St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09

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Think Of it, American people
He drew III lha. sentiment from the
mountain air Of Vermont, when his infant
lungs inflated for the first cry.
lie got that idea from the public schools,
founded and supported for the sake Of
Liberty,
The institutions Of free government,
wrought out of the worlds sorgowful ex
perience, enabled him TO rise that he might
enunciatc It.
God las poured the accumulated bullion
of the past into the lap of the present, and
has built up this amplest theatre OF all the
ages. on which stands Dir. Douglas,
spreading his legs, cooking his nat, rolling
his Quid, and announcing his aIniable and
entertaining doctrine, 81 care not whether
slavery is voted up or voted down.
Well, let US 90 . step farther.
The worlds history is action and reac-
ton. To-day, peace tomorrow, war.
The excesses Of Charles produced the Re
public. The eNccsses OF the Republic re-
acted into the protoctoTate. The excesses
Of the Protect0ratc swung back into the
Restoration. The excuses Of the Kosto-
ration reacted INTO another Revolution
So ia France. The abuses Of the throne
begpt the Republic; the abuses OF the Re
public, the Empire thc abuses of the
Empire, the Restoration the abuses Of The
Restoration, the Republic; the abuses Of
the Republic, another Empire
The pendulum once violently displaced,
will continue 10 swing backward and for
ward, with gradually decreasing oscillation,
uuul the last faint Vibrations die away III
remote ages, which tecl while they do not
comprehend them.
And yet, my friends, there is, through
all these movements, which may appear
w,li and uufruittul one continuous cham
q grpgreSs, never forgotten, never varied,
never lost sight of:-the first links Of
winch gliInmer in the fantCst recollections
Of history, the last Of which lie bright and
massive and r.fugent IN our own midst at
our very feet.
And as our eyes I0ok back over the
tmmoiis and troubles Of the agitated
world, that one continuous chain alone APP
pears the line OF Gods purpose. All else,
Kings, despotS, usurpers, leyoutioniSts,
the blind and brutal Instruments Of His
great viii.
Violence can eventually be but tributa-
nv ID that viii. Wisdom, prudeuce re.
MUS can not avert il. Neither the capaci.
w Of Stafford, nor the audaciiv Of Land
can delay it. improbable alike to the vi.
res or tie virtues Df nrn, uniniluenced
alike by popular thnuitS 81 ages Of peace,
that great cham stretches on. unopscuyed
Underwriting, fho index Of orr destiny, the
sole clue 70 the Almighty's meaning.
u here are now the men who Shnuted
applause when the head Of Cromwell cut
from Lis axhumcd body. was raised aloft
on the pixies of the kings su!lieryY
where are nnr the wild masses. wbo in
1850 followed Lord George Gordon to the
very doors OF the Parliament House?
Where are now the opponents Of Zach.
arv Macaulay, of Henry Bronghan. OF
WIberforce?
Scattered. mouIlcring, forgotten. in ten
thousand uameless Graves. Over them
the long grass waves, the great winds
play, the little flowers blossom
.sTher hands are dust
Their swords are rust.''
But whittier, ah whittier cocth tha cr,.,
,,riDci,', og hnmanify- oca;Gyt ,yh;cb d.,
varreI9 WHITTIER GoetI, that arnqt nr;nc;.
81. M, tgnlr, py7grsS2 AGAINST which the,,
9ainly aunr themselves Eroaa nc H.
World vast rs timr ii Dacas for,I ,Ionc
the traci oC The ag,cs lcrEnl win tbo s,as
~ crown NJ ,,n,j,9no,.,., ,,c,or,. ''''''
SrnaI' ;nGaai i the sIrarntE or,,,,, vain
tndpaa h;s ao,;c,s ,o,oi,,st en-, ''''n,' ,','i
movement oC en- Immortal nr;nc;n,. I"i
II n,.srs over him -.ow1r bow liz ~ W.
leaves l,n Gorsel.e, upon its tr,aI. lilo 49,
scattered bpbllrs nj tke ,,sot ,,.ro ,''>- '''>
Well what saws Mr. Dnr.Ios 70 n,o
cause of human Hraoroec9
Hear hin,
,:Hetrea, the rc,,;ta man o,d n, hloo,
man NV ev,nn,ty,;ae oro ,-;rb tbo -.
man; between tine blarI, man and the cr ,.,[
odiIe rather nrofa, Tine Mae, mo nnan ~ "
In the J,vs 81 onc;a,,t Po,no ,''hn, d..
,lar Soyerpi,ntv ,.ss ovbihitaI y, ~ W
nhi,b.otro i w. ,o,tt". IS S.s ''''i-
yyheIhor tie man ~ thn o.o.-',I ''e''oe
The las, ,bsn, ..,orc,o.lr, co " S, mo,l'
n,, ;-g.;+,l,: /, ,0o ~ ~ "a ;,'e.'
doctrine ,vaS no, ;l.onI. - ~, ,'e'i
~,.da q vim ,n5 cr;oI a., 49,: :, leS
the hest MAJ vim y ''''1 ''"y
But we thank fbc rool Goa Co. 7ooo
years They nave adg,y,c,6 - ~ 80
such q prodicioos naca that , I -. d.
st,-osn,,, ~ H. 80 Ia = loaG',i9
has to.dav the haTdhooJ ~ 1919 ,y,'n lrS ,1plc
ference for the human romhat5rt t'a j." t"s,
rattle, desire that tho croco5aS ,bon ~ -
the worst Of il '''''',' >'''''" s''
F,oLtoo,, L",a..,
ward old Father Ti;nn. ;.v as;3 49, ioS,
reap;n, r,och;rn clo.r ~, 'ino y'u.
your eyes, and behold the result Of vonr
,,roeso5 .nS hr , -, 80" u 'lie op
WIN wounds, bent With suitcrings, bloody
Win revolutions ;-~cDme forward clarcy