The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1859-08-19

earthly duty of the risen.
To demonstrate the necessity of edu-
cation in our government, ] shall not
attempt to derive my proof from what
Greece, Rome or any other Republic
beneath the sun, has sent down to us
in their historic records. Such argu-
ments are becoming stale. Besides
there are SO many points Of difference
between our political institutions and
those of any other government calling
itself free, which has ever existed,
that the objector eludes or denies the
force Of our reasoning, by showing
some want of analogy, between the
cases presented.
Ipropose, therefore, on this occasion,
not to adduce, as proof, what has been
true only in past times but what is
true at the present, and viii continue
to be true,. TIL heavens last thunder
shakes the world below"
l shallrely not on precedents, but on
the nature ofthings and draw my argu-
ments less from history than humanity.
In observing the nature of our insti-
tutions, we find that it's not the ma
terial or corporal interests of man alone
that are here decided by the common
voice. Such for instance, as those
pertaining to fnance-revenue Il ad-
justmcnt of the great economical in
terests Of society; the rival claims
between Agriculture, Commerce and
Manufactures the partition and dis
tribution of Legislative, judicial and
Executive powers, with a long eata-
louge of other Of a kindred nature but
also, those. more solemn questions,
which perYades the innermost sanetu-
tnary Of domestic life-and for wsr-
ship or saerilege enter the Holy Of
Holes in the ark of rociety these
also, are submitted to the general arbi-
trament.
The naughty lordling, whose heart
never felt one throb for the welfare Of
mankind gives vote and verdict on the
extent of popular rights;-the iber-
tine and debauchea give vote and yer
] dict on the sancity of the marriage
covenant; the atheist, on the defni-
ltion of btaspheaty.
Nor is this great people invited
merely to speculate and frame abstraei
theories on,,these momentoas questions
to make picture models on paper, in
their closets--they are not invited te
sketch Republics Of Fancy, but they
are commissioned to make Republics D
Fact--and in such Republics as they
choose. to make you per force, mus
please to live. Nor do our people helt
these powers, as an ornament merely
as some ostensible but useless badge o
i Freedom, but they keep them as in
4 struments for use and sometimes wielc
| them as weapons of revenge. So closel,
indeed, are we inwoven IN the sam,
web Of fate, that a vote given on thl
Southern capes of Florida, may shakt
every plantation and warehouse on til,
i Atlantic and reaching westward over
take and battle enterprise into what
ever ocean it may have penetrated.
{ Such then is our condition, that tn
minds, that are to regulate all thing
and to govern all things in this COY
] ernment are inately strong, they ar
intensely stimulated-fhey are sup
) piled with the most Formidable artilter
, Of means; and each one is authorize
} to form his working plan, his ow
| grand scheme according to which
when the social edifce has been take
/. to pieces, it is to be reconstructed
I then some are for going back thou
) sand years for their models-othert
! for introducing what they consider th
|. millennium at once, by force Of law G
|. by force without law.
I And now / ask with the deepest ana
I iety if there is anything axistin
n among Us, except mental and aaois
{ eu3tane, that can save US from the jar
t gers, that spring up in our own breast
It That the propensities which each ger
/ Grafton brings into the world, posses
I terrifcpower and are capable Of infici
5 ing thecompletestruin none dare denJ
!, Nor will it be questioned, that anon
e as, that they have an open career an
e command of means, such as befel
e never existed. What antagonist
n.