Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-11-17
NUMBER is.
Times Funeral March.

",
ward to the closing of Times great drama, as
consummated in the wreck of matter and the
rash of worlds. 'Passing away is written up
ON tho nroudest monument of earth born gram
deur, and everything points to the time when
nature shall die, and God and angels shall come
aud Law her in the grave. The whole earth Is
one vast mausoleum of buried greatness, and we
are daily treading the graves of thirty gener-
atous. The glory and greatness of man, as de-
yeloped under the most favorable auspices, seem
TO be transitory and eyanescent in their charae-
ter. and in some parts of the earth the lights
of civilization learning and refinement are pa
limo their Intellectual fires before the baleful
shadows of ignorance, idolatry and supersti-
ton. In Asia Minor the traveller treads upon
soil rich in historic lore and the recollection of
a glorious past, while the present population IS
degraded by ignorance and slavery
The glory of twenty different nations that rose
and Aourished there has been extngushed, and
the star of their former greatness has SET IN the
gloom Of a starless night, on which no morrow
shall arise. The herdsman's flock and the wild
beasts of the wilderness now wander over The
tombs of Achilles and Hector and the throne of
Mthridates and the Antiochuses. and the once
splendid palace of Priam and CrGsus are now
masses of shapeless ruin over which the de>-
troyer Time, has driven his ruthless and desc
lating plow-share. The wealthy merchants and
crafty tradesmen of Smyrna do not stop TO IN
quire where Homer was born, and the rich ye-
low sky of ancient and once proud Iona no lon
ger inspires orators, painters or poets, or nights
the warming fires of a Jealous and devoted pa
trotism The same dark and terrible doom
hangs like the gloomy pail of death over the
banks of Jordan and the Euphrates
The Republic of Moses is blotted from the
maps of nations, the golden Tyres of David and
Isaiah are no longer swept by living h; nds, and
the voiceless silence of death reigns supreme
! ~; od ho bop Of
thousands. The wandering Arab without II
home or a country, now comes indifferent and
unmoved to rest the poles of his tent against the
shattered columns of Palmyra, and make his
! bed upon crumbling fragments OF thrones and
crowns. Babylon, the peerless Queen OF En-
pires, has not escaped the common fate, and has
also fallen beneath the crushing stroke Of an in
evitable destiny, and that proud city. which
swayed the scepter of supreme power over the
oppressed tribes of Asia's teeming millious has
scarcely left behind it trace of its former great
ness, or a crumbling pillar to show where the
ramparts of Semiramis once stood
Tom FrTcH's LAST SPEECH AT AUSTIN, NEVADA.
The Reyille of the 22d ut. makes the follow
| ing mention of Tom Fitchs speech in Austin
lately. Fitch is some on the high-toned Fitch
arose and addressed the meeting in an hours
speech of great power and brilliancy. In OPEN
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late antagonist in discussion, Mitchell, whom he
likened to Samson, of muscular memory. Like
Samson, he said Mitchell's great strength lies IN
his lovely auburn locks, which the Union men
will cut short the 9th day of November
Like Samson, Mitchell extracts honey from the
carcass of the dead lion-of Democracy and
like Samson, Mitchell goes forth to conquer his
enemies with a similar weapon, the jaw-bone of
an ass Fitch then addressed himself to an
able and perspicious statement of the argument
I in support of the platform of the great Union
party of the country, the principles OF which are
concisely embodied in the proposed constitution
al amendment. The speech was replete with lofty
utterances and flashes of wit, which held his
hearers wrapped in admiration. In its course
he paid a splendid tribute to New England,
against whom it alleged by every rebel and
/ Copperhead throu ghout the breadth of the land.
that she was always radical. "Radical J" ex-
claimed the speaker, q radical !" Yes, New
! England is radical. All the nobest efforts and
crandcst strides of the of men have been
! radical. Calico radical when, under the
horrid tortures of his prosecutors, he proclaimed
the truth that the world moves; Luther was
radical when he posted the articles OF his free
and unshackIed faith on the doors ofthe Church OF
/ Wirtemberg: the English Barons were radical
when they extorted the Great Charter from hing
John our fathers were radical when they revolted
from the oppression of George the Third JEFF
ferson was radical when he penned the immortal
declaration, that all men are created free and
equal; Abraham Lincoln was radical when he
struck the shackles from four millions of men by
his proclamation, and the Union party is radical
when it resolvesto preserve the fruits OF its VIC
tory over the accursed rebellion by the guaran-
tees of an amended Constitution. Yes my friends.
it is the crowning glory of New England that she
/ is radical, and am unspeakahly proud of des-
cent through six generations Of Connecticut far
mers."