The mountain Democrat., 1863-08-01

vert every vestlge OF freedom tnat yet re-
mains in the American Confederacy.
Decide, as far AZ your votes can deter
mine the question, whether the inter
necine war which -desolates our unhappy
country shall he waged for the preserva-
tiOn Of that Constitution, and the rehtO-
ration cf that Union, which your fathers
Obtained; or whether il shall he con
Quoted ~ spirit OF fsnatici~ID, which
abhors and rejects alike the dictates OF
humanity and the usage> Of Civilized ma
tons, with no either objects than th'
.... -, ,-s::1c> pS Sesss .ss:M;;s..s us Negr'
slaves Of the South, and the establish
nent Of . consolidated military drSpu
tism in the North. Whatever may he
your decision. my frrVrnt PRAYER is that
Heaven will v"urhsafe to our beloved
country a speedy drliverance from her
present troubles, and to California and
her sister communities on the Pacific the
continuance of peace, prosperity and lib
erty. JOHN u. DowNET.
SS$-
END OF GREAT MEN.-Happening to
cast my eye upon printed page Of nina
ture portraits. the persons who occupied
the four most conspicuous places were
Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, and Bona
parte.. ] had seen the same Unnunbrre'l
times before, hut never did the Sane sen
Sation az iSr in my bosom ~ my mind haSti
ly glanced over their several histories.
Alexander after having climbed the dig
Zy heights Of his ambition. and wIth his
temples bound in chapletS DIPPED in the
blood of countless Nations, looked down
on conquered world and wept that there
vas not another one for him to conquer,
set city on fire, and died in scene Of
debauch.
Hannibal, after having, to the astonish.
ment and CONSERVATION of Rome, passed
the Alps after having put to fight the
armies of the mistress Of the world, aud
stripped three bushels of gold rings from
the fingers of her slaughtered knights, and
made her ve'y foundations quake-f1vd
from his country. being hated by those
who once exultingly united his name to
that of their GOO, and called him Hannibal.
died at last by poison administered by his
own hands, unlamented and unwept, in a
foreign land.
N6SdT1 ubeT uuNthS COu4ucIeu eIeht
hundred cities, and dycing his garments
in the blood Of one million of his foes, af-
ter having pursued to death the only rival
he had on earth, was miserably assassina-
ted by those he considered his earnest
friends, and in that very place, the attain.
ment of which had been his greatest am
bition.
Bonaparte, whose mandates kings and
popes obeyed, after having filled the earth
with the terror of his name, after having
delng it with tears and blood, and cloth
ed the worlI in Sackcloth, closed his days
in lonely baniShnent, almost literally ex
lied from the world, vet where he could
sometimes see his cQuntry's banner wa
wing over the deep, but which could not or
would not bring him aid.
Thus four men who, from the peculiar
situation ofthrir portraits seemed to stand
as the representatives Of all those whom
the world call great those four, who each
in turn, made the earth trernbIe at its very
centre by their simple tread, soverally
ed-"ne hv intoxicatinn. or. as some sup
pose, by poison mingled in his wine one
suiride-onc murdered by his friends
and one in lonely exile. How are the
mighty fallen!"