The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-11-26

lace and the magnificent structure,
tronRer and more beautiful than be- ]
ore, rears its vast and symmetrical
PROPORTIONS before the gaze Of an ed- ,
hiring world. as the worlds grandesS |
emple Of liberty, from whose affairs
viii be supplied the inspiration which
will emancipate the race. The une-
,uslad prosperity OF the year has dem
,nstra sd that the resources of this
soun - are unbounded; has demon
.traged its ability to preserve order, to
its fallen pillars, pay its
iebes, and secure the respect of its
hieess aud Of the nations of the
sarEh Its triumphant advance In ev-
sry department OF national strength I
sad progress, has exhibited the falslty 4
Of the predictions of It's faint hearted I
friends aud its RvoWed enemies. The /
6e1eest trial is over, and the subse- |
1uant prosperity tells us that the prob |
lau, cf ages-tbat Of free government
j. 90 ed.
Bus sweeping q wider horizon than
tbnt Of our own country, aud piet0ing
fhl gsedt events Of the GEAR, as they
ssCsno related to human progress, and
ths Kingdom of Christ, we shall see
more clearly that this has been one
IF the years Of the right hand Of the
Most High" 1t has been a year OF
transition and conveyance, such as
has before been unknown to history.
The old world, in the very centres of
it's civilization, power and population
has been shaken by a revolution.
rnightier than any of modern times.
We believe that God is in all history;
that through its seeming chaos and
retrogressiOns, may be traced an INTEL
hgent, systematic, designing influence
leading on to one glorious consumma"
tiop--liberty, fraternity, Christ;
and 1ghile this European struggle has
many unpromising aspects, We cannot
fail / o see that its general characters
tics ire intimately connected with the
advs ncement of society toward this
contamination. 1t is difficult to see, as
many assert, what the cause of popu-
lar freedom is to gain from the ascend
snov OF the German arms; how the
world is to be the gamer for the sub
version of one despotism, while an
other adds to its strength thereby.
But there are other and brighter tea-
TIRES in the results of this struggle,
Thich we must not overlook; and, first
Of all, the discontinue of the French
/ is a mighty monument erected IN the
/ centre of the nineteenth century, re-
/ Affirming the fact which all the past
/ has demOnstrated-rean the
great law which reigns over the for
/ tunes of all nations-that the nation
tChich tolerGtes religious tyranny, and
! becomes iice7atS0uS, dlssipated and et-
/ Terminate, q0ill, sooner or later,
/ lose its prestige and ITS pOaCer.
The French people had become a
nation of pleasure seekers. Venus
and Bacchus were the divinities Wor-
shipped throughout the land. Paris,
with all its ravishing magnifcence,
the grandeur of its edifices, the beau
ties Of its architecture, with all Its
literary and art collections, has been
the fountain head Of Europe's de.
bauchery and RIGHTEOUSNESS one vast
Whited sepulchre full of the morally
slain and all uncleanliness; one ex
haustless fountain of dissip- ton
whose polluting streams have reached
/ every part of the old world. and pen
etrated even to the cities of our Re
public. In the routine Of pleasurabl
life, in the haunts of dissipation, tn
! high interests of the nation have beef
overlooked, and the population be
come physically aud morally enfee
bled. While science, literature ant
art have dourished in certain circles
while the creative genius of French
scholars has given invaluable eontri
buttons to every department Of hu
man learning, their educational sys
tenn has been the most defective Of
the continent, and the masses sunk il
, ignorance and superstition. On tn
, other hand, the Germans, inheritin
the noble qualities of their ancien
! ancestors, who breathed beyond th
{ Rhine the air of freedom, and neve
: succumbed to the arms of Rome
. are a wholly different people. HARDY
I industrious and frugal, educated froI
} the humblest peasant to the Prince
a holding In their hands an open Bible
I they we're peculiarly fitted to be th
4 ovePthroWers of the t0ttering moi
' archy of France. Aud, in the swi
3 overthrow and deep humiliation wit
Q which that proud and dissolute natio
has been visited, God Almighty hs
e emphatically declared, in the nint
.. teenth century, that the nation on th
e side of progress, Of education, of vi
d tuous industry, and q free Bible,
e the one that is founded in Sc
: curity and permanence. In this ag
Is of pleasure-seeking, of infdelity an
q corruption, the lesson was necessar
8 and we are glad that the events OF ii
e year have taught it. 1t has been
a year of the right hand of the Mo
a High"
"a In the results of this struggle. Il
q D0t1eT of the a0orld has passed into t
e, hands of the race q1hich has been 4
u leader in Professionalism, IN freedom, G,
Il KcdtioR and progress. Unable as '
3. | may be to account for it on phil
n sophical principles, the adyanceme,
in of the world has hitherto been by Il
IS suppression of old and W0rn-or
he races by new and harder ones. III
a. old Pelasgic race is no more. III
lg once noble Aztec race has well mis-
a vanished, and the once Imperial Ce
ID tic has disappeared. When the q
be cient civilizations had become effet
cd and the old races feeble aud effen
lie nate, the Teutonie race beyond &
be Rhine, hardy and noble, not strange
es to high and elevated sentiments ev,
as in their barbarsc wiIdness, swe
r. down upon southern Europe, and
10. came the regenerating element of t
~, world. This race, including the A
RS glo Saxon, is the leader of the worl
or, civilization and progress. Il has |
en- come the Regeneration of modern
! a ciety, and its genius, skill, enterpri
it and Protestant Christianity, ha
err made it felt in every nook and corr
It's of the globe. The Sc!avonie "a
las finding its imperial center in Russ
nd is Unnecessarily behind the Teutol
70 in all that makes up human progre
ed The Italians, Spaniards and
to French are Ne0- latin, the bic
10 of the old Roman race pTedor
I'VE mating. and the French mt
ms archy was the only remaining form
the able stronghold of the old race VIII
arb for centuries has been the main 81
I've port Of Papal usurpation, and O.
be- on the wheels of human progress; a
IN, the overthrow of the military prep
ors derance of that people. has placed
ar. power of the world In the hands of
the regenerating race. The rec on
ne side Of progress, of education, of
aid eral ideas, of free bible; the race
md genius, enterprise, to-day control
I'D destinies Of the world. Considered
ne this light, The year has been one
red which the world has made a mig
Gu. stride toward its higher, nobler Z
ties tiny. The right hand Of the N