The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1858-09-10

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my life, my actions, my heart to you. From
you expected the same. can see no dis
tinction in our relative duties toward each
other. Love must exist on both sides-or
OH neither. Whatever may be the opinion
Of a heartless world, a imam of soul" and
Of virtues makes his wife,
liam not to be preached to, tratress,"
said Fred. 81 leave you now, forever but
not till take vengeance on my new mill.
tary acquaintances. Where are they 2"
"They ale here" she answered.
The door was thrown open, and the two
officers, with their chapedux of, were heard
g'ggling and laughing in a most unmilitary
manner.
Fred soon discovered the truth, and
read to him his moral.
Husbands, all, remember that wives have
equal anguish and shame with yourselves,
IN receiving share Of affection, though
they do not possess your despotic power
in extorting it. Tho slightest dereiction,
even though only The carelessncss of a mo-
ment, on the part of wife, stamps her for
over with ignominy and pain; while the
absurd customs of society allow to man a
greater latitude, in sighting, negecting,
aud deceiving her whose happinss is in his
keeping. Of these customs "tle man of
soul" will never take advantage.
Lamartins on the Religion of Revolution
ary Men.
know sigh when think Of it-that
hitherto the French people have been the
least religious of all tho nations of Europe
1t is because the idea of God-wbich arises
from all the evidences ofnature, and from
the depth of reflection-Leing the profoun-
dest and weightiest idea Of which human
intelligence is capable, and the French mind
being the most rapid, but the most superb
cia!, ligbtest, the most unrefective of all
European races, this mind has not the force
and severity necessary to carry far and
long the greatest conception of the human
understanding
Is 1t because our governments have al
ways taken upon themselves to think for
us. to believe for lis, and pray for us ? Is
it because we are and have been military
people, soldier nation, led by kings. he
roes, and ambitious men, from battle field
to battle field, making conGnes:s and never
keeping them, ravaging, dazzling, charming
and corrupting Europe and bringing
home the manners, vices, bravery, iightness
and impiety of the camp to the firesids of
the people
/ know not, bnt certain it is that the ma
ton has an immense progress TO make in
serious thought if she wishes to be free. If
we look at the characters, compared as re-
CARDS religious sentiments, Of the great ma
tions of Europe, America, and even Asia,
the advantage is not for us. The great men
Of our country live and die, forgotten com
pletely the only idea for which it is worth
living and dying they live and die look
ing at the spectator, or at most at poster
ity.
Open the history of America, the history
of England, and the history of France read
the great lives, the great deaths, the great
martyrdoms, the great words at the hour
when the ruling thought of life reveals it.
self in the last words Of dying-and com
pare.
Washington and Franklin fought, spoke,
suffered, always in the name of God, for
whom they acted j.; and the Li5erator Of
America died confiding 10 God the liberty
of the people and his own soul.
Sydney the young martyr of patriotism,
guilty of nothing but impatience, and who
died to expiate his countrv's dream of lib
erty said 10 his jailor II rejoice that l
die innocent towards the king, but vic
tim resigned to the King on high, to whom
all life is DUE"
The republicans Of Cromwell only sought
the way Of God even in the field of battle.
Their politics were their faith. their reign
prayer, their death psalm. One hears,
sees, feels that God was in all the move.
menls of these great people.
But cross the sea. traverse La Mancho,
come to our times, open our annals, and lis
ten to'the last words Of the: great political
actors Of the drama of our liberty. One
would think that God was eclpsed from
the soul, that his name was unknown in
the language. History will havo the air Of
an atheist when she recounts to posterity
these annihiliations, rather than death, of
celebrated men in the greatest year of
France The victims only have God
the tribunes and lictors have none.
Look at Mirabeau on the bed Of death.
"Crown me with flowers" said he, "iatoxi-
cate me with perfumes, let me die to the