Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1859-11-11

and long lying Mt deaths door Another
noble boy, without warning. without OF
Tense, unarmed. In open day. In the midst
Of the city, was shot dead No justice
sought out tho murderers. M United
States Attorney was dispatched in BIO,
haste. No marines or soldier. aided the
wronged and weak
The shot that struck the child's heart,
crased tho fathers brain. Revolving hi,
wrongs, and nursing hi. hatred Of that
deadly system that breeds such contempt Of
justice and humanity. at length his phan.
toms assume slender form. and organic
such an enterprise a. one might expect FROM
man whom griqi had bsreft Of good judg.
ment. lie goes 10 the heart Of slave
State. one man-and sixteen follower.
he .ei1cs two thousand brave virgiuian' and
hold. them In duress.
when great State attacked handful
Of weak coloni,,s. the government and ma.
ton were torpid, bat when seventeen men
attacked sovereign State, hen MARYLAND
arms, and Virginia arms, aud tho United
States Government arms, and they three
rush against seventeen men
Travellers tell u, that the Geyser' II Ic-.
land-those singular boiling springs OF the
North-may be- transported with fury by
plucking up a handful OF grass or turf, and
throwing them into the springs. Tbs hot
.prrnc. u Virginia are Of the same kind :
\ handful Of men was thrown into them,
aud wba, boiling there has been
Hut. nnvhilc. no one can fail to see
tina, th. poor. child.bereft Old man, Is the
manifest Of them All. Bold, unhinching,
houe,t. without DECEIT or doigc, refusing to
take technical advantages Of any sort bat
openly avowins hi' principles and motives,
rlorying in them. in danger and death, Is
much a. when in security--that wounded
old father is the most remarkable figure In
thi. whole drama. The Governor. the ofi.
rs Of the State. AMI all the attorneys arc
pismie' compared TO him.
Ideplorc his misforiunc.. | svmp,,h.,e
with hi. sorrows. mourn the hiding or
ob.cura,ion II hi. reason. disappro,e Of
his mad and feeble schemes. shrink from
the folly Of the bloody loay, and shrink,
Likewise. from all the anticipation- of that
judicial blood.hcd which, dolbte'', ere
long, will iollow-for when was cowariice
ever magnauimou'? They will XII the
man, not for treason, but Tor proving them
towards.
By.and by, when men look back and see
wiihor prejudice that whole scene. they
will not hc able to avoid saying, What
mus, be The measure Of manhood in a scene
where crar'd old man stood head aud
shoulders above those who had their whole
reason? What j, average citizenship when
lunatic i "a hero ?"
one word more. and that is az TO- the IN.
security VI those States that carry powder
As their chief cargo. d. YOU suppose that
II tiling. bad come TO New York that the
United State, Armory In Springfield bad
been seized by seventeen men, New Haven,
and Hartford. and stamford, aud Worccs.
ter. and New York, and Boston, and Alba.
nv, would have been thrown into ieyer
aud panic In consequence OF the EVENT. We
scarcely should have read the papers 20 see
what brrameof II We should have thought
that lt was matter which the Springfield
people could manage Tho thought of dam
rsr would not base entered into our heads.
There would not have been any danger.
But iu State Nhcrs theirs is such inhlm.
mablc stuff ~ slavery. there IS danger, and
the people Ut the South know il and they
cannot help a. DO not blame them 20
much Cor being aimid-therc j, cause tor
tear where they have such population as
they have down at the bottom OF society.
bat what must BE- tho nature Of State and
domestic institutions which keep brave men
At the point OF fear al their lie long?