The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-04-29
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THE WAY HISTORY 10 MADE.

Mr. Epnos with your permission viii say some |
hing in answer to Guy Fswkes" It not my inten
ention to write than article, when attempted
answer your inquiry about Easter but it seems am
the whirlpool and must with tbs current; and
to be excused for not giving the subject thor
ugb examination.
The trouble is there many who take II for
granted that all the vile stuff floating in the cutters Of re-
controversy be and they hesitate not to
use it to point a moral rosnd period even when
hey have doubts of its veracity themselves and Guy
Fawkes is exception this rule He admits that the
English idea Of Italian century ago is ndelby
ciatei in s mind with the Borgias and Medics &C. and
hence this has scruple In charging the Priesthood
Of the Catholic Church with crime. There was Priest
the bottom Of every noted Of poisoning age
witness the Robin Hood the better authen
teated of King John - sd Shakespeare Is given as
his mo mean authority" Now how many men who have
read this article have doubted the testimony Any
witness do in this Court where Prejudice
Judge; but should have quoted History If only the
name of the thing would have looked into Humes His,
tory of England and il not found there would have
turned to Motley Of his kindred True Cobbett
Protestant his History Of the Reformation in England
calls Hume to the witness stand conronts him with
his authority proves him fasfer and In dismissing
him, SAYS: "Back-down-down to He'll thou malignant
liar tell Devil the Protestant Bishop Tanner sent
thee But then you Cebbett was somewhat careful
magner; so Hume might hare answered just well
Shakespeare and then see he has the name of an
historian. But to quote pss actor licensed prevari
Gator; - and then to tel us he is Your standard
.uthority"-oh Guy Fawksal and is this the stuff you
smear over the Priesthood o. fss Church,
Guy" be at home inrFrench History If he is
on the English and with reckless daring worthy of
emulation find him diving down into the vast depths
of the waverey Novels and dragging up drowned history
by the locks and spreading IL before all majestic
beauty Think Of this We delivers after knowledge whose
every thought smells OF the lamp-ust think Of the face
conceptions Of novelist being passed of upon you his
tory Louis XL smiling graciousy he asked Giacomo
if he had cast his own horoscope" wilt.
The time when this Cimmerian darkness
in is exactly plain to Guy says it followed the
downfall of the Roman Empire, and the introduction of
Christianity and Of this darkness lifted and hu
manity began itself This whilst Greece
in ignorance brought On y the Gothic food and dis
pelled by the star Of civzaton-no of promise from
Arabia the Blessed cursedwh-re genuine letters
remained, &c. &c. This rather coufuses This thing
bewilders 1t hurres from the fall of the Roman
Empire In 1853 back 10 the preaching Of Peter to the Ro
mans, in A. D. 45 then, again to the barbarous Cru
ssders Of the 18th and 18th centuries and then to the
Gothic food which Of the 9Th century, and this
when Christian anaticsm destroyed literature But the
grand climax comes when Asa gires letters to the ignO
rant Greek and spsrstes Romans; but hsn this
that what bohers me-and this literary gem is swah
cd in words Of such classic guild and seeming verify
that even an Arab of that classic time Of old might be
proud to hear It But when as thsi why, you igno
ramus can hear Guy Faws es saw lit at the fall
Of the Roman Empire and the introduction Of Chrstiani
ty when the Gothic flood roll Id o-er the land and the
barbaric Crvrs returned la Palestine; and sir, it
was ichen 1rab ,ras not Allah Allah
the Islanite.
And is it because some wandering Arab may hare at
tanned eminence in the healing art that you would have
regard them as polished peoplei have seen fine
scholars Of the Pottawatomie Indans but he still
savage well bis tribe. True the Arab could always
read the stars call them by and adore them. too
for that matter, before Mshomets day. The Arab
the equal in intelligence Of the European and
can be. In short sir the Arab is in history We
what he when Moses sweetened the waters Of
Marah-when Cambyses conquered Egypt-when the
Christ walked the hills Of Galee-when Mahomct wrote
the Koran-when the Moor entered span-when the Cru
sader entered Jerusalem and the Turk Constatinople
and nowhere in the history Of the he intellectually
the equal of the Greek the Roman. True, in
debted him for figures and for Algebra and to the Chi
for the art of making paper the idea of printing Of
gunpowder and for the mariners compass but does that
make them superior in Hter and civilization
Surely But let ls..s Ar,bi. the Blessed r
pellaon Gibbon $50 familiar to the Greeks and
Latns and yet unknown to the Arabians themselves"
- - - - 0A' ~ N'J' ''as ~O"N'
try whose language and Inhabitants have never changed
should scarcely retain resge Of its former geography
-Deet'ne ana Sda Roman Empire ro g. p e23 And again
The same life m uniformly pursued by the rowing tribes
OF the DESERT and in the portrait of the modern Bedouin
we may trace the features oil their ancestors who in the
age o Moses OF Mahomrt dwet under similar tents and
conducted their horses and eames and sheep to the same
springs and the same 224 In the time Of
the great Saadn he says they would confess without
shame that the same GOD who has given tongue to the
Araoans had more nicely fashioned the hands Of the
Chinese and the heads OF the Greeks. GibbOn rol.
4 p s. Sale says, in his introduction to the Koran,
page q; Ihey were unacquainted with Greek luIu
ry parsimonous seldom ate nersh and sitting the
ground" Yes they are civilized. They believe in the
y. son" Vi hre, Anu aohame' 7" 70
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were they burned the library