Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1862-12-12

THIS world so SALE 80 secure as man. ut
hairs Of hs bead are all numbered Wherey-
er he is, he is the strongest, the wisest, the
most constructive of all the creatures God
has made, aud is therefore the safest. IL 1t
were not so, the race would long since have
ceased to exist. Human passion or selfish
ness would have gone on from destruction to
destruction. until the last man would have
sat an cntbroned hermit on the ruins OF the
world
Hence, with meaning Ear broader than
any mere personal or local intention, wo
may say that while Divine Providence shakes
the nations and overturns their lottost hani-
tatons, and makes their palaces and their
temples a dwelling for bats aud owls pee rc-
man we. T. e. individual man remains lie
stands amid universal coniusions. and when
those coniusions are over, when the lightning
has ceased To- strike and the thunder tu roll
ia the grand anthem of elemental warfare,
then the individual comes forth and reorgan-
ICES his society and forms anew the instltu-
tious which haze been shattered or removed.
So, disturbed as we are, we yet go through
our streets and look upon the faces we have
been wont to greet. The gradual removals,
from every cause, are SO slow and necessary,
and providential, that they lose most of their
strangenoss, and faces and voices, and greet
lngs ana social relI8'ou' assohone' Seo'u as
familiar as ever lhefe are absent ones II Is
true. some arc gone 10 tne heavens sum-
tave gone 20 othe' lanu',--'ome u'Ve s'"e w
WORK on lue 'enleu ne'u' VI W Nk"' "''
N'eeP "l'u'u sounu o' tnc o''Al'"s ''''1'
and the barstng shell. We miss them much.
Yet few individuals have been shaken out Of
reach or removed beyond our sight. Or
we Hng'y disappear !e' 'ne ''I'''"s w.
dlWdnal UNITS VIII sun carry on 'he 'aoo'
ani ouud up tbe IaorIcs oil society
Agam, orr fumilies remai. The first soc
al form which the individual constructs is
the family. II was first instituted in Par
adise and it will be perpetuated beyond the
wrecks Of Time. There is perhaps none OF
the social institutions of human Iue that Is
80 little affected by universal national dis
iutegrati0ns or conflict, as hs f|muy In
fact In the most quarrelsome and contentious
nations OF the gloOe, the family Is the most
sacredly regarded IL would bo difficult to
find in all history race that has fought
so constantly and so well as the Anglo Saxon.
From the beginning until now it has always
been embroied either in foreign or intestine
conflict The temple of the Anglo Saxon
Janus is never shut. Our ancestors across
the sea have ever been in strife. When not
engaged in extending her dominion over dis
tant lands, and driving before her the feeble
races of India or China and attaching
them to the chariot wheels Of her civillat-
ton, or in testiug her strength with the proud
, empires of the continent, or forcing upon her
4 colonies the yoke OF an unrop opresented taxa
ton. England has been employed in internal
revolution She has passed the intervals
{ between her foreign wars in domestic broils.
Il is scarce two centuries that she led her
b egions against the wild tartans Of Scotland.
She has had her Monarchs and her Protector
each wading to the throne in blood. Her
, white and red roses have both been crimsoned
, with her best blood. Twice has she measur-
"a swords with her daughter on this conu-
nent and one eighth part of our national ex-
r istence has been passed in conflict with what
q we have been wont to call our mother country.
Nor have her descendants on this conti-
p nent been without full measure of her spisit
] From the outset we have what been wagina
p what Cotton Muher calls wars of th'
- Lord with the Indians of this con
e. uuent, forcing them from their ances-
% tral forests, building cities the sites
@ from whence our might has driven t.em
r hunting them from the coast to the Allie