The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1867-07-11

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fect ight-sll between them il chaos.
Let : grain Of truth be dropped into .
continent Of error, and it becomes At
once prolific Of .gitation and destruc.
ton. 1t breaks up the congru,ty Of
the mass, it isfiltratas it With expansive
gases, it works and term.nts in lit
rests not, even when silent. The paus-
es of history are but the interruptions
in the siege; and anon the storm breaks
forth, and towers and towns 60 down
before it.
There is no cessation to this struggle
save in the absolute perfection of hu-
man society. As Grant, upon Lees
surrender, turned his forces against the
lesser armies Of the rebellion, so the hu-
man mind, upon the overthrow Of the
gigantic evils Of society, seeks out At
once, and with avidity, the lesser evils.
With every victory the armies Of re-
form swell and grow, and their banners
arc higher advanced.
A timid man, looking upon : nation
ip this condition o. turbulent agitation
and unrest, is alarmed lest the very
foundations Of the world should be torn.
up; and he recurs With ngh to the
sluggish, stagnaot communities Of the
old world, where the placid bosom Of
society eov:n = thousand fostering
wrongs, and the torpidity Of the people
is but another name for their degreda-
ton. He forgets that Natures rule Of
health il agitation that her sleep is
decay; the storms which sweep the
ocean,
Turning the ssa's broad furrow Ike plow,
swelling th: pstde Of canvas, o. IN wrath
save the world from ruin.
r: v:'' = . n:,:: xs:ry Of tss .'na, . n T.
always"
But for this, We should realize Cole
ridges terrible description Of = tropical
calm -
'The very deep did roti O, Christ,
that ever this should be-!
Yea, slimy things shouldcRawl with lsss
Upon tho slmy SEA.
"And about, in reel and rout,
The dsath-6res danced At night;
Tho water, like . witch's uils,
Burnt green, and red, aud Whitew
In the language Of Guizot: "Vital
power does not repose upon the de-
struetion of the free life around it,
"But," cries the timid man, "look at
the French revolution r Tue. That
revolution was one of the hurricanes-
the toruadoes-of, the world. But has
it not purified the atmosphere has it
not resulted in incaluable benefit?
Compare the condition Of France be-
fore that revolution, as described by
Arthur Young, the horrible injustice Of
the laws, and tho fearful wretchedness
Of the people, with the France Of to-day.
I pray God that whenever any like
number Of human beings are subjected
to like amount Of gross injustice, they
may rise up and right their wrongs, if
need be, in sea Of blood. 1t is far
better that one generation should suffer
the short, sharp pangs Of revolution,
than that al subsequent generations
should lie in helpless wretchedness.
There are some men who would have
called on God to stop in his advance
from tha silurian to the carboniferous
era, lest the shells Of tho trilabites
might be broken. Individual suffering
is the price paid for the UNIVERSAL good.
The graves Of the heroes are the
stepping stones Of God. The sacrifices
to . revolution which advances man
kind, are a nothing compared with the
slaughter of pestilence that decimates
tho race.
A revolution il the rebound from
centuries Ut wrong. The thuuderbolt
which strikes the traveller deal is not
the accident of tho cloud. The ele-
ments have been accumuhtiug for days
and drawn from the remote regions Of
the atmosphere and the earth; it is the
child Of heat, light aud time.
There are. but two. securities for the
peace Of society aud the welfare Of the
citizen they are, Justice and inteli-
geuce. You can not have one without
the other. Universal intelligence will
produce universal justice; for the wise
man knows that he cannot degrade his
fellow MN without lowering the plane
Of his race. Intelligence and benevo-
lence are twin sisters:
"The Deity l. seen,
From eyery elevation Of the soul"
Uui1ersal Justice will give education
a. the great leveler Of tho inequalities
Of society, the pioneer that cuts open
al paths, tho Cornwall pigmy chat Stays
tho giants Of caste and the dragons OF
intolerance,
In tho hurry and bustle Of tho world
the little school houses may seem but
trifling things, and yet they lie At the
base of. everything worthy in the world
You can measure yonr Congress or your
Parliament by the development Of your
school houses. In their pauc;ty you
can read misgovernment, turbulence
and revolutions. In :heir plenty you
can foretell the crowded mart, the tesm-
ing commerce, the prosperous popu'aee
AMI long ye.rs Of peace and plenty
What can you rsst your government
upon if it be not the minds Of tho
people. And here is the distinction
between = republic and = despotism-
the one rests upou tho u,ixds-the 9th.