Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-05-17
Thoughts that Breathe and Words that
Burn

Thoughts that Breathe and Words that
Burn.
10. Mills, of Grant county, whom ev-
eryb,dy knows or ought to know, as most
ardent hater of all wrong, and a most Wig
orous advocate and defender of all right.
writes letter to the editor of the Missouri
Democrat, on the present crisis, which is
worthy of universal perusal. If this crisis
has evoked anything more philosophic,
sounder, or more eloquently expressed
than the extract we append, it has escaped
our observation
I'VE enter upon the great apocalyptic
war, hopefully, joyfully, enthusiastically,
believing the contest which the Southern
people have preeipitated in their blindness.
will be the richest boon to them that Hea-
ven can grant. Though blind, they have
seen clearly. In her wild delirium, the
patient has called for medicine more ei-
fcacious than any that the soundest doctor
could have prescribed. In her ealmest
mood the South expelled Yankee pedlers,
and hung preachers, under the suspicion of
aboltionism, as she termed it. In her fine
madness, she has called down tie armed
legions of Abolition, to Cyerrun and take
possession of her fields, her ports, her cities
to emphasize their hereses with the rear
of cannon, and dignity them with all the
Tomp and circumstance Of war Nay, they
have not separated from the North, for its
armies will bivouac in her very bowels.
Southern shareholders will this summer see
men on her soil, whom but for secession they
had never seen language which but for
secession they had never heard and Sam
bo and Cuffy, as well the dominant race
will be initiated into the mysteries of abo-
lition, and learn its wild, disorganizing the
cries
The Southern States dreaded the dis
semination Of the New York Tribune and
lncendiary prints, but there is not an Alb
clifton paper Gas they term them) in the
United States, but viii follow the Northern
army, with its weekly and daily issues, in
its march down South and men who were
frightened at Helpers Book, have torn
down the levee, and let in Northern pub
lications like a food. to cover the land
Ideas go with war in modern times. The
conquered always adopt the opinions, sys-
tens and literature of the conqueror. for
these opinions are clothed with the presti-
ge of success and power. The reasoning
of the South is contemplate, but her mad
ness is divine Her reasoning deiied Human
Slavery, and built temple for its worship,
and wrote out a ritual enjoining every knee
to bow to it, and Furnishing every thought
against it as objectionable blasphemy but
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hosts of Infdels to set fire to her temple,
dash the grim idol from his throne, grind
its fragments into powder before her face,
as Red Battle stamps his foot Yes, the
dense darkness of the South has led her to
eternal day-her Apostacy has brought her
into the. presence Of the true God even
as she fell, she rises.
Arrayed against people now whose arts
and manufactures have supplied her with
the implements Of battle ; whose fires and
fuIges can melt mountains of ore into every
form that peace or war require; though
borne down by the weight Of mightier for
ccs; though staggering beneath the vol
leyed thunder belc5ed from engines foreign
to her cline though she sinks beneath
the fiery pillows and descends to the abyss
es of Death-'tis not long. She ascends
with the bloom of Immortality on her cheek
and the Joy of Eternity in her eye-her
dross all consumed her weakness and her
fever departed. The lost Pleiad has re-
turned to its sisters brighter than before
the Queen of the South, the Paragon of
Nations. No longer the New Dahomey,
or Congo, but the worlds witness in behalf
of Freedom against Slavery. Free labor
shall renovate her fields, and with her will
be the spoils and fruits, if not the shout
of victory. Though she must yield her
sword to- the invaders, she receives in turn
the key of power-tbe great truth that
Freedom alone can unlock the citadel of
greatness, that Peace and not War can i'm
part the distinction which she covets.
God alone is great, and great while he is
alone man is strong only in tue fellowship
of his race and the good will Of bis species.
If war we must have, such | ardently
pray may be It's results. There is DO one
so stolid as not to see that this war is con-
fict of ideas. If we are overtbrown, who
does not see that contest fought on so
conspicuous a theatre-the world being
spectators-would be regarded as the judg-
ment of Heaven in favor of slavery, of the
right Of stronger nations to enslaye the
weaker. When the court of Heaven re-
cognizes the Soutle ern Confederacy, Eng
land and France will do it, too; and the
change of opinion which Secretary Ste
phens predicted in favor of slavery, will be
rapid and permanent.
THE APPROACHING CoMET.-A commu-
nication from Harvard Observatory an
nouncs that the comet is growing brighter,
and is already visible to the naked eye,
near the tail of Draco. 1t will pass across
the Greater Bear, and will be near the
Bowl and Dipper in eight or nine days,
But the most remarkable fact about the
comet is, that it will on the 18th of May
be almost exactly where the earth was
April 10; so that if its perihelion passage
we're twenty three days earlier, the earth
would pass through the body of the comet.
I-IrayelleT.
in former times cannon received
queer names, like ships of war. Charles
! Y, had twelve pieces of artillery, which
lie facetiously styled the twelve apostles
and sixty FOUNDER is shown at Dover
Castle. England which is called "Queen