Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-08
FIR r Il sOCIE Y.

A single century, Is hardly tine enough
for fair trial Of 80 great an experiment,
and bore. alter celebrating our Eighty
fourth anniversary In o proper manner, It
behooves us to look about us not alore
ct things as we find them but prospec-
lively into tho future, to see IL We can,
what may be expected In the timo to come,
90 sequence to what IL. We have no
lirht TO look ahead, except, what il eeath-
cred rom the past. From that, 1t Is seen
that every effort. to establish the dead-
level ofequality among mon, which dem.
agogues assure us Is the only true demo
cracy) has failed dealing such blows on
the cause Of civilization, as 1t does not re-
cover from, In single age. In view OF
this fact, 1t would be we'll TO abandon the
idea OF self government, unless there were
assprances that steady progression, il
the order OF nature, and an age OF reason,
must come out Of it-a time when all tho
members Of human society, will under
stand their relative places, and play their
parts, according to Divine appointment
IL IL very evident from tho general np-
pearsnco of things in this nintcenth CEN
fury, after Christ, that, that time has not
yet come. In the general giving away Of
things, and the loosening Of tho bands Of
society In the Republic, II is plain 70 per-
ceive that the hour grows apaco on Us,
when all binding restraint will he at end,
and the sanguinary times Of civil war,
growing out Of family feuds, must come
breathing postlential breath upon u.s.
| Dreamors, who live in the midst Of musty
books at home, have visions Of what 40
ciety ought TO be, under the new dispen-
sation Of this-as yet, fresh and now
world. A row scheme Of sociology, is
scarcely conceived, Gro we have the fruits
Of it to contend with, under tho treo Of
liberty. Some Of the schemes originate
with us 4; but whyi IL IL not because we
have in tins medley Of population, any
manner OF soil to suit the seed OF the mere
experimentalists in mental agriculture 7
Puritanism, has always fourished in the
vicinity Of the Modern Athens. Fourier
ism Is a growing exotic, In the republic !;
Womans Rightsism Is one Of cur peculiar
institutions Red Eepublicanism, q fixed
institution, and Mormonism IL akin TO the
fury Of nbolitionism. What Is to become
of them Is this tho fruit Of the good
tree Of life-are these the Legitimate off
shoots Of Free Society, and the product Of
democratic government II so, let us not
DO mistaken by mere words, but prepare
to meet what must come Of them. l. the
mob, and the worst element of society to
rule, In the secret conclave Of the Vigi-
lance Committed Is liberty to kick of
the entire harness Of the law, and run riot
lfso, let us have the other extrome Of the
two evils, q despotism absolute, and I'M
conditional. All men are free and equal,
in very limited sense. There arc lines
of division IN the human family, that may
not DO obliteratcd by tn, powerful elo-
quenee of Beecher. and the bowling Of u
motley crew that follow At his heels, and
claim to represent our relatives and friends
in the Northern section Of the Union. Our
peculiar institution has its evils. We
know what they are, and alone feel them.
and are alone responsible for them but
free society, bears its evils, and they are
such ~ point to the ultimate downfall Of
the Republic.