Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-06-07

soul, and mind and feature, the very car
feature of humanity If that be Man,
LacVer, the Son of the morning, had not
more deeply fallenl
Is that he, who sits, crouched and shiv,
ering in his cold and chcorless chamber,
over his heaps of glittering coin, with pail
sled and trembling hand ,clutcbing his un-
holy idol; starting at every sound, his cv-
cry breath panic, lest it prove the step
of one who shall dcspoil him of that which
to him is more than his life 's.blood, fam
ishing and dying in the midst of plenty,
for want of sustenance which his unhal-
lowed avarice alone has denied him and
with his passing breath, cursing his hard
fate that had not formed his soul Of gold,
that he might forever havo had his God to
worship.
! Is that he, who, in his damp and loath-
some dungeon, loaded with chains, sits
brooding over his hatred and his crimes
all his demoniac passions-envy, malice,
revenge, stamped like the curse of Cain
upon his brow, q very demon incarnate !!
| IS that man
Is that he that poor, shallow prating
Ounce, who with the broad resplendent
page of nature spread out before him, with
day following night and night day,unchan-
gingly, who with the varying seasons ac.
complisbing their established rounds
Spring succeeding winter; Summer follow"
ing Spring; Autumn stepping in the foot
prints of Summer, and Winter coming
again in the wake of Autumn, in unerring
regularity for almost unnumbered years,
who with the beasts of the field and the
fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea,
and every living thing from the great Lc-
viathan, down to the veriest ephemeral
thatsports in the sunbeam, each perpetua-
ting its species from creation until now
who, with the plants of the earth, from the
great Oak and the mighty Cedar, down to
the modest violet, and the tiny blade OF
grass, each forever reproducing its kind
without the variation of the smallest feat
ure on a single leaf-who, with the span
gled Heavens spread out before him, and
the vast machinery ofthe revolving spheres
ever fresh in view
"The unwearied sun that day by day,
Doth his creators power display
the moon
THAT nightly to the listening earth,
Repeats the story Of her birth"
and
, "Thc stars that round her burn,
Aud all the planets in their turn"
The stupendous system at the cont empla-
ton of whose glories the mind quails ant
faints into dizzy blindness, the ten thous
and millions of radent orbs that in eter
nal space trace and re-trace their blazing
way, until the whole universe is wovel
into one vast web Of glory and yet hav
never failed in their destiny nor come int
collision is it man, we say, that with tn
proofs of creative and over.ruling power
, that so constantly and wildly spread ou
, before him, that he cannot escape thei
contemplation, will so idiotically, SO dis
, gustingly raise his puuy voice and asser
that all these, arc but "the workings of
blind chaEce;" and that "there is no G cd.
, Blush Blush /! oh humanity, and hid
thy head for very shame, for all these ar
thy fellows-they are men.
E Nor are these alone they, who forgetfu
of their true dignity, of their nature ant
, of their exalted calling, fail in the accom-
. plishment of their high destiny. Man
there are who stand fair with their fellows
Stornly honest, contending for the rigi'
fulfllmcnt of every letter in the bond
whose fair name not one breath of dishon
. Or may ever stain; vino yet with daily, yea
. hourly opportunities Of achieving great AM
: glorious things, appreciate them not-wA
= with the harvest field of the world an
, their own minds ever open for their labor
never put IN the sickle to gather In th'
fruits of love and self sacrifice and kin
acts done to others; or never garner fo
/ themselves single sheaf into the store
, house Of moral and intellectual entertain.
ment.
We need look no further for ovidenc
;, of the truth Of this position, than to ou
, own land-a land blessed above all otl
= ers in everything which may render pee
pie happy and useful. A land preguar
with the destinies of the world and of ou
race-favored with facilities for til
achievement of everything great and nc
bic; crowned with blessings, physical, in
tellectual, political, moral and religion
above any other which the sun shines ul
2 ON land of free iDstitufioDs of natur,