The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-03-04
Prophesy of observation-disclosures
Reflections.


The venerable NATHAN LoRD, b. d., fora
third Of a century President of Dartmouth
College, New Hampshire, amid oil the
political ~inatuation and religious fanat-
iclsm that has surround ed him, and that
compelled him finally to surrender the po-
sitiou he had so long adorned, adheres stead
lastly to the principles and opinions that he
espoused before the insanity that now pre-
walls In his section Of the country had be-
come general. The Charleston Mercury pub
fishes a portion Of a private letter written
by him last month to ono of his former pu-
pills. extracts from which we subjoin:
I do not justify, in point of Christian
principle or common prudence, the meth
DDS by which you sought redress of the
wrongs you have, for more than u genera
ton. received from the North. But ! more
blame ourselves, first, for our denunciatiOn
of slavery itself In distinction from its
abuses, and thcu for our "irrCprcsstble con-
hict" with it, undertaken upon false moral
and political grounds, and carried on, nate
fully, as is has been, after u Mahometan
fashion. Were this institution a mdtdns IN
Sc. and not sometimes a conservative neces-
sity for all the parties, nj method of over
coming &c has been, from first TO last, un-
worthy of a Christian people. We have
done the work. We have given you dread
full punishment. But, as We have done 1t
in unrighteousness, our r~etributiOn, some
time, somehow, will come, perhaps to q
general dissolution.
Yet dare not speculate about the fl-
lture. . | fold my hands, and await
lupon the providence of God. But in the
general and in the long run l see no good
before us. Judgment will come. i.
l think thus the rather because | seem to
sec an approaching catastrophe OF all the
nations. The world has grown old in trans
erosion. From East to West the expert
ment of reforming and saving it has been
tried in vain. We aret the westernmost ana
last: and now that Christianized Anglo
saxon republican wisdom has failed, in
stead of calling on God for help, we are
calling upon the negro. We look to q bru-
tilted. shfftless and licentious people to aid
us in the work of self-government. which
has been impossible to ourselves, and which
l now believe is impossible on earth
The demonstration seems now almost
complete that man can neither govern nor
be governed. nor govern himself, and that
1.-The last failure will somehow prove the
greatest of all. The volcanic throes of the
nations to overturn arbitrary power will be
ultimately successful. Then liberty, equal
itv and fraternity will have its short day ;
land when its Babel seems to be completed,
the dream of earth will vanish.
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Here all such prophesying is in vain. |
find myself almost alone. | sometimes
Imagine that | could do more among your
people. and even among the outcasts, sut-
icring perishing negroes. than among the
philanthropists who have given them II
boon which they know not how to use,
and which these boosters never would have
given them, but TO make them subservient
to their fanatical enterprises or their lust
one ut three score and fifteen do hut to re-
pose, and pirate, and lament?