The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-11

And on the other hand, the Puritans
who, at the period of the restoration,
had reason to fear that their cause
had become an utter failure. lived to
see it spring up with redoubled ener-
gy in the new world, until at last they
enjoyed the sweet consolation of
being as able to persecute others as
others had been to persecute them.
When the tide of Gothic barbarism
spread over the Roman world, it
might we'll have appeared as if Chris
tianity would never emerge from the
deluge of heathendom. Yet the be-
nevolent spirit of Christianity made
captive the followers of Alaric and
Clovis, and Rome, which had rocked
to her foundations under the blows
of the Teutonic chiefs, became the
capital of wider spiritual empire
than that over which the imperial
eagles had flown in the zenith of their
greatness. Again, at the compare
lively recent period when French
Republicanism was reveling up to its
chin in the blood of its enemies,
when it was attempted to depose the
Almighty by statute, and prostitute
was deified as the Goddess of Rea-
son, it might we'll have been feared
by all rational Frenchmen that hu-
man society was finally dissolved.
When that t'child of the revolution"
Napoleon Bonaparte, was overthrow
ing and distributing the monarchies
OF Europe among his followers, no
doubt the world seemed to the dis
possessed sovereigns to have come to
an end. Prussia, in particular, when
Napoleon, after the fearful work at
jena and Auerstadt, entered her capi-
tai in triumph, could scarcely have
conceived that the current of her his
tory, which seemed plunging into a
bottomless abyss, would emerge ere
long IN rejoicing stream; and, with
In the lifetime of u man, widen into
a tide so broad and deep that even
the lusty sinews of France hesitate to
buffet the angry flood It is a fact
attested by all the annals of mankind
that race true to itself cannot
perish by one or by many tribula-
tions: Looking back upon the grand
march of history, we find that the
career of nations to greatness, both
political and material, often begins at
the very point where, to contempora-
ry eyes, it seemed to have ended.
That is the lesson which the South
ought to ponder. Why not say that
instead of being brought to the end
of its course, it has been brought to
the beginning of another; that if its
star has set in one horizon, it may
hope to rise in O new and more spa
cious armament? There is iuat as
much profit in the hopeful as the de-
spending view. So far as the result
of late elections is concerned, there
is, at least, as good reason for hope
as for despondency, in the fact that
if the Republican party has tri-
umphed, it has been by recognition
of the conservative spirit in the no.
mination of its candidate for the
Presidency, and that the necessities
of the country itself, as we'll as the
liberal instincts of the successful can
didate, as evinced in his course to-
wards the paroled officers and soldiers
of the South, Indicate policy of
nationality and moderation. Why,
then, should not the South hope, in
stead of despair? She is suffering
now because she is in a transition
state, but may it not be o transition
to new and grander arena of pro-
gress and prosperity? Why may not
the twilight upon her be regarded as
that which precedes the day dawn,
not the fall of night? ssis;sg
Baltimore Sum-
SEWARD. To Seward and his diff
fuse, uncertain speech, the Rochester