The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-10-27
DAUcAEt,s AGENCY.
NUMBER 20.
lFrom the Day-Book.1
LettSr from yYnrwicIx
THE HILLS, (NEAR) AUBURN, !
LEE Co., ALA, !
September 18TH. 1870.
TO tile Editor Of The Dav- Book.

september 10Th, 1870.
10 Tie Editor Of The Day. Book:
When was boy read it in Xenu-
Phon :-"On that night no man slept
Ihe announcement had been made at
Plr@us that Lysander had DESTROYED the
Athenlan fleet Of $50 ships in the battle
OF Egospotami, thus closing the Pelopon-
neslan war and reducing Athens itself to a
state OF siege. Her empire had vanished
IN night as suddenly as that of Napole-
on IN the shadow of those great events
which now startle Europe and the world.
The men who assembled at the AcropoIis
on the next day talked and swore as the
men OF Paris talk and swear to-day. They
were brothers all, in the great calamity
winch had reduced them to struggle for
existence. They, too, passed an act of
general amnesty, and swore to be harmo-
nious' and abated nothing of their preten-
siens, while Lysander. with q feet of 15O
trlremes, devastated Salamis and bIocka-
ded Piraes, while the whole Peloponnesian
army marched into Attica and .camped in
the shadow of the Academus. at the Gates
OF athens. They were as proud, and
resolute, and defiant as the men of Paris
On that night no man slept" in Athens.
NO man could sleep. No man ought TO
nave slept. No man slept in Paris 'on
that night" after the announcement OF the
defeat Of MeMahons army and the sur
render of Napoleon at Sedan. At Athens
and at Pans-405 years before the Christ
at Athens and 1870 years since Christ at
Paris-"no man slept" in the presence of
the great national calamity which threat
.ened the existence of the government and
t9e happiness OF the people.
DEMOCRATS! HOW CAN WE SLEEP
NOW? Calamities worse than the bat
ties OF Agospotami and Sedan have be-
fallen US Enemies worse than Lysander,
with the blood of 1000 Athenian prison.
ers upon his hands, worse than King Will
liam and Bismarck, beleaguer us! We
! sleep, nevertheless 1.-THE SLEEP OF DEATH
Our government has been oyertbrown -
Our liberties destroyed. The very found
alton of our society and civilization swept
away. All the stars Of glory and of gui-
dance have been extinguished in our DO
iitlcal sky, and we are left to the alterna-
tive OF submission to the leaden sceptre of
huge military despotism, or to be turn
eo auI1it to seek uncertain footing on the.
stormy sea Of revolution. We are degra-.
ded to the condition of African slaves =
How can We "sleep." Democrats, in this
hour OF humiliation, of rum. of suffering
and OF supreme peril Pin this hour when
patriot might almost consent. with
glorious old st. Paul, to be "accursed' Go
save his country when it would be
almost saving virtue to risk damnatiOn
10 rescue suffering millions from the grasp
OF remorseless tyranny.
have been gloomily revealing the fate
oi @ Athens under the despotic sway of the
I!hlirty Tyrants, and comparing our con-
dltlon IN these States, since the fall of
Richmond, with theirs On ali sides see
the naughty Ephors, the insolent minis
ters Of inimical power. l see the strange
magistrates warning in all ways, and with
the merclless spirit Of determination,
against their obnoxious political oppo-
nents see the election franchise under
the immediate control and surveillance of
these hostile and malignant magistrates
l see the best men imprisoned, exiled from
their homes, and murdered by sham trials
and illegal tribunals, and even without any
/ shadow of trial. to crafty their fendish
thirst for blood and vengeance | SEQ
worse than 4 Spartan garrison in the
Acropohs worse than tile organized as
sasslns of the bloody Crltias AN infuria-
ted, savage, negro soldiery see reign
OF terror throughout these down-trodGen
1 eAASA44 CsAbCo! ! L ScC OOCTuIeS .uflnklng
the fatal hemlock, and Theramcnes now
clInglng to the altar of refuge in the Sen
ate house, and anon torn away by tho
Satyrus, the Infamous head of the "Elev-
EN-" horrible executioners of the penal law.
An. gentle Crtias." 1 hear, too, awav
| down IN the depths of the ages. and Of
degradation, thy significant decree against
'.the art of words" which, according TO
| the Greek idea, embraced all intellectual
culture.
Democrats is it not enough t. crush
the Southern heart, to crush the Demo-
cratic heart of the whole country? Nav,
verify | The Thirty Tyrants did not crush
| the heart of the Athenian democracy A
day Of restoration came. A new glory
crowned the Acropoiis the democracy
was unanimouslyreins The party
for accepting the situation" was utterly
overthrown, and all the acts of the Thirty
Tyrants We're annulled! Let us find here
our example and inspiration, and cease 10
struggle only when we cease to live Let
US fight like Hamlet, and if we fall, yet
pour the death poison down the throat of
Mongrelism, as he poured it down that of
'.the incestuous, murderous. damned
Dane WARWICK.