Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-12-16
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The spirit which gave to paganism its
lDster, to barbafism its redeeming trait,
and to Christianity it's eroic fire, is still
alive-it has its affairs in every cline, its
worship and its festivities On the
heathered hills of Scotland the fame of
Wallace inspires the hardy Scot with
heroism--and the glacier mountains of
Switzerland the apple Of Tell is bright
tradition-along the picturesque valleys
of Ireland, the uusfrung harp of Tara, is
warbled in notes Of plaintive wo, and in
France the n emory Of the Maid of Or
leans is a lalisman of fiery power. And
when you and | are long buried and for
gotten and the jealousies of the late war
shall have died away old Barbara Fr,tchie
shaking the Stars and Stripes from her
tenement window in Frederick burg, and
shouting for the Union. will thrill many
heart with the intensest enthusiasm
Many lnoralists thought before the late
rebel lion that as free institutions became
instituted among men, and every individ
ual could speak for himself through the
ballot box, that then the minority would
tacitly submit to the will of the majority.
ut how seriously has this idea been ex
ploded. The immutable emotions of the
human heart look tort,a in all that bitter,
ness and cruelty that distinguished bar
baric nations of ancient times. The name
of Libby or Andersonville still rings
through every community with a thrill
of horror, d the North, if it did not en-
ulate Timon of old, and carry Jefferson
Davis around chained in iron cage, it
was not for the want Of remorsel less bitter
ness [ fear war will affllct man down to
he latest period of time, Notwithstanding
that Isaiah prophesle- time V hen all shall
acknowledge tn Lord and obey his laws
when pc ce and harmony shall dwell upon
the earth, when the wolf shall dwell
with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie
down with the kid, and the calf and the
young lion and the failing together and
little child hall lead hem" and also
when he sword shall be beaten into ploy
shares and the spears into pruning hooks
1t is goou for US to believe this, ideal
though it be; it viii inspire US with hope
in our race raise us in the scale of being
and impart to US high conception of
the great Being that governs the universe.
Let Us pursue lsaiah's prophesy little
further and believe that as the great
Architect constructed the earth, and div
ided it into various temperatures, and
,lanted in each an order of vegetables and
anlmals and a race of human beings de-
signed to live and flourish there, that he
will yet IN the wor >ing out Of his all
wise pan<, call each race to its appointed
home, there to flourish in peace and pros
perity. Let US remember that there is
yet quarter of the globe, but sparsely
Inhabited, and teeming with luxuriance
the world eaanot equal, where now the
wild beast roams in unrestrained domn
ion, and where human nature grovels in
the most loathsome degradation and idoa-
try land where the white man with.
ers aud les, aud where the black man
| flOurishes and proSpers. Let US indulge
III the hope that the Freedmen Of the
South as they become educated and rails
e in he scale of beng, will vol ari y
see land where they can carry
their blbe, their schools, their ind dustry
and their int ligence, where they can as
ton oe independent and as peo Die
inferior 10 none. And that the wild jun
giles Of Africa will yet under their hands
blossom as a garden, and the echoing war
of the lion, the tiger and the hYena
will give place to th- busy hum o. peace
ful industry.
Let it not be understood that wish
the negro to leave this country; no l do
not. Their race has been here longer
than ours they have earned the right
to exist here with far more bitterness
and sorrow than the Anglo Saxon; and
the hand of every true man should now
be rails ed for their pro ection and justif
cation But should they he eafter deem
it for their welfare to emigrate to Africa
and establish there colony, and nation,
I for one shall rejoice in the event, aud
deem it one of the direct blessings how-
ing from the late Rebellion.
You my deem this idea Utopian; be it
so, and | now take the liberty of telling
you that if there is any one popularity
The intelligent American lacks, it is prtp
er a precia ion of the ideal The wunt
of such, renders man a plolder, mathe
matica calculator in all the relations of
life sordid stickler upon material eyi
dences; doubter and often an in6del, on
the other hand a due appreciation Of the
ideal lifts man above the trials and per
plexities of every day life harmonizes its
conflicting elements, and overshadows ex-
istence with refining and civilising in
fuences.
Have YOU ever stood beneath the mas
ter pieces Of the ancient artists !: for in
stance the Madonna ef Raphael! Ifyou
have you then saw countenance more
beau iful, more lovely and more divine than
was ever clothed in human flesh Did
you feel the gaze Of that inania,a'e can
vas fill your soul with such sympathy aud
emotions as you never felt bel,re, anu you
turn away from that lifeless picture as if
living angel had looked down into the
depths Of your SOUL and you were still
entranced with the gaze, and felt purer
and better for it? I never understood
what genius was until [ beheld Power
Greek Slave; it stood before me pure,
cold and lifeless, thesperfeot model of ''the
human form divine" The lips, the