Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-07-24

Or whether the extension OF knoWl-
edge favors the growth Of inhdelity
and rationalism? The tendency to
convert every shapeless form OF mat
ter into a luxury-producing instru-
ment, and the invention of so many
labor-saving machines by christian
countries, are ef6cacious in producing
pauperism and licentiousness,-mll-
lionaires and beggars. AS conse-
quence the strong Cypress the weak
and might makes right becomes
the real, though not acknowledged
standard of morality. The soul
kingdom is weakened by the force and
influence of the sense-Ringdom, by
virtue of civilization fixing the mind
so intentIy upon subjects of the ma
terial world.
The American Republic, the once
boasted Utopia of thirty million free
men, having lost her national ballast,
State Sovereign y-is the prey OF the
vultures from the four quarters OF the
globe. Sad to tell, from the Rlo
Grande to the Potomac can still be
seen the slime tuut marks the trail OF
the huge anaconda that crushed out
the life-blood Of our republican in
s,itutions and parallel with its track
Of desolation are strewn the graves OF
our honorcd dead. over which bloom
flowers of amaranth, watered By the
tears Of wido'.~ i a.gi. : 'nd to
which CRATE ieeti.'- as :He
brightest an mos; ore. .o's oaaeus
which bedeck .. r.1 ID; our AQ'h-
er Earth
The sacred 20 aie . eT.s'g-.
virtue have 60
prints OF an
nisnamed R.eh5a, 2"a
now, the fair " SIC. val qge@: '-7'!'s
this occidental land occidental in
more than one sense) weeping for her
stolen vases.
The late war was but the penum-
bra of the grand eclipse, which is
now in its totality-an eclipse pre-
dicted for the last century by Jeffer-
son, Calhoun, and McDufie, though
they have not lived to see it verified
Thank heaven we have left us a
Davis, Stephens, and Toombs--
great political astronomers-to make
observations and transmit to genera
tions, yet unborn, their instructive
records.
France has entered the shadow pro-
iected by false principles Austria, in
fifteen days, made revolution that
has thrown her in the procession; and
conservative England, too, with her
rich stores of wisdom, suspended up
on the frail life of her venerated Vic
toria, is espected soon to join the sol
emn march to national deterioration.
The internal orgies of Communism
are spreading the flesh and blood of
the good and great over their ban
quet boards; weapons, long laid up
in ancient arsenals, are drawn in open
warfare, making the dust and smoke
of the battlefield of sects to rise in
columns to the very Throne of God.
Dynasties rise on the bloody ruins OF
dynasties; new governments are Gre
ated in day, as if a new fortuitous
concourse of individual sentiments
were sufficient guarantees of constl-
tutional systems. Labor, armed with
the thirst for bread or blood" is
ready to wage '~ar with capital,
such as never before cursed the world.
Bismarck code may mitigate, but
cannot remedy, the evils; nations must
learn anew and practice Alright the
decalogue of Moses.
Let them be guided to Truth by
their Mali, and there lay down their
wealth, prejudices, and long cher
ished policies; then, and not till
then, will the jubilant thrOng of new
born nations fill the earth with their
thunder shout, and gather with one
accord under the Elean groves of the
heavenly sciences; and then our re-
generated earth twill join in song
with the morning star and shout for
Joy with the sons of God"