Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1867-07-11

member suffer, all suffer with it,
Oh! how vain, for what are term
cd the middle and upper classes, tC
think they can get along just a.
well, while those nominally belov
them, are grovelling in ignorancr
and squalid poverty! Bound to
gether by the indissoluble ties o
humanity, if one fall, it will surely
drag the rest down with it. Mel
must learn that to dig in the eartl
is no disgrace, and that any labor il
honorable if useful.
1t is time that the despised anc
down-trodden receive more sympa
thy. Our laboring classes form an
important part in the unit, Human.
ity; and the Head cannot be sound
while the Feet are diseased. Indeed
they must be educated and elevated.
They must be made to feel the
divinity that stirs within them
They must kaOW there is God
who notes even the fall Of a spar
row. In short, all must feel that
Humanity is ONE, and that every
member, whether occupying a high
or a low position, is essential to
form the great whole.
The world must be regenerated,
society raised to a proper standard,
Republican Institutions preserved
and perfected and the time must
come when "all shall know the
Lord" And this can only be done
by a strict compliance with the
grand fundamental principle-"aIl
men are created free and equal, DC" ,"
While ignorance and poverty pre-
vail, and while universal justice is
violated, the human race can never
be complete. Discussions must be
healed ignorance must be enlight-
ened poverty must be banished;
discord must be driven out; aris.
tocracy must be eXtirpated, and man
united
Then shall harmony prevail all
over the earth. Then shall pure
RepubIicanism predominant, and
Christianity bless all the land
Then shall there be zone Lord and
one Cod" and Humanity be one
and uadiUided. But let us take a
slight glance into the future, and
contemplate few Of the instrumen,
talities which shall produce these
glorious results.
When all our youth shall have
been rightly educated, and the yari
Gus physical improvements, scicntiI-I
ic discoveries, and moral and social
reforms commenced and contcmpla
ted, shall be freed from their errors,
their beauties matured, and their cX-
cellencies developed under the be
nign auspices Of Republican lnstitu
tions, all the participants in which,
are both intelligent and yirtuous,
then shall we behold the tide Of hu
man affairs flowing along as pure.
stream! Then may we anticipate
that false theories and false doctrines.
both social and religious, win van
ish, and yirulent party zeal, and
party faction, in Church and State, |
give place to sober thought, and
calm, deliberate action
Genius will burst his fettcrs, and
Mind, free and mshackelcd, cXcr-
else ruling sway; humanity rise in
the scale Of virtue far above our
loftiest conceptions, and E0rth's
inhabitants realize the .iWleSt ad-
rantages denyable from true Free
dom.
There surely is redecming spirit
abroad in the land. The soul-vivi-
flying spirit Of improvement is in !
fusing new yigor into the masses
1t is suddenly swelling to overflow
ing the mighty river Of human pro
gress. 1t has already undermined
the old feudal systems, and dissipa-
ted the dogma that the liking can
do no wrong Proudly, irrcsisti-
lily does it bear the human mind to
the wide ocean Of Common ByOthcr-
bood When we have the sure war
rant Of an unquenchable desire on
the part Of the masses to rise high
in the scale Of intellectual being,
can we continue to doubt?
Can we imagine that anything
can arrest the almost universal rev
olution which is rapidly rcgcnera
ting our race Even in the down
troddcn nations Of the old world,
the people are imbibing the noble
sentiment, 40 he man is greater
than Il king" Everywhere we wit
ness the spirit Of inquiry and i'm
provcment arousing the world to
higher and still nobler attainmcuts
The tendency of modern move
ments is diametricaIly opposed to
the spirit of cXclusivcness and re-
striction, so characteristic Of the
hoary past The Importance Of
man as man-the true idea Of hu.
maniW-is silently but surely
spreading; and the sublime doc
trinc, that every individual without
regard to rank or race, is justly en-
titled to the facilities of comfort
aud happiness, Of Improvement in
knowledge and yirtuc--"to Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of happi- .
ness being received as Il tunda-
mental truth, disputed only by an
ignorant or iuvilous few; that the
world was made and intended for
all, and not for favored few; that
tho c,raot nin of sopipty ghOula bpI