Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-07


its mothers breast, gave IL instead an aur
tion-blockl Thank God, thank GOdl that
such peace as that has fled like an inferna
phantom Of the night; thank God that thb
sleep with its nightmare, clOars away from
our eyes which now +i, n "A,
49,. a. .,wsts 70 the higher Gins,
And lsys q resce that wss full Of wrongs ana
Horrible, Ssiefui mopstrous, not 10 be told; /.
Aud hSl once more 70 the banner of bsttie no
Though many light shall darken, and many sbsli
Fer tssssp that are crushed in the clash cfjsrrlu
Tot Gsd's Just doom shall be wroahOd on . glad
Ana many darkness into the light phaIi lean,
And shine in the sudden making Of sPleudi
And noble thought be freer under the sun, e 4,
And the heart ef people beat with one desire !; ~
For The LONG, long eankor Of peace 10 over ana
q When one great truth has made breach
in the fortress Of error, it makes a path fols
the whole fraternity Of truths. When one
right fulRlls its Messianicwork, many others
that slept in their graves rise and enter the
city. as the student Of Nature hesrs o,
music from the earth beneath his feet, OF
ancient fires and foods, amid which mon-l
strous animal forms passed away before the.
higher that were ever emerging, so now the,
student of Man hears to-day above all ths
selangor Of war, higher movsment Of thsk
symphony telling that ugly ssutian ereeds,
monstrous Institutions the dragons Of
wrong, are passing with hideous shrieks and
contoftions to their fossil beds, to clear the
path and become the pedestal Of a heaven
born race. A -.,
In this transition period of the world it is
ours to bear part. Where in the old erea-
tion FIRE and food and cold and electricity
stood as the agents ofsGp "who maketh hts
ministers flame of fite, to bring about the
mighty changes now are set hearts fred
with holy purpose and heads aud hands with
electric forces in them. The ancient powers
are now lodged in bTain-engines. Each and
every one is an organized power; each has a
folt--and if in that fcrt he is fully en-
tIeI ched, all the columbiads of earth and
hell can not prevail against him
1t is OF the utmost import that each human
soul born to these momentous times should
fully understand this. There are always
eDough b moral and intellectual iuvalids in the
world to give Us the sickly advice about
Trusting things to Providence" and "leav.
ing God TO work out changes and reforms in
his own good time.p But the healthy hearts
will always feel that God is working those
very changes through them; that every trus
impulse is the outpuise of the eternal heart /;
that mankind is the many fingered hand of
God on earth, shaping and moulding the
world to the Divine ideal of justice aud truth.
Such know that they never trust God until
they trust themselves; and that to their
hands alone is it given to unbar and fling
wide the portals through which the King Of
Glory shall come in, bringing his kingdom
with him. I
Last week the Wyoming Conference passed
the following: "WheredS, Providence has
taken into his own hand the emancipation
OF the slave, therefore, ResolUed, That we
stand still and see the salvation of the Lord"
| say, No; let US go forward and sec the SAL
vation of the Lord So in the old story God
said to Moses, "Wby criest thou to me (?
Speak unto the children Of Israel that they
90 foIxaTd There is no reason to think
that God has consented to do our work. Nor
needwe fear but that God and Nature will
instruct every heart as to what it shall do in
any hour or emergency; it is well to make
rules; it is well also to break them when
higher advice comes. "Ifit be possible says
PauD as much as lieth in you live peaceably
with all men !" but when 1t ceases to be pos
sible 1t is no longer right and q man can do
no better than surrender heart and hand to
enact on earth the DEGREES Of God.
| II is related of one of the seven wise men
| that, walking on one occasion absorbed IN
contemplating the stars, be stumbled Into a
pool OF water; whereupon some one re-
minded him that if he he'd looked into the
water be might have seen the stars, but while
gezing at stars he could never see the water.
The story contains moral for star-gazers in
all times. Absorbed in speculations about
the divine government, feeding on theolo-
gical distractions men stumble on the path
of real life and duty whereas if they set
themselves to act faithfully amid earthly
duties, they would find holy star of truth
in every eveDtful wave at their feet. Each
practical duty has God at its core-a God
revealed by the faithful performance OF that
duty.
Now, then, as the political and moral mar
cotics with which slavery had drugged the
young American, have lost their power, he
leaps up Briareus with a hundred arms,
and every arm with sword. Joye must be
rescued from the giants who would dethrone
him. But in this age cannon balls should
be eye balls, and swords flash intelligence.
Make bright the arrows" said our lesson.
Historically, the American fnds him
self and his country-for | trust that every
one is identified with his country now-re-
lated to the peculiar institution OF the South
as Sinbad the sailor was to the old man OF the
sea that coiled arms and legs about his waist
| ard neck, and bade fair to sit there until Ga
briefs trump should sound. Or perhaps
it might be illustrated by an old
story told by Hebrew Rabbis, and discovered
by Theodore Parker of Cog. Cog was huge
giant who lived before the food. After the
Hood got into the full tide of successful ex
! pertinent, and every man was drowned, ex-
! cept those taken into the ark, Cog came
| striding along after Noah with a cane as
long as mast of the biggest ship burned at
! Norfolk. The water had only come up to
his girdle. 1t was then over the hill tops,
and was still rising. The giant hailed the
ark. Noah put his head out of the window,
and said, who's theref' "It is L" said
| Cog take us in, it's moist out here" "No,"
! said Noah; you're too big no room. Be-
sides, you're bad character you would be
avery dangerous passenger, and would make
trouble in the ark; | shall not take you in.
You may get on top if youlike." And Noah
clapped to the window. "Go to thunder, u
said Cog; 81 will ride after ALL" And he
strode after him, wsding through the waters;
and, mounting on the top of the ark, with
one leg over the larboard and the other over
the starboard side, steered it just as he
pleased, and made it rough weather inside
Now in making the Constitution, we did moi
take in slavery in express terms; it looked
ugly. We allowed it to get on the tor
astride, and ever since it has been steering
US where it pleased. And rough enough
weather has the slavery Cog given us inside
The whole country, the launched Ark of Hu
mapity, must become now Gog's slaye-Jhip
now his priTateer. Very gently we sug-
gested to his giantship that his weight wa
rather heavy, and his legs came right ovel
the window where the sunlight of Liberty
ought 10 come. 5rrn
But thereupon Cog swore so terribly tina
we changed the subject for thirty years. A
last there was more muttering in the ark
the people determined that Cog was a bai
steersman, and would presently wreck tn
whole establishment, and they sent q Presi
dent to the Capitol to tell him so. Where
upon Cog VOWS that he will not let an,
1 body in the ark remain unpulyerized excep
the descendants of Ham, and begins at ono
70 lombard the southern side Of the ark.
That seems to me fair account Of tn
n lnatter, historically and constitutionallJ
But Of course there are forces and laws un
derneath both Cog and Noah. There is no
thing accidental In this world and ever
law whether first discovered in the phYsice