The Greene County Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 185?-1867, 1867-06-26

s''Ns S'NS'"SN '"'e SNA'So SOltly
and constantly upon the hardened crust.
1t melows it. The seed is reached. II
awakens into life and gladly goes forth
to meet the sun. Ignorance rests upon
our world like dark pail. 1t lncloses
humanity with prejudice as manufac,
turer OF busts incrusts his subject with
gypsum. Within Is entombed human
soul. Here Is the great problem to be
solved by the pbllanthropist How can
this crust he broken that the man may
be exhumed and made free? Persons
thus environed by prejudice reason af-
ter this sort: M father worshipped at
Jerusalem, therefore, so must /; my
father was a Presbyterian, therefore
am my father believed in immersion.
therefore, d. our fathers framed the
constitution ot the United States, il must
IN no case he changed my father said it
is not the mind, but the color OF the
skin that makes the man, therefore | am
opposed to negro suffrage; my father
cut his grass with a sc the and thresh-
ed his wheat W tn fail. therefore. | do T.;
my father was democrat. or a wing
therefore so am l. Let a rabd fanatic
a proach person Of this character with
his new theories and in his violent way
charge him with being in error and in
sist on his changing his course OF doing.
He at once incurs his displeasure for
our honest yeoman thinks the good
name of his father is being vlllifed.-
'What do want with this machine o.
He Indignantly inquiries, my father
never had one
ME vote this tickets I'll do no such
thing. Do you thiak I'll vote ticket
my father never dida Away with your
Notwithstanding the world up side
down. Tn no turn coat, I'll have you
understand The effort OF our tanatical
reformer has proved entirely futile.
This poor soul is still in prison. So
he will ever remain unless a mild, con-
sistent man approaches him and reasons
with him quietly, earnestly, and convinc-
ingIy, little by little removing his hab-
its, gradually breaking in pieces the
crust Of prejudice that surrounds HIM,
till his captive spirit is released and joy,
fully goes out to meet the light, like the
growing seed,germ when released from
its cloddy bed by the quiet rain. Poor,
old, unfortunate John Brown, partially
'deranged and frantically mad because of
the injuries he had received from the
fendlsh slave power, rushes fanatically
on the author of his grief to destroy it,
and gives his life for his rashness. A
distinguished radical senator from New
England records two votes with the op
position because his own party did not
quite come up to his standard of right,
and thus prevented the admission into
the Senate of advocates of his own prin-
ciples. A brilliant Massachusetts, lecturer
denounced the great emancipation in the
severest terms because he countermand-
ed the orders of Fremont and Hunter
manumlting the slaves IN their depart.
ments.
What then shall we sayi That we
have no need of storms? That violent
agitators and fanatical reformers are
curse' By no means. But let them
operate in their appropriate sphele,-
When the wind blows quietly in uniform
directions there is no ram. There must
be some excite cent to produce this phe
nomonon. There must be o rushing to.
gether OF air-torrents to break up this
monotony in the atmosphere This
causes violent ram accompanied with
thun Ter and tightening, and we have a
st rm which purifes the air and leaves
it in proper condition to send us those
quiet showers which our farmers no glad>
ly welcome. 1t is but little since we
witnessed a civil storm. And oh, what
storm it was It was terrible 1t
made great excavations in the plain OF
humanity and buried beneath its detrl-
tus thrown up by its blood-torrents ma
ny of our bravest and best citizens. But
it dispelled from the political atmosphere
that fearful malaria that so fatally dis
eased the nation, and prepared our peo.
pie for moral conquests which is but the
quiet, and yet earnest advancement of
truth. Our fanatics, our radical radicals
are much needed in carrying on this
great conquest Not that we expect
them to accomplish anything by being
brought in contact with the prejudlced
class, but we want them 70 make the in,
telligeut think we want them in the
front to remove distractions and cut
away underbrush ; we want them to con.
stitute tie pioneer corps OF the great ar !