The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-02-14
THE MARCH OF REVOLUTIONS!

Auluueu people SHOULD DeSlil 10 tnluk
upon the best means of putting a stop
to their insane proceedings. This out
rageous wickedness is CLOSED over by
empty-headed numbskulls, and called
progress; the advance of civilization;
the waking up of Rip Vaa Wrinkle from
a long sleep. Well, we suppose there is
no sensible person who objects to pro-
gress, or who wishes to retard the adj
vance of civilization; on the contrary,
all such advances are peculiarly crafty
ing, especially when we can see the
lights by which our being hted steps are
to be guided, carried by enlightened
men, whose mental calibre is well-es-
tablished, whose characters are well
guaranteed, and whose works give
promise of better day. BY such
agencies the Kingdoms of darkness have
fallen before the advance of true and
evangelical reiig truth in morals,
philos ply and politics has conquered
error in the same way, and have gather
ed votares by the thousands and mil
lions everywhere throughout the world.
1t is true that the sword has to be in
voked in many instances to carve the
way, and to put an end to error. Eng
land, France, in fact all of the great
powers of the Old World have been sub
jected to these processes in times past.
In all of these trials and throes of ad-
vancement q pestiferous host OF char
latans and demagogues have sprung up,
and attempted {" to ride the Whirlwind
and direct the Storm and they have
invariably persisted, and the very gaA-
loti1aes which they had erected for the
execution Of better men, has in the end
streamed with their own blood. With
out going too far back Into the dead
past we will come to time within
the memory and fresh reading of even
the children Of this generation; we
mean the great French Reeolution Of
1893, and ask reflection upon the fate Of
Robespiere, Danton, Marat, and the
host Of others who persisted on the gull
Iotine in France, 0ftef. houjag committed
so 3aal1Y crimes IN The name Of The people
aid Hbeqfy These wicked men talked
in that day, as the Radicals in this
country talk now, 81 progress, ciNlii-
zation, &C., but the sequel showed them
to be band Of unprineipled eut-throats
and political scoundrels, who attempted
to lap the blood of their friends as we'll
as their foes. The curse which the great
Madame Roland pronounced upon them,
when she gazed upon the lofty statue OF
Liberty standing before her, just at the
moment when she was about to lay her
devoted head upon the block: "Oh!
LIBERTY, ho,o many crimes are committed
IN thu 7,c,ne,' -withered their coward
souls, and rings to this day in the ears
of the world as a solemn warning
against demagogues. AS they acted, SO
act the Radicals of this country now.
They would erect the bloody guillotine
for Jefferson Davis and his rebel friends,
and upon it they would chop off the
heads of President Johnson, Senator
Cowan, Senator Doolittle, Judge Davis,
and others of their former friends and
allies, and in the end an outraged people
would carry Stevens, Sumner, Forney,
Joe Holt and others to die where Robe
sphere, Danton and Marat died.
We have had our minds aroused to
this train of thought by reading an
article on s'the march of revolutions"
in that very able and thoughtful jour
nal, the Richmond Times, which we
annex, and commend to the calm con-
sideration of every intelligent reader:
There is wonderfully reactive pow
er in revolutions, and not only are they
reactionary, but contagious. While alb
sorbed in the events OF direiul Interest
which have convulsed, and are still con-
vulsing America, we are apt to lose
sight Of the fact how other nations are
drifting from their old political land
marks as we'll as ourselves. The caul-
dron of revolution boils in England as
we'll as here, and the dangerous sympa-
thy of mutual agitation fans the flames
in both countries.
Exeter Hall has not yet host its inf1u
ence over New England, but New Eng
land is returning some of the pernicious
doctrines which it borrowed from Old
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