Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-07-26

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sickened ideness and e will to be relieved by re-
sorting to the gambling saloon the runkards bottle and
all the debasng and dstracting agtations of vice.
Vast happiness enjoy thy gay allies:
A youth of follies, an old age Of cares
Young yet enervate, old yet never wise:
Vice wastes their frames and their mind impairs
ain, ldle dlssoute in thoughtless care,
Deserving tei woes for age, their prime they SPEND
All Wretched, hopeless to the evil days,
Wlth sorrow to the verge of life they tend
GTleVed with the present, of the past ashamed;
Do you want give you incentives stud Ikaow
R ROT wh s to begin All nature is adened with them Do
and kind appreciation of your parents Study Do Won
wish to be respected and esteemed by ALI Study Do
you wish the means OF obtaining wealth Study. Do
you wish to advance society and preserve berty Study
Do you wish to Spy 5y into and enjoy the beauty subm
tble store of contentment happiness for afflicted old
age STUDY 20 while you are young and when you get
other dssoute habits but 60 study dive the deep
and exhaustess of literature and SCIENCE when
EG ge ou you can come at eontentmen and happiness
Inc long and weary hours of old and debility may be
eheered and ghtened by the beauty of science the melody
OF song and the tale o. by ages, all of which
ever beyond the reach of the ignorant,
Learning is the mother of civilization the mutual guar
oan OF civil liberty and the strenuous promoter Of christian
morality These the three great requisites that alb
and happy Without learning neither one can eys m
simplicity and purity education then the greatest bless
ing hat people can possess other things being equal To
demonstrate the truth Of these assertions you must
follow me into the dark and ofenmes doubtful recess of
history from the downfall of Roman magncence spen
DOR to the revival oearnDg and the
OF the christian religion its purity, you pass through
nbroken night OF ignorance oppression and superstition
for nearly five centuries after which, here
night lamp of votary literature and science you
farther those umnaries become
more distinctly dscernabe nearly to approach u.s. and
few more centuries the day begins to appear the east
en horizon the dusty volumes of Grecan and koman liter
pie and disseminated Western Europe to world
of supine ignorance the tale of ancient magncence, and
shed upon the world flood of light which has redOunded
to the prosperity and happiness of all chrstendom.
But let return to the history of learning in the prior pc
vented the advance of civilization, and kept the mind of
so long benumbed by ignorance and superstition All his
power. would naturally suppose after the destruction
of Rome (Which had long been eAfeebled and declining,
people, and the consequent establishment of barbarian
premacy) that the bold tree, and liberal of those
proved by the study of the arts and sciences of the Romans
which still remained among them for while, but, instead
feent the picture The insensibe of feudal OPP
PRESTON and the gradual decline of Christian purity into
superstition and ignorance and the consequent of the
Papa influence thereon present the
by which tyranny established and the
enveoped in darkness. 1t the studied policy of the
great lords and barons and of kings and empros
which shone upon the middle and lower classes would daz
ze their splendor and check their depoc sway
also the constant of the pous Pope hold the
world in superstition and ignorance, that he might sit
hroned and bid the blind and worshippng word obey
the interdct and final accommodation that he could
have an Emperor like Henry " of Germany, barefooed
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favor and acceptance. You will all agree with me- that
whatever would tend to lessen either of these
great evils by which the word then possessed would
tend to ameorae the condition of mankind and be bless
ing to all future generations Can be shown that learning
was of the first and berest enemies to these nstitu
| tons! | think it
About close eleventh century, Henry the " of
Germany, enfranchsed the most important cities of his
kingdom but their inhabitants not prepared by learn
ng to take advantage of this immunity about this time
alsO the seeds of knowledge had steathy been and
were nsensiby increasing hs not however the era of
the revival of etters still many scholars had emgraed
he and i'm rtlnOw lSh
the minds OF enthusiastic decpes but those schools
so scattering that their effects were not yet notced until
about century half afterwards knowledge told those
people that there great deal 20 be made out OF their
immunity they eagued together IN what Is knoWn by me
of system OF commercial intercourse between the
eastern and western divisions OF mankind this league con-
tnued three hundred distribute the abors Of
art and the gifts of nature wherever 1t touched until Its des
discovery the Indies by complete though still
imperfect SYSTEM which has long continued to soften and
: improve the condition of man.
As the of the Greek empire declined the inter
course between Consannople and Western Europe had
long continued to add the progress of the latter AS eay
the thirteenth century, the spendor of Greek learning
and philosophy had illuminated the prime points OF the King
of Western Europ-as the inhuman Turks thickened
the walls of their dying prey Constantnope schol
every day made their escape from the terror OF ner
ledge and opening the eyes of the people, that they might
warmly receive and cordially embrace the god
literature and science when he should be driven from his
abode in Constantnope by the ruthless Turk. Education
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries had set the mind
of thinking, and hereupOn denote the era OF IN
venOns and discoveries, especially OF the art OF turning
linen into paper the printing press and many Others the
importance of which is sufficiently obvious to all but what
did the making of paper and the printing press do II
brought their dusty and comparatively useless
rsts admirable historians and greatest Of ALL it entered
pous step the sacred repositories of the Holy Scrip
lures published all amazed and astonlshed Wort
OF superstition and comparative ignorance and TINS wa
the fatal blow to the Papal power, which had grown to en-
ormous proportions was destined bring about rei
gous inquiry which to overthrow the authority OF tn
Pope establish its ruins pure and indebted christi
anty emenatng faith in the Son of God instead of tn
dissoue and exacng Pope this placed Christ at the hea
the Church. instead of the wicked imperfect and tyrannca
pope of Rome this was the fruits of the know
edge-this was the repository intellectual culture
- and superslonths the power OF gnt owe
made on part rulers and those in authority to
press it, but it like giant il the strong arm OF IN
peasant and set world of kings and mobiles at defiance
Let now conclusion all who not interest
ed in the cause of learning to come penance TO Jus SHRINE
Or and push onward the of civilization with whateVe
it power they WELD. If you too old to begin now,
circumstances of life disable you send your children an
teach them before they go, and while they are gong ID
power and Importance Of what they about receiving
1t advancing your social and political interest Tor
improves the of society every patCuar purne
the government and therefore improves the state OF
individual who member of that society," or subject OF
it. government By giving to the people the means OF detec
the imposition of their public servants the mean
try OF political demagogues and the runOus tendency OF
o. and treacherOus principles pures the great polite
heart Of republican government and causes 1t to clrcua
through the system heahfu and invigorang influence
Muster them fellow neighbors under the standard OF Oak
ut bear its proud banner aot and let Old Topsa reoce III
ry triumph
b New Posi- OFFICE-A new Post Office has bee
to established in Onslow county, n c. called Palestine
cd at the residence of o. B. Sanders ESQ., on Stones
of John Shepard, Esq, Post Master.
yet A"LEAD1NG Broker is one whom the bulls al
go bears are willing to oow-A sort of financial Grlzz
H. Adams boston Post.
an MY FRIENDS DESTROYS to correspond with will plea
in. address me at Palestine P. o.. Onsow County, N G.
N. JOHN SHEPARD.