Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-22

otber cebeurr v-iih foor or fvs nIvo aaIs
bouhd 10 her Iiurbs. But war eomos and
says. The banner Of America ehall 1peTor.
more float over. single slayHI Thus Jedbrs
eon Davis IL ovXsyaled ~ Him f'Hho makcth
the wrath Of man 20 pratse himi for God
sometimes uses Instruments thN man
wouldn't touch with tOnGs.
"Plutarch afirms that the cruel wars
which followed tho march Of Alexander in
troduced the civility, language and artg of
Greece into the savage East introduced
marriage /. built seventy cities, and united
hostile nations under one government The
barbarians who broke up the Roman empire
did not arrive a day too soon. Schiller says
The thirty-years' war nade Germany a ma
ton Rough, selfish despots serve men i'm
mensely, as Henry v III in the contest with
the Pope; as the infatuations no less than
the wisdom Of Cromwell; rs the ferocitv al
the Russian Czars; as the faBaticism of the
French regicides in 1769. The frost which
kills the harvest Of q year saves the harvests
Sofa century, By destroying the weeyil or The
movable routine, clear the ground Of rotten
races and dens Of distemper and open fair
field to new men. .n-- Emerson.
One day we shall have Plutarch 10 read OF
the booming notes Of Sumter ns the score Of
a Divine Symphony.
And II thus the sun never goes down from
AnC bNCAhAuk MIh4u Ol NfUNf bN IIa1to " nAIlllD
with the radiance of holy purpose upon the
cloud which seems TO hide Him, shall wo not
endeavor to lift ourselves up to the fair
pattern Shall we not look beyond the
emergency thrust upon us, and DO 4 IS fan
under the light of truth and faithq We
would not fear much the logs Of this or
that fortress, if every heart was fortified in
the saoredness Of its parpose, aud stood
for a principle above self Let us not
turn devils to fight the devil, even where
we must fight him with IRE. The an
eient mithologies relate that in the
battle between Hercules and Achelous,
the latter changed himself into the form
Of a mad bull, but Hercules retained
the form of man. He grasped the horn
of the bull and broke it OF, and it became
the cornucopia, Man is stronger than the
brute; and If he in every conflict with brute
power retain his manhood, he not only con-
quers blind rage, but the strength Of what
he has overcome adheres TO him, and the
assault Of Evil becomes the Horn of Plenty
in his hand. Let us then retain our human
ity whatever betide, and conserve the
strength of Hercules. The race is not TO the
swift, nor the battle to the strong. Let US
be calm, patient and trustful, as those have
right to be whose cause is Just, and who arc
conscious of no wrong intent or action toward
the South. But let our purpose be clear and
steadfast as is tie armament above all the
lost, Liberty be saved. No price is too
dear to be paid for that which makes as men
and not slaves. That is an ignoble drop OF
blood that does not hold itself ready TO flow
for your manhood's crown, No victory is
noble if not crowned with this laurel; no
peace is honorable which is consolidated
over the PROSTATE form of justice. Thus let
us watch with eagle eye every compromise
offered and every treaty. The American
arms can win no victory nor conquer any
peace, which shall not be the victory of hu-
manity and the peace of the wrongs which
degrade and afflict humanity. In the Pro.
methean games of Greece those who ran in
the races all bore lighted torches, and he
won the race who reached the goal
first Nth his torch still lighted. If
he reached the goal with his torch ex-
tinguished he lost the, day. It was
not, therefore, the swiftest racers who
won the prize. Indeed the swiftest were
more apt to have their torches put out by
the wind. 1t is thus with the contest on the
American arena. Our true prize can not be
won by getting the better of the South in an
appeal to arms. What il, when we reach
the goal, the torch of Liberty entrusted to
America to bear in the van of nations be
extnguishedl What if by some dishonor-
able treaty with this or that State, which
would be agood ally in war, we have pledged
ourselves to continue enslayers of man, aud
cone to claim the prize with the light of
that sacred torch losti Then, indeed, we
will have lost the day we seem to win; we
have but postponed the revolution which can
never really endsuntil the throne of Eternal
Justice be established on Earth, and all mem
gather about it as the children of a common
Father,