too, is n land Swallowing with Wings
from this distant corner of the Universe, we
hail its glores and everlasting peace. lhither
does the vessel turn her prow,--her bright
shores are dimly seen in the far-away distance,
and nota ripple breaks in anger upon the shin.
ing strand. The nations have learned var no
more. The Briton and American, in fond en-
brace. spread their glad wings, and soar away
upon the highlands of Heavcn-and men of
every cline and from every nation beneath the
sun, may meet, and mingle their loud hallelu-
jahs=-they find it to be the common city of the
Universal Father, land whose wings will pro-
tect aud save every soul of man who, by faith
and repentance, seeks its peaceful shelter. Ere
another anniversary arrives, your bones may be
Wondering in yonder cemetery-may God
grant that We shall ultimately meet in onr
Fathers House above:
There shall Zee His face,
And never, never sin;
Thrre, from the rivers Of His grace, E.
Drink endless pleasures in"