Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-08-01
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other IN It's existence, every natlon IL
glad when the man arises, whether he be
of plebeian or patrician blood, who, shall
have the cunning to rule the people"
This happened at Rome, when Angus
tus Casa became Emperor, in England
when Cromwell made himself Dictator
in France, when Bonaparte with CON-
plete satisfaction to Frenchmen assumed
the imperial purple, and rescued the ma
ton from anarchy and annihiation. The
student of history who at this moment
turns his eyes and examines with due con-
Germ the aspect Of political affairs in our
own land, may we'll ponder upon this re-
markable saying-Do we stand in need
ola Cromwell or a Caesar? At Wash.
ington City are assembled in legislative
Council the representative men of Amer
lea. Senators and Congressman engaged
as the Jacobins and Girondists were in
1856" Illuminating dogmas, and evolving
mysterious formulas in the name of Lib
erty, equality and fraternity. Indeed a
parallel to the political decentralization of
the times cannot be found in the "decline
and fall of the Roman Empire" nor in
the apathy which permitted the Macedo-
nian King to overthrow the liberties of
Greece, neither ir the turpitude and in
tolerace of the age that demanded the de.
capitation of Charles Stuart-but only
in the bigotry and immoderate love Of
liberty that distinguished the "reign of
terror" in Christianized France. There
only can be found the counterpart Of
Wendell Phillips in Desmoulins, of Ben.
Wade in St. Just, of Stanton and Holt
in the two Robespierres, all clamorous for
the golden age of liberty and equality,
spending the nations time and money in
rehearsiug day after day the dreariest
platitudes concerning equal rights. relig-
ion, constitutions and higher law doc.
trines, until the people could endure no
more; and when one come with hand
strong enough to throttle these charletans
with their utopia Of liberty and equali-
ty, the people received him with acclama.
tions of joy and triumph. In the name
of liberty the Jacobins crammed the
Bastille with political prisoners, the Gull.
otiue deluged the land in the blood of
its best citizens, and robbery, murder
and rapine stalked like destroying angels
in the broad glare of sunshine. In short,
it was carnival ofcrime protected aud
encouraged by the broad principles of
universal brotherhood and equality; to be
citizen was the grand desideratum of
life to be behind the rapid Development
Of "ideds," was moral and political death.
Too much liberty overturned the first
French Republic. The development of
too many "ideas" made way for the
naughty Corsican, who did not come a
moment too soon.-There is a wide diff.
ference between Freedom and License.
The one makes good citizens and the
other turbulent demagogues; the latter
mislead and distract the nation with
utopian and impossible ideas in morals
and politics, the former are conservative,
rational, waiting patiently for the natu.
raj issue of events. Contrasting then the
fiery, headlong, nonreasoning spirits
Robespierre Dauton and their followers,
who wrought such direful calamities in
France, with the restless innovatiug am.
bition that characterizes the actions Of
American Summers and Chambers, the
prospect is dismal enough to cause serious
and sad apprehensions, lest we are not
an exception in the catalogue of those
nations, who if we may judge by the
past, are peculiarly fortunate when a Ce-
sar or Bonaparte is sent from heaven to
form order out Of chaos and regenerate
the people even if 1t have to be done with