Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1867-07-17

death and if he stamps his children with
his disgraceful characteristics of bondage
to physical want, and personal helpless
Dess, how great destruction and min
drance to the accumulation Of nationPl
productiveness may he yet become =
Where he should be firm, supporting
pillar. he is merely lifeless metal Where
he should be lifting like Titan to raise
his countrymen higher, higher, and still
higher above national pcnary, poverty
and material want, he hangs like mill.
stone about their necks anl and is pushed
through life. living corpse, defrauding
and disheartening such as are willing to
help, until his dismal little day goes out
into eternal night. A drone 10 the ma.
tonal hive; leech in the body polite.
For him, the temperate and strong mans
charity erects the poorhouse and the asy-
lum, where the workshop and the ware.
house should stand. For him, the state
d,s6gures the landscape with the Jail and
prison where it should be adorned and
consecrated with the school house and the
church. Is It TRUE; then, that the mater.
ial independence of nation is irsepara.
Bile from the sobriety and temperance of
her people? 3?
Aucicnt states and cities girded them
selves with solid walls and lofty towers
of stone and brick, defying the fierce as
saults of barbaroI5 hordcs, and surviving
the decay of ages But there was one
king, wiser thai his time when asked by
his royal guest to inspect the walls of the
Spartan city, he proudly pointed to
battalion of his muscular, athletic, steel
neryed soldiers There" said he. "are
the bricks that make the wall of my de.
fence" The Roman Cornelia, when in
vited to exhibit her Jewels called in her
seven manly, majestic sons There said
she, "are my jewels" And to-day fair
Columbia admonishes US that her borders
are marked by no wall of brick or stone
her cities are crowned with no towers of
granite or battlcments Of steel but that
bone and siuew and nerve make for her
a breastwork more compact and solid
than granite or steel the sturdy, robust.
adamaLtine forms of her generous, pat
riotic sons are the bricks that guarantee
her perpetuity, and the jewels that spark.
lie in her diadem How sublimcly and
impoyishably is this lofty sentiment EN-.
balmed and perpc:uateI on the proudest
page Of our national history. Twenty
thousand graves scattered up and down
that Wilderness of woe redeemed the sla-
very cursed soil of Virginia, and cousecra-
ted her afresh and forever to the cause of
freedom. These mounds, around which
hangs halo Of glory more enduring than
the pyramids of Egypt, shall tell genera.
tions yet unborn how that wall. formed of
the war.worn bodies Of Coumbia's brav.
est, noblcst sous; bricks and jewels melt
ed and fused into compact solidity by
fervid courage and burning patriotism,
stood, mistaken and unmovcd, in that
laundering, sulphurous PAndemonium,
againt which the black billows of treason
beat, beloved and dashed themselves to
pieces.
Resting his right arm upon such
wall, well might the worlds greatest
general fash across the wires to the
worlds purest. greatest, grandest Presi-
dent tic sublime resolve, ii shall fight it
out on this line if it takes all summer p
The blood of skillful and daring generals
like Wadsworth and Sedgwick flowed as
free as water but it was the private SOL
diery that saved the nation, and rescued
the liberties of the world. a..
But when these forms are poisoned. be-
sotted, debauched by swiuish inebriety or
stunted and dwarfed by the foil es of
their parents, her wall of safety is rotten
and preached. her tower Of strength crum-
bled, and her jewels are covered With the
ashes of her humiliation.
"Pri1ces or Lords may flourish or may fade.
b cath can make them as breath has made,
But a'brave peasantry, a nations pride,
When onte destroyed can never be supplied"
Ancient Proy. itnniortalized in Virgl's
flowing measiids, fell an easy victim to
the torch and sword Of the willy Ulysses,
because her mailed warriors were lying
upon their shields, "op5tessed with wine
and sleep. "'see 's5ss.
The God Of nations, just and benef-
ce1t, never suffered nation Divine. bib.
befs and drunkards to disgrace this fair
and beautiful earth. No. the independ-
encc aud pcrpetuity Of any nation is one
and inseparable from the physical power
Of her sons and daughters, guaranteed
only by their habits, of abstemiousacsa
But time and opportunity forbid that |
should tarry in the more inspiring aud
exalted realms of mental and moral inde-
pendence as Ihad purposed. leave