Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-01-25
From the Boston Journal.
Ancient Rome--The Forum.
LETTER FROM CARLETON.

Ancient ROme--The Forum.
LETTER FROM CARLETON"
What a wonderful page is that
which history has turned down upon
= the clustered hills of this ancient city I!
Stand amid the ruins. walk beneath
the broken arches, behold the shat
tered columns and massive masonry
slowly crumbling beneath the touch
Of time, and YOU are transported
backward through twenty-five hund-
red years. BY the aid Of these mem
orials YOU connect yourself with the
DAYS when the Saviour of men and
the Apostles were on earth. Shut
your eyes and ears to the sights and
sounds Of the present and You may
behold the glory of those distant years
the years Of the Commonwealth
when Julius Caesar led the legionS Of
Rome TO victory; the period Of the
Empire when Augustus sat upon the
throne, when the city was in the noon
day Of her majesty and spIendor.-
Here YOU listen to the cloquence of
AN orator. who though the grass for
eighteen hundred years has waved
over his ashes. still charms Us with
his persuasive voice. Beneath these
stately arches government was adj
ministered from q written code of
laws, while all the rest Of Europe
was an unexplored, barbarous region.
except that wonderful region called
/ Greece. This was the seat Of civil
zation while yet the smoke f human
T sacrifices assembled from Stonhenge'. 3.
So standing here we may take a leap
backward into the centuries.
| Shall attempt no learned descrip-
iou of ancient Rome, neither shall |
weary your readers with details Of
what there is to be seen among the
ruins-of the magnitude, proportion
or hight OF Old temples. but | would
90 with them rather in a quiet way,
to lew places i'll me Ola city. where,
sitting upon broken column Or an
overturned statue. or standing beside
some crumolIn@ walls. we may OBTAIN
q view, or glimpse rather, OF the city
as 1t was before the AnSeiS sung
'helf song oi e'ce '' 'he ShephefoS
'- 'Uaea.
THE FORUM.
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r.orT spienaor, ma%nlacrHce' p'm2.
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