Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1864-04-23
From the Sonora American Eagle
Conservation.

one OF his London harrangues, is the great nat
stone upon the green sward Leave 1t there,
and venomous snakes and crawling worms live
and house under it and protected by it. Re
move it and the unsightly things disappear from
sight of the day, and the bright warm sunshine
calls forth in its place the green grass or the
sweet scented flowers so pleasant to behold and
to behold their fragrance.
The old English tory of the reign of Queen
Anne and her successor George the First, in the
early part of the eighteenth century was the very
picture of conservatism while in the Wing of
that day he found his competitor for the honor of
serving the nation hut upon an antagonistic
principle. No doubt both aimed at the well
being of the State. But while the one chung too
tenaciously to ancient landmarks, the other be-
came too eager to demolish the old and build
anew. We cannot so well convey just notion
OF these two representatives of extreme faction
as by quoting the language of celebrated his
torian. q To Tory he says % the Constitu-
ton. inasmuch as it was the Constitution, was
an ultimate point beyond which he never looked
and from which he thought it altogether impos-
sible to swerve whereas Wing deemed all
forms of government subordinate to the public
good. and therefore li,ble to change when they
should cease to promote that object Within
those bounds which he, as we'll as his antagonist
meant not to transgress, and rejoicing all unne-
cessary Innovation the Wing had a natural ten
dency to political improvement, the Tory an
aversion to it. The one loved to descant on lib
erty and the rights of mankind. The other on
the mischiefs of sedition and the rights of the
Kings"
These thoughts afe dnite suggestive, and per-
tinent too perhaps to our country ind times
The sentiments of the old Wings and Tories of
our mother land, which arrayed the people
some on one side and some on the other-are the
same as exist to-day among ourselves. They are
indicative of two ilutiry but opposite traits of
human character, dividing nation into two
classes, each exerting upon the other whole
some check In the language of the writer al
ready quoted, "They bear some analogy to the
two forces, which retain the planetary bodies in
their orbits the annihilatOn of one would dis
perse them into CHI los that of the other would
drag them to center, and though we cannot
reckon these old appellltions by any means char
acteristic of our political factions in this nine
teenth century, the names of Wing and Tory
often well applied to individuals.
Our country has long been ruled by party
that claims conservatism as its anmating prn-
ciple. So much was this true of the Democratic
party when General Jackson was elected Presi-
dent over J. Q. Adams, that the old English ap-
pellations were revived again the democrats
were called Tories, and their opponents Wings.
1t is now time for this conservatism, that has
lain so long upon the nation lions, like the
great fiat stone upon the green sward, be thor
oughly disloiged and efectually removed. 1t
has nurtured beneath its hidden movelcss base,
the venomous Copperhead snake that has so
greatly icoparded the very existence of the Gov
eminent. And while the whole Christian world
has been CRYING out against the barb lrism of
people who cherished and upheld the institution
of human slavery yet boosted that theirs was
the peculiar home of Freedom the land where
Liberty had built its temple ana reared its altar
and panoplied around with invincible armor
conservatism still lay upon the breast OF the slave
and kept him down, and kept Its smiths at work
to forge new chains.
Remove, we say, the great fat stone from the
green sward 1t has lain there too long. The
time has come when the prophecy embodied in
the following lines is to be fulfilled. They were
written more than twenty years ago in Europe,
bv Henrietta Wellington Booth
You tell me of a bright land far over the sea-
Where the image of God fur "A handful of z I'D.
Like a beast of the field, in the market is sold
Where the child from the m phers fond bosom is torn.
Where the father is clraine, leaving orphans farorn
Where maiden is bartered like merchandise ware
Then doomed to the lash AMI the groan of despair.
Woe: to thee. fair land! ia, over the mali. main
For the canker Of deati-'iark sfaverys stain
Shall gnaw thy vitals. while every sigh,
From victims who wrthe mount for Justice on high
And lie the great Lord If the universe wide
Shall strike thee earth in thy strength and thy pride
For vengeance must fall for foul cruelties me
On the beings redeemed by His own believed Son!
The
As thy soLs and thy brothers are urne to the fight;
The slave anil the cotton shall stab thee with pain,
And the North aud the SOUTH be divided in twain
And brother 'ganst brother shall strike in the fight,
And BATTLES be FLU gllt in the deal Of the night
And the white maid and widow in shall mourn,
And the flags of thy freedom in tatters be torn.
The North in her might like a whirlwinl shall rise,
And the notes Of the cannon be borne to the skies
And thoughthe blood If our heroes he sied
The light freedom shall never be dead;
The Stars and the Stripes all Excelsior shall be;
Proud Liberty y banner from land and by sea- sc"rn
And the Union. thong spurned by the Shareholders
Shall be- guarded for ages by Mortimer unb, rn.