The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-01-06

enthusiasm, before which numbers
were as nothing, and banded Europe
sank down in disastrous defeat before
his proud and victorious columns.
aud he dictated terms to every Go
vernment upon the broad continent
OF Europe, from their own proud and
boosted capitals. Trust, then, not to
men; trust not to their influences;
trust alone to principle. Rarely, in
the history of the W. rid, has people
ever passed through a revolution so
grand and terrific as that from which
we are Just emerging; but it was soon
followed by another, which was more
awful and disastrous in its results.
Trace back the long trackway of the
mighty past, and survey those vast
fields upon which the human mind
and human passions have displayed
themselves for thousands of years.
Go to Europe, that splendid theatre,
upon which the arts, sciences, litera-
ture and human society have attained
their highest forms of perfection,
and imbibe lessons of wisdom and
learning as they have been evolved
by the experience of those who have
gone before us. How Jared it with
that beautiful country when the vast
hordes from the great North poured
down like 4 mighty food, deluging
all the land? On rolled the revolu-
tionary tide, until they watered their
horses in the Tiber, and stabbed
them in tho palaces of kings and
rloted IN the festive halls of emperor
and consul. Nor was their lust for
pelf and power even satiated then.
On rolled the revolutionary wave,
until they had confscated every acre
OF land throughout Southern Europe,
and divided it out among their Of
ficers, soldiers and followers, and
upon those awful and terrific ruins
arose the feudal system. Such has
been the history of Southern Europe.
Has this been true alone of that
beautiful country? No. Cross the
English Channel, and go to England
proud old Eug glaud-whose flag floats
beneath every sky; whose drums beat
all around the world upon whose do
m!Dlons the sun ceases not to shine:
whose commerce covers every sea.
and whose proud fleet ploughs the
dark blue waves over every ocean.
How Jared it with this noble old
kingdom in times long since gone by?
She has been four different times
suhj,sated. Her laws, manners,
customs and institutions have all
been subverted aud changed; the
last time, by the proud Norman con
queror, who invaded her soil with a
vast array, and fought :, great pitched
battle just outside of London. The
English army was defeated; they laid
down their arms just as You did after
the surrender of Lee and Johnson,
and went TO their respective homes,
and resumed their usual avocations.
The proud conqueror entered their
imperial capital, with his banners
flying trlumphantly; he took posses
sion OF the country, and dotted it
with his garrisons, and swore, upon
the altar of his God. to preserve in
violate the Constitution and laws of
the kingdom. The nobility, from
every part OF the realm, crowded in
and swore allegiance to him. How
were these sacred and solemn pledges |
kept? Six months had scarcely pass
ed by before the proud conqncror re-
tired to his native Normandy, leav-
ing England in command of lis !
officers. They bore down upon the
people-tile result was q secord revo-
luton. The ncws had scarcely cross
ed the English channel, and broken
upon the ears of the proud conqueror,
ere he returned to England and raised
another vast army, with which he
rolled over her like the waves OF old
ocean. He crushed and annihilated |
every obstacle; he confiscated the
lands OF England, and divided them
ont among his officers, soldiers and
followers, and inaugurated and es-
tabilshed there, too, the feudal sys-
tenn which he formed in Southern |
Europe aud France. Such has been
the history of our kind in times long
since gone by. The New World is
travelling around the same great circle !
over which the Old travelled centu-
ries ago. The same causes will, under |
like circumstances, produce similar
effects. Give me the same premises,
and l VIII make he same deductions. |
Let Us profit by the example and expe-
rience Of those who have gone before
us; let US, if possible, save the republic;
let us preserve those great principles
that have come down to us through |
the gathering of almost u century,
cemented, baptized and established !
by the blood of 81 brave heroic and |