The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-28
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For the REPUBLICAN.
A REMEDY FOR MORAL,
DISEASE.

HUMILIATION A REMEDY FOR MORAL
DISEASE.
There are certain specific cures to
which we always have recourse in at
tacks of certain diseases. The most
speedy curatives are, not unfrequently,
the most simple. The very best anti
dote for the more common forms Of
poison is generally within the reach of
every well supplied housewife. 1t is
no mark of skillful physician that a
man carries with him a whole pouch
of medicines for the cure of any one
disease. 1t is only when he may be
called upon to treat rariety of dis
eases that he provides himself with a
rarfety of medicines.
So with moral disease. The cure is
generally SIMPLE, yet severe and sure.
There are a large class of moral dis
eases engendered, or at least stimulated,
by wealth. Under its influence some
mems selfish natures are SO stimulated
that they, in short time, assume pro-
portions entirely too large for their
boots. To them work-whew! 1t
is only fit for the poor trash and certain
ly honorable in none!
Arrogance, insolence, impatience and
oppression are but symptoms of the
disease. The remedy, in such cases,
is generally brought about by the work.
ings of the disease itself. The found
erings of the victim, in his paroxysms
of insolence, become unbearable. The
antidote is Humiliation. In the ad-
vanced stage of the disease nothing
else seems to have the least effect. 1t
is only when his wealth has taken to
itself wings, when his flattercrs have
turned to scoflers, when his pride has
changed to shame, that the scales fall
from his eyes. When that is done,
the cure is about affected. Bitter in
deed is the dose of Humiliation, yet it
proves effective when everything else
has failed.
The same is true of Church or Po-
litical Organizaiions-of Communities
OF Nations. When their selfish big
otry, their haughtyinsolence and their
crushing oppression can no longer be
endured, Humiliation is the effective
remedy. The proud must shed their
gaudy feathers the insolent become
tanned; the diciatorialness of tone be
turned to the plaintiff notes of sup
plication. Babylon the Great must
fall.
We have seen a member of our own
nation dwarfed and withcred by an
attack of that fearful malady, which,
it seems, Humiliation alone could
check. History records few, if any,
more striking examples of the feverish
pitch to which a proud, domineering,
devilish spirit will drive men than has
been witnessed in the actions of the
Southern States. The most able and
experienced nurses could do but little
in patching up the imaginary wounds
Of the blinded patient. Nothing would
appease the avarice of these Southern
leaders in their greed for honor and
power, but abject and servile submis-
sion to their domineering will. Moth
ing could cure the dangerous malady
with which they were afflicted but a
Humiliation. These proud
aristocrats, these scoffers at honorable
toll, these contemners of free speech,
these Southern nabobs who long boast
ed that one Southerner was equal to
five Northern men, who made merry
at the clanking chains of four millions
Of bondmen have, at last, been Humil-
lated. Terrible, and well nigh fatal
was the disease-severe and simple has
been the cure. From the assumed
rank of dictators they have found
place in the procession of suppliants.
The former slave deposits his ballot
in the same box with the ex-master.
In the "Last kh" they have found
what they so little expected, but what
they so much needed-Humiliation.
May it prove a permanent cure for
their ills and warning to proud ar
ristocrats everywhere. ZEB.
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