The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1859-05-20


seems as IL the sun-nashcs falling through
tYe old forest bou rs would drink Il ~ hi
the air-but Il widens and deepens, and
dcopons and widens, till il reaches the
broad Ohioi Taxes were once laid on a
few reams Of paper and few boxes Of
tea, and the sheets Of flame shot from
Bunker Ilill, the thunders Of Benning-
ton sent their commingled voices with
those Of Monmouth, Trenton and York
town, and the ligoments Of great nation
were scvered--a new world was formed!
A little Corsican, in his lone native isle,
with genius for eternity, longcd for ac-
ton. Poor, derpisedi nothing but vol
ume oflIomer in his Pocketi nothing but
his sword at his side, he starts for immor-
tality. Sect tho thunders Of Marengo
shake Europc-the glorious sun Of Aus
terlitz lllumcs the land, and the ono unit
ed voice Of three hundred cannon tells that
Do s,aada heGore the Muscoviie capital
suburntol, q Consul, en- Emperor he sits
d O. 80, ,n,vng OF Charlemagnel Such was
the outline couis, ofNapoloon Bonaparte
Emperor Of the French, King Of Italy
Protector Of the confederation Of the
Rhine, &c. In 1889 the thundcrs oI
the battle OF Prague that hadso long slept
In the woody depths Of Transylvanio
awoke in the battles Of tho Magyars that
shook the world Vessels Of every cline
now course the boundlcss western ocean
wave and hundred nations cohabit tho
Red Mans broad landl A merchant Of
Medina IN the far land Of Arabia has be-
come too honest and failed utterly in bus
incss. He secs the idolatry ofhis people
but sees no way to save any but himself
from superstition. He renrs a small tom
pie for his own private worship, and per-
secuted through his lifetime, he seeks his
grave amid the gathering triumphs Of his
religion, which increasing and rolling on
til one third Of the ten hundred millions
Of earth cry "grcat is Allah and AIohum-
med il his Prophet ~
Nations have fallon-their once proud
cities have crumbled to dust, but the minds
and the hearts that lived through cycles
Of the existence Of these, live still In full
Ter force than oycr-every structure, ov-
cry thought Of man and feeling of the hui
man heart, attest 10 the eternity Of
their existence, Indeed we cannot
lay much claim 10 originality. "Thore's
nothing new under the SUM-" runs an
old provorb Tho mognifconcc Of ages
that are gone, how can we appreciate
them, other than by noting every
powerful influence that now existsi Into
what a dark uncertainty would man leap,
ir there was no past to guide him. Not
an action, not a word, not breath oflifu
but the past has given it--not gipea it
merely, for this must be evident to every
one at onoc-but the great the mighty
past gives force, life and power to eyory
existing influence.
Patrick Henry said ~ know Of no way
to Judge Of the future but by the pOst."--
So il is-when about to enter upon any
action, great or small, we ever search in
the depths of memory for a coroberatiyel |
@tsi.i.ic, ssas srfsfu.f 90 she hntfs.s1- .sf1
uman action at some previous time
ius, a nation ofmodern times Is in polite
chains; an orator vlndicating their rights
Ills you Of the three hundred Of Their
opylU and the hard fought field of Mar
hons and whom he speaks Of the felici-
os Of freedom, he tells you ofthe pulmy
lys Of Greece and Rome, or, II Of nNtu-
Il warriors, the frugal life Of rural Sparta.
he mechanic with the nklings of an idea
Il an invention floating in his brain, will
e sure to search every page Of ancient
Mechanism that can In any way throw
ight upon HE schcme. Soft 10, and so Il |
Ihould be, for the very good reason that Il
cannot be otherwise. Great were the ages
hat have passed; andwe have the momen-
um Of their influence. How then shall
nan be great and fill the sphere ofhis be-
ngl The question Is easily answered. Let
iim obey tho instincts within him, hail
the influences that exist around and
,hovo hin, aud hc ,,,ust no s,rontt