The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-07-04
The Ublquity OF I'rinciple.


An atom was floating in the universe
gathered and clung to il particle after par
tiole, till rock piled ON rock, created new
planet with all its beautiful diNorsilicotione
of hill and mountain, Of rivoi and ocean
of valley and outrageous landscape, and
this with teeming cities and myriods Of lifc
in all the variety of bearing reyolvel around
its distant center, which wlirlrduround an
other center more distant, and that around
still another, and so lost in the ulnity Of
immensity verge extended to verge, and
center played around center-aud still tlat
world kept around It's common point for un-
told ages---when having existed through its
natural duration, it burst, part in Fragments
that revolved as asteroids, aud part rcvolv-
ing itself into the chaos of its origin. But
with it the great Principle of its origin had
not died.
A" Mighty Hunter" once fixed his point
of habtaton in far-oT oriental cline
gradually his might incrcascd--Gom loraud
near tributes came to be orered TO his MIGHT:
man after man, and tribe after tribe Joined
themselves unto him, and al his death the
foundation Of a vast empire had been laid;
structure following structure, were erected
on this foundation, aud the proulcst dyaaa-
ty of earth held all Kingdoms in awc-but
reaching the acme Of its glory, one by one
of its chords were severed, TIL II lay help
less and was trodden under foot by the ma
tions, and now it is difficult to tell where
rests the daSt Of B0dWoa hut the princi-
pie OF the energy of its existence lives yet
How is it-how can utter destruction
drive thing from existence, and its Prmc,-
pie live As well ask the sun why il risce
and sets ON new empires. Principle is uni
versal--it is the lie of rcvolution--thc nil.
lar of human greatness Principlc never
dies! The same governing actions that cy-
or ruled natural existence hold their sway
yct-are universal. but oltcu perverted from
their designs 10y counter influences of the
results orco-existing opposition. The Grand
spring Of virtue is as ever, and that of vice
the same--the one is true, the other ucr.
vertcd Principle. The first produced Wi.
liam Tell, Damon and Roa--thc last Cess.
Ter, Dionysius and Pizarro. The FIRST fired
the bosoms of Wallace and his brave chief
tains ON the Cartane crags. and ruur in thc
battlc-cry of the field of Cambuskenncth,
The last wrmg the life Of Edward till il
tore from him his spirit in the castle of
Dumbortou.
When, after being drivon from thcir native
country, and landing on the waye-washcd
rocks of New England and the wilderness
of James river-whcn after wretchcducss
toll and dangerous hardship, after all dine
loyalty to their King, the feeble colonies
saw the storms of war and heard the chains
OF slavery in prospect, how did Principle
prevail ?---how did its omniscicnt voice
speak for LIBERTY? See! inch by inch the
old farmers with dubbed muskcts drive the
foe from Concord! Tho British thousands
in flashing columns roll up old Bunkcr's
height--a line of red lights like mingled
lightning g'arcs over those hrcastworks-
the white powder-cloud envelopes all for a
moment-slowly it rises and the sun gazes
upon eleven hundred British soldiers ON the
heid OF death &!
Amid the raking cannon shot, with War
ren fallen and the brave old Putnam with
them, they reach the base where thcy meet
thelr old fathers, with thcir gray locks |
streaming in the wind, bearing provisions
lor their lighting children, and crasping
their old muskets, with fearful cyos, they
eXclaim, the foe! whore are thcy?' Twas |
the sixteenth of August, lI77, the sun had