Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-05-17
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E..n,s. for tho tteTSins OF iine Dead.
l. has been the bSSst OF the rebels ii
the South that aristooratic institutions,
sueh AS slavery in America and monGreR.y
in Europe, produced greater hSaautty
sud refinement of the upper classes than
more republican forms of g0vernment.-
How superficial is this gliding of ciyiliza-
tion may be best Judged of at times from
the respect shown to the remains of the
dead aud the treatment OF prisoners of war,
especially the former. The human treat
ment of those who fellst the first battle Of
Bull Run, the Subsequent brutality dis
played, not by priVate individuals or off,
GERS, but by the authorities at Richmond,
to the remains of Colonel Dahlgren, have
only been matched by the newly. discover
ed atrocities practiced by the royalists in
1914, en- the remains of those origipstors
of the first French Revolution who lay
buried in the Pantheon, aud said to be by
the permission or direction OF Louis XVIII.
1t seems that the proposal was made lately
to restore Vollaire's heart to his other re.
mains in the coffin that was supposed to
contain them. On this proposal being
agitated, it was found that q tradition ex-
listed that, neither his body nor that of
Rousseau really were in their supposed
resting places, but had been clandsstinely
elected, as origiuators of the revolution,
and thrown into a. ditch, near Bercy-
where is not kuown-aad nav il never can
be, But the fact is said to have been YER
lied by search thai they are not in the
cofins which thousands had supposed
when they have made their pilgrimage TO
this shrine.
William Shakespeare had inscribed on his
tomb, three hunered years ago, or near it,
'sBlest be the man that spares my bones;
But cursed be he that moves the stones; -,
and his remains have been respected TO this
day, and lie in their beautiful resting place
at Avon. To disturb the bones of the dead
from love aud generation of their memory
is not, it seems to US, desirable mark of
respect usually. But to subject them to
indiCnity, in hate and revenge, is so weak,
poor, pitiful and COwardly that no revenge
should be permitted 10 follow even the
worst beyond the grave. Yet SO it is, that
the more absolute aud tyrannical the Gov
eminent, the greater the tendency TO pur.
sue its victims with brutal indiguitics to
the defcnseless corpse.
Arnold, of Brescis, who, in the midst of
the dark ages, established republican
government 10 Rome itself, when, at length,
captured by Barbarossa, had his body
burnt by his enemies, aud the ashes thrown
into tue TibeE lest his remains should be
wOrshipped by his followers. But the dust
thus scattered has been washed to every
shore; it has sowed itself as seed along the
coast of Italy, especially, and now, after
eight hundred years, it lives and grows and
spreads the love of liberty and republican
institutions throughout Europe.
1t was Herod the Great, the most ex-
ecrable of all tyrants, who, for the treas
ures foolishIy buried with the long line of
Jewish Kings, violated and rified all their
sepulchres, and then erected II monument
of expiation to their memory. Within
few months, a French scientific expedition
has succeeded in uncovering not only parts
of the old foundation of Solomon's Tenn
pie, bat at the Tombs of the Kings, in dis
covering the monument thus built by
Herod, and one tomb of the royal line that
he had failed to discover, or had spared
When opened, the sayants succeeded IN
obtaining just one moments view of the
royal corpse, buried there perhaps ahree
thousand years ago 10 all its state aud
msguifceuce; one moments REV, and
then on being exposed to tho light and air,
a single quivering motion was observed,
and all sank down into an indistinguish-
able mass of dust. a Hebrew inscription,
however, of the most ancient period was
discovered, and brought to Paris, and ia
ahoGt to be published. 1t will probably
throw much light upon the formation OF
the ancient as distiuGs from the later or
square characters in which the Hebrew
Scriptnres ara now 1Erittan and nr;ntad