The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-03-24
THE CAVERN OF THE WINDS.

THE CAVERN OF THE WINDS.
When the last labors and extreme devotion
of the Trojan host had eliminated in glorious
disaster, and, from the ashes of Ilium, Eneas
led the homeless survivors of lost country to
found new empires in strange lands, the same
vengeful Deity, whose malign influence had
ever overshadowed the Trojan cause until it
rested in black night over its desolation with
unsatiated wrath followed Troy's relics
We read that when the Trojan feet, gaining
the open seas, sped on with sails filled with
propitious breezes, their sad hearts reviving
with new hopes as fancy pictured new homes
in foreign lands, where they might build an
other Ilium, and rear new shrines for their
Penates-where, in peace and safety beyond
the power of the cruel Greek, they might found
another nation that fate promised should ex-
coed Troy's greatest glory-the implacable
Juno ...f...
"eternuns rulnus sub pectore seyvans"
followed them with untiring hate. She was
unwilling that remnant of the hated race
should be left; and eager to have the last of the
blood of Paris whelmed in watery graves and
the Trojan name forever extinct.
In the exigency of fer revenge, she resorts
to Eolus, the Monarch of the Winds, who,
throned in his tabled cavern, confines in its
recesses the struggling tempests, and sternly
curbs the pent-up forces that, but for his con-
+.olJ;nr ,,oxyor ,uo,,ld nroo;n;tata ,uor1d in
chaos. By her influence and brides, she per-
suades the God to let loose his fercest winds,
and Eurus and Auster are dispatched to scatter
and sink the devoted fleet. 2 y,
This was thelegend Of the long ago, told with
the poets license-but the present has its simili-
tude and it is prosaic fact The Southern
people have felt the fury of the Greeks; they,
too, have had their woe and DISSOLUTION; for
them, too, Es
"Fuet Ilium.n
but like the Trojan heroes, though ruin and
desolation is all the present gives, though they
have lost everything else, they have not los,
hope, and accepting the DEGREES of fate, turn
ing their eyes from the sad sis" to a happier
twill be-" they have embarked upon the I'M
certain sea of futurity with no chart but Faith
no compass but Resolve. F g
AS then, so now there is a "caUe,n Of the
soinds'-but it IS not .taJled-there is an
Eolus--but he is not fabled-there is Juno
but she is no myth. Andrew johnson sits in
Washington; around him roar and rush thu
winds of fanaticism, and the demon spir
of agitation that the ancients personified
in Juno, is ever at his side, urging him to lei
loose those winds upon the South
Virgirs Juno bribed Eolus with fourteen
numphs, the Juno OF the present day offers
the rezict realM of thirteen States, and the
infinite increase of Executive patronage as thu
bride for our President. If he will but lie
loose the frantic Sumner and the greedy Ste.
vens, the Etnus and Aiister, to tear up tbs
foundations of Southern polity and snbmerge
it's fate beneath the ocean Of fanatic chaos
they will bestow upon him unlimited power
They will make the Executive absolute, pro-
vided that absoluton shall be welded in the
interest of fanaticism, and to the final destruc-
ton of hated Ni'tm.
AS yet, however, our Eous sits firm anG
interrupted Guided by nobler purpose
than his psychological prototype, he heed
neither the entreaties, the threats, nor tht
brides of radicalisrn, but with the firm hand
of patriotic conservatism, Restraints the blinc
fury of the restless spirits that, but for biz
controlling power, would wreak vengefu
ruin on a PROSTATE foe. m a.. b
Calm and imperturbable, fearless of every
thing but wrong, he sits unmoved amidst theil
rage.
"Luctantes ventos tempestatesque sonora'
hmperio premit."
All honor 70 our Eolus. Let him ever ST
thus firm in honesty of purpose--and for our
selues-let us remember and take courage in
the remembrance, that--in spite Of Juno ana
her acinds-Troy lived again, and Rome ex
ceeded all that Nium ever dreamed of.
THE EPHESUS.
1t must be gratifying to the protector of tht