The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-04-30
VOLUME ~ No a.

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lie sHprisip ostablsh the sefnfisn
law disldbuling the public land.
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ttanagfc''ion u our ffs, parent
\dam aud Eve--the Almighty God
said that man should earn hlsbrssa
with tho swca, of lila brow in ITO
same maj In regard 10 ibc mind.
everything ,bc result of toll and
industry, bcmoaihga,-, the groa,
Athcnian orator, never male oS
tcmr1ranccus speeches they we're
the result OF toll. industry anl close
application lie frequently went
down TO the sea shore, put pcbblc'
In his mouth to retard his procipi
tate articulation and coun,crnct his
mutual impcdiment by q slow DE-.
livery The great Roman orator.
Cicero, says that society Of friends
must be denied, privitations mus, I've
endured, aud every inccn tive to the
gaming table, and ull kinds Of dis.
sipation must be resisted iu the
acquisition Of learning.--When W.
reflect upon the briefand transitory
span of our existence, and on the
many productions that are extan,,
from the creation Of the world TO
the present day, It is impossible tc,
excel in allyct some know more aud
some less, and all scientific acquire.
mens are concentrated into one
liteary fund for the utility Of
mankind. Carthage, the land Of
Dido, and subsequently Of Amlica
and Hannibal, rose to great nation
with intelligence, but as literature
was abandoned at the fall Of her
powerful Hannibal, she soon fell in
to misery and degradation. Greece,
the land Of orators and statesmen,
and of her great Demosthencs, os
soon a. she gave way to dissipation
and the abandonment of letters, she
sunk into insigniiicance and finally
into the hands and power of the
mighty Romans. Rome, herself,
who became empress Of the world
for centuries, with her Literature,
Generals, Orators, and Statesmen,
through dissipation, and the aban-
donment Of Literature was reduced
to the skeleton Of her former great.
ness; she too sank into comparative
obscurity and ignorance with onlys
few isolated great men left at the
time, among them, the eloquent
Cicero, but they were swept away
by the hand Of the assassin and the
barbanty Of the times. When the
British Parliament, in 1775, passed
the Stamp act on the Colonies
through intelligence and a deep
sense of the injury done them, they
resisted, and with education as
beacon or guide, under the great
Washington, they prosecuted hos
tilities until they discounted oppres
sion tyrany and secured their indie.
pendence at the surrender Of Lord
CORVALLIS at Yorktown Virginia,
on the 10th OF October, 1881, on
which memorable occasion the
British Lion crouched to the Amer.
lean Eagle, acknowledging her free
dom and independence for ever. An
intelligent sense Of right and wrong
will always prompt the oppressed
party to rise in arms and assert
their rights, and though they may
be overpowered by superior force,
the principle only slumbers, and
unless their is some redress of grev-
4 ances, sooner or later, it will again
bust forth, like a volcano, whenever
surrounding circumstances are more
favorable to it. 8
To MAINTAIN our dignity as a Ma
ton, to sustain our reputation abroad
a. country, to secure our peace,
prosperity and happiness, and indie
pendence as a government, to SC.
cure our spiritual and cternalas well
as temporal peace we must be edu.
crted; and in its abandonment or
neglect we win fall ind sink into
obscurity and degradation, like the
| Nations Of ancient days, prehaps
never again to rise or emerge from