Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-10-10
The NJ ottled Age.


Age. Virgil, Horace, and many other
poets have sung in gollen Numbers coA.
memorativc Of the rare aud Gorgeous
complexion OF that magnificent era. 1t
was the perfection time of Il splendid lit
oraturc, when the temple of Janus was
closed, and universal peace and tran
guilty pervadcd the world" America
bids fair to improve on all this. The
signs of the times point to much more
exalted state of human cxcc'loncc. We,
the youngest of nations, are about to in
auguratc new order Of things. Ii we
stop short of agrarianism or communism
of property, the expectations of mum
Der of profound thinkers will he griey.
ously disappointed, Innovation is the
rule, and he who pleads for one single
jot or title Of the cold law" is consider
behind the age. People fairly shuldcr
at anything that partakes in the least Of
what the orators call Fogji,m. There l.,
no patience FIR conservatism. That is an
effete principle, or rather dead hobby
We have drawn the elephant, but he
makes very marketable butchers beef
Tastes. lave radically changed. Iinm
stat, sed Teucri nilnl result. The gold
en- age of Aususiu, or Elizabeth is on.
" Il figure Of speech We are to have
something far beticr-somcthing that
sinacks more utopian perfection. But
dear reader, you are not permitted to be
an idle cr Indifferent spectator. Those
who think that the defeat Of Ball Run"
was presidential fir, will make YOU
aPnlticipant il all the jnys aud cxcciou
c'rs # this elrlous epoch" Motley !
Tie only wear" ID Gods name then
llt usc'Ilitthe'm tiled Age Ifyou hap.
zen 10 bc born il Dixie yol must las
aside ever, pr jnlicl 10 favor Of co.ur
ami intc'ltc;ui!lty, AL Fl ! yllf b1.om
with q tarJr, and III ,rvhen>ire ch rrity.
You have been baly mistaken hereto.
fore. Why, you "eIucicl bru;c,' do
you bot kl1w, that ii. mi,c,.cnatiOl OF
the black and white races wall dcycl D
the "hishest character IF civilizirioh"
and beautiful complexion! Certainty It
will, and moreover, The experiment hA,
got TO be made any how. (lIcavcns
should the dye stuff stick). What an
emphatic lie woull such Il pnre accident
give u six thousand years OF history
"MoIley'a the only wclr.' by alImcaut
let us have it Give II; surlrit of nc
gropholism anl mongrclism, Let the
people battca on carton ofevery dc5crip.
tion. Perhaps vomiting may eventually
take place, Expcctoration like that d
California and Connecticut, in their re.
cent elections, arc strong symptoms, Ii
would be terrible BLOW to enthusiast.
like Philips and Tilton, who, unhesitat.
inglyavcr that ''thc only hope Of the wur.d
aud civilization, is the amalsanuatiun Of
the white and black races Should the
American people at last tura back irou
the wonderful Canaan depicted by these
orators. All, it would be dreadful The
mottled age is so rcar-when not onl,
politics and religion, but the whole scca
and society frame work of the nation vii
be as streaked and spotted as IN exhibi
tion of Chinese works when tho
lion and lamb shall lie down together
and everything shall be mottlcd, Wien
the character 9th era shall be neither
iron, nor bruzen, nor golden, but shal
take its name and prestige from the mot
tied complexion Of its people. The pc
etry and art Of that day we may presume
will be commemorat We Of but ltlIc else
This is the beati6c pro'pcct If ralicllsm
Verify, the greatest crimes against mcr4li
~ and religion are perpetrated ia nam,
of ihprfu llut lot - ao,r.