Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1866-03-09
death Of a Free Government.

IL is thelaucuoly specbacie W peuoi'
a free government die The world. i
is true, is filled with the evidences Of de
cay All nature speaks the voice of dis
solution, and the highway of history ant
of life is strewn with the wrecks which
time, the great despoiler, has made. y
But hope of the future, bright visions Of
! feviving glory arc no where denied tC
the heart of man. save as he gazes upon
the downfall of legal liberty. He listens
sorrowfully to the Autumn winds as they
sigh through dismantled forests, but he
knows that their breath will be soft and
vernal in the Spring. and that the dead
/ flowers and the wthered foliage will
blossom and bloom again. He sees the
sky oversast with the angry frown of the
tempest, but he knows that the sun will
reappear, and the emblazonry Of God
cannot perish. Man himself. this strange
connecting link between dusk and deity,
totters wearily onward to the gaping
tomb, but how briefly his mind fingers
around that dismal spot. 1t is filled
with tears and grief, and the willow and
the cypress gather around it with their
loving but mournful embrace. Aud is
this all? Not so. If man die shall
he not live again ? Beyond the grave,
in the distant Alden, hope provides an
eleysium of the soul where the mortal
assumes Immortality, and lifo becomes an
endless splendor. FRA
But where, sir, in all the dreary re-
gions of the past, filed with convul-
sions, wars and crimes, can you point
your finger to the tomb of free Com
monwealth on which the angel of resur-
rection has ever descended or from whose
mouth the stone of despotism has ever
been rolled away? Where. in what age
and in what cline, have the ruins Of
constitutional freedom renewed their
youth and regained their lost estate p
BY whose strong grip has the dead corpse
of Republic once fallen ever been
raised? The mereiful Master who walked
upon the waters and babe the winds be
still. left no ordained apostles with power
to wrench apart the jaws of national
death and release the victims Of despot-
ism The wall Of the heart broken over
the dead is not so sad to me as the reali-
cation of this fact. But all history,
with loud, unbroken voice, proclaims
it, and the evidence Of what the past has
! been is conclusive TO my mind of what
the future will be. Wherever in the
domain Of human conduct people once
possessed of liberty, with all power in
their own hands, have surrendered these
great gifts of God at the command of the
usurper, they have never afterwards
proven themselves worthy to regain the
| forfeited treasure ID. w. VOORHEES,.
UNpRoFITABLE INVESTMENTS "A num-
Der Of speculative political capitalists
have recently been putting their spare
cash into public gifts to General Grant.
Such investments are invariably unproft-
able, and we deem it our duty as public
journalists, to warn persons Of only
limited means from being drawn into
such unpromising speculations. Several
of the subscribers to McClelan's home
stead in this city would be very glad to
receive back the amount of their sub
scriptions. The gifts" to Genera
Fremont brought no return to the
giyers. In fact, none of these invest.
ments in rising suns" have yielded the
profits anticipated from them; and
moreover, they have invariably proved
fatal to those in whose favor they have
been made. None of the recipients have
yet enjoyed the opportunity of making
returns to their friends for the houses
and purses bestowed upon them--ant
probably none of them ever will IN
Y. News.
HANDKERcnIEF PREACHING. Il notice
10 some cases handkerchief habit in
the pulpit which has led me to inquire il
the use of that very necessary article is
a part Of theological training. ! notice
that some ministers take it out of their
pockets as they do their sermons, and
lay it on the pulpit Some spread it out
lengthwise through the middle of the
Bible some roll it up and tuck it under
the Bible; soIue shake it over their
heads as if they were going to throw it
at the audience aud some keep crowd
ing it into their pockets and pulling it
out again, with nervous movement, as
if they did not know what use to make
of their hands. | once went to hear a
popular young preacher, and as much as
half his sermon was made up Of pocket
handkerchief, aud the most Of the other
half was gold watch and bits Of poetry -
Christian Reflector.
EFT When you find a man doing more
business than you are, look at the adj
refreshments be has in the newspaper -
The business man who puts his sign in
the newspapers does a much wiser thing
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