The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-05-19

rests our liberties.
/ Liberty dwells not with ignoran and
vice, but she plumes her angel wint with
a seraph's beauty and with the egle's
| strength she scars aloft in the sunlihI of
learning and virtue.
And though she take her trantory
| flights. she will ever return To her hone i'm
| the hearts of virtuous and enligIened
| people What says Historys
| Europe once was as free as the featered
songsters that MARBLE their lays in he for
ests But where now is the Die of Sween p
| The States of Portugal and of Hollapcth
once sparkled in the skies of freiom.
have been stricken from the poIitial hea-
vens by the hands of their own degenerate
I sons
The twinkling stars Of the Italia skies
once looked down in beauty froI their
azure homes upon free, prosperos and
| happy Republic.
France ceased to be the clear funtain
| from which should issue streams of ,nowl-
edge and piety Ito make glad the rider
| ness and the solitary place. and her1eSeIts
to rejoice and blossom as the rose" But in
! her naughty dignity, she forgot her (Od and
became the seething cauldron in which
persisted her own liberties. Infdeky and
/ denominations
! Echoed from earth a hollow roT
| Like ocean on the midnight SHOE"
Greece--venerated as the home of ne mu-
ses-famous in song and story as Tile land
of scholars and the nurse of armf'-the
| central sun of intelligence, whence many
Greece had already been undermined and
! her foundations Slapped by the banishnents
and dissentiOns of her people. Phillip bet
breathed upon it and it was not.
/ Rome. Repub lican Rome, whose arts and
arlns were carried in triumph over nation
after nation, and whose proud eagles glanced
defiance to the world-Rome. whose gran
deur and glory filled the universe with her
Iame.--Rome, whose gorgeous palaces ane
! gilded temples still glimmer through the
/ lapse of ages in the regal splendor of heI
| ruins,-History tells US Rome fell, not when
the mighty were upon her." But the Coils
| eum-
Like rose of the wilderness left on its
| stalk
To tell where the gar len had BEEN
| lifts itself above the waste, in lone and sol
| itary grandeur. to warn coming nations oil
| the dangers of a corrupt populace.
| Let us stand out then as freemen in thought
and with candor in sentiment. and integrity
| i'll purpose. pour unvarnished truth into the
common mind; that receptacle where nc
/ principle once incuicated was ever lost. The
| gifted Bancroft has well said, individuals
are limited in capacity. The common mind
is infinite in experience. individuals are
languid and blind the many are ever wake
tul. individuals are time-serving; the
| masses are fearless"
Archimides sid Give me where to stand
and will move the world" Give US a home
| IN the hearts OF 0 ar cOuntTgnpen and We will
revolutioniZe and reform this agel Let us
stand upon the broad basis of lhe moral and
| intellectual culture of the masses and we
will sound the clarion notes of freedom aud
of truth that shall
Survive the wreck of matter
And the crush of worlds"
But our grandest duty is to stand out in
the light of the intellectual advancement of
1870 years and show that science and pill
osophy, and natural and revealed religion
| harmonic in establishing the truths of
Christianity.
Like rays of stars that meet in space
And mingle in a bright embrace"
And when the progress of learning shall
have translated the gilded letters of the Hat
OF Omnipotence, written in golden letter. OF
imperishable lustre all over the Univese
then shall christianity prevail. The earth
shall bloom again in beauty, and her my mad
songsJers shall make her vocal with he
anthem The hand that made US is DiVin"
Mau shall again sing his primeval sons of
Eden gladness. aud read the pencIlings of
Deity stamped upon the armament andall
the handiwork ofGod luminous with proni-
SEES OF his redemption. Learning and Liter
" shall then erect colossal monument,
lifting itself midway between heaven AID
earth, and standing upon its glorious svD
nit, they shall extend helping hand down |
TO the children OF men and bid them uDtrrd! |
Religion. from the very throne of tod, all |
make bare her mighty arm to LearningInd |
Liberty, with their children of earth,lnd |
bid them upward! upward!.
Ages will roll on ere this happy consm- |
nation But make this Age the golden Linz in
The chain Of time that shall hasten its dam |
ing-the dawnihg of the triumphal jutlee |
OF the Universe! Let this be the Zenia of |
your aspirations. Let all your actims, |
thoughts, deeds and words, be the crytal |
streams that leap from the hillsides and |
valleys and flow mingling on tOgethr to |
this one grand Ocean home. This mans
ITO Thine Owmself be True"
Napoleon, upon the dizzy heights of 4us- !
terlitz, turned from the very acme ofhis |
glory, heartsick with its own mptiess. |
We hear great King say, my brad, |
broad Kingdom for little, little grav. an |
obscure grave" We see Woolsey '.Fron his |
meridian splendor hasten to his setnig''
and he charges Cromwell filing awayam- |
bition." Johnson tells US OF .sThe Vaitv |
of Human Wishes" Juvenal points s to |
the fall of Sejanus and the mighty. AlltelI
US that we chase through life gaudyD ut- |
terfly and clutch a hediOus worm-thaDur
search is fruitless and our labor vain. But !
Keates tells US "a thing of beauty is Joy
forever" Aye, in learning there is o,ati- |
ETY., in religion no heartsickness. Let this |
glorious thought, like the hoy-symboI hat |
blaZed before the wagering Constantinacad
you onward. conquering and to conque.
Fling not away ambition. Nay, sirs, iced
y ~.
Purify it by religion, guide il by patriotism,
rule it with reason. and fan its flames ill IL
lick the skiesi Do practical men saw savav
with visionaries?" Nay, sirs. dream dreams,
and make them stand forth ltring dcino
reritieS. Conjure visions and make ITEM
practical realities. Did tie Utopian dram
of the poet Moore, picture fairer vision of
Republics than ever blessed the earth he
New Atlantis" OF the wise and base Baou
and the Republic of Plato dazzle the fary
I,-s.~ r.ET
mortals ever realized? Yet quench the fies
of ambition. and stop the visionary, and pu
quench the light of progress. and stay he
proud bird of liberty in his onward flight!
Let the influence that made Fulton gze
upon a visionary steamer ploughing he
waters of the beautiful Hudson-that msle
Ariel drink the air before him that mtie
Puck put a girdle round the earth; flat
made Shakespeare see the ghost OF a King
that made Homer measure the gigantic
stride of Achilles in He'll, when Ulysses Id
him his son was worthy his sire" Ave.
that made Virgil see the gorgeous vision of
Minerva shouting TO the Greeks in the
flames of Troy. Let that same influence
fash invincible energy upon your councils.
Let it go with you whitherseever you 90, az
a solemn monitor to warn you of the place
you occupy in the grand vanguard of mora
and intellectual progress! Let it gid your
nightly dreams and inspire your wakinf
hours with visions of unattained perfection
Press Onward, o! noble sons of disinheri
ted Knights!!
Let obstacles be but the dragged rocki
upon which your succeeding footsteps shall
find tirmer foothold until you ascend
The step where Fame's proud temple shires
affair."
Remember Ferguson was a Fifer-boyin
the army" "FraEklin was a poor Printlr-
boy" THE Orphan OF st. Louis ~hadno
friend but his sword. no fortune but lis
talents" Look at the great johnson md
Savage wand ring homeless and supperles
and penniless in the streets of Londm.
Listen to the blind old Bard as he sings lis
immortal songs and begs his bread in ne