The Oxford falcon., 1867-10-12
FanaticiSm Of the North.
10. IY.

- N"N MN~NNs~ Sk@AN Va @AAO nOFbAA Il
can DO developed into any Othcr
alternative under tho pressure oil
ita, RsurPatiOn ; IL the political die.
Indignation can result ii any uni.
ty Of parts IL the decomposition,
created by indiscri,ninato disre-
gard and abapdOnBiSnt Of law and
Justice, can eveAtuate in any su.
perior state ofDsltional existence,
to anarchy And mis-rule, that .dI
tcrWatiret 10 f.esPOtism,- which 10
preferable 20 no government
SubordiAation to the will of ono
u moro tolorablo than the caprice
and domination Of many tyrants.
If FROM this great republican
wrecl, Of confusion and disorder
thoro is to be gathered any of the
constituent elements of its former
Composition they must be .bornO
off and carefully appropriated by
a single master. The history Of
tho world stamps this. assertion
with the indeliblc impress oftruth.
May tho Grand Ruler Of tho Uni
verso avert such an awful calami-
ty from Detailing our unhappy and
Instructed country. May We rise
triumphant from the degradation
to which We have been subjected,
and escape the yawning vortex of
an angry and threatening Chary-
bids or the destructive and fatal
} rocks Of Scylla. Such we fear,
though, will not be our happy lot.
If the rcign Of peace and order
can not DO extortcd from the
chaos and anarchy, that are now
! asserting their mighty triumphs,
wo are absolutely restricted to its
diroful Neutrality-suspicious. -
The gifted Hume has said that
"illegal violence, with whatever
pretcncO it may be covered, and
whitover object it may pursue
must inevitably and at last end in
] the arbitrary and despotic govern,
: ment Of single person." Greece
+ little thought that from her chao:
{ would arise an Alexander TO con,
: guer her and o world. Rome lit
tie imagined, when her commo
0 tons and discussions wero calling
r for and demanding quiet that &
: Cesar would spring forward Il
enthrall and enslaye her own peo
: pie The yearning Independent
9 Of HEjiain Whqn they yefo reoklnt
8 their vo1geance and fary upon th.
> prosbytcrians ADD an obnoxiou
3 Parliamentary contemplated, tina
r an Oliver Cromwell was waiting
i to seiZo the "Protectarate," an'
y become tho tool of oppression
d The wild and frantic mObs o
d France unconsciously dreamed
: while they wcre wantonly wrest
:, ing the sacred andinviOlablc right
/ of life and liberty from their fel
+ bowman, that they were sOwinI
q the seeds from which would germ
J. mate q BOnaparte who would az
d sumo without remorse the crow
If of a despOt and like q wild beast
D, ravagc all Europe in his wrath.
is What tho Independents of Eng
d land dared not attempt, was &C
l. complished by the unrcstraine
d. aspirations of Cromwell. WhH
t. Sylla, Marius and Pompey faile
r to reach in Rome, was attained b
the grasping ambition of Juliu
Caesar. What DantOn, Marat an
It Robespicrro endcavorcd to con
l. troll was easily mastered by tn
g tyrannical usurpatiop of Napol
% con. If such has been the fate {
f. other lands, why should we b
N more highly preferred. Passion
a prejudices and ambition have NOV
l. ed onward in tho same unchecke
II course throughout all ages VIII
O. then should VIC look for 3 contraveu
sr ton Of all tho principles laugh
es in the past. Naught, save the d.
ID termined adhesion to right by
Of majority Of rejecting citizens, a
tended with the divine interpos
tion Of benehcent Creator, ca
g. arrest the mighty tide that threa
n ems to engulph the whole cOnntr
IN In ruin. l.al.neaat. "i i.- ID.