The Kanzas news., 1858-02-06
Where viii it End2

W here VIII it End?
This Is the title, IN the Atlantic Monthly
for December, of brilliant political article.
The subject is the political domination of the
Slave power In our government, and its sue
cesslFe aggressions are most forcibly nara
ted. To make a satisfactory extract from a
compact and coherent essay like this, is
difhcult, but we believe our readers viii be
pleased with two or three of Its concluding
paragraphs
The exact time when the millions of the
North and of the South shall rise upon this
puny mastership. and snatch from its hands
the control of their own affairs, we cannot
tell,-nor yet the authentic shape which
that righteous insurreetion will take unto
itself. But we know that when the great
body of any nation,is thoroughly aroused,
and fully in earnest to abate mischief or to
right wrong, nothing can resist its ener-
gy or defeat its purpose. 1t viii provide
the way, when its will is once thoroughly
excited. Men look out upon the world they
live IN, and it seems as if change for the
better were hopeless and impossible. The
great statesman, the eminent divines, the
reverend judges, the learned lawyers, the
wealthy landlords and merchants are all
leagued together to repel innovation. But
the earth still moves in its orbit around the
sun; decay and change and death pursue
their inevitable course; the child is born and
grows up, the strong man grows old and
dies, the law of fux and effiux never ceases,
and 10! ere men are aware of it, all things
have become new. Fresh eyes look upon
the world and it is changed. Where are
will shortly be Cass, and Buchanan, and
Benton and their like? Vanished from the
stage of affairs, if not from the face of
Nature
Who are to take their places? God knows.
But we know that the school in which men
are now in training for the arena is very
different from the one which formed the past
and passing generations of politicians
Great ideas are abroad, challenging the en-
counter of youth. Angels wrestle with the
men of this generation, as with the Patri-
arch of old, and it is our own fault if bles-
sing be not extorted ere they take their flight.
Principles, like those which in the earlier
days of the republic elevated men into
statesmen, are now again in the field, chas-
ing the policies which have dwarfed their
sons into politicians. These things are
portentous of change,-perhaps sudden,
but, however delayed, inevitable.
And this change, whatever the outward
shape in which it may incarnate itself, in the
fulness of time, will come of changed ideas,
opinions and feelings in the general mind
and heart. All institutions, even those OF
the oldest of despotisms, exist by the per-
mission and consent of those who live under
them. Change the ideas of the thronging
multitudes by the banks of the Neva, OF
on the shores of the Bosphorus, and they
will be changed into Republicans and Chris
tians in the twinkling of an eye. Not mere
ly the Kingdom of Heaven, but the king
doms of this world, are within us. Ideas
are this substance; Institutions and customs
but the shadows they cast into the visible
sphere. Mould the substance anew, and
the projected shadow must represent the al
tered shape within. Hence the dread des-
pots feel, and none more than the petty des-
pots of the plantation, of whatever may
throw the light of intelligence across the
mental sight of their slaves. Men endure
the ills they have, either because they think
them blessings, or because they fear lest,
should they seek to fly them, it might be to
bbC1 RHOH nOt Ots nc PAOoCHt bO-
naparte holds France in chain because she
is willing that he should. Let her but
breathe upon the paddock, and, like that in
the fable, it viii fade into air, and he and
his dynasty will vanish with it. So the
people of the North submit to the domini-
ton of the South because they are used to
'it, and are doubtful as to what may replace
it. Whenever the millions, North and
South, whom Slavery grinds under her heel,
shall be resolutely minded, that her usurpa-
ton shall cease, it will disappear, and forev-
er. AS soon as the stone is thrown the gi-
ant will die, and men will marvel that they
endured him so long. But this can only
come to pass by virtue of change yet to be
wrought In the hearts and minds of men,
Ideas everywhere are royal; here they are
imperial. 1t is the great Office of genius.
and eloquence, and sacred function, and
conspicuous station, and personal influence
to herald their approach and to prepare the
way before them, that they may assert their
state and give holy laws to the listening ma
ton. Thus glorious form and pressure
may be given to the coming age. Thus the
ideal of true republic, of government of
laws made and executed by the people, OF
which bards have sung and prophets dream
ed, and for which martyrs have suffered
and heroes died, may yet be possible to US,
and the great experiment of this Western
World be indeed model, instead of a warn
ing to the nations
etI MARX ONLY TIE HouRs THAT SHINE. .
The above, if we rightly remember, is
the inscription upon q sun-dial IN Italy. Ii
inculcates a beautiful lesson which many