Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1867-02-21
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5APfophccy OF Retri5udoa-Gioomy
,i..-,f Reflections.

The venerable Nathan LORD, D. D., FL
a third Of Il century President OF Dart.
mouth College, u Nv Hampshire, amid al
the, political infatpntion aud religion.
faasticism that surrounded him. and that
compelled him finally to surrender the
position he had so long adorned, alhcre.
steadfastly to the principles AMI opinions
that he cspousel before the insanity tina,
low prevails in his section of country had
leeome general. The Charleston 4M.rcu.
yQf Saturday publishes a portioa of a
lriEate letter written, by him last mouth
'o one Of bis former pupils, extracts from
which We subjoin: D, '.' Oh
III do .notjastify, ia point Of Christian
principle or comwea prulenc,, the meth
obs by which you sought redress of the
wrongs you have. for more than genera
ton, received from the North. Bat ]
more blame ourselves. FIRST, for our de-
nunciation Of slavery itself, in distinction
from its abuses, aud then for our ''irrc-
pressible conflict with it, undertaken
upon false neral aal political grounds,
apl carried on, hatOfully, as it has been,
pftsr q ,Mahometan fashion. We're the
institution g malani in Sc, and not some
time conservative necessity for all tic
parties, our method of overcoming it has
been, from FIRST to last, unworthy Of a
Christian people. We have done the
YORK. ,Wehave given You a dreadful
punishment, Bat, as We have done it in
,lnrighteousnoss, our retributon, some
time, somehow, will come, perhaps to gen.
eral dissolution.
Yet I dare not speculate about the
future. n y
Ipfold my. hands, aud wait upon the
providence of God. But in the general
aud in the long run 1 see no gool before
us. Judgment will come.
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"h"I think thus the rather because sscR,
70 see an approaching catastrophe of all
the nations Thc world has grown old in
traasgression. From East to West the
experiment Of reforming and saving it has
been tried 10 vain W. are the western
most and last an NOV that Chri<tianized.
Aaglo-Saxon, republican wisdom has
failed, instead Of calling on God for help
We are calling upon the negro. We look
to'a brutifed, shiftless AMI licentious PEG.
pleto aid us inthe work of self government,
(which has been impossible to ourselves.
9sad which now believe impossible on
.sarth. oh .a--.5'....s ri
s'A The demonstration seems now almos
complete that man can neither govern MOI
be governed, nor govern himself, and tina
the last failure will somehow provo the
greatest Of all. The volcanic throes oil
tho nations to overturn !arbitrary power
sill be ultimately successful. Then Glib
erty, equally, fraternity" will have it
short day; and when its Babel secrs tt
be completed, the dream of earth viii
vanish. y
e." ** 4
Here all such pr,phccying is vain.
find myself almost alone. I sometimes
imagine that I could do more among your
people, AMI even among the out-cast, suf-
fsring and perishing negroes, than among
the phlanthrop'sts who have gwen them
2 boon which they know not how to use
aad which these boosters never woult
have given them but 70 make them subscr
Went to their fanaticll enterprises or thei,
lust of power. But my day is past VIVA
can one at threc-score an 6rtccn do bu.
to rep)sc. and pratc. and lament?