Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-21

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"a mans foes she'll be they Of his ewn house
A few weeks ago the eye of the world
rested with painful anxiety on a single man.
Entfenched in small fort on a hostile coast
be saw battery after battery raised on every
side for its destruction. Froma city glean1l
ing in the distance poured the hostile pre-
parations against man whose grandfather
had once led in defense of that city. In the
army which commanded him to surrender at
the cannon's mouth were several of his
brotheTsin-law. Thesection arrayed against
him was that in which he was born. The
world looked on with a feeling of mingled
pain, apprehension and hope, knowing that
while the airs around Sumter were yet peace
full and still, fearful conflict was goine on
in the breastof an honorable man aud sof-
dier within its walls. With what pro-
found import could come homo to the
mans foes shall be they of his own
householder This nation will ever see
in those SCARED walls Of Charleston harbor
the monument of double heroism the
brave defense of seventy-four men against
seven thousand! and the victory OF noble 4
heart over the personal preferences and fam
lily ties which besieged its fidelity TO duty
and country. The uhimportant defeat OF
the soldiers forgottenin the glorious triumph
OF the man.
This conflict of Anderson with those with
whom, above ell others, it was most trying
to hpht-those of his own household-is u
tyne of this whole war. The nation fights
with meubers of its own household There
is scarcely one of us who will not be wound
ed bJ every wound recsived by the South.
Our hearts have put forth their roots, regard
less Of sectional boundaries, and the father is
divided against the son, and brother against
brother. And this testifes the sactedness of
this war; it must be a cause holier than
household ties which can lead men to take
np arms, as it were, against their own aifeo-
tions and interests If brother strives with
brother to day, it is because one of those
brothers is lifting parricidal arm against
the heart of their common Motherl
This struggle is thus the type also Of
holy war to be waged by all true men not
now only, but at all times. How alone could
the hero of Sumter have escaped that con-
fict with those Of bis own household By
being less man. He could have escaped it
only by being more devoted TO his section
than his country by giving to family con-
nection the powers he had solemnly conse.
Grated to America. The household foes were
the foes of a man with less manhood on his
part, the household would have taken to its
bosom him whom it was preparing to de-
stroy.
1t was against his patriotism and fidelity
that his oWD brothers-in. law were arrayed:
how they would have rallied around him, had
be faltered in his highest duty Similarly
the whole country is assailed because it re-
fuses to give to q party what is meant for
mankind. With less humanity the country
would never have had civil war. Just in
proportion TO the nations faithfulness to
justice, to the rights of all, does it provoke
the wrath of the selfwilled children of its
household who demand all the rights and
liberties for themselves at the expense of
the rest. Had it only been less manly; had
it set aside the verdict of the people; had it
submitted the interests of thirty million to
the insane claim of handful of Shareholders
had it ceased to be q Democracy, and become
slaveocracy; then, and not otherwise, it
could have disarmed it's foes at the South.
Thus events are flashing intenser light on
the pIophesy of Christ, "a mans foes shall
be they Of his own household" 1t reminds
us first of all that man will be sure TO have
foes. As the sun calls up the very clouds
which seek TO Obscure it, the rays Of a per
feet manhood win evoke from the marshes
and swamps of injustice and wrong the sui
len mists of hostility. Manliness is the arch
agitator. Oppression desires to be let alone
manliness will not be let alone The soul OF
true manhoodis a two edged sword pierre.
ing TO the marrow of things. For mark you
man is being of high definition he is
the sworn foe of all inhumAnity; he is of
tco pure eyes to behold iniquity with allow.
aDce; he brings blaze of light on things
that love darkness. He brings with him a
plummet of Iectitude and q line of judg
ment, and woe to the house falsely built,
even though those Of his own household live
under its ToofI A formidable being in this
world, my brothers, is right and true mani
The household is the first form of State.
The state is collection of households. We
Nhn al 0c
time when each household was separate
fortified State and Government in ITSELF The
feudal lord with his retainers held his own
as against all the other families; and battles
were between family and family. The idea
of hAH-or ofa nature identifyin the inter
ests of all Northumberland not budded
But out of these feudal strifes presently en-
erged the glmpses Of that common consti-
tuIion of which all partook; and these fam
lilies found that each would secure its protec
ton better by banding with the neighbor,
making common cause with him than by
making an enemy of him and fighting him.
So gradually the Commonwealth, made
up of many households, was formed. This
was the community or State. The same
forces worked on to combine warning States
into nationalities. The State was family
Of families; the nation family of States.
The fundamental principle of all was that
eats Of all would be the interests Of each.
Each step in this series was toward human
ity, which is essentially one; and, conse-
quently, the forces still remained at work to
bring about yet higher realization Of the
principle; and as individuals had been
grouped into families, families into commu-
mites, and communities into nations, so ma
tions should be grouped into the federations
of the world. Such social condition, man
I TASTY tho nnlv 1nrnnaI VyOnl0 ha al the
same time the perfect outgrowth and express
sion of the indiyidual-to perfect whom ma.
tuTe exists. By the realization of this uni-
yersal relatedness the individual would pass
from self imprisonment TO self perfection, as
o seed passes from the confinement Of the sod
to the fruit ARhedl and mellowed- by reach
ing up TO its relations, the sunlight and dew
end air The more complete the relation
ship, the more perfect the Individuality,
What Is the roe 10 this plan In every
case and at every stepit is the househola
foe, The household is that which grows ont
OF the individual In his NnrSIgted aspect; it
represents his desires and in t6rests, person.
ally; II is reared of his private ends and
aims as distinct and antagonistie to those of
others. The law calls every mans house bis
castle and the phrase is Egnifcant ,espe-
cially whenwe remember that the castle is
a fortifcstfon built for war. We shall see
PRESENTLY the element of gobdiin this which
must ever sanctify the household; at present
let US observe how NATURALLY il fosters the
foes to high manhood The animal natareS
which in each is old and Btiong when the
purely human is an infant clings 10 self.
The child. ere il grows TO observe itE duties
to parents and brothers and sisters, olings to
its own, and desires 10 make every thing its
eWD. hMine and not dhine,n r is the motto OF
childhood, The foes ofits inoipieRt manhoOd
are IN the little household Of shimal desires.
IL learDs slowly, to give up something for
others. Then In the next stage there comes
the ovetweening fealty OF Individuals
10 their own household, at the expense
OF other peoples households; the .taleut
found TO DO pT0VerBlally universal, by which
every man thinks bis owp geese, swans,